What others are saying about Stephanie's leatherwork...
http://www.southernliving.com/magazine/current-issue/
Stephanie and her work is profiled by writer Carolanne Griffith Roberts for a February 2010 Southern Living article, 'Insider’s Guide to the Perfect Boot.' A quote from the article:
When bootmaker Stephanie Ferguson tells you what to look for in the perfect boot, she doesn’t talk leather, pattern, heel height, or toe shape. At least, not at first. She gets to know you.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Boot-Tyler-Beard/dp/0879059192
From Tyler Beard’s Art of the Boot:
Don’t be fooled by Stephanie Ferguson’s delicate stature. She can pack a wallop into a pair of cowboy boots...It’s unusual that any bootmaker has the ability to make a boot that is masculine enough to please any man, and at the same time create boots for women thoroughly western yet definitely feminine and fashionable.
February 2007: One of Stephanie’s creations becomes the prop for a visual joke in the hands of Jay Leno. Follow this link to read all about it:
Jay gets a kick out of Stephanie’s big boot!
http://www.dimlights.com/archive/2006_03_01_archive.html
March 2006: Jennifer June, author of Cowboy Boots: The Art & Sole, makes note in her online blog of Stephanie’s work appearing at Houston’s Center for Contemporary Craft in an exhibit called COWBOY: Craft of the American West.
http://www.southwestclassic.com/artgallery2003.htm
Stephanie’s sky blue dragonfly and lillypad boots in the gallery for the 2003 Southwest Classic Invitational Fine Arts Show (two-thirds of the way down the page, on the right).
http://www.joenickp.com/texas/bootmakers.html
Joe Nick Pastoski’s blog recaps his June 2002 Texas Monthly article, ‘25 Top Custom Bootmakers.’ Says Joe about Stephanie:
The Ohio native ― the only female bootmaker in Texas going it alone ― understudied at Jack Reed's place in Burnet, where she developed a flair for flamboyant colors and overlays... Has made boots for: Country singer David Allan Coe.
