shoes!

So after finding some really cute stamped leather and making a sort of faux Greek dress, I thought I would try my hand at making some simple sandals. I finally finished a couple of days ago and here they are:

I started with sketches (naturally) and settling on which direction I would go in. Laying the leather against my heel and Achilles Tendon and tracing the cut i would make. I cut and sewed the heel pieces for each foot then {several weeks later, when I quit being so lazy...} sewed them to thick, THICK pieces of leather, modeled after the outline of my feet. I put nice, smooth leather in between for aesthetics. The soles were the thickest my leather guy had and my wrist was pretty sore after cutting and punch them with my heavy duty scissors and my star wheel.
After my wrist was healed by watching cartoons, I measured, cut and punched the side straps and flip-floppy toe separator bit and sewed them in as I went along {with the same thick cotton twine, that i coated liberally with bees' wax}.

Then I filled the spaces between layers of leather with the Tandy Leather Factory Tanner's Bond Leathercraft Cement (c), like really dry, chewy eclairs.
I smoothed the glue out by squeezing the leather, so it would be even, wiped away anything that squeezed out, and left them to dry with clothes pins around the edges {which is why there are slightly dented parts that will *hopefully* fade away} and a couple of books stacked on top, with a paper towel to keep them unglue-ified.

Eventually, when I get back out to civilization and a Joann's, I'm going to replace the yarn with a nice, thick red ribbon.
I'm also going to exfoliate and moisturize my feet, 'cause...damn.