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Archive for December, 2007

Socks to the sea

striped toe sock dreams at the Oregon coast
We packed up and headed to the coast when the holiday rush slowed down.
While there I gave my new pair of striped over the knee Toe Toe socks a try.
Tonight I’m wearing them again and loving them! When I first pull them up they are fairly thigh high, but they stay really well just above my knees.
Those aren’t what I wore for the stormy drive out though…
Dreamy M Squared for my vacation ride to the coast
I wore my beloved charcoal M Squared knee highs, still a personal favorite even if they cause a little controversy. I didn’t take them off til around the middle of the second day there when I wanted to try on my toesocks and get pictures by the coast in them. Mr Natosi chose my newly acquired blackcurrant Diamond Ribbed knee highs. I love the color!!! I was coveting them for weeks before I decided I must have a pair, and wouldn’t you know it? he likes them too!
Diamond ribs for him and her
Other socks were enjoyed at the beach
and more new stuff will be showing up over the coming days including this beauty…
Kalana, just one of the new wool tights by b.ella
B.ella’s Kalana wool tights, made in Italy, totally warm & comfy!
Lola on the shore in the sun

Happy Everything

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With love from Newport Beach Oregon,
Niqkita, Bsti & Lola

The Sock Dreams crew are happily relaxing on the two Federal holidays this season and will be busily working all the other days to keep your sock orders and questions taken care of with happy toes and lots of socks.

Looking back, looking ahead and catching up

Sock Dreams winter ad
It’s just about done, the online holiday rush.
We’re still restocking as we can but I am holding off til the dust settles for some stuff. That and various supplier warehouses are taking a week or more off at either the end or start of the year so there’ll be no more Leg Avenue til sometime in January and I have to have all our B.ella, Nouvella, EG Smith & 2 Brothers Organics in tomorrow before their 3 week break starts. Sourpuss came in today along with a few backordered items from Tabbisocks like the super cute over the knees with lace ties above. This image is the winter ad for Bust & Bitch, but sadly, after weeks of waiting, we got the last of what they had including mostly hot pink lace and neon purple lace ~pictures to be taken in the next day or so. It’s sure to slow down any minute now… And when it does we get to start trying on more new socks and getting them added because we have just about sold out of everything new I’ve added for the past month with our ability to restock in Nov/Dec limited at best.
As noted on our home page and on shipping info
Time’s running out if you are aiming for the 25th to exchange gifts
Please upgrade your shipping method accordingly, preferably at the time of check out
All US orders $40 & up still qualify for a free upgrade to priority handling & shipping
2 day express orders all cost $22 (within the US of course)
Zappos is still offering free overnight shipping
how they do it I do not know
what I do know is we do not do it
that and if you have a really silly email address, it’s time you knew
we will probably laugh when we see it on your invoice, yes, it’s true
and all those goofy gift notes, we see those too.
What we don’t see is anything you write in a ecard
no sir, we have no way of seeing a single word of it,
I thought it best to keep that between you and your recipients
And, in case you weren’t sure…
you can buy as many of those ecards as you like, have them mailed to yourself
print them up on any paper you like, plain or fancy, with or without a cute note
and give them away within minutes without even leaving home!

About the future…
Olivia, my beloved friend and web designer is designing a fantastic new site for us.
Developer Dan is hard at work on the coding to not only make the new site work but transform the current one into this amazing new design with all the features you crave & expect in a modern website. We’ve also been working with the amazing Echo X who is creating our logo. I wish so much that I could give you all a peek at what I’ve seen, but I cannot so you must wait. We should know an approximate date for completion of this project in a couple more weeks. Of course I was hoping for sooner, but isn’t it always the way? Brigid and I are going to start working on the physical store in the coming weeks & months too. Just what we come up with and when we let people shop in it is still undecided, we’re generally aiming for springtime. Springtime, when everything starts turning green again and we’ve all dug ourselves out of our winter wonderlands.
…Til then, cozy toes and dreamy socks!

Because sometimes we need a good laugh

Shark eats penguin sock
A Shark was swimming in a sea of B.ella Niegos
when a cute little baby penguin sock wandered by.
Brenna saw it coming so I had my camera ready.
But we were too busy laughing to save the penguin…
don’t worry though, socks can’t really eat each other.

In other news…
Awhile back we added a bunch of really cool new Hot Sox styles. We knew they were cool because we tried them, and we knew a lot of you were going to love them so I put in a really big order before making them live on the site. It seemed like there should be plenty of time to get them before we started running out…
But something went wrong somewhere between the call saying they were ready to send and them actually being sent. After several frantic phone calls last week boxes started arriving today. In between pulling orders we rushed to get them checked in and tonight I have added them back on to the site (they are currently at the top of the latest items page) but before you get too excited we did not get everything we ordered. Will more be coming tomorrow? or the next day?? we can hope and I will make some more calls and try to find out. Yes, we got some of the Button up leg warmers too, but only the olive and not as many as we wanted so I am not putting them on the latest items page. Right now I’m just happy we got some at all!

PS
we also got our “Long Scruffables” back in black…
The rest of the colors should be here in the coming days.
yes, I mean scrunchables…
but every since a customer wrote us calling them scruffables it stuck ~;)

Bad behavior

Wouldn’t you know it?
my two or three busiest days all year, if not ever…
and there is some new mystery plug-in I’m supposed to update.
To all who tried to comment in the past two days I am sooo sorry
I had no idea things were in need of attention.
It seems to be fixed and I promise we were not intentionally blocking anyone!

What we do

sock order pulling
First thing in the morning we print up the orders
then we split them into sections for efficient order pulling.
Most orders follow a theme…
mostly OTKs, or tights or men’s socks, baby socks, warmers ect
many have a misc pair or more
several will need stuff from all over.
A few of us each grab our first stack, look it over
writing our thanks, replying to notes if needed
we collect our boxes and carts and head out to find your socks…
aisles of socks
collecting order after order as we go…
sock cart
until we’ve found every last sock
more socks than you could possibly dream of!
Then we stack them on these shelves…
Sock Dreams shipping shelves
Our shipping team takes over from here.
They weigh them and package them and send them off with amazing speed.
After that it is the hands of the US postal service…
and for all the thousands of socks we send out each week
only a few seem to arrive late or go missing.
Most arrive swiftly, to your happy toes.
And so it goes…