It’s going to get quieter round here for a while as the show draws nearer and there is only a week to go. I have spent the last few days making shoes.
My new fourteen part lady dolls have bare feet. Like all my porcelain dolls with bare feet, they have proper toes and glazed toe nails.
And, like any woman under two and a half inches and any real woman of any size, they like to choose their own shoes.
These shoes are very small, well they would have to be, to fit the feet.
They have been made just like full size shoes with parts cut out and then glued and sewn on a last, even though they are small.
Here is the same shoe balanced on the forefinger of the maker. They are sewn all the way round and the soles are sewn on too. They are leather and they are very soft and comfortable.
When I was a child I had to wear Inner Raise Shoes because I had flat feet. They were made of leather but felt like iron. My father used to beat the backs at the heels with a hammer but they still hurt, for the first few weeks of school I wore sticking plasters over my bleeding heels.
Therefore my doll’s shoes, though made of leather and properly sewn
are soft and gentle and won’t hurt anyone.
See for yourself in just over a week. Details here: www.miniatura.co.uk
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