Well today, I have to say it has been rather ummm all over the place. Nothing new there I have to admit lol!!! However Himself and I decided to go out and do something special for Beltaine so we went out for brekky. In doing so we ended up going somewhere we don't normally and being able to do something to help the person running the cafe who was in a complete state and needs help.
There is nothing better in a day than doing something good for someone in your community, especially when it means the community pulls together as it should. To be honest thisis the way it has ALWAYS been done, communities looking after their own. In my opinion it is about time our communities starting getting more involved with each other and pulling together and helping each other the way it should be, instead of hiding away behind closed doors and only coming out to take the kids to school and home again and occasionally popping out to the shop.
Anywhoo I had a letter today that kind of threw me a bit I have to say !!! It was from Sun Life Over 50 Plan .... O.o .... PARDON!!!!???!!!! Yeap that is what I said and in that tone, poor Himself looked like he was about to hide in the cupboard, cos this Pixie got a bit cross about it. To be fair I think I am entitled to get cross, first of all some nupmty randomly picked me at 38 to start canvassing for over 50 life insurance !!! Not only this but it wasn't some little leaflet it was a massive package of about 10 A4 sheets plus the envelop that took up more than our letter box !!! I'm sorry ... actually no I'm not for this little rant ... We are desperately trying to recycled everything so we don't need incinerators, and don't need to keep chopping down trees for pulp to make paper and some idiot decides not to check thier demographic of who they send things out to and waste a mass of paper sending out packages to people years before they are even possibly interested !!!! It's just RUDE!!! and wasteful!!! HUMPH!!!!
Himself has the pic on his phone but is out at the moment at a Buckfastleigh Forum meeting so they will be added later when I pin him down for 30 seconds put together hahaha ...
Anywhoo today I have been working very hard on making my own shoes. These aren't any ordinary shoes these are Oak Leaf Boots. They have taken me quite alot of work and I has been a work in progress for a couple of years now. More of a labour of love some would say. Either way they are quite special and a pattern I have been working on for quite some time. These boots will be quite special because once finished I will be able to wear them however I want. In other words I will be able to build my own boots. So instead of having 20 pairs for different occasions I can have this one pair and build them however I want to wear them.
As you can see the main boot is a slipper style design and the panels are oak leaves. Each Oak leaf when completed will have eyelets in them that will mean they can be attached to each other anyway I want them to be. They could be short or long or one of each. They could even be coiled up my leg like a vine. Being this style of design means that if I am at a festival I only need to bring this one pair of boots not 5 or 6 pairs for different occasions. I can build the boot to suit the outfit I am wearing. I could even bring different panels which I will be making later on in all sorts of leaf patterns and colours.
Although these can be made out of leather I have chosen here to go for a more natural cloth type boot both for comfort and for ease of packing. As these boots will literally be able to be rolled up on themselves.
These boots aren't at all hard to make in fact they are pretty simple. After drawing around your foot, you choose a leaf shape and use that throughout your boot design. Here I have used the one Oak leaf pattern and just resized it to make the boot itself and then resized it again to make the leg panels.
The bit that is taking time for me is the embroidery. These boots to me are very special and I want them to show that. each panel is individually being buttonhole stitched areound its entirety, this not only makes it look good and ads some extra colour to the panel but also finishes it off beautifully.
As you can see in the pic I have a few more to finish and the eyelets to put in yet and I will do a second blog on these once they are finished, and yes the one in the middle is the one I am working on at the moment. For me this is something I do in front of the tv watching a movie or whatever in the evening, or when I'm not so well I do it then as well, as at those points it is hard to use the sewing machine as I need the support on my back.
Of course I am happy to make simpler versions of these which I can put together very quickly and they will still be awesome. I can of course make a pair like mine but they will take longer and be lots of dosh. If of course you are interested. You can contact me via the website, which is still a work in progress so please bare with me.
Fallen Angel Studios
If not go for it and try it yourself it truly isn't hard at all.
Anywhoo have a great rest of your day ... in my case I'm off to bed !!!
xox Love and Light xox
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