Be sure to check out my review of the Personal Microdermabrasion Device.* This tool is pretty cool to have so that you can exfoliate, rejuvenate, and brighten up that face (and other areas) of yours, on your own. So cool!
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Ooooh, I love me some shoes.
And there are some seriously lovely shoes in the stores.* When I want to feel fancy, I kind of have a thing for a few rhinestones on the toe, a bit of fringe, maybe a crushed fabric flower.* Whatever it is, it adds a little interest to those plain feet.* But the more glam you find on the shoes, usually the higher the price tag.* And, well, that bugs me.* (
Because we all know it doesn’t cost the manufacturers that much more to add it on.)
So forget overpaying and gather a few things to glam up your own shoes (
or as shown here, for a little girl).
And since I found the purses at the thrift store, it only cost me a few dollars to fix up these little beauties. (I’m not kidding, hurry over to the thrift store now.* Or dig up some old purses from the back of your closet.)* The buckles came off the old silver purse and the bow came from cutting up the black purse.*
Pretty quick and easy transformation.
And if bows aren’t your thing, try making some ruffles, or some fringe, or even a flower of some sort.* The fabric you’ll find on old purses is so perfect for this.* And really, comes in so many colors and textures.
You may start finding reasons to decorate all your old shoes in your closet.* It’s slightly addicting.
Would you like to transform your plain shoes into glam shoes?
First of all, you probably aren’t going to find the exact hardware that I found but look around, you never know what you’ll find at the thrift store.* But if your heart is set on buckles……..check the craft store or the sewing section.* Or use a big rhinestone right at the center of your bow.* Or make a flower and put a rhinestone at the center of that.* Really, the options are endless.
But, to show you how I made these little glam bows, I first cut some square shapes out of the black bag.* And if you find leather or faux leather, you won’t have to sew (or fray check) the edges because they won’t fray.* Bonus.
Then I cut the buckles off the silver purse.
Then slid the black fabric through the buckles.
Then I made sure the bow was a good size for the shoe.* Check.
So then I used a heavy duty glue to adhere the bows to the shoes.* I pinched them in place with clothes pins, which worked great.*
And now those little bows aren’t going anywhere.
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