A Nun Plushie for Allie

Allie is my niece who will be 2 on July 4th. For some odd reason she has an obsession with nuns. (See this blog post for a little background). Well I had insomnia again last night and early this morning I decided to search for "nuns" on Etsy. I found a nun plushie that I liked, but it cost 10 bucks and there was no way I was paying so much for something so small. My friend, Sugarlishes, who made my new pet monster immediately came to mind. She has a knack for making plushies, so I decided to ask her if she could commission one for me for less than $10. I sent her the picture of the $10 nun earlier today and she just posted the above pictured nun in her Etsy store
maybe 10 minutes ago! Needless to say, I immediately fell in love with this nun plushie and snatched it out of her store (even though it was a reserve listing for moi). I know that Allie will absolutely go nuts over it! Thanks again, Sug, for creating something wonderful! You rock!

Racing Nuns

My 19 month old niece, Allie, became enamored with a ceramic nun that I had left at my parents' house years ago. The ceramic nun was actually a Christmas ornament missing the hanger. Allie would take the nun wherever she went. While eating at a fast food restaurant after church one Sunday, my sister dropped the ceramic nun sending it into a thousand pieces. Allie immediately exclaimed, "My nun!" My sister frantically called me and asked me to search for a similar nun on eBay. I couldn't find anything like it. Allie's granna was able to locate these hilarious racing nuns on the internet. Now all is right in Allie's world!