Glitter Tennis Shoes

 For Valentines Day I got:

• A dozen sustainability grown roses 
• A half dozen Godiva dark chocolate covered strawberries as big as a baby’s fist 
• And a kidney stone 

That explains why I’ve been carrying this kidney infection around like luggage for the last month. It won’t be gone in time for my Blissdom conference trip.

 Boo.

Needless to say, preparing for this conference is a little difficult because I feel like I’ve been kicked in the kidneys all day every day.

On the upside, it has kept me from being too nervous about my Newcomer Community Leader duties and the session discussions I will be leading for the Food niche bloggers.

I'm trying to conserve my personal energy to try to be well enough to be at my very best for Blissdom. I don't want to let everyone down! To reduce my running around, I shopped my closet for clothes to wear to the conference.


I still needed some cute and comfortable shoes to wear because the Gaylord Opryrland Hotel is ginormous! It's about the same size as an airport terminal. I don’t want to relive last year’s blisterfest which left my feet covered in swag SpongeBob Squarepants band aids. Which I rocked, of course :)



I hit the mall and later the web. I was cranky, sore, and depressed I could not find anything that fit my kid sized feet. My fellow Blissdom Community Leaders empathized and tried to cheer me up saying it didn’t matter because once I get to Blissdom I will be surrounded by love and glitter. Those gals luvs their glitter!

Glitter?

That gave me an idea.

I pulled a pair of white tennis shoes from the bottom of my closet and tossed them in the washer. I rarely wear them. If my experiment turns into a huge green craft fail, it is no big loss.

I removed the laces. I taped the sides and toe caps with tape I had on hand because I was out of painters tape. I didn’t want to run to the store because I wanted to strike when the idea iron was hot and it was a extra kick in the kidneys kind of day when I started the project.

I stuffed the inside of the shoe with newspaper in case of accidental paint splatters.

I painted my shoes with purple nontoxic Tulip Shimmer Fabric Paint. I didn’t want the original white shoe to show. The paint is thin. It took around 4-6 coats of paint to paint my shoes solid purple.

I like Tulip glitter paint because the glitter doesn’t shed before, during, or after you finish the project. 

I removed the tape after last coat of paint dried and laced up my new to me glitter tennis shoes.

Shimmer! Shimmer! Glitter!
I think I'll wear these shoes more often now! 

I am going to wear them with the pretty, pretty Shabby Apple dress I wore on my birthday.

 

Read my Blissdom updates (and video from the Men's Restroom) on Lazy Budget Chef and Condo Blues. Yep, two blogs = more stuff to talk about!

 It’s a kooky look but I’m going to need a little quirk to keep me going while I’m working at the conference.

 This might be the reason why no one asks me to speak at conferences.


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