Also - you know how to make shoes? :D That might be the most awesomely random hobby talent I've ever heard of. Definitely beats out my one friend who knows how to blow glass. Where do you pick up a thing like that?
(Basic lockpicking I would consider practical for anybody, just as much as self-defense... I know how myself, because I used to lock myself out of the house all the damn time when I was a latchkey kid, and we really didn't have any convenient windows. Which is unfortunate, actually, because now it always drives me nuts to watch Hollywood lockpicking, which apparently involves magic, because I'm not sure how else you could accomplish anything just poking at the lock with a single straight piece of paperclip.)