While the sculpting and painting crews have been busy finishing a wide variety of projects in the shop and over at the Hazelnut Inn, Keith has been toiling in the metal shop out back. His job is to stay ahead of the crew and fabricate the armatures for the projects that will move into the shop in the weeks to come. Keith’s current project is a giant ‘Old Woman’s Shoe’, which incorporates a slide for the kids who visit Vala’s Pumpkin Patch. To keep things safe for the kids and within code, we are building the giant boot around a commercial slide we sourced from a supplier. The giant footwear measures twelve feet long by four feet wide by just over nine feet tall.