All installed and looking great!

Here is the the sneaker on site at the Springfield Symphony Hall. It's hard to beleive the project is over. What a great way to spend the summer, I am on the look out for other projects of this kind.

After much input from my husband and son, I decided to place Springfield's seal on the sole. Like we are leaving our stamp on history. Not being able to find a large picture of the seal I called city hall, and the mayor's office came to the rescue and mailed out a nice large copy!

It was very hard to come up with a relevant item to place on the very top of the sneaker, it really cannot be seen too well (except by the very tall) So I did not want to put anything too detailed up there.

The idea was tossed around with hubby and two good friends, who were there watching me paint, and an antique colored flag won the place.

I am so glad I took part in this project, it was hard work but totally worth it! I will post soon with pictures of where it is mounted, now I am just waiting for it to be picked up for a clear coat and then placement some where downtown - watch the news and go see them all!

This is my favorite part of the whole shoe, the cross roads of 91 and 291 with the campanile above that with other sky line buildings.

IT'S FINISHED !!!

ALL DONE !!!

I could not have done it without my hubby, he started by getting the idea to use my father's garage as a studio, de-spidered the garage, built a wheeled thing to move the giant shoe around, helped with research, took the photos of my progress, and finally encouraged me to keep going, or back off as needed.