the peaceful peacock

Bench Mon­days. That explains a few things.

From my obser­va­tions in this side of the blo­gos­phere, it seemed that every­one had sud­denly been over­run with mice or some­thing.  Well, it just so hap­pens that it’s Mon­day and I have a pair of shoes to show you, so I’ll be jump­ing on the band­wagon for a bit.  Benchwagon?

Nice how these things work out sometimes.

As part of my chal­lenge of the utmost kind, I decided to take a fairly hideous pair of shoes (found in a free pile) and see if I could breathe new life into their tired, old soles.

They started out dirty, kind of weird shaped, and very beat up and funky-in-the-bad-way.  I ruth­lessly scrubbed them in the sink, let them dry out for a week, and cov­ered them with the fab­ric that I made from my first run on a rigid hed­dle loom.  Let’s focus on that instead of the crooked nail­heads, shall we?

There might be some more mod­i­fi­ca­tions (wood­burn­ing on the base per­haps?) and a lin­seed oil fin­ish, but that’s the gist of it.

And never is there a photo shoot around here with­out a helper:

No mice around here.  Just a bunch of cra­zies suf­fer­ing from cabin fever.  Hope this Mon­day is deliv­er­ing new views for your clan too.

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