Ultimate Blog Party 2012: Meet Shinko!

Welcome
Ultimate Blog Party Guests!
Sock Monkey Trails features sock monkeys from As You Wish Creations on the adventure of a lifetime - traveling across the country in search of new experiences! Host families take care of a cute little -and maybe a little mischievous- sock monkey while taking him/her on the daily adventures we call life. Here you will see and read about all the adventures!

At Sock Monkey Trails you can follow in the footsteps of your favorite little stuffed monkey...  Is he taking a hike this week? Did he go to story time at the library? Is he hangin' around the monkey bars at the playground? Whatever this little sock monkey is doing, he is making the most of it, enjoying himself to the fullest, and always saying "cheeeezze" with a BIG smile when he's in front of the camera! Sock monkeys from As You Wish Creations always love a great adventure - large or small outing - they are going to have fun! And they're sure to make you smile too when you see them having fun!

Want to know the best part of this Sock Monkey Trails adventure? You can have a sock monkey visit you too... and you can take him (or her) on all your adventures for a week and share with everyone, through this blog, what you two did together - what your adventures were and how the monkey liked it! And we hope you'll take pictures to share as well!

Are you ready to host a monkey? Read more about it on the Hosting page and email me.

 

Dear Mom

Dear Mom,
We were on our way to the post office this morning so that I could be on my way to my next adventure when I got a really bad pain in my leg, Jenni took one look at me and knew right away I would need stitches. They didn't hurt much, and I was very brave. They asked if I needed a band-aid, but I said no, I wanted them to know I was tough.

Talk soon,
Love Shinko

Oh no, Shinko! 
I have decided, in the interest of product improvement, to bring Shinko home before his next adventure. He will come home for reconstruction and will head back on out to his next adventure in the days to come.
 (he will be an all-new, new and improved Shinko!)

UPDATE!

It seems that Shinko is getting into more things than just the hanging birthday banner...  See more of him at Monday Morning Coffee!  UNBELIEVABLE!  I did say he was a bit curious... 

Love, Shinko

Awww!  Shinko wrote a letter to me.  I am so happy to hear directly from him and want to share it with you:

Oh BOY!  I sure hope Shinko isn't making too much trouble for his host family!

Dear Mom,
Thank you so much for sending me out to Colorado. I am having a lot of fun playing with the kids, their dogs and especially their toys! Just the other day I found a fun, colorful birthday banner that I could swing on, it made the children laugh when they saw me! I hope that you are having a good week, I miss you!
                              Love,
                                  Shinko
 

Shinko is being hosted in Colorado right now, with his very first host family. You can learn more about the host family and check out some great recipes, photography and reviews/giveaways at the host Mom, Jenni's, blog Monday Morning Coffee.  You might even find more about Shinko's visit there!

If you would like to host Shinko in your home for a week, please be sure to read all the details on his blog pages here (tabs above) then email sockmonkeytrails@gmail.com to get the process started. SockMonkeyTrails.blogspot.com is a blog of As You Wish Creations, a Mom-owned small business specializing in creating lovable sock monkeys like Shinko.

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Bananas and Legos

Devin, Shinko's very first host, wrote in about his arrival. Apparently, he has learned something new...

"I think that when Shinko first arrived he was a bit nervous and scared to be in a new place, but I was so excited and I could not believe that we were his first host family. As soon as he settled in from his travels we got right to playing legos. Then he asked for a banana, so my mom had to run to the store to get some!! He asked to play legos again, he is really good at building creations. I am really having a good time with Shinko."

~Devin

Shinko is being hosted in Colorado right now, with his very first host family.  You can learn more about the host family and check out some great recipes, photography and reviews/giveaways at the host Mom, Jenni's, blog Monday Morning Coffee.

If you would like to host Shinko in your home for a week, please be sure to read all the details on his blog pages here (tabs above) then email sockmonkeytrails@gmail.com to get the process started.  SockMonkeyTrails.blogspot.com is a blog of As You Wish Creations, a Mom-owned small business specializing in creating lovable sock monkeys like Shinko.

On Facebook: As You Wish Creations

On Etsy: AsYouWishCreations4u