This weekend I finished my second pair of mixed media shoes. These pumps were a beta test and they are not meant to be worn, they are meant to be either simply decorative or perhaps to hold things - I see pencils, paintbrushes, pennies, or other assorted items in their future.
How would you use one of these shoes?
This wasn't my first pair of mixed media shoes. My first pair are Emily Dickinson canvas basketball style sneakers. They have poetry along the toes and the side. They can't be worn in the rain, but I wear them regularly. They are swoon worthy for the right people.
These sneakers feature Emily Dickinson poetry on the "nose" of the shoe and along the soles as well. Perfect as Emily wrote about the Soul standing ajar... though I know she was not talking about "soles" of shoes, even those dedicated to her work.
I will be posting a DIY post sometime this week, showing the process I went through for the pumps. I've had requests to create a wearable version. My Emma and her friends are lucky because they can be my test shoe wearers. I'm not sure if they'll wear them in such a rural Bakersfield setting, but I couldn't resist taking the shoes out in one of my favorite spots at the Panorama Vista Preserve yesterday.
Do you notice the linings inside the shoes? The blue tinted shoe has blue heels and the neutral shoe heel is covered in dictionary pages from the 1962 Thorndike-Barnhardt edition. I doubt fashionable shoes are what the publishers had in mind back when they made this dictionary!
What would you like to see me try next with mixed media shoes?
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