By Lenore Rice
Darlene Flynn has added more than a hundred shoe-related items since receiving her membership into the Guinness record book entry with 7,765 shoe-related items. On Saturday night at the Ponderosa Steak House and Sports Bar in Sun City she beamed while parading her self-created shoe costume, which displayed her Guinness certificate.

What started out as a hobby for Flynn grew to a full-fledged passion that might even have been the envy of Imelda Marcos.

Flynn, who is the new owner of Mail Mart in Temecula and has also had a bookkeeping service for 18 years, has a collection that ranges from paper goods to shoe-themed nightshirts to her beloved collection of miniature sculpted shoes from the Just the Right Shoe line. She started her shoe-themed collection in 2000 and it has since grown to 7,765 pieces of shoe memorabilia, thus establishing a record worthy of being included in the Guinness World Records. In that record number of shoe-related items, she has more than 700 Just the Right Shoe miniature shoes and special paper goods, including a very limited collectible called “Victoria” that was offered for a limited time on QVC.

This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in Valley News, and included some pictures of Dar's collection.

To read the rest of the article, and to see the pictures, please go to:

http://www.myvalleynews.com/story.asp?story_ID=18497