shiver me timbers i am a few days late...

our boat was late sailing into port where i could get wifi access!! so i tooks the test and i WILL NOW BE CALLED:> poor little stupid sock creature is so scared she doesnt have any eyes....shes hoping I WONT see her:> HA you know i will....bytw shes painted with one of me own fine handpainted socks...and did you know that lumiere can paint shoes??? three coats and all new!!! gotta give that a try! fancy pirates wear-did i say i ruined my fav shoes painting the house this summer....my old timberland sandles that I paid only ten bucks for? four years and going strong except for those spots of blue paint on them!!! now going to be hmm what color of lumiere...something juicy...pink? blue or purple...what a decision!

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Dread Pirate Vane

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OH NO another guy stupid sock creature

So my crazy mom made another stupid sock creature and OF COURSEEESE this one in another guy...he looks kinda shy to me...what do you think? she said his name is jeremiah...after one of the shy boys at school...who looks at her the same way...hes the one made out of stray socks...he looks cross eyed...those squinchy bright blue buttons...


BYTW WHAT do you think..should she sew that lime green hair on him...she found it when she was digging the paint out...it was dyed with LIME green Koolaid...



SHE put us all in the old icky rocker together for a family portrait...DID You see that Jeremiah stuck his antennae or is it a horn in my face...i mean is that a way to treat a lady??

BYTW THAT rocker...she paid $20 for it at the garage sale place over in Johnston...you know that warehouse full of junk...she moved it out of the garage because her brother the antiquer said it was worth $200...and my big brother drew had ribbed her alot about wasting money on an old icky rocker...but she came out smelling good...didnt she!

SMOOSHY KISSES Veronica

PS mom said to tell you that it was a really comfy rocker!!! Shes gonna read us a story in it later tonite...if she doesnt fall asleep first!

My mom

is letting me blog some more...she was too busy painting socks and watering plants and chasing silly dogs around....

Hmmm well i think these are going to be a guy...but what guy would wear a kokopelli sock?

She said shes going to make me another friend in a minute out of these socks...darn its gonna be another guy...looks like a general to ME!!! i need a girl friend....these are socks that appeared last weekend...leftovers in the laundry....and an old green pair of moms....dont you think she should make a green meanie out of those...she could paint it chartreuse or bleach it with a bleach pen...

DEFinitely girl socks...

now these pretty socks definitely have girly possibilities...they were painted with setacolor diluted with water...some were soaked in it...some were painted with a big brush...and one even got stripes...and theres one that is lacy.....so maybe i will get some girl friends out of these dont you think???

She turned that one sock inside out because one time she dyed 750 socks (with the help of some Asheville quilt guild members) for the North Carolina Quilt Symposium when it was at Black Mountain and they were only cotton on the inside...DONT you love to get donations...NOT...ANYWAY she said those polyester socks had the most gorgeous insides...so she turned this one inside out and started with it inside out..



BYTW she said to tell you that she took pics of the impatiens just because you needed some eye candy and they were next to the table where the socks are drying....isnt she thoughful!!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXO Veronica

A new friend

ME and the ADMIRAL(like i believe that!)

Well my mom got busy and made me a friend...here he is...he doesnt have a name either but he confidentially told me hes Admiral of the Savannah River fleet...but we dont even own a boat!! just a canoe!!! He told me that is what his gold star is for...cause hes an admiral...I am glad to have a friend BUT did she have to make one twice as big as i am??? Maybe one of those socks shes been saying ALL MORNING that shes going to paint will be a little short one like me...well i can always hope cant i?

She MIGHT have gotten them done if she hadnt been too busy hanging out on the back deck taking pics of that wierd bird that keeps roosting across the river...i mean YOU can BARELY see it in the pictures...She said she used to think it was an egret but since she saw that woodstork the other day now shes not so sure...WHY didnt she get out the binoculars and look...

ANd then she spent a whole big chunk of morning cooking DOG food for that pesty Jazz...I know shes sick but i really hope she gets those socks done soon so i can have a SHORT friend:|

And NOW shes blogging...WHEN is she gonna paint those socks?! Signed Veronica who is NOT an ugly stupid sock creature but a GORGEOUS hand dyed sock creature

A few odds and ends

SO I made a stupid sock creature...read on at the end...(YES would you believe she had the nerve to wait till the VERY end of the post to talk about me...I mean dogs and geese are more important than MOI??!)

My youngest Jack Russell Jazz tried to die on us this week...she had an acute case of pancreatitis...something in common with Pavarotti isnt it? She spent most of this week at the vets on ivs so not got alot done except playing nurse maid while i am home...then my son brought his young Pitt Bull over for weekend babysitting services....just what we needed Jazz and I ...a wild thing....shhhh shes sleeping right now...but like most terriers that changes instantaneously...she s a bundle o energy...

ANYWAY...my grandmother made this for my brother back in 54 or so when he was a baby...odd the bunnys are on a pink background...my quilt that she made for me was on a blue background...she hand painted both of them and then embellished them with embroidery..she was quite the painter and embroiderer...a friend of mine removed the back for me...thanks Gloria!! ANYWAY now i have to sew a back on it again so that i can give it to my brother who finally had twins at the ripe age of 51 or was it 52...and yes he and his wife have been married 26 years ...they just waited:> BYTW they are twin girls so pink is finally the right color...

OK I Know you are going WHY is she posting ANOTHER picture of her backporch...well first as usual its TOO hot out there to enjoy BUT if you look at the right corner...you will see the GEESE...the canada geese float down the river almost every morning looking for groceries...not so long ago half of these were babies.....




This was another group that was flying overhead....i tried to get a pic of all of them in their classic V but my camera will not record fast enough darn it!

I made this out of the last pair of hand dyed cotton socks that i have not worn in four or five years....No name yet...but was thinking of giving it to jazz for a toy...this took me about hmmmm two hours to make by hand...too lazy to go upstairs and use the sewing machine...I am thinking i will paint the lips so they will show up...isnt it a hoot...WELLL FINALLYYY SHE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT ME...DID I SAY ITS ABOUT TIME?! NOW HOW ABOUT A FRIEND OR TWO SO WE CAN PLAY WHILE SHE SLEEPS?! OR WOULD THOSE DRATTED JACK RUSSELLS TELL ON US??? I BET THEY WOULD!! My real dad lives here at stupidcreatures!!! Did i tell you i was really adopted? I really really am....

ANYONE have a good name?? was thinking of naming her after some of the kids at school...but not sure thats a good idea...someone might not see the charm in naming her after one of them??? Lashanae??? a real rascal of a first grader...so here she sits on the fireplace mantel....so she can be in charge of all the goings on...