Niqkita's Sock Journal

I spent most of today barefoot in the garden.
When I came in I gave my feet a nice bath & pedicure in the sink.
(I dream of a fancy little foot tub on the floor, complete with a drain, running water & a bench)
Then I pulled on these sample socks from Ozone Designs…
I want so much to like them and if they were a few inches longer I think I would.
They actually stayed up tonight around the house…
but every time I’ve worn them and done any real walking they fell right down to my ankles.
(if anyone out there has worn these & likes them I’d like to hear from you about it).
I got this letter last night, it made me smile so much I wanted to share it…
Hi - I just wanted to drop a note thanking you for running this particular
store. You’ve got to know how hard it is to find giant sweater socks at
all, much less such an awesome selection, and your prices are fantastic.
I’ll be sending you too much money for as long as you’re in business.

Aren’t those elephant toes?
yes, why yes, they certainly are!
every toe seperate & free to jump in a puddle or climb on a tree.
If elephant toes aren’t your thing perhaps purple instinct or pond or mudbath…
or maybe meteorite or amethyst or pink dust if you must…
in fact there are more, yes more colors than that…
so if you love your toes and you love socks
doesn’t it make sense that you will love toesocks?
I promise your toes will thank you!

I pulled into my driveway this evening and wondered if I could capture this shot…
the blooming foxgloves, the sunset and my socks on the scratched up hood of my volvo.
…plus the cool bevel effect, perfect!
I’ve been fantasizing about vertical stripes again,
…even painted some on these cut offs the other day.
I’m ordering a thinner version of the 50 & 100 inch long socks (more colors too) in hopes of being able to have them produced more quickly. I’m also going to have thinner 36 inch socks made with vertical stripes and a patterned top. I’ve asked that they be as soft & stretchy as possible. This all should have been accomplished weeks ago but we have random email troubles with that supplier and it turns out they had suffered an earthquake (so many earthquaks lately!) so nothing was getting getting through to them.

depending on where you are or what time it is
it may seem a wee bit warm to be wearing wool socks…
that’s what I thought til I put them on…
they are warm, comfortably warm.
But, why was I thinking of wool?
I’m going up to visit family in Canada in a couple of weeks
and plan to swing by Custom Woolen Mills to get a look at their socks, tour the mills & hopefully establish a business relationship with them. They have nice wool socks…
next winter we’l be glad I was thinking about wool on this lovely spring day!

These are an excellent hot weather anklet…
perfect with sandals, mary janes or…
they are a “mini fishnet” so they won’t let any of your toes slip through
and they are super stretchy so they stay comfortable all day.
You might want to give yourself a pedicure
(I smoothed some heel balm on right before slipping these on)
…and paint your toenails to make your feet their sexy best.
(nope, we still don’t sell toenail polish)
Or choose one of our other newest styles…
(I just updated that page too!)

I’ve got new fishnet gloves!
they are comfy & sexy and got me some happy attention from girls today…
one nearly purrred her appreciation for how they looked…
{{{I nearly melted}}}
I used safety pins to secure them to the bottoms of my sleeves,
that way the outer part that was most visible appeared to hang effortlessly midway up my arms.
This also allowed for easy removal to use or wash my hands as needed.
(they hung safely at my sides til I slipped them back on)
By this evening I decided to try cutting out the 3 center fingertips on each side…
I’m happy with the results as it allows for more tactility.
Sockwise I’m wearing the hemp bootsocks
I kept them hidden in my boots while I was out so it didn’t matter that they don’t exactly match the gloves
I love them anyway!

We finally got more of the pink & white nylon stripes in,
but they’re not quite the same pink as these from a previous batch…
Its more of a shell pink than these, I’m going to have to take pictures for the stripes page.
I wore them over 36 inch grey long socks. I pulled both pairs up as high as they’d go, then carefully folded them down once to just above my knees. Next I secured the elastic garters over the first fold and finished by folding the tops down one more time to cover the elastic making sure everything was smooth with no binding. It looked really cute with my black boots & a black dress topped by a delicate pink blouse someone brought me from Japan years ago…
it has vented underarms which were perfect for this muggy weather we’re having today
(of course the doubled socks in tall boots were of no bother to me, sock lover that I am~;).

This is Brittney, she has a personal site that is alot of fun to read.
Today she sent us this picture & this note:
I bought these purple boot socks awhile back, and it occured to me you might like a picture, so here ya go :)�
(ps. You are free to do whatever you like with it.)
Thanks Brittney!!!
..actually that was sent to my partner who has been reading her blog for far longer than I, and he assures me she will be happy to be Fetishized by Me.
I hope she loves her bootsocks as much as we love ours!
I spent my day outside, playing with dogs and doing yardwork while testing a pair of those sample knee highs I showed off here last week. They make really nice slouch socks. With any luck we should be able to sell them before long.
Stuff I’ve figured out in the past day…
1. Foot Fetiche Heel Callus and Cuticle Balm Bar is so named because you put it on like lip balm to make your feet appear more supple when you’re not hiding them in socks.
2. If you cuff your socks and use elastic sock garters to keep them up it works even better if you put the elastic over the second layer of sock and them fold them over the top. (I’ll take a picture to show you what I mean this weekend.)
3. I’m going to have to rebuild the fishnet page because with the new items that came in yesterday that page has officially reached massive overload…
Do you find my site chaotic?
does it bother you?
I’ve been wracking my brain to restructure it and continue to draw blanks…
you know how I love feedback…
if you have any, feel free to share it…

my old fav’s, day 5

When I moved to Oregon about 8 years ago I was going through a “normal” phase…
my hair was it’s natural color, I wore dockers and one day while shopping at REI I found this pair of Thorlo socks. I fell in love and went back for another pair every payday for a couple of months. This pair was always my favorite of the bunch as I learned both the value of good socks and that even high end brands can vary from one pair to the next. Towards the end of the 90s I found my way out of that phase and started paying alot more attention to my feet, the rest is nearly history…