Let’s celebrate the new year with a bright and shining New Year’s monkey amigurumi!! Happy New Year everyone!
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This is our last monkey amigurumi!! Yay! It’s been a year since we started on this idea of crocheting monkey amigurumis to represent each month of the year, and we’re finally done! It sure was a lot of work to do but the process was definitely very fun and exciting.
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For our New Year’s monkey amigurumi, we wanted to go for the sparkling and glamorous look so we went all out on the decorating this time. Gluing every single piece of crystal onto its face, ears, and body was very tedious. But in the end, it came out way better than we expected! We really wanted this monkey to stand out from the rest so we used as many crystals as we could in decorating it.
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We recently went on a trip to Las Vegas so that might explain our more glamorous approach to our New Year’s monkey amigurumi. 
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The crystals were originally for decorating the interior of your car. They came as a whole sheet of adhesive crystals where you could peel off chains of them and stick them wherever you want. Mom bought them a long time ago but only used a few of them on her own amigurumi and other creations you can see on her amigurumi doll site. So she threw the remaining crystals at us and we went to town with it!
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Lucky for us we had a boat load of Mardi Gras beads all jammed together in a tiny plastic bag buried in our Christmas tree decorations box so the concept for this monkey was pretty much decided after we discovered it. They were all collected from dad’s company parties over the years and we just got a few more this year too!
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Looks like our New Year’s monkey amigurumi had a blast in Vegas too!
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Posted January 18th, 2012 at 12:01am (Comments: 7)
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We’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with our Santa Claus Monkey Amigurumi!!
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This is our most festive looking monkey amigurumi to date! For those of you who are wondering, yes, we are missing one monkey. But don’t worry, our November monkey amigurumi will not be left out. Promise!
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Our Santa Claus monkey amigurumi sits proudly on display in front of our Christmas tree. All the little Christmas decorations we collected over the years really came in handy for this photo shoot. The little house was just the right size for taking pictures with the Santa monkey amigurumi. Time for some side views!
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Since we couldn’t find a small white pom pom for the tip of the hat, we had to crochet a tiny ball out of another type of fuzzy yarn. Not as round as a pom pom would have been, but it still works right?
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For this monkey, we did some things differently…like the green hands and feet. We wanted our Santa Claus monkey amigurumi to look like it was actually wearing gloves and boots. Then to top it all off, we just lined them with some fuzzy wires.
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What’s also special about this monkey amigurumi is the white beard. Instead of using something like cotton for the beard, we just decided to go with felt. Using something like cotton for the beard probably wouldn’t last as long. After a while, it’d probably start losing hair (or cotton fibers) there! That wouldn’t be good… Cutting the beard was very easy. All I did was cut out a square, folded it in half, and cut only one side of the beard so that it’d come out symmetrical.
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We also made a Christmas tree topper this year too!
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Like our random Christmas decorations? There’s a ferris wheel, nutcracker, house, and big crystal cubes! Our Santa Claus monkey amigurumi is so festive! It makes all of our previous monkey amigurumis look plain! Don’t worry, there’s still New Years to outdo this Santa Claus monkey amigurumi :]!!
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Posted December 24th, 2011 at 9:49am (Comments: 2)
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