Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

Today I’m using a gift from Dale. It’s a pulley off his truck–he was doing repairs so when he replaced the pulley he cleaned it up and gave it to me for Christmas, to use as a paperweight. Romance isn’t dead, folks.

I am a big believer in writing thank-you notes, so today I designed three greeting cards that I can use for writing notes.

I’ve been at a last making class at Lastmaking House in Eastbourne, England. These are my classmates and we all look happy because we’ve successfully completed our lasts.

Last making class with (from left to right) Anna, Anne Marika, Lisa, Åsa, Carina, and Emilie.

If you’d like to see the boots I made for the Malpass Brothers on stage during a Country Family Reunion cruise, check out my YouTube video this month.

“It’s a Boot Life”

It was a good day today at Lastmaker House in Eastbourne, England, learning about last making. The last on the left is the one I worked on today. If you look closely you can see that it’s beginning to have some shape through the arch area. The one on the right is still shapeless but that will change soon.

We were on a cruise last week. Dale attended a nature lecture in Honduras and brought me back a half dozen wild pig bristles. He knows me so well–that’s way better than roses!

Title: “It Hurts Me More (the Second Time Around)”

I chose this title because these boots are a reproduction of boots that the Louvin Brothers wore in a photo shoot in the late 1950s. So this is the “second time around” for this design. The song was written by Bill Anderson.

Title: “Satan is Real”

The reason for the title is obvious; it’s the title track from the 1959 Louvin Brothers album, and this image is the album cover.

On my YouTube video this month, I show how I create a boot top pattern from the client’s measurements.

It’s a Boot Life