Hello! We’re Carolyn’s feet; don’t know if we’ve been introduced yet, but hi there!! We’re here today to model some more shoes that she’s made… *sigh* yep, we’ve managed to avoid too much of her self-made nonsense for years and years now… we’ve just kept to ourselves, all quiet and unobtrusive down here, hum de hum hum, nothing to see here! and thought we might just have got away with it but NOPE!!! it seems we could not go by unnoticed forever *deeper sigh*
Oh well. Today we are wearing a new pair of ridiculous shoes, made out of tape again… I know, right?! you’d have thought that one pair was enough, but NOPE!! Carolyn got into the painting supplies in the shed and eventually unearthed a roll of black all-purpose builder’s cloth tape, and whipped these up. OK, so we have to admit, they are a bit of an improvement on the yellow pair, quite a bit sturdier and actually engineered to a slightly higher degree on the inside. The lining is made of an old, well-washed black Tshirt… so it is nice and cuddly soft on us, mmmmmm… Then Carolyn made proper heel counters and toe puffs on her lasts using stretch cotton denim and PVA glue, so these shoes are a lot more like real shoes. We have to hand it to her, she does seem to be actually improving infinitesimally with each new homemade pair of shoes she’s forced upon us.
She was shamed into showing these to an actual real shoemaker, who happened to be around at the same time Carolyn was out with her mother one day, and her Mum thought nothing of announcing to him what Carolyn was up to, and made her hand them over for inspection… laugh! We thought Carolyn would die of embarrassment right then and there! but rather surprisingly the shoemaker actually praised them and reckoned she was doing great. We figured he was probably was just being nice to her, polite, you know. He even urged her to get going on her leather supplies because he reckoned she’d get much better results. It was totally the wrong thing to say, of course; because she got home all fired up and immediately got out her leather supplies and started cutting into them. Dammit!!! we could have kicked him!! Now we’re just waiting with bated breath to see what she’s got in store for us next… honestly, if we had eyes they’d be rolling so hard right now. But we don’t, so you just have to imagine we’re doing it… on the inside.
Oh, and what else is new? the weather’s been getting fresher, so she got in and made a few new pairs of boring black tights. Four. ALL black! *yawn* Seriously, but that girl has no imagination. These are going to last all winter. Well, at least we’ll be warm.
Ok, well that’s all the news for now… Feet; signing off!
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