Shoe Magic
I’m still working on getting some photos from the wedding corralled, so I thought I would share my quick thinking shoe project. Sometimes you have to be imaginative, as in the case of shoes for Pinky, possibly the cutest flower girl ever. Did you realize that it is extremely hard to find ivory colored shoes, anywhere? I didn’t, that is until I searched and searched and cried to store clerks at about a dozen shoe stores. Apparently, it isn’t the right time of year for ivory. (I thought that white shoes rule only applied to those dates after Labor Day.)
So, I became resourceful and found this cute pair of pink shoes at Walmart with the intentions of a makeover. They are cute, but kind of casual. Plus, pink shoes may look like sore thumb, er… toe, at the bottom of a beautiful ivory dress.
Enter stage right: a pair of scissors and a seam ripper. To make these kicks look a little more dressy, I gently removed the stitching along the bottom of the straps and carefully cut them off, trying to get as close to the shoe as possible, without actually cutting into the shoe. That wouldn’t have been pretty. Then, I took painters tape and secured it around the black sole of the shoes to keep the paint off. Yes, you heard me correctly. Spray paint. Ivory spray paint to be exact.
After several coats and a few questionable hours of waiting, they were finally finished and looked surprisingly good.
Sadly, they weren’t as comfortable as they were cute, so after a few minutes of wear and a sizeable blister, they were tossed aside for an old pair of white sandals.
Hey, you win some, you lose some.
