Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

I wasn’t planning to allow myself to go home until I’d inseamed both but it’s after 6pm and I’m tired. The second boot will still be there tomorrow.

Today I traded the TV in the back room for this big table. It will be perfect for displaying large pieces of leather for clients and it has two deep drawers for storage.

This is what I did today. The top band is blue ostrich, the tops are gray rough-out kangaroo, and there are five rows of stitching–four purple and one bone.

It was a long and frustrating afternoon putting the hidden zipper into the side seam of these boots, but I prevailed. And in other good news, I have phone and internet again!

Today I have to share a photo of a pair of boots made by my talented boot maker friend Paul Krause of Prescott, Arizona. Aren’t these totally cool?

My 16 year old daughter makes ladies shoes but she’s been so busy with school this year that she’s barely had time to be at her workbench. Today was a snow day so she worked in my shop and finished a pair of black flats for herself that she started a long time ago.