To finish off our crazy Halloween amigurumi spree, we present to you a Vampire Monkey Amigurumi!

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Isn’t he so dashing?  Looking so sharp with a tux  instead of the usual heart chest piece, sparkly black buttons, and a nice little bow tie too.  So fashion forward!  He even holds a romantic red rose in his paw, handcrafted by my sister polarbear of course.  This little vampire monkey amigurumi is sure to charm his way into all the lady’s hearts!  Don’t get too excited though ladies…rumor has it he’s dating the little Witch Monkey Amigurumi.  Sigh, she’s a lucky monkey, I know…

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This vampire monkey amigurumi was by far the fanciest monkey we’ve made so far.  The cape was actually handsewn together by my mom (because we all know how horrible I am at sewing).  It was such a nice coincidence that we had the perfect materials lying around too, like velvet and satin, to make the perfect cape.  The hat is exactly the same as the St Patrick’s Day monkey amigurumi and Fourth of July monkey amigurumi.

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Another part of this vampire monkey amigurumi that took a lot of work was the backdrop.  Polarbear spent days painting and drawing the background.  She even cut up some of the same black chiffon material used for the Witch monkey amigurumi’s cape to make into curtains.  Our idea was to make the vampire monkey amiguurmi look like he was in a mansion.  For me at least, when I think vampire I think mansion…and of course a coffin!

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Polarbear also spent a lot of time handcrafting all the roses on the coffin and on the floor.  She even used glitter glue to outline some nice gold lines on the coffin.  Very decadent-looking, just how I had envisioned it ahh.  The coffin was actually made out of styrofoam from an old egg carton.  It was painted black and then nicely decorated.  And for you nitpickers out there, yes we are aware the coffin is a little bit small.  He sleeps sideways…because he likes to!

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I just had to include this picture because he looks like he’s using his hand to flaunt his luxurious cape haha!

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Of course, no vampire is complete without some bloody fangs!  The fangs were cut out from white felt, then painted very meticulously with red nail polish.

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Teethy~!

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That wraps up our monkeys of the month for October!  I hope you’ve all enjoyed our Halloween monkey amigurumis as much as we’ve enjoyed creating them. We went a little crazy because it’s polarbear’s favorite time of the year.  She’s been dying to get dark and spooky with our cute amigurumis since forever!  I just enjoyed living vicariously through the monkey amigurumis because I want to dress up for Halloween but can’t…sniff sniff.

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Nevertheless, our Vampire Monkey Amigurumi wishes everyone a Happy Halloween!!

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Today, I would like to start a monthly tradition of “The Monkey of the Month” – and since I made a Valentine’s monkey for the month of February, I’m continuing with a St Patricks Day Monkey Amigurumi for the month of March!!

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Actually, my real goal was to make a monkey of every color of the rainbow, just for the fun of it!  My sister was always nagging at me to make a green monkey too, for what reason I have no idea…so St Patricks Day came just in time for me to make a green monkey.  Of course, every proper leprechaun should wear a nice hat too, and I even decorated the hat with a nice gold buckle!  The buckle is actually just some small pieces of gold trimming I found lying around the house.

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It’s so fun when you can make good use of random materials you find in your house that you never thought you’d end up using!  This happened before too when I made the R2D2 amigurumi.  All the silver trimmings and screws were cut from a silver wired ribbon roll we had bought so many years before.

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Another example of my thriftiness with this St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi was the heaping pot of gold.  Doesn’t it look so shiny and plentiful…and also a lot like Mardi Gras?  Yes!  I coiled a string of Mardi Gras beads on the top of the pot of gold to make it look extra shiny!  I was pleased with it, but later became a little sad when all people would remark about my St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi was that darned pot of gold!!  “Oh, nice monkey – whoa, is that a pot of gold?!” was my most common critique.  All that hard work to make a nice St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi complete with a nice leprechaun hat and cute 4-leaf clover felt plushy…and all people see is the GOLD!

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And of course, when I showed it to my dad, who is a die-hard Lakers fan, all he had to say was, “WHAT?!  Why did you make a Celtics monkey?!”  When I tried to explain it was for St Patricks Day and not associated with Boston or the Celtics, he said, “They’re the SAME THING!!” I felt like I had committed treason and was to be banished to another planet when all I did was crochet a harmless St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi…I swear if I left it somewhere with him, it’d probably disappear mysteriously <gulp>.

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Hopefully, others will look past it and see that this monkey would just like to celebrate St Patricks Day happily!  This monkey is available for purchase at my Etsy. Thanks for looking!

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