DIY Baby Shoes Makeover (Little Mermaid Inspired)

So, here’s what happened…

I scoured the malls, boutiques, and online stores but I just couldn’t find the perfect shoes to match my baby’s Little Mermaid themed dresses! I was about to give up and just buy those plain slippers with Ariel’s face on it, when… ding! An idea hit me! Why don’t I just make them myself and save some cha-ching?!

Here’s the plan:

Buy any pair of decent shoes.
Cover it with the excess fabric from my baby’s dress
Style it with rhinestones
Appreciate my masterpiece!

Easy right?

I bought these shoes from the local shoe store for P350 ($7). It looks great already but it doesn’t really go with the whole purple-and-green little mermaid motif.

I used the excess Green Sequin Mesh fabric from the dress that I had custom-made for Rigel. Fortunately, there was still enough to cover both shoes. Whew!

Also, I bought these dazzling rhinestones to style the shoes. A pound of these crystal gems cost $10.98 at Amazon.com (200 pieces of different colors, shapes, and sizes). What a steal!

I used a glue gun (hot glue) to attach the fabric all over the shoe. It took a lot of patience to carefully stick the fabric and to not put too much glue so that the shoes are still usable when I peel off the fabric (after the event). I also used the hot glue to stick the rhinestones to the fabric. It worked really well!

I’m so happy with the result! Here’s the final output:

After the party, I just carefully peeled off the rhinestones and the sequin mesh from the shoes. Up close, you will notice that there are leftover glue on some parts of the shoe.