Enter Crazy Sock Monkey Lady....

I know, I know what you're thinking....I thought she was the Crazy Puppy Lady. This is true, I am, but for this weekend, I was the Crazy Sock Monkey Lady. Emily and I went to Rockford's Midway Village Museum. It was the annual Sock Monkey Festival. I dont think I have ever seen so many sock monkeys in one place!! There had to be over 500 of them....easily!

Here is the entrance to the museum, and a giant sock monkey to welcome us.

This was the main room, there were tables set up to embellish your purchased sock monkeys and there were vendors around the wall areas of the room. The kids were all having a great time making clothes, putting on their faces and completing their monkeys. There was another room where people were making monkeys from scratch. There were tons of people that brought their monkeys from home, just about everything imagineable....Even a Gangsta monkey!
There were vintage monkeys, this guy has over 2,000 monkeys in his collection.

Teensie little monkeys

Gigantic Monkeys....see Emily to the left for sizing.

There was even a monkey hospital for your ailing monkeys

And your run of the mill Cheap Trick Monkey! These big statues are located around Rockford

I love this group, Notice Spock in the blue.
Tyrone made a lot of new friends, everyone that seen him loved him. He had his pic taken many times that day. Got a few double takes at him too.
They had items to buy, I got Emily this cute purse she really wanted. They had a ton of really cute ones there.

Emily & Tyrone by one of the Rockford Peaches displays

Here is a display full of Wizard of Oz sock monkey characters and other misc sock monkeys ...How cute is that?
All in all a fun weekend. Thanks for stopping by...