5.08.2008

A Mother's Day Gift!

I made these last night for a Mother's Day swap on the message board I visit. Each person is assigned a partner and you can alter them something and send them a small amount of scrap goodies or if you don't want to alter anything, you can just send a bunch of goodies. Well, I kinda did both! I love altered/embellished stuff but this time, I wanted to do something different. As cute as they are, a girl can only have so many paint cans or picture frames. So I decided to alter some flip flops. I've never done it before but a while back (like last summer), when I was at J's I saw a bottle of Flip Flip Glue near the check out stand (on sale $1.99) and thought "why the hell not!" Mainly, I bought it so I could alter some flip flops for myself, because the weather is warmer and I live for flip flops! But, I never got around to it and the glue ended up burried in the back of a drawer of crap.

My partner is pregnant though and lately has been complaining a lot about her swollen feet and how her feet don't fit in her tennis shoes very well anymore. She only has a few weeks left so I thought this would be a nice thing for her. I really hope they hold up. Like I said, this is the first time I have used this glue and I would hate for them to fall apart on her!

So anyway... what you really came to see... the pictures!!!

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The ribbon came from Target and the buttons are from my stash. No idea where I got them or when. These shoes remind me of spring or rainbow sherbert and daquari ice mixed together, or maybe a sunset smoothie from Cold Stone Creamery. Yummy! I also sent her some pretty nail polish b/c you can't wear sandals without having pretty sparkling toes!!! She probably can't paint them herself, so hopefully her hubby will be a sport and give her a hand!

These were really easy to make and I love the way they turned out. She's lucky she wears a different size then I do b/c I really wanted to keep them for myself. So, I think I see a trip to Old Navy in the future to get a(nother) new pair to fix up! I should probably just use one of the 100's of pairs that I already own but... NAH! Besides, I only have a few pairs of the *new* style of ON flip flops. They changed them this year and they are much more comfy than before. Not that I minded the old ones they had, but these are definately better!

Hope all the mommy's out there have a great Mother's Day!

3 comments:

Brittney said...

cute, I like the colors

Unknown said...

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I JUST saw this.......... can't wait to get them :D

Anonymous said...

Those are SO cute!! I'm a flip flop addict!

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