Invasion of the sock creatures, finally

I got the neatest thing, and I want to blog about it, but I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to do this before Christmas.  I want to rave about the wonderful gift that is the Stupid Sock Creatures Book & Kit.  Now, if you’re in Mommy-blogger circles, the “sock toy” craze is old news to you, and forgive for being behind the times.  However if you’re in the crazy cat lady blogger circle, like me, this product will have just recently come to your attention.  This book/kit combo will let you make two “sock creatures” or “sock monsters”, the modern equivalent of the sock monkey.  You get two boldly coloured and striped socks in the kit, thread, needles, buttons, ribbons, and stuffing, as well as a great book which shows how to make a number of different creatures.  The guy who wrote the book maintains a website, Stupid Creatures, where he sells these things for up to $85 each!  It’s crazy!  You’re much further ahead if you just buy the book and kit for a measly $13.57 at Amazon.  Here’s a picture of the book you get:

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In the interests of full disclosure, Flippy bought this book about six months ago, and then we promptly lost it in our vast abyss of a library.  I searched and searched and couldn’t find it, and decided to just buy the kit and be done with it.  I used to make lots of very complicated teddy bears, so I’m sure socks are within my talents.  I hope to sock creature my way to serenity and peace.

Still on a bit of a “creature” note, I want to recommend a store called Online Science Mall if you want inexpensive but unique novelty items.  They sell fascinating stress balls, called “Rainbow Blob Balls”, for $2 each (I think I bought all their current stock, but they should have more soon), original Silly Putty for $1.99, and lots of weird items made of slime and polymers.  They have some classic toys, like Slinkys, and many science-related items.  If you’ve got a young scientist at home, you can purchase owl pellets for dissection for $1.25.  You can even purchase large things to dissect, like frogs, fetal pigs, and cats.  Now, I dissected frogs and fetal pigs, and even people, but I still can’t get comfortable with the idea of cat dissection.  I’m sure it’s species discrimination on my part, but I suggest you don’t look at the photo of the cat specimen.  Instead, go look at the cow eyes!  Just $2.50!

I know the holidays are over, but there are still birthdays and other gift-giving occasions coming up, so maybe you’ll find some of these items useful.  My birthday is next week, and fyi, I prefer Silly Putty to cow eyes.  No offense to the cows.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 12/30 at 03:15 AM

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  1. Definitely one of the crazy cat lady bloggers here.. have never heard of these sock creatures before. grin

    Posted by Simply Coll  on  12/31  at  05:48 PM

  2. Isn’t it strange that there are crazy cat ladies, yet no crazy dog ladies?

    Posted by Leigh-Ann  on  01/02  at  10:22 PM
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