Twins

What could be better than one baby sock monkey?

Two baby sock monkeys on a first birthday cake topper for twins!

A Few of My Latest Cake Toppers

 

 

Twin Monkeys First Birthday Cake Topper

The "Cute Factor" was bumped up in my studio this week when I received an order to make a twin monkey birthday cake topper for two cute little guys who will be turning 1 this month.

This is a new face style for me because they were to look just like the monkeys on the party invite.

I can't show you the invite because it has their names and address, but I think I did a pretty good job, and I was smiling all week as I worked on them.

I like them so much that I will be adding a "twin birthday monkey cake topper" listing in this style to my Etsy shop soon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Waxela (wa-shay-la)

Little Prince First Birthday Cake Topper

The Little Prince is a well known children's book which was originally written in French.

I read it with my daughter when she was about 8.  

I'll admit we really didn't understand what was going on a lot of the time. 

But I still enjoyed the book, and I recently saw some Lil' Prince party supplies for first birthday boys.

I just had to make a little prince cake topper to match!

I love making my sock monkey cake toppers, but this was a real treat, and clothing are always fun too.

You will find him in my shop:
Little Prince Here!

Monkey Business Cake Topper Art Dolls

What would I get if I combined my love for art dolls, sock monkeys, and cake toppers?

 

SpiritMama Shop

There are some adorable new sock monkey party supplies available called "Monkey Business Sock Monkey".  They have napkins, plates, party invitations, and wrapping paper.  The color scheme is lime green, red, orange, and chocolate:

I have had some customer requests for matching cake toppers, so I started with this:

 

First Birthday

 Then I got more creative and made this 5" tall (seated) art doll/ cake topper:

 

Big Monkey

He was so much fun to make I decided to do a small 3" version too:

Mini Monkey

You can visit the listings or purchase the monkeys or the plates by clicking on the pictures.

I'm Back!

I'm home after a wonderful month at my parent's home Lake Okoboji, Iowa!

This is the first time I've tried going on "vacation" and bringing my artwork with me. I did not close down my Etsy shop, instead I brought all of my clay, my tools, and my pasta roller (for clay) and I set up shop on a little table where I could look out a massive picture window at the beautiful lake.

Next to my table I set up a nice big play area for baby G, full of fantastic toys and treasures my mom found at garage sales before we arrived, and he played and played and played.

So was I productive on my "vacation"? Here is what I did while away:



On the left is a 6" wedding cake topper with calla lilies and hydrangea on the base, and calla lilies and bells of Ireland in the bouquet. The wedding colors are silver and deep purple. Those hydrangea flowers took forever, and I love the result.

On the right is a 5" wedding caker topper (that was supposed to be 4 inches) with colors turquoise and red. The flowers are red roses, of course, and the bouquet has some white accent flowers. Aren't these great wedding colors? The turquoise really stands out.

I was so excited to have these two orders back to back so that I could get a picture of the 6" sock monkey wedding cake topper next to the 4" topper, but oops, after making the 6" topper, my internal scale was set high and I made the 4" topper 5 inches!!! The bride didn't seem to mind.





I made two of these little princess ballerina monkeys in Iowa. The first one was an Etsy order. I had it finished and my neighbor walked in with her 10 month old little girl and said she had to have one for her little princess' party. So I made another one for her. I LOVE this birthday cake topper!!!

I also made:
A birthday monkey gone bananas,



and a happy little turquoise and yellow party monkey.

Whew, that's a lot of monkeys!!!