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February 13, 2012
The official opening of my Etsy Shop
February 11, 2012
Today I’m celebrating the official opening of my Etsy Shop. I know I announced the opening a while back, but it doesn’t really count because I didn’t get further than 4 entries. Although I’m intimidated by Etsy shops with over 541 entries, I’m still a bit proud of my eleven. They each required several photos, I had to learn how to use my camera properly, as well as accurate descriptions to which I added a bit of fiction.
Because empty shoes, especially empty children’s shoes, look so forlorn, I’ve invented an owner for each pair. For these beat up little boots I imagined an adventurous, headstrong little girl.
Odile’s Story: Odile was independent from the very beginning. She preferred sleeping under a tent made of a blanket slung over a couple of chairs to sleeping in her crib among her stuffed animals. She preferred dining on bread with the ducks to eating at the table with her family. Her mother began to fear that Odile would get into trouble now that she knows that she can find her way through the woods to the duck pond by herself, so she made her a small back pack with a pocket for bread for the ducks and a spare pair of shoes in case her feet got wet. She also attached a ring through which she could loop a length of rope. Ahem.
Baby Shoes with Attitude
January 23, 2012
When I looked at how these shoes arranged themselves on my drawing table, I could see that they wanted to say something about how they felt about being tied together. What if one shoe doesn’t really like the other shoe? There’s certainly a bit of tension going on between these two. Projecting onto inanimate objects inspires me to draw. I’ve faithfully rendered the shoes as they stood before me and here they are. I’m wondering if you see shoes with attitude, or just another pair of beat-up baby shoes.
COME ALONG DEAR
Pen and ink on paper. 6" x 8"