Van Owen is now residing alongside Petunia Grinberg in Seattle. How lovely that they can be together! All of us at Sanity Creek wish the two plenty of wonderful food and conversation, and very little rain.
Grigsby
Grigsby is a purist. Although aeronautical technology has progressed in the last hundred years, he remains loyal to the original paper airplane. As a paper airplane pilot, Grigsby gets a lot of indulgent smiles when he straps himself into his vessel with his blue rubberband security design system (patent pending). And takes off, confident in the growing nostalgia for simpler days, when a piece of well-folded paper was enough. In this economy, I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s onto something.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 32
The Simple World Collection
Number 1
Etsy shop is open!
Our shop is open! And slowly, surely, we will be posting more monkeys all the time on our etsy shop. Stop by and see us!
Yoga Class
Inspired by Penelope and Mitzi, the Sanity Creek yoga class has been steadily growing. They even convinced the crusty, ill-tempered raindog (far left in group photo) to join them this morning…
Happy 2009 from Sanity Creek!
From all the monkeys at Sanity Creek, we wish you a warm, happy, healthy new year, full of unexpected yet welcome occurrences. Yer the best!
Petunia Grinberg
Petunia Grinberg was born for the piano bar. A distant cousin to Stripey Joe, Petunia Grinberg watched as he rose to fame, lingering over glasses of Cesare’s Dolcetto wine, lost in the music of the tiny piano. Obsessed with math and matchmaking, she has calculated the likelihood of various events and romances, and her predictions have been 93.9% accurate, most of the time. She would have been great at anything she decided to do, but for now, she is thrilled to sit back and observe the life that her calculations have created. And yet…the flag pin she wears is tangible recognition of something she never could have predicted would happen, and evidence that Petunia Grinberg, in November 2008, became more optimistic about the world.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 26
Custom
Baby Tangtang
Baby Tangtang is one of the sweetest littles ever deposited at the Sanity Creek Orphanage. She is sure to have remarkable adventures ahead. The monkeys at Sanity Creek will miss her, but they know that Guzzi and her friend Tyrone will provide Baby Tangtang a home full of warmth, love, and adoration as the new family travels the world.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 29
The Tinies Collection
Number 2
Natasha
Natasha may be the most intrepid monkey at Sanity Creek. It took her twenty years and eight days, but she did it: she climbed to the summit of Mount Sanity. Once there, she sampled the most precious of all fruits, the nightlemon berries, and tucked as many as she could count in her rucksack. She then folded herself up and rolled back down the mountain, laughing all the while because the flora tickled her so. When she returned triumphantly to Sanity Creek, the monkeys held the first annual Eight Day party in her honor.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 13a
The Tinies Collection
Number 1
Song featured at DVAC
Anton
The written word at Sanity Creek would smart at the loss of Anton. As Stationer, Anton creates exquisite paper and cards. Collaborating with Van Owen, Anton makes announcements and invitations for many public holidays, and some of the less public ones as well. His work nook is the first stop when monkeys have something important to announce, such as new ribbons for sale, or the timing of this year’s radish harvest. And he designs greetings for personal occasions too, often using his own infallible calligraphy and discretion to draft tender notes among affectionate monkeys.
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Sanity Creek Sock Monkey
Number 25
The Fancy World Collection
Number 10
Sanity Creek Sock Monkeys 