Putting my feelings to one side: it's World Book Day, and naturally the Monkey-Moos have to dress up as their favourite book characters. All fine and dandy, but my two head strong monkeys refused to use the pirate outfits we already have (Pirates next door) or the Peter Pan one we had from previous years and instead insisted on Greg (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Mr Snow (Mr Men series)....here in lies a problem...white...boys want to wear white...NOOOOOOO!!!
After running around desperately trying to locate White jumpers for the Fussy Monkey-Moos to wear (it is after all still too cold to do t-shirts) and coming up empty handed, I managed to find the last white long sleeve t-shirt in Monkey-Moo #1's size but nothing for #2.
Being as crafty (in the sly sense of that word) as I am, I set about planting seeds to chang Mr Snow to Mr Bump. #2 took some serious convincing. But I won in the end! Yay me!
So with a £3 Blue Jumper, two bandages and a sheet of black felt, I got to work!
Tadah..
We have our little MR Bump!
After all that sewing and re-pinning...they seemed to have a life of their own those pins.... Greg aka Wimpy Kid was a simple 20 minute job!
Getting Monkey-Moo#1 to decided on a facial expression wasn't nearly as easy as it sounds. After several changes we settled on one (which changed again at the last minute), located some card, an old polystyrene pizza round some double sided tape and got out a trusty marker pen. Ready set go!
Sketched, drawn and then cut, added details and left a small "neck" so Monkey-Moo could hold it up.
Hello Greg!
