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Aloha and thank you for visiting my site.
This is where I share many wonderful things including
my artwork, printable gift tags and stationery, crafting instructions,
my collections, my words and any other bits of treasures
I find while out exploring the world.
Each art piece is a journey in self discovery. They reflect little
bits and pieces of where I have been, where I am, where I want to be, and where I am going.
Like me, this site is a work in progress. I hope you enjoy browsing around
and feel free to drop me an e-mail.
~Bren
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Original Paintings by B. Young
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Make a Sock Monkey!
Sock Monkey History
Sock dolls were popular around the 1900's. Nelson Knitting Mills
in Rockford Illinois first made the original rockford red heeled sock in 1890.
In 1920 the mill soon began packaging directions for the sock monkeys, with each pair of socks, after a customer fashioned a sock monkey and sent it to the company. The Nelson Knitting Mills was purchased by
Fox River Mills
in the 1992 and now Fox River makes the Red Heel Monkey Sock.
reference:
America's stuffed toy: the sock monkey Fox River
[http://www.foxrivermills.com/
foxriver/SilverStream/
Pages/pgMonkeys.html]
02/19/2001
Socking the Monkey People Weekly 5/8/1995 v43 n18 p225(1) Time Inc.
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