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Hey there, again!

All of Saturdays cards are gone and it’s time to announce the code word for day two!!!

 Once again, we will be passing our four $10.00 gift cards ad one $25.00 gift card per day at Stumptown Comic Fest.

Remember, the card is random, so the only way to find out how much you won is to go to our web site and place an order. Then use the promo code bar on the first page of your check out, to see what your discount is.

Today’s word is Boilerplate.

Good luck!

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After the success of our promotional give away at Sakura Con, we’re doing it again!!!

For each day of the con (Saturday 4/27,  Sunday 4/28), we’ll be posting a new code word right here in our Latest News.

We will be passing our four $10.00 gift cards ad one $25.00 gift card per day at Stumptown Comic Fest.

Remember, the card is random, so the only way to find out how much you won is to go to our web site and place an order. Then use the promo code bar on the first page of your check out, to see what your discount is.

Stop by our booth at Atrium #2 right outside the main con area and say the code Rose Red.

Good luck!

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Not everyone can be a superb artist, but here at Sock Dreams, we are fortunate enough to have several seriously talented folks.

From the real to the absurd, from the geeky to the adorable, if you ask for invoice art, one of us is more than happy to oblige.

That’s why, when we were offered a table as the first non-comic retailer at Stumptown Comics Fest  , taking place at the Oregon Convention Center this weekend April 27th & 28th, we knew that we had to present something pretty darn special.

Stumptown Comics has been celebrating independent comic artists, writers, and publishers for 8 years now and has grown exponentially. It is a gathering for all the geek community of Portland, with parties, performances, pod casts and the Stumptown Independent comics awards. Portland is a city of comics, with folks like Oni Press, Dark Horse, Periscope Studios and countless other comic folks doing it on their own and Stumptown is their time to shine.

When we learned the we were going to table at Stumptown, it only seemed natural to feature not only our amazing socks, but our artistic talents. 

As such, we will be premiering our very first Zine!!! It will be filled with interesting artwork, inspired by our customers, from various invoices over the years and we’re pretty proud of it. You will be able to find the Zine at any of our geeky events this year and can pick one up for the low, low price of 7 bucks! In addition, we will have all the usual deals on our Dreamer Socks and Dreams Stockings, as well as fun socks for  this artistic crowd.

Hope to see you there!

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Here in our beautiful home city of Portland, OR; bike is king. There are a million things you and your bicycle can participate in: pub bike crawls, bike rides on the rainiest windiest days of the year, bike rides through fields of flowers and forests of trees, bike rides where they shut down our numerous Portland bridges, and of course the infamous naked bike ride.

But one of our favorite bike events at Sock Dreams is the film festival/street party happening this coming weekend April 20th-23rd Filmed by Bike. Every year around this time, Filmed by Bike shuts down a couple blocks around the Clinton Street Theatre, the theatre in Portland where one can go see everything from the latest social documentary to Saturday nite Rocky Horror Picture Show. The beer flows, amazing films are viewed and judged for prizes and there is a general excitement in celebrating the fun and funky in the bicycling community.

Sock Dreams has been a huge supporter of this event going on three years, providing raffle prizes, prize socks for enthusiastic cyclists and dressing the Raffilistas (folks handling the raffle) in our fabulous products.
We’ve also been able to flex our creative muscle by making a fantastic short film last year, staring several of our friends from Trek in the Park, Alter Ego’s and Portland’s roller derby team, The Rose City Rollers; shot by 10 Bridges Media.

This year we did a still shot with lead Raffilista and bike maven Meghan Sinnott in and around the Clinton Neighborhood, which is famous for it’s bike friendly routes.

We will be hanging around this year for the street party to represent Sock Dreams and see all the nutty fun. Hope to see you all you Portland folks down there to support cycling and film in our community!

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In addition to all the pictures we’ve been taking of this spring’s new items, we’ve been doing photo shoots all over town!

We got to hang out with the supremely rad folks over at Periscope Studio…

We were graced with a visit from a traveling Latanya, blogger extraordinaire behind Sprinkles and Booze…

We met a sweet calico with Meghan Sinott from Filmed By Bike…

Soon, we’ll be shooting the lovely Karol Collymore, newly-appointed head of the Equity Foundation, and her partner Shaley in their BRIDE Knee Highs…

If you’re local, be sure to pick up the Portland Mercury‘s annual Southeast Neighborhood Guide in May, and keep an eye out for our socks gallivanting around Sunnyside Piazza!

And we KNOW we’re going to have a blast snapping pictures of the devastating derby dames of RCR! We Dreamers love our derby girls almost as much as derby girls love socks…

Stay tuned!

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