Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

Someone’s very proud of her new purple shoes! This is only the second pair of shoes she’s made with a welt and she did a great job. Plus, she says they fit perfectly.

New project. It’s complicated.

Like mother, like daughter.
Paige finished inseaming her shoes and she’s feeling pumped. She hasn’t done as much inseaming as I have though!

It was a long hard day of skiving and there are wing pieces everywhere.

I strongly believe in writing thank you notes and this is the notecard I print for my notes. Today it occurred to me to add my name and contact information to the backside of the card. I typed that in and flipped it upside down so it would be correctly oriented when the card was folded. Unfortunately I failed to notice that the print was also backwards, so all the notes I sent out today have my name printed backwards. It’s very professional.

This is what accounting looks like when your hard drive crashes and you lose 7 months of business data. I’m keeping track of everything on paper in the desperate hope that my data will be recovered and I can just enter the last few days. Then I will press on, sadder, wiser, poorer, and with better backed-up information.

Here’s a link to my Monday YouTube video. I feel very virtuous uploading a complete video on time even though I’m still traveling. Dale and I are staying in Seattle for a few days after the cruise we took to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

It’s a Boot Life

My boots got to see a glacier yesterday. Don’t worry–Dale was holding them so they wouldn’t fall!

Dale and I are traveling this week, celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. My boots are having lots of fun! Last night we danced to Jim Ed Brown singing the old Louvin Brother song “When I Stop Dreaming.”

I had hoped to start cutting leather today but instead I completed all of the pattern pieces and fit the last.