Lester Longtail

I’m so excited - our first vintage brown sock monkey was born on the ranch today!

 Meet Lester Long-Tail

I wanted to make a really cute outfit for him, but he said he’s a free spirit and prefers to go au natural. Hey, as I always say, “Let the monkey be the monkey!”

Sock Monkey Ranch Goes to the Library

I took my grandson to the Peoria Public Library today and one of the librarians spied my purse monkey…

She said, “Hey, I make sock monkeys!”

“I do, too.” I replied.

“Well, I bet my sock monkeys are cuter than your sock monkeys.” she challenged.

“You’re on”, I said, whipping out my sock monkey photo album out of my purse.

She looked through the album as I bragged on my sock monkeys and Sock Monkey Ranch to the 3-4 onlookers who had heard the conversation.

She finally handed the photo album back and said, “You win, yours are cuter.”

Then she invited me to set up a Sock Monkey Ranch display at the library And to teach an adult sock monkey making class at the library.

I’m so stoked!

I’m not sure when it will be, but when it happens, I’ll take lots of pics and share with you.

I’m havin’ way too much fun!

Pulled an all nighter…just about!

Stayed up late last night to work on a way for you to view all the photos I have available for Greeting Cards. 

You can view them here: Lots More Greeting Card Pictures.

If you see something you would like as a greeting card or print, just email me and we’ll make it happen.

Sock Monkey Greeting Cards!

It’s been a few days since I’ve posted, and that’s because I’ve been working on the all new, fantastical, wonderific…SOCK MONKEY GREETING/NOTE CARDS!

They’re available in our Sock Monkey Ranch Etsy Shop

I’m working on thumbnails and a slide show so that you can see all the pics that are available. We’ll have both sock monkey cards and general cards.

I love taking pictures, so this is a great way for me to share them with you and for you to send a unique note card to someone you love.

Here’s one of the pictures on a general interest card:

My husband took this picture at the Wild Life Zoo, here in Arizona.  Isn’t it adorable!

Cool Thrift Store Finds

We found a huge thrift store on the way back from Wickenburg.  Here’s my favorite finds:

A set of three metal tins for stashing my crafting tidbits in and a red monkey to sit on top and guard it all!

Dino Stampede in Wickenburg!

Well, we made our trip to Wickenburg, just as planned, but we didn’t plan on running head on into a dinosaur stampede!  Fortunately, for us, Cletus Dean (Tumbleweed) hopped on a horse with Tin Can Sam and led them dinosaurs away from town.  I grabbed my camera as they ran by…

And once again, Tumbleweed saves the day…what a guy!

Out Wickenburg Way

In the hot Arizona summers, I tend to cloister myself in the air conditioned house, which is usually fun, since I spend most of my time playing with working on my sock monkeys, but today, I’ve got a touch of cabin fever, so we’re headin’ out Wickenburg Way.

 Wickenburg is a quaint little western town about an hour from home. 

We’re takin’ our cameras and hope to get some good pics. Since today is one of those rare days when thunderstorms are forecast, who knows what we’ll come back with. Stay tuned!

My new clay sock monkey – Gina

My friend Jeanne White makes really cool jewelry and wedding candles.  Today she surprised me with a really cute sock monkey gal she made out of polymer clay. I named her Gina. She has a cute little fringed outfit and a flower in her “hair”. Thanks, Jeanne…I love her!

Sock Monkey Greeting Cards

I’m working on a line of Sock Monkey Greeting Cards.  Here’s one of the photos that will be on the front of a card.  Got any good caption ideas???

Middle of the night musings…

So, it’s 1:35 AM and what am I doing?  Blogging and thinking of my next monkey.  I think I’ll do a bright and bold chica sock monkey inspired by The Crafty Chica, Kathy Cano-Murillo

That’s Kathy (I hope to meet her someday) and the swatch on the right is some cool fabric I found that I thought would make a great chica skirt!

 So many sock monkey ideas, so little time!