Grammy's Monkey Business (Christmas 2008)

Maureen has been suffering from some severe neck trauma and has been working through some disc decompression therapy since November. She somehow found the strength to sew a sock monkey for each grandchild, 18 in total, for Christmas this year! Liz Wolfgramm from work helped her cut out and sew a few (thank you, Liz!) ... I even tried to help a little by stuffing some of them. In the end, Maureen did most of the work (even re-did some of my efforts) and finished them on time for Christmas!

The kids absolutely loved them! She even led them to believe that she had used all of my fishing socks for the project ... a fact that several of them relished! I naturally fell right into the act complaining later that all of my fishing socks were missing! We really had alot of fun with that one!

I was so impressed by her efforts that I painted this litte guy and had all of the grandkids, that were there that day, sign the painting and we gave it to her for her Christmas present! Acrylic on canvas 16"x 20" (Dec 2008)