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Challenge #2
Challenge #1
07/07/2011
Art of the Dress :: Challenge #3 :: Altered Shoes + Tutorial
If you're like me, you love shoes.
Correction.
You adore shoes.
So recently, I was looking at one of my favorite pairs: Mary Janes with a nice thick and high heel and thinking how they could so easily be altered, because of the way the straps are designed.
So I cut strips of red wool felt and gathered some buttons and went to work.
Just a needle and thread are what I used to stitch the strips into little bows and then to stitch a vintage button in the middle.
So flippin' cute, right?
So how about you? What can you do to a pair of shoes to make them extra special? You could stitch on bows and buttons, paint directly onto leather, crochet a little trim, decoupage papers, and more.
Show us how you alter and wear your shoes by creating a post on your blog and then linking here by leaving a comment. Deadline: September 1, 2011. Happy Art of the Dress. :)
