Saturday, January 29, 2011

I Painted My Shoes

I love these shoes:
except for this:
I wore them once and the paint came off the toes... so I used a Sharpie to try and camouflage it.
Not so good :(

When I saw Sugar Bee's shoe project a while back
the wheels started turning.
I threw caution to the wind this week
and
PAINTED MY SHOES!

I used this liquid metallic paint by Modern Masters. 
I picked it up at a local paint store.  It is intended for walls.


This was after one coat.

After a few touch ups:


What do you think?
Wear them or toss them?

19 comments:

  1. Oh, my goodness! Wear them, of course! I'd be interested in knowing how well they hold up. Hey, but you can always touch them up!

    (Saw your link on Under the Table.)

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  2. Wear them! (I also saw your link on Under the Table). My blog is redberrycrafts.blogspot.com

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  3. Those are so great... wear them, wear them!!!

    Tania

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  4. Wear them and just touch them up as needed:) Gorgeous!

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  5. Definitely wear them.

    It does my heart good to see projects that up-cycle rather than toss.
    If there are still miles in those beauties, keep on wearing them and they look great!

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  6. Reuse! I have thrown away so many shoes! I am a new follower!

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  7. what kind of paint did you use? i would have never thought of this, but i do like the silver :) nice job!

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  8. When my little girls were in dance class (many moons ago) we learned about painting shoes. They would have to paint their shoes to match whatever outfit they had for their recital.

    But I kind of forgot about it. I think they look great! Definitely need to keep this in mind and try it some time. Very cool!

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  9. wowza! Those are so cute! Nice way to save those shoes. :)

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  10. Wow, I say wear them,what a great idea, I am inspired!

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  11. That is awesome. I just gave a lot of dress shoes to Good Will. I could have revamped my shoes!

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  12. Good for you! They look great, and yes, I agree, wear them! :o) What kind of paint did you use? I might have to keep this idea up my sleeve for later...

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  13. Wow! they look fantastic. I'd never think of using metallic paint, what a great idea.

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    http://cleanandhappyhome.blogspot.com/

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  15. That's a great idea. Wear them with a smile.

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  16. You have silver shoes, now! Wear them! I'm going to send Lauralee your way. I think she'd be interested in your painted shoes.
    :)

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What you say means so much.