Planning to dye my shoes a lovely color I took them to the dye guy. Actually hauled my whole wedding dress there because I coudn't cut a swatch. No go. Apparently dye guy can't dye to match any color, can only dye to match the swatches of colors with recipes in his little book.
My shoes are white. The dress is not. It was too late to return them and I had just thrown $70 out the window. Or so I thought. For some reason I thought Zappos.com had a one-month return policy. As some fellow knotties pointed out, it's a year. So the shoes went back (free shipping) to Zappos, and back came a lovely pair in ivory. Zappos rocks.
It was also my knotties who inspired my something blue, pictured below.
I'm very happy with how these turned out. I bought some flat-bottomed rhinestones at Michaels and pulled out my glue gun. I had planned to do A&B on one shoe and possibly our date on the other shoe. However, when I looked at how much space I had that wouldn't be walked on I realized I needed to keep it small. My feet aren't that big!
So, I wrote the letters on the shoes in pencil first. Then I picked up each rhinestone with a pair of those tweezers that clamps down until you squeeze them to open them up, dipped it in a bit of glue from the glue gun and pressed them down. They're holding surprisingly well, though I may bring some extra rhinestones and some Elmer's to Cambria just in case.
The most annoying thing was the weird tension from the tweezers that sent every fifth rhinestone zinging across my living room. That and the cheese-pizza-like strings of glue that seemed to fly everywhere. I rubberbanded the straps of the shoes down so they wouldn't get glued.
Well, there you have it. My something blue.
1 comment:
That looks great. I meant to do this...had it in my planning bio and everything...never did it though :(
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