Keep an eye out for meteors

These ones were painted for a friend of my mother's. As he is a bit older than my typical customer, I had to get out of the box a little with these ones. They're a little more brilliant in person.

Toot toot!

You can't see it super super well but these little navy blue shoes have little seersuckery stripes on the lining, which just lends itself straight to being sailor shoes so I thought some awesome tugboats would be in order. What little boy could not love tugboats? Even I love tugboats and I am a 20 year old girl. They are freakin sweet. Anyways, these ones (which I actually painted over a year ago) hopped right off the shelf and found a happy home.

Too. LONG.

I painted these for my brother for his birthday, which is may 5th. I finished in December. This is why the date notation on the side of the shoe says, "April, May, and December '09". I feel bad about that, but I think they turned out so cool that it was worth it.

Make a Wish

I painted these while up at my uncle's cabin in Montana, a place that is very conducive to all kinds of creative pursuits.

Stay Away From Me Booty!

This is the other of the first two pairs at the children's hour. The origination of the idea of these shoes was that I bought them on ebay and they had been worn exactly one time, but they were slightly dirty so I put them in the washing machine, (nice thing about vans, you can do that) and when they came out, there was an odd faded parchment look to them, which covered right up but it was my inspiration.

POW!

This is the one of the first two pairs of shoes I painted to be put in a store in my area called the Children's hour.

Something Fishy

I painted these for the two, now three year old daughter of some friends of mine for Christmas. When I was asking my friend what I might put on them, she said she liked fish, and this immediately popped into my head. I really like how these turned out.