When I went to the auction with Chad, I saw this:
I had never seen anything like that, though I know shoes were hand made at one time. Chad and I were standing there talking about it and I said “So, if we got this, we could make our own shoes?” Chad said yes and I noticed several really old folk around me snickering. I suppose they remember the days of homemade shoes, or had heard stories from their grandparents and they obviously wanted no part of it but I thought it would be really fun to try to make a pair.
I didn’t buy any of it but I’m still thinking that might be in my future to make a pair of shoes.
Rebecca says
I follow a blogger who makes shoes! There are a couple useful sites she has mentioned: icanmakeshoes.com and rachelseessnailshoes.com
Because you need another hobby (ha!)
Nelle Coursey says
Before you do, go by the Turtle and talk to Mary Stanley! She and her husband had a shoe company on Anderson street upstairs next to Good Samaritan. She sold shoes all over the world! I don’t know if they are still doing it or not, but everyone loved the shoes. I think they were mostly for children but they could have made some for adults, not sure. I can’t remember the name of them. We saw some in a gift shop in Salado one time. They were over $100!! For baby shoes!!
cassews says
Get yourself a moccasin shoe kit and make yourself some shoes .. Tandy Leather sells them, Hobby Lobby has them as I saw them there today when I went to buy some leather
Joyce says
I have one of those…I’m not sure if there was a cobbler in the family, or if someone (probably my paternal Grandfather who loved to get that kind of stuff…) picked it up at an auction somewhere.
Twyla says
This is another part of our collection of inherited stuff out in the storage building.
Susan Nixon says
Under certain circumstances, these would come in handy, if one knew how to use them. – Bartering skills can be very handy.