At home in Romoland, Calif. (pop. 2,764), Darlene Flynn makes phone calls by dialing a red stiletto high heel, reads by a leopard-print shoe lamp, eats from shoe-decorated plates in a kitchen steeped with 100 shoe-themed teapots and 200 shoe-shaped salt and pepper shakers. Clocks, umbrellas, purses, rugs, soap, wind chimes, perfume bottles and rows of backyard planters—every household object is either shaped like a shoe or adorned with one.

“The shoes not only make me happy, but make other people happy,” says Flynn, 51, who was honored by Guinness World Records last October for owning the world’s largest collection of shoe-related items—7,765 pieces. She spent six months photographing and documenting each one.




This is an excerpt is from an article which appeared in American Profile, "Amazing Feats" by Marti Attoun, published June 3, 2007. The full article includes a slideshow of some of my collection.

to read the rest of the article, and to see the slide show please go to: http://www.americanprofile.com/article/22233.html