That's so craftacular!

[jackshoegazer]

One of the gifts I received from Jacquelyn for Saint Valentine's Day was a homemade sock monkey!  (You know how I love monkeys.)  Jacqui made him from a pair of brown socks from the GAP.  He's awesome but I haven't named him yet.  Rather, he hasn't told me his name.  This gift has started a frenzy of sewing as I suddenly am obsessed with making sock monkeys.  In the past three days I've made two of them, one for Ethan and one for Andrew, his little half-brother.  Next on the agenda is one for Jacquelyn, made from white and pink argyle socks.  I'm very excited about that one.  Anyhoo, here's the pictures....

Here's mine, chilling atop my non-fiction bookshelf:


Here's the two I made for the brothers:


They may be monkeys but they like hanging out on the cat tree:


And lastly, a Photoshopped picture from my new cellphone camera:

That is all.  As you were, dear reader.

Comments

[cashmirjungle1.livejournal.com]

oooh-the striped ones are really cute!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[hihankara.livejournal.com]

How does one make a sock monkey?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Like this: http://lennytaylor.freeyellow.com/Monkey.htm but you can use any kind of socks :)

[hihankara.livejournal.com]

You realize you are starting a Sock Monkey movement, right?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Mr. T Sock Monkey says, "You gotta be a fool not to love sock monkeys. Be cool, stay in school. Make sock monkeys."

[flyingpinguino.livejournal.com]

Hahaha... that is so funny. Can I steal this?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Sure. I found it on Craftster :)

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I like this (http://www.web-goddess.org/writing/tutorial/Image0.html) tutorial. :)

[tobiedammit.livejournal.com]

I have monkey envy.

[the-wondering-1.livejournal.com]

ahh me too!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

You could always make your own :) There's a link to instructions in these comments.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

ENVY MY MONKEY!

[carrieaki.livejournal.com]

these make me super-happy. joy is the simple things in life :D

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[explodingalice.livejournal.com]

Awesome - much monkey love!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

ThankS :D

[anima.livejournal.com]

Sock monkeys are happiness. What a cool gift.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I thought so :D

[lagizma.livejournal.com]

You are addicted to making sock monkeys.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

It's true. I need help. Someone stage an intervention. Get me into a fancy Hollywood rehab facility. Get my PR stooge to make a sincere apology to my friends and fans.

[angedelanuit88.livejournal.com]

that's an awesome gift idea!! they are gorgeous!! im going to put make a sock monkey on my to do list ^_^

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

HUrrah!

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

i totally want one now!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Make one!

[jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com]

yeah those are cute sock monkeys, but what really caught *my* attention was the books on the shelf the monkey is sitting on...once i can afford to do so i need to go to half-price books, buy some Jung books and *devour* them...he wrote one called _Dreams_?? *drool*
what title(s) would you recommend? i have _Aion_ ...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I recommend his Memories, Dreams, Reflections. And then Richard Knoll's The Aryan Christ, which is an anti-Jung book, but is brilliant.

[jesuslovesbono.livejournal.com]

thanks!

Sock Monkey Prom Dress! Go!

[lagizma.livejournal.com]

http://www.hazelandmelvin.com/products/sock-monkeys/wearable-art/sock-monkey-dress

Re: Sock Monkey Prom Dress! Go!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Holy hell!