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Today is National Make a Gift Day and coincidentally it also happens to be one of our busiest days of the year! We’ve had a very busy...

Well, chief monkey finally said ‘I do’ a few weeks ago and it was a day to remember with no stone left unturned! The sun was out and...

It’s not a well-known national celebration, but we think it’s one that’s worth embracing because at Crafty Monkey, we’re friends of the...

And speaking of inhabitants of chilly climes, it can’t go unmentioned that the fantastic film, ‘Frozen’ is still very much an ongoing...

Today is ‘Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day’! We love this idea, after all- who doesn’t love to have their most reliable...

You may or may not know (probably not!) that today is International Dot Day. You’ll probably be thinking that there’s not much that you...

Well, what an amazing summer break we’ve had…or let me re-phrase that to ‘What an amazing summer, erm…time we’ve had!’ The monkeys in the...

I’ve concluded that, after many years of thinking about the speed at which the time has passed- it’s simply how quickly a year does fly...

Thankfully, our studio did not undertake a transformation into a real rainforest…that would have been a disaster for our precious art...