Yes. Yes he is large. Yes he kinda smells a little bit. But yes, he is the COOLEST SOCK MONKEY EVER! Okay, so he isnt technically a sock, but he was modeled off a sock monkey. And I did the best I could with what I had.
The whole process took about Id say 2 months. The first 2 months were procrastinating, then the last week was the actually assembly part.
The idea started as a 6 foot tall sock monkey marionette, but after a few miscalculations, I decided this monkey was meant for the ground. The reasoning behind his
astronomical height is, well, I sort of just guessed on what size to make his buttons.

I was sitting around in ceramics class one day, and thought hm, I should get working on those buttons, so I found a medium size bowl and traced it. After firing, and glazing it was only then that I actually measured the buttons. I did the math and realized that his proportions were just a taaaad bigger than 6 feet. Try... 15. Monkey oh-no!
So after months of begging and haggling for packing peanuts (its what he is stuffed with) from people on Craigslist and san diego free cycle, Buttons the Monkey, is complete.
Id like to specially thank EVERYONE for all the peanuts, patience, help, and support in making this monkey real :-)

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