Niqkita's Sock Journal

One was added this morning.
The other will be up this weekend.
more later…

As the days get warmer our desire to set our toes free increases.
Of course you can wear toe socks & tabis any time of the year with nearly any kind of shoe but they really shine when it’s time to put on your flip flops and sandals. I rarely wear them with bare feet, not only are my toes shy, I just really don’t like how dirty my feet get from a day of walking around like that.

To celebrate spring we’ve added a few new tabi socks with at least a few more on their way. The K.Bell peace signs above (and the cherry blossoms and stripes) have been staying on my feet very well during our long walks to the park and back with Lola.
If the thought of having your toes all separated is a bit much these are a nice alternative since they just separate your big toe which is perfect for flip flops.

We’re celebrating again this year by offering you 20% off towards restocking your sock stash. All you have to do is type lost socks 2009 in the promo code box during check out (be sure you click on adjust or it won’t work). This deal only lasts through the weekend so tell all your friends before it’s too late! (because, you know, we’re not going to send you two or three emails to remind you~;)

Another great way to celebrate: we are reintroducing Throx!

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WAYFARERS OF THE GYPSY MANSION – a musical bazaar of sorts
with HUMANWINE, THE BLACKBIRD ORCHESTRA, NATHANIEL JOHNSTONE,
TOY BOX TRIO, MEISCE, FINN VON CLARET, and DJ Q.

Sunday, May 10, 2009 3 pm to 10 pm
The Little Red Studio
750 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA
ALL-AGES, $15 donation

We’ll be there with plenty of socks and such including some new stuff that isn’t on our site yet along with some of our favorite items. Everything will have a Neo-victorian/Steampunk flair. This should be really fun!

After many months of hard work we are quite close to beta testing the new site.
Within a few weeks I’ll be inviting you to help us make sure everything works as it should. Once we get the bugs worked out and the basic version of the new site launched we’ll start adding all the fun stuff like logins, wishlists and reviews…
to name a few.
I can hardly wait!!!

Maybe your sock needs are a little more complicated…
you run, hike or take nice long walks with your dog.
We thought long and hard before bringing in a “sport sock”.
Afterall, we’re sock sellers, not athletes, though some of us are more athletic than others I personally am about as non-athletic as a girl can be…
I do take nice long walks and occasionally run with Lola for a few minutes, nothing too challenging or requiring specially designed footwear.
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They’re all my gramma wears, the basic no show or footie sock.
I remember my aunties wearing them when I was little…
the kind with the little puff ball in the back, and they called them bootie socks.
…not to be confused with the booties my great-gramma used to make
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We first saw these last October and were less than thrilled, at least I was, but we quickly sold out, restocked and sold out again. They were too tight for average to larger legs and I shared that feedback with Leg Avenue. They gave it some thought and had a larger version made which we have just this past week received…
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This week marks the one year anniversary of having a walk-in sock shop
…and a brilliant year it’s been too. It was never my plan to open a store, just to have a fun website that I could run from home in my spare time. As the years passed, nearly nine of them already, I needed more and more help as sales grew and grew.
We outgrew our spaces every two years until we got a nice big warehouse in the heart of southeast Portland with a perfect area for a shop in the entry way. It’s a tiny little shop that doesn’t always meet people’s expectations of somewhere called Sock Dreams because it can be maddening to know that “the entire Sock Dreams warehouse is right on the other side of the curtain” as one person described it, yet you are limited to the selection we have chosen for the store area (though we are always willing to find what you seek in our warehouse, we can’t actually let the public roam freely back there any more than Willy Wonka could let folks roam his factory). The very same girls run our shop that help us pull orders out in the warehouse in the morning and I make a point to work with them all so that I am sure they share my vision and love for socks. No doubt we’ll outgrow this space as our little shop has been far more popular than I ever imagined so we’re sort of on the look out for a second space nearby. Somewhere we can have more socks than even our most devoted sock brethren expect us to have, with spaces to try tryable things on, and lots of other fun stuff nearby for those who have traveled long and far to find us to enjoy.
And once again I find myself thanking all of you, near and far, who have helped make this journey such a joy and this dream so vivid. Whether you have only bought one pair of socks, told just one friend, or spread the word to anyone who will listen, my fellow Sock Dreamers and I are forever grateful!

These are part of the Laurel Burch collection which I had long ignored because they are so cute it almost didn’t seem right to offer them here. I brought them in over the holidays so I could give a pair to my aunt who has long used Bluecat in her email address due to the blue ceramic cat she’d had since childhood. I didn’t realize it during all the excitement at the end of the year but the store had quickly sold out of these and when I went to get them for the site our supplier was out as well. They finally arrived last week and now we have plenty of artistic blossoming cats, blue cats and whimsical dogs. I know, they are kind of silly, but it makes me really happy to look down and see these on my feet!
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