I will make some sandals for the summer. In this, I shall strive to come up with a style that will lend itself to faster sew up times. 

Something like this but just brown not blue!

Do it yourself boots

I have all this leather and have planned to make myself a pair of simple boots. My plans to make an easy "last" of my foot and mold the leather over this. It should not be more complicated than my current process of forming the leather for my foot.  I would not want anything more complicated than this Frye boot. I will probably make them flat without a heel.

YOU WALK WRONG !

 See this article by the NY magazine. It has some good information about feet and walking.

http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/

Resoling is done !

Finally resoled mi zapatos. 
I decided to glue the soles on and not worry too much about how they look. They are just my old walking shoes and do not need to look too fine.
I am just glad that I had them back in walking condition within 24 hours.
It seems that a cobbler may have taken longer than that and charged me about 40 dollars.
It just took me a about 1 hour of my time to take off the old soles, clean the bottoms, cut out new soles, and glue them on.
 
I will post some pictures of them, but be warned they are not pretty.

Handmade Shoes In Their Natural Habitat

Here are some of our sandals and shoes in their natural habitat near the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

These are fun comfortable footwear that we made of some orange leather that we bought at Tandy Leather Company.  At first I did not like the orange leather and thought it looked to Halloween, but it grew on me!  They do look unique. 

 These old soles need replacing. 

A simple putty knife

Vise Grips

Start pulling the old sole off.

One off and one more to go!

Both old soles are removed.

Now I have to clean the surface and prepare it for gluing on another sole.

Wearing out.

I recently noticed that my first good shoes were wearing out in the soles.

 The heel area is really worn and has worn into the softer inner sole.

 The front area under my big toe and ball of the foot is worn but not into  the softer sole.

I will need to resole them. Fortunately I have the materials, tools, and the skills to resole them. This will be the second time that I have resoled them. It will be great to have my old comfortable walking shoes to wear again. I would hate to have to throw away these shoes just because they need a new sole.