Across the sixteen years that I have been in Victoria, where it rains a lot but there isn’t much rain, I have been wanting waterproof footwear that is also comfortable. Shoes, so far, have sufficed, but they are not meant for wet and I often had damp feet. Awhile ago I worked my way out of my Wellington boots after a session in the garden and thought how comfortable they were and waterproof and wasn’t it too bad there was so much of them with their calf-chafing aspect and my need to ‘work’ to get them off and on. Then I noticed the lines along them. Hmmm. The shape of the lines resembled pixie boots. Hmmmm. What if I cut along those lines………… I had an extra pair of boots in the basement. I have a pair of kitchen shears. I cut. I tried them on – noting I could put them on without having to bend over and tug – noting I could remove them easily as well – walked around in them. Comfy and light and as high as I am liable to need with regard to water depth on city streets. Then the fibre artist got to work and personalized the newly-cut tops with orange hemp yarn and a blanket stitch. A circle cut from the cut-off part got Pixie Puddlers written on it and hangs from the back of each boot. Good old necessity with its way-of-seeing mother aspect………… A larger pair that will take heavier socks is in the process of being embellished. A tiny pair of children’s wellies were turned into pixies and are ‘waiting’ on the grandchild who will arrive next year.