I received these beautiful skeleton socks from Socksmith in the mail on Monday! Oh I love them!
Socksmith has been a long time favorite sock company for me ever since my first visit to Sockshop on Haight back in October 2010! Here is the blog post about that visit: LINK
I remained a long time fan: LINKS
And Socksmith sent a generous donation of socks to support my sock monkey therapy back in July 2011: LINK. So many youth benefitted from this amazing donation!
This past Christmas, my sweet friends, Parmida and Hailey gifted me with Frida Kahlo socks by Socksmith!
So what a delight to receive these black and white skeleton design socks:
These knee highs feel great. They sit well and snug on the legs (as modelled by my daughter) and the material (63% cotton, 34% nylon, 3% spandex) feels soft.
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Of course, me being me, I had to make a sock monkey out of them. As I was contemplating the design at my kitchen table, I received a visitor!
Crows are friends with death. – source
This lovely creature gave me the idea to create a psychopomp out of the socks! Wiki describes a psychopomp as:
To learn more about psychopomps, visit my friend, Cat Webb’s site:
I began by turning the socks inside out:
And the creative mayhem began:
The result is a psychopomp with a crow friend, in an organic cotton skirt. The material from the skirt sourced from UNDERABLES!
(The white material in the face is bamboo cotton, sourced from KenDor Textiles.)
My psychopomp now sits with her new best friend (made for me by Emily Cowan) in that kitchen window:
