48 hour sale! Dia de los muertos sock monkey only $45 USD plus shipping!

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Special 48 hour sale! Only $45 USD plus shipping until Aug 8 midnight ET!

TO TAKE ADVANTAGE: GO TO MY ETSY SITE!

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This sock monkey is MADE TO ORDER.

This deluxe Día de los Muertos [Day of the Dead] sock monkey is handmade/handsewn by Vancouver artist/therapeutic art facilitator Katarina Thorsen, and is part of her POST STREET sock creations!

“The visible stitch is the mark of the artist.”

This hand-sewn adorable and cuddly sock monkey is made from classic work socks and has a hand-drawn embroidered sugar skull face. The monkey wears single cloth flower headdress and skirt (each order unique). It has a hand-drawn, embroidered portrait of Frida Kahlo on the skirt. It measures about 24 inches tall.

POST STREET sock creations are individually made and hand-sewn.

Note: Frida’s face, flower, lace, skirt and skull designs will differ order to order.

Latest craft: Elizabeth I Sock Monkey. Sale benefits @woollybananas handbook development.

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Now for sale on my ETSY site!

Sale benefits Operation Sock Monkey Handbook development!

“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
― Elizabeth I

Huge thank you to Lindsay Ross for donating supplies.  SO INSPIRING!

Next dress is a Frida Kahlo Tehuana Huipli and skirt:

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Poststreet Instagram contest! Win my embroidered sock monkey sugarskull!

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ContestWhat does CRAFTIVISM mean to you?  In the new year, I am changing things up on my ETSY site and regarding the way I create my product.  Stay tuned for a CRAFTIVIST MANIFESTO!

To celebrate, I am giving away this little piece I finished a few days ago.  Head to INSTAGRAM to enter!

POSTSTREET ON INSTAGRAM

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THIS IS THE SOCK MONKEY THAT STARTED IT ALL.

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Many have asked me- when did you start making sock monkeys?  I wasn’t raised on them.  But I did catch the fever in my adulthood.  I believe it was 1997.

My dear friend, filmmaker Patti Henderson, and I were at a flea market and saw a vintage sock monkey sitting on top of a shelf.

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Photo by Patti Henderson

In my mind- events greatly exaggerated I’m sure- we lunged at it at the same time, in slow motion.  Patti won.  And I’ve been chasing that first high ever since.  Consuming me!  I’ve made hundreds of sock monkeys since that fateful day.  I’ve been a part of (through teaching, facilitating, inspiring, whatever) thousands since then.

This monkey is my GOD.

Photo by Patti Henderson

Photo by Patti Henderson

I often wonder what would have happened if I had reached that monkey first.  Would I be who I am today?