Category Archives: boot maker

10 day cowboy boot making class, Day Three.

10 day cowboy boot making class, Day Two.

I started a new two week boot making class this morning with two students. This is what their boots look like after one day.

There’s a nice article about me this month in the UK magazine World Footwear. World Footwear article

After three weeks of traveling and one really intense day of helping my daughters move into their new apartment, I’m back in the studio and making boots again!

Here’s a link to a great post from Leslie Myers, a fellow shoe fanatic and blogger who was at the Footwear Symposium in Ashland, Oregon. Since my specialty is carrying a camera around but never actually taking pictures with it, … Continue reading →

My family and I are in Arkansas at the lake for the weekend. I’ve been up since 7am picking wild raspberries and these are the results of my labors. I only ran into one spider but I killed him with … Continue reading →

This is the most common form of interaction at a shoemaker’s gathering.

I sent the completed book materials for the leather inlay/overlay book off to the publisher yesterday. Authors frequently refer to books as their children and I have decided it’s very true. At the beginning it was so sweet and wonderful … Continue reading →