Spring/Summer Sock Slowdown

Well it seems we are entering a spring/summer sock slowdown.....as there are yard tasks to be done!  I can see from my computer out the window at the moment  my laundered sheets are flapping in the wind on the clothesline, I see Daffodils , and other plants blowing besides those yellow heads here and there on the lawn.  Speaking of lawn...it needs some attention to be mowed.  I think we will get out there soon this afternoon.  I am just killing time while MrB finishes up a pair of socks he is working on.  Oh yes this pair is for himself, he has to treat himself now and again to socks for him, and these ones are on the wild side, yay for MrB he has surpassed the conservative stage and now is more adventurous in his colour choices.  I must go dig out my green lawn mowing socks.  Do you remember those?  I posted them way back, one of the first pairs made upon my special request for mowing the lawn.  I like mowing the lawn and wanted a special pair for the outing not to get all green....they are already green so no problem there!  Enjoy the sunshine in your part of the world if you so have it like we do today!  I will check back in a few days if there is something socky to report.

msb from Socks Made On 88

Hello

Just came here today to tell everyone to have a Fantastic Day!
I am about to start my day now...

msb from Socks Made On 88

Website url here on blog

When I listed the url of our newly created website it did not highlight to access freely so I have added it on the blog for your convenience.  It is located to the right hand of the page below the introduction picture and the title says. Our own Website, you just need to click on the grey highlighted words of Socks Made On 88 and it should take you directly to the website now.

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Website is launched and is officially UP!

You can take at look at our new website at:

http://www.wix.com/sockson88/socks-made-on-88

Please note that this blog will continue to operate, as well as the face book page for Socks Made On 88!  We have gone techno, but sorry to say we are not yet up for tweeting so we are presently not going there!  Also remember you can contact us by email if need be at:
sockson88@gmail.com

Thank you :-)

msb from Socks Made On 88

101 ways to tell you about...

Just noticed that I am at 101 posts! Hurray!  Well you have read the first 101 pages, the first few chapters of our story, of our little venture so far. We are not near to the end yet, so hold on... I think it may a long one!  :-)

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Just Daffy or Ducky!

These are just daffy socks, no they are just ducky socks!  Which ever term you prefer, they are nice and bright for Spring! 

                                                                

MrB knows better now not to make new products in a size 8 as he is afraid I may just snatch them up for myself!

The knitting pattern on these socks is Pyramid, if you recall we did have an off-white and a pale pink pair posted a few months back.

These beauties are in a Women's size small 5/6

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Website announced soon

I was very fortunate to ask my step-son if he would help me set up a website.  We spent several hours on preparing it and getting it launched to announce.  I tweaked it a little bit this morning and tomorrow I hope to add some product #'s and Vela it will be ready to share with all of you!  What a undertaking that is, but I am glad we decided to pursue it

Well looking back, look what I a have joined and created: Yahoo groups, ravelry groups, created my blog, created my own rav group, got a crank-in started, started our facebook page and now a website.  Computer time, here I come, came and wore the T-shirt ....I certainly did do a lot of that in the last 5 months. But I loved every minute of it!

MrB said to me last evening, now you will probably phase out your blog?  I said No I don't think so, that's my first baby and it's personal and I do enjoy going there, being myself, saying what I want to say, expressing myself and it is less formal, professional and just plain old fashioned FUN for me.  I can come here and talk, and some soul listens. 


So tomorrow sometime I will come back and officially announce the website :-)


msb from Socks Made On 88

1 down 2 more to go...till Fall!

One market down today and two more to go in May until we take a summer break and will reconvene market attendances again come Fall, in early September. This has truly been a very good experience and with every single market we do get more exposure.  The Erl certainly grabs the attention of passerbys.  

May Markets:
May 12, 2012  @Petpeswick Yacht Club, Musquodoboit Harbour  9am- 3pm
May 26, 2012  @Hillside Market 50 Ritcey Crescent, Cole Harbour  9am-1pm

If there is anyone local who follows my blog and is looking for sock purchases, we also have an ongoing facebook page to show you which colours and sizes are available at any given time.  Just search: Socks Made On 88 or go to 
www.facebook.com/SocksMadeOn88
 or email us at: 

sockson88@gmail.com
Just because we are not doing markets in June, July, or August we will still have SOCKS available through those above mentioned contacts. I may even work on seeing about developing a web site soon and if that happens I will be right over here to annouce it.

We will be back doing markets again in September just in time for some early Christmas shopping.

September Markets:
Sept 8, 2012  @Cole Harbour Harvest Festival, Cole Harbour Place, Cole Harbour
Sept 15, 2012 @ Hillside Market, 50 Ritcey Crescent, Cole Harbour   

We are also very much looking forward to attending a Crank-in in Maine in June!  This is like sock-school ...so you will never know what new ideas MrB will bring home to inspire new sock creations.  


I would like to thank everyone who has been reading my blog!  I know that my blog enteries have surely slowed down in the last month.  They are apt to slow down some more for summer but I will be here when ever I have something new to report or to update.


I think my sock work is done for today, and I am going to take the rest of the evening and just enjoy some of the weekend now.  I hope you all have a pleasant weekend and I will be checking in again real soon!


To those of you, who are fellow crankers, Happy Cranking!


msb from Socks Made On 88

Baby Hats in soft pastel colours

A rabbit with no ears just looks plain odd, but a rabbit with a baby hat on does look cute!

A rabbit with hat off looks cute too!
These baby hats will be a new tester for our three upcoming markets, one this coming Saturday and two more in May!  

msb from Socks Made On 88

Blue Socks for Market

Size Men's 9 Socks made especially to add to our upcoming markets collection!

These blue socks are the colour of a dried blue Hydrangea also featured in the photo.

Taking stock!

Taking stock today!  Taking stock of what yarn has been knitted.  Taking stock of what yarn has not been knitted that we have left.  Taking stock of all the socks we have knitted already for the 3 markets to come.  Taking stock of the yarn making its way so that MrB can make some solid pattern socks soon.  Taking stock of updating my calendars of markets scheduled now for the whole year until December 2012.  Taking stock of the applications I made of this week for a couple other markets, one is our own " backyard" community in which they are very excited to have us!  Taking stock of the crank-ins we have registered for to travel to.  And taking stock, of anything else I needed to catch up on doing tags, sorting, updating my blog, viewing my new face book page, and saying hello and welcoming new members to my online group for fellow CSMers, and trying to take stock also of all the new forum posts and yahoo posts for the other CSM groups so that I am not too far behind.  Also taking stock on my everyday household duties too!  And taking stock my days and week as it seems like a Monday and it is clearly a Friday!  So taking stock of my Friday, the 13th to bout, didn't start out good as I had an arse over tea kettle tumble outdoors... just a little stiff and soreness is minimal for now any ways.  Taking stock of the rest of my day, thinking its going to be a somewhat lazy afternoon as I pretty much got all done what I wanted to do today, and it is not my day to cook supper! It has been a taking stock day so far, hasn't it?  Hey take stock of your week, and soon call it a weekend.... I am!  Happy weekend everyone and Happy Cranking to those of you who partake in the making of socks process!  MrB is cranking away downstairs as I type this updated post.  He has a little furry friend keeping him company today and all next week.  I think Abby is happy to have him there in her little doggie world and she doesn't mind the cranking sound at all!  This is good as she can be a little nervous sometimes.  All is good here at Socks Made On 88, and taking stock time is all done!  Oh but taking stock of how many days to next market is 8 days!   Taking stock for today says bye bye!  Catch you at my next blog check-in, whenever that may be!  Sometime soon...
 
msb from Socks Made On 88

Post Easter ~ 123

Post Easter, 123!  Why did I give this post this handle?  Well for two reasons: one being the Easter Weekend is all over.  And even though it was a semi-hectic week for us, two birthdays, company and the Easter Dinner day, MrB still managed to crank out 3 pairs of socks.  Yes, 123, 3 pairs of socks.  The second reason I call this Post Easter is because I had to do some investigating to our own Canada Postal rates.  I discovered I did not know this as when I launched the facebook page/site I did not anticipate that I would have to find out this important , but informative knowledge in order to add the shipping costs to an order someone may want, when purchasing our socks and wanting them mailed across the country.  Well I soon got in tuned with the information I needed, and today I mailed my first two orders across Canada to Saskatchewan!  Now some of you that know me and my roots, will perhaps think, she is mailing them off to family and that is not the case.  Both customers are ones which I knew in my childhood and young emerging adult years.  I both recently became reaquainted with them both on facebook in the last couple of years.  I was thrilled that two separate people from my past now in my present periodically, wanted to and very much desired to be proud owners of a pair of socks from Socks Made On 88!

So we have a collection of socks, newly created ones, ones from our stash created earlier in the past few months, and some socks making their way from NS to their new destinations.  How exciting is that?  I must admit it is very exciting to me!  I wanted to do a little happy dance today, but I did not just my heart did, thinking ok this is a nice little venture to be on and so glad we decided to do it :-) big smiles had by me!  That pretty well sums up my weekend and day on a very high note.  One more thing to add while I am here....I never dreamed I would be so very happy, being retired, loving my life and doing something together as a project that both can very much sink our teeth into and just in general like what we do!  It is not a job we HAVE to do, it is job we WANT to do, and that makes a big difference especially in this phase of our life! I want to mention also while I am on a roll....I have always liked to write but never thought I was good at it, so now I also get to tell a story in my blog and that too is a lot of fun....I get satisfaction from coming here from time to time just telling my story of what's new and taking place in the life of msb at Socks Made On 88!  Sometimes with me the little things are soooo the BIG things!  What's that saying, don't sweat the small stuff! Well me I dont' I just lap up the small stuff up and enjoy it, and can't wait to report small stuff on Socks Made on 88 here at the blog.  But thats all folks for today, so till next time!  Toodle-loo

msb from Socks Made On 88 

Two more Men's size 10 to add to our sale collection for the markets and facebook page.

And another size 5-6 to add to the Women's collection awaiting to join someone

s feet as Hugs!

Wishing Canada the Best of Luck and Happy Easter too!

Wishing Canada Men's Curling all the best of luck in the Men's World Curling Championship against Scotland! ~ later this morning!

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter today, and may you have a joyous weekend with family and/or friends!

msb from Socks Made On 88
Note:  no socks shown in this photo but  I will be wearing some watching the curling game :-)

Soap Sacks ready for next Market!

7 little soap sacks already to go off to market!

Socks being shipped

So happy to say that a pair of our socks will be shipped to a childhood friend of mine in Saskatchewan!  I hope she just loves them!  Here they are, a sneak peek shown with some woven wheat that I had purchased on a visit there, a few years ago.

Facebook Page for Socks Made On 88 now being launched

Hello, Happy Easter Weekend to All!
We have some exciting news as MrB and I (msb) are very happy to announce that we have a facebook page now being launched.  We are still working out the details of it and the format and working at uploading pictures of all the socks we have for sale and what sizes they are.  By no means will the facebook page/site take the place of my blog!  My blog is something special and unique to me.  The facebook page is just an little bit extra for exposure since we are a small cottage/hobby business in our early retirement life.   That page will be more serious, my blog will be lighter and more fun like me!  Hahaha

I hope this url works, I am crossing my fingers!  The page may be under constant construction today however...

www.facebook.com/SocksMadeOn88

msb from Socks Made On 88

Just in time for Easter, One of A Kind Pair by MrB!

Just in time for Easter ! A One Of A Kind Pair!

No they aren't CHEESY!

No they aren't Cheesy!  They are two pairs that were special ordered and are going to be heading to The Netherlands (Holland) later this month, being hand delivered.  What can I say, I didn't have any tulips, a windmill or wooden clogs so they are stuck being staged with Cheese!  Say cheese and say Our socks are Hugs for your feet!


msb from Socks Made On 88

I'm back....let's get back into things!

Hello Folks, I'm back!  Last week I strained a muscle in my back so have been resting mostly each day and not doing much sock stuff!  Today I am feeling so much better, so it is time again to get back into things, and get back on track!  I have a pair of socks waiting for me to tag, and two pairs waiting to be kitchenered.  That will not take long at all, but suffering with a sore back made simple tasks very complicated.  I don't imagine we will be spending much time on sock stuff after Friday as we are expecting company for the Easter weekend and a few days beyond too.  And then later we are getting another visitor, a furry friend for 10 days and then we are off to market again!  Time goes by oh so very fast, you can stand still and it still passes you by.  Oh and speaking of time, me, msb is celebrating a birthday later this week too and MrB his on Easter Monday.  This month started yesterday and I can already see ahead to the 22nd.  It's amazing how when you have things to look forward too, the days slide by.  Well I am here sipping my herbal tea (chocolately mint) a new flavour, while plugging the update for this entry for the blog so that you know I have not forgotten to come by.  Not sure what MrB's plans are for sock making today, but he has been dabbling with cranking each day with something or other.  Ok I must finish up my tea and move on to the kitchening soon.  I am anxious to catch up on my sock duties today!  One pair to tag is an Opal colourway we have used before, and I like the results.  The other pairs that needs their toes stitched up is another pair of One Of A Kinds created by MrB using left over ball ends of similar yarns and also another colourway that we have not seen before.  They all turned out to be very nice pairs of socks, the OOAK ones are always a favourite pleaser to me.  I will attach pics when my tasks have completed later.  Happy Monday everyone, have a good day and a good week!

msb from Socks Made On 88