Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

Almost finished

Posted on November 9, 2018 by customboots

I’m coming down the home stretch on this pair.

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Told you they needed more heel height

Posted on November 8, 2018 by customboots

The lasts came out of both pairs of these boots quickly and easily, which is something I can’t always say. Now I need to finish the heels and I can go home. Tomorrow I’ll take the final “formal portraits” and then mail them to the new owners.

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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.

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.