Repurposing

My best friend reminded me that long ago (about 25 years I reckon) I expressed a desire to learn to become a shoemaker. Think I ended up with a 100% frozen fruit icecream stall at a community market..... Needless to say I didn't learn to make shoes and the frozen fruit ice cream stall didn't make it through the winter....... Anyway since being reminded of my long lost dream I've been on a journey planning to learn to make shoes and escape from my humdrum office job.


Progress has been a bit slow......Shoe making courses are few and far between.  After missing out on a place earlier this year, I was starting to think it was a silly idea but I found and enrolled in a course which starts on the 1st May. (Anybody interested and living in Melbourne Australia-try RMIT or the Council for Adult Education)


By the end of the course I will have made my first pair of shoes and I'll have some foundations for my whimsical shoe business 


In the meantime (while I keep doing my day job) ...... thought I'd set up this blog to pass on what I learn about repurposing, shoe making and creating a niche business recycling materials to make original shoes....


Recycle, recreate, risk a bit of whimsy