You May Say I’m A Dreamer*

by Leslie

It’s another Buck The Monkey weekend. There’s chocolate peanut butter monkey love exploding all over the place here. So, I’ve got photos.

Check it out.

How would you feel if this showed up on your doorstep?

And then you opened it up and realized, “Holy Heck, those are Leslie’s Buckeyes!!!”

Would you totally love that? I sure hope so. If not, you can lie. I don’t mind.

I’ve got a stack of boxes to deliver in our neighborhood tomorrow because my husband has been promising my buckeyes to people all over this land. He spends them like they’re currency. “Hey, can I use your front end loader? I can’t pay you, but my wife will make you some awesome buckeyes!”

And I’ve got a box shipping out on Monday to one of my favorite bloggers in the whole wide world…one of the few people I love enough to send a bunch of my big balls. I hope she likes my balls. I haven’t told her they’re coming. It’s going to be a surprise! Well, not so much once she reads this…

Anyway! Here’s our latest Psychedelic Sock Monkey.

As I was photographing that monkey for my Etsy store, Julia asked, “When are you gonna be done making sock monkeys? When everyone in the world has one?”

My Mom and I looked at each other and said, “Yeah! Sock Monkey World Domination!”

So, that’s my new dream: Peace, Love and Sock Monkeys! It’d be pretty hard to fight with a sock monkey in your hand, right? Unless you use the sock monkey as a weapon, but then that’s just wrong.

Make monkey love, not war!

*lyric from Imagine by John Lennon

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Comments

13 Cool Kids Came To Play

Jen in MI on March 30, 2008 8:48 am
Wow… do your buckeyes actually ship? How would I feel if I saw that box on my doorstep? “Uh oh, I’m in trouble” and then I’d hide them from C and D so I could have the trouble all. to. myself.

Now that I read Jenn’s post about her office I have to get a sock monkey. I like anything that smacks of world domination.
Jerseygirl89 on March 30, 2008 9:31 am
I think you need to make a sock monkey with a t-shirt that says, “world domination”. And one that says, “make monkey love, not war!”. Maybe an adult size monkey love t-shirt, too.

Now I know what I want for my birthday.
Karly on March 30, 2008 10:13 am
Jerseygirl has a great idea up there! Can’t ya just picture a cute little monkey wearing a t-shirt that says either of those? Adorable! And I love that the little monkey up there is wearing glasses (I really wanted to call them spectacles, because they are on a monkey and I think that monkeys would wear spectacles and not glasses, but I stuck with glasses so you wouldn’t think I was weird.).

Do you know how many bloggers are sitting at their computers with their fingers crossed that they are the blogger of which you speak? And if those arrived on my doorstep, I would probably giggle and squeal and jump up and down like a little girl. And then when my children congregated around me to see what all the fuss was about I would shout LOOK A RAINBOW! and take off running to the kitchen to grab the gallon of milk. THEN I would head for the bathroom because it has a lock and I would lock myself in there and those buckeyes? They would be GONE. And that’s no lie.
Mommy the Maid on March 30, 2008 11:43 am
I am drooling over your balls. LOL I use my sewing as currency like Dave uses your Buckeyes. Wanna trade?
Mackey on March 30, 2008 11:48 am
Your sock monkeys are da bomb!
Vasilisa on March 30, 2008 12:32 pm
I love that monkey! So new age

I’m not blogging much nowdays, but like to see that you are still going strong. You almost there with baby number two! I can’t believe how fast time flies… Can’t wait to see the baby pics… Babies are so amazing

Cheers…
Amy on March 30, 2008 2:20 pm
Oh great Buckeye Queen, thou dost know how to make a pregnant girl drool!
Scout's Honor on March 30, 2008 3:06 pm
Errrrr…I like balls. Hehehehe.

(look left. look right)

Sheew! The Husband’s not around to think that’s an invitation. With me being so sick for a while, he takes a wiped brow, a small sigh, anything as an invitation for the marital relations.

But wait! You’re pregnant? It is beyond impossible for a pregnant woman to give up chocolate willing! You must be being held hostage… Give me a sign and I call for help.

…it will only cost you a box of those buckeyes.
Daddy Forever on March 30, 2008 6:32 pm
Too bad we can’t send sock monkeys to Iraq instead of real people. That should make the news interesting: “In today’s news, President Bush ordered another 100,000 sock monkeys to Iraq.”
Mackey on April 1, 2008 1:54 am
Sock monkeys to Iraq?!!!!
Dude, that is the best idea I have heard yet!
If that didn’t bring peace then I don’t know what would.
jenn in holland on April 2, 2008 12:57 pm
I love my sock monkey.
I am deeply tempted to buy him a mate.
I love your buckeyes.
I am the luckiest girl in the world to have had a shipment once come ALL THE WAY OVER HERE from ALL THE WAY OVER THERE.
Did I mention I love you?
Suzanne on April 3, 2008 11:49 am
I was thinking that you and I should, y’know, swap some goodies. I can send you some of my yummy chocolate caramels (with or without almonds) and you can send me some of your delicious looking buckeyes. Because I just don’t know how to make those things myself. What do you think??
Suzanne on April 3, 2008 11:51 am
Ps- And oh… the glasses on that precious monkey are fantastic. Nice touch.