OLD SHOES / NEW SHOES

Happy Friday!

Today I am sharing with you a crazy little project my daughter and I did while she was home on vacation. :)

This is not my usual kind of post, but I just had to share this one with you.

Let me tell you, when she told me what she wanted to do, I thought "no way, no how", but she pulled it off. LOL

I wonder where she gets this "craftiness" from. :)

So here it goes! A simple tutorial on how we changed the look of an old pair of shoes by covering them with fabric.

 

 

 

 

 We did start with an old pair of black shoes.

She was going to throw them away, because the leather was a bit worn out.

She bought a half a yard of the fabric she wanted to use and a yard of black trim. 
The fabric was on sale at Hobby Lobby, so this project cost her about four dollars.

And she had read somewhere people are doing this with mod podge, but it did not work for us, 
so we used my favorite spray glue. We always have a bottle at home.

First, we cut the fabric in half making sure it was big enough to cover the whole shoe.
We sprayed the top of the shoe first and smoothed and secured the fabric.
It was glued in about two minutes.

Then we cut the fabric in half up to about 1 1/2 inches front the top.

At this point, I put some plastic bags inside each shoe to be able to glue the sides without getting glue 
inside the shoe and once it was secured and had no bubbles, we cut the excess fabric.

Using a Q-tip we applied a little glue around the edges and secured the fabric inside with some pins.
We let them dry completely for about 20 minutes.

We trimmed all the fabric around the shoe and using the glue gun, we added the black trim very carefully.

And you are done!
Not too bad for $4.00. :)

Thank you all for stopping by and have a super great weekend!