My daughter is musical theater nerd, she’s dressed as a nun as we speak, because the sound of music is on next week and she’s in the chorus.
There’s a big weekend in June, for all the musical theatre folk, it’s a huge event and one night is fancy dress, the theme this year is magic. She showed me a photo of a costume that is half glinda the good witch and half the wicked witch of the West. I love a good costuming challenge 
some bits I’m not making, two halves two corsets from AliExpress, one pink and one black, laced together. With a half pink and half black wig (also AliExpress) and I’ll make the rest.
Nothing would satisfy me but that she has a flying monkey on her shoulder. So I’ve spent the day making this.
I did a bit of research and this was my inspo picture.
Before looking at this I would have sworn they were brown and I never noticed the blue face. But they also have quite human eyes
I found this dog toy
And started… Half way through I realised it didn’t have a tail! But the arms and legs were too long in any case, so I shortened them to make a tail.
The ears were taken off and made small, the rest of the ear fur went to make the quiff, the monkeys have two quiffs(!) The hands were cut up and turned into fingers, with wire inside.
I started with the face, some toy eyes on blue felt, needle sculpted and sewn onto the toy, I opened the muzzle to make a mouth to give the red inside and a suggestion of teeth
The hat and jacket were added. I improvised everything as I went along. My finger joints are telling me all about it now.
Finally the wings. Feathers from stash, pipe cleaners, felt and three machine needles later. He is done.
And creepy as hell!!
