If These Walls Could Talk
Shoe 113Available When Jud was remodeling the house, he came across this shoe in the wall. We don’t really know why it was there or who it belonged to. It’s the size of a child’s foot, but clearly was made for a woman, hard to believe anyone had feet that small. The shoe has Edwin […]
Ruby Valentino
Shoe 109 Location: On Exhibit with Haywood County Arts Council, Waynesville, NC Most of the time when I create the shoes for this project, i stick pretty close to the original design of the shoe. WIth Ruby Valentino, I wanted to explore the texture of the leather through the contrast of black and white. As […]
Words Hurt II
Shoe 108 This is the second edition of Words Hurt, created during the initial phase of the Shoes as Storytellers Project. With this shoe, my goal was to make the walls even thinner to allow more light to pass through. Here’s the original story: When I was in junior high school, 7th grade, I was […]
Orange You Excited to Run?
Shoes 110 & 111Available Individually, or as a Pair A friend brought a pair of sneakers to me early on in the project. He found them at the recycling center and thought of my project. Aside from being well worn, they didn’t have a very strong story. So I decided these would be a great […]
Experimentally Sneaking
Shoe 101Available This shoe kicked off 2025 as my experiments shoe. The sole and upper were created in the usual way, but then I toyed around with a technique by Karen Lise Krabbe out of Denmark called Gelled Glass. I was hopeful this technique would work for creating insoles. It did not, but that doesn’t […]
Kint-Sari Noire & Natural
Shoes 102 & 103 Location: On Exhibit with Haywood County Arts Council, Waynesville, NC After Sari’s mom passed away, she was cleaning out the closets and came across some fantastic shoes for my project. I received a box with four pairs of shoes. This is the first pair I’ve cast. What makes this pair particularly […]
Girl, You Been to Church, but You Ain’t Been Prayin’
Shoe 100 Last year I met Tanya when teaching a shoe class. She brought this shoe as her goal and as we worked through the class shoe we talked about how to approach making this shoe. Taking notes each day, she finally looked at me and said, “If I give you this shoe to make […]
Woman’s Work II
Shoe 75Available I picked up a pair of hot pink stilettos at the thrift shop because I knew Krista and Elaine would be sending heels for the project, and I needed to figure out how to make heels. When I put them in my cart, there was an older woman there giving me a very […]
Alicia’s Flop
Happy in My Garden
Shoes 77 & 7877 Available (no sole) Location: Delphi Glass Collection, Lansing, MI