~ Sock Dreams ~

When most people think of Oregon, they think of rain; and with good reason. Portland alone gets an average of around 37 inches of rain a year, and often times it feels like we should start gathering animals two by two. There advantage to all the rain is when the sun comes out, Oregon turns into a green paradise. So, the latest news is… SUNSHINE!!!

One of our favorite parts of the warm weather is new shorties, like these sweet Sweet Marcel anklets from last summer!!!

We here at Sock Dreams are suckers for a little shorty sock and luckily Tabbisocks has already starting sending us the most adorable socks ever.
Stay tuned for new styles coming just in time for Spring and Summer.

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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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