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October 30, 2009

Walk this way

Art Kicks Totally, absolutely, completely impractical for gardening. But aren't these wonderful hand-painted canvas shoes to die for?

They are the creation of Evan Schultz, a college student in Eugene, OR, who started painting shoes in order to make a little spending money.

This work has evolved into Art Kicks, an on-line store where you and Schultz work together to design the theme or design of your canvas shoes. (The site is also a blog, where Schultz records the challenges of drawing on shoes...and other matters.)

He provides the shoes and does the painting (actually, he uses colored Sharpies), and you do the paying. About $149. (Discounted to $120 for high school and college students)

I am sure there are bigger sellers than these passionflower shoes. Batman or rock bands. But for a gardener, these are the ones!

Santa Claus? Are you listening? Art Kicks

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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