Finding Fun and Funky Places - Cycle Stop

I can’t wait to hear the history of how this building, which obviously had to have been a church, came to be a motorcycle shop. Last week was my first time there and I didn’t think to ask about the building.

Why was I at a motorcycle shop?

Because I’m going to learn how to make shoes.

The folks working at the shop were super friendly and helpful and didn’t look at me as though I was crazy when I asked for old inner tubes to use for shoe soles. One even asked if I had been there before. I looked familiar to him. No, I hadn’t been there, but apparently a woman who looks somewhat like me had come in and asked for old metal bits that would otherwise be thrown away. She was in an art class.

Going back to my original intent at the shop… I came home with 4 large inner tubes, enough to get me started. I’ll be learning from Sharon Raymond of Simple Shoemaking. I have high hopes of being able to make shoes for my whole family and all the grandkids… whether they want them or not. In an attempt to conserve materials and use only repurposed or scrap leather or fabric, I figured we could all have shoes to match the new upholstery on our couch.

I can feel my family rolling their eyes at me.