shoe makeover

Sorry about the lack of posts...
we have been traveling, and I let the blogging slip.

:(

Anyway, I am back with another post!

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So....my mom just gave me an old dress of hers. The fabric was beautiful! 

and...

I had this OLD pair of canvas shoes.

 Let's just say they looked their age. Which isn't saying much.

They were practically falling apart.

So I decided to try covering them with fabric, a technique which I saw a while ago.

I cut two scraps of the old dress, one for each shoe. 

Then, I pulled out the old faithful Elmer's glue and started in, coating the whole shoe with glue, sticking the cloth on, and coating some more.  Then I cut edges and folded the fabric into the shoe's hole.

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 After a night or two, they finally dried. 

 :P

Yes, these shoes won't hold up long in the rain. 

Actually, they didn't hold up long just walking around on a sunny day. 

But if you used Tacky, (which I didn't happen to have) it might be a different story!

(you can see in this picture how dirty and old the shoes were...)

Anyway, they were fun for a while.

If you ever need a different colored pair of shoes and don't want to spend the money, try this!

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