A Princess and Her Shoes

Princess Maggie is a girl who loves shoes. She particularly loves her hot pink mary janes. Clearly these shoes have been very loved and seen better days....

I was looking at the scuffed toes and thinking about throwing them out but aside from the toes they're still in pretty good shape. 

"If only  there was something I could just stick over the toes", I thought. 

*light bulb* 

Duct tape! It fixes everything right?

So, we headed to the store and found all kinds of cool duct tape patterns, including this rockin zebra print!

Now, I thought I could just take it home, rip off a piece and 

slap it down on the shoe. Not so.

I ended up cutting the tape into pieces and taping it to the shoe in 

somewhat of a "collage" method. 

I planned on just covering the toe but it was so dang cute that

I got carried away and decided to cover the whole thing.

I wasn't sure how well the duct tape would stay put and I didn't want it peeling off 

so I applied a layer of Mod Podge (love the stuff!) 

After letting it dry overnight it was still a bit tacky so 

I sprayed it with an acrylic sealer. 

I let them dry another 24 hours before I'd let Maggie wear them just to be safe.

What can I say? I think she likes them! :)

And so, the Princess was happy and her shoes lived to see another day!

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