Expert opinion

Posted on November 7, 2018 by customboots

In my expert opinion, both of these boots will need a few more heel lifts tomorrow before the heels are complete. 🙂

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Amazon loves me

Posted on November 7, 2018 by customboots
I obviously cannot be trusted with an Amazon account because I managed to order BOTH a Turquoise and a Berry frame. Which one do you prefer?
Poster available here, but you have to buy your own frame.
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Quitting time

Posted on October 31, 2018 by customboots

Both boots have soles now! I wasn’t sure I’d manage to get them on by quitting time (or what time quitting time would be if I insisted on laying soles before I left), but I had both pairs done by 5pm.

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Good and bad news

Posted on October 29, 2018 by customboots

The good news is that my husband volunteered to spend last week building new last shelves for me. The bad news is that it required me rearranging my entire shop front and now I’m a week behind on these boots.

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See the boot at the top right corner? I hate leaving for the day after inseaming one boot out of a pair. I’ve decided to think of it as a jumpstart on tomorrow instead of a job only half done.
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Llama

Posted on October 26, 2018 by customboots

My husband Dale used one whole week of his two weeks off to build three additional shelves to hold the lasts I sell. I’ve been moving stuff at the shop for three days so there will be room. He’s building the shelves in our barn; I took this afternoon off to help him and got photobombed by a llama.

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Rearranging

Posted on October 24, 2018 by customboots

I’m rearranging today, and I can always tell when my husband has had a part in something around my shop. When I begin to move shelves, realize they’re so immobile that a tornado could blow away my entire shop and those shelves would stand strong, then find that they’re bolted to shelves behind and beside, plus the floor, the wall, and the ceiling… that’s how I know that Dale helped out.

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Reluctant virtue

Posted on October 23, 2018 by customboots

I told myself I wasn’t allowed to go home until I’d made the waxed ends for hand sewing the welt tomorrow on both pairs of boots. I’m torn between feeling virtuous that they’re done and grumpy because I had to make waxed ends.

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It’s a Boot Life

Posted on October 22, 2018 by customboots

I forgot to announce that my October YouTube video went live this morning.

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Sketching

Posted on October 19, 2018 by customboots

This is what I do sometimes when I’m supposed to be working. This pair will be for me… someday.

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I got some satisfaction

Posted on October 18, 2018 by customboots
Building a cowboy boot that sits straight front-to-back and side-to-side requires precise patterning and careful lasting. If you’re off even a little bit it shows up on a tall boot like this one.
That sounds like bragging, but really it’s an explanation for why I’m feeling satisfied and grateful right now.
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