WEBB CITY, MO.--- Connie Sweet has a thing for shoes and sprucing them up. She's been an artist for 40 years and painted some beautiful paintings over the years. Now, her attention is on your feet.
"I love it. I love all the different colors. It's just fun to do a new shoe. I try to do a new shoe different. I don't do any shoe alike," states Sweet.
She specializes in doing all the local sport mascots on the shoes, and she says there's one that's incredibly hard to draw.
"I've tried doing the Carl Junction bulldog and it ended up like the cutest puppy in the whole world. I couldn't get it to look mean," says Sweet.
The Webb City Cardinal is also tough.
"Yeah, have to work on the beak to look like he's mean. The beaks the hardest part," says Sweet.
It takes about an hour to do each shoe and she says it's harder than it looks.
"Having a steady hand so, you didn't get it on the soles of the shoe," says Sweet.
It's tough out there in the shoe are world. Evidently there are some knock offs of her designs.
"Someday's you can go to a ballgame with your shoes on then you can go the next week and see that somebody has tried to copy that in their shoe," says Sweet.
Sweet tries to keep "hip" with her designs.
"Gotta have bling on the shoes, shirts, everything," says Sweet.
You can visit her Facebook page by, clicking here.
"I love it. I love all the different colors. It's just fun to do a new shoe. I try to do a new shoe different. I don't do any shoe alike," states Sweet.
She specializes in doing all the local sport mascots on the shoes, and she says there's one that's incredibly hard to draw.
"I've tried doing the Carl Junction bulldog and it ended up like the cutest puppy in the whole world. I couldn't get it to look mean," says Sweet.
The Webb City Cardinal is also tough.
"Yeah, have to work on the beak to look like he's mean. The beaks the hardest part," says Sweet.
It takes about an hour to do each shoe and she says it's harder than it looks.
"Having a steady hand so, you didn't get it on the soles of the shoe," says Sweet.
It's tough out there in the shoe are world. Evidently there are some knock offs of her designs.
"Someday's you can go to a ballgame with your shoes on then you can go the next week and see that somebody has tried to copy that in their shoe," says Sweet.
Sweet tries to keep "hip" with her designs.
"Gotta have bling on the shoes, shirts, everything," says Sweet.
You can visit her Facebook page by, clicking here.
