Thrifty Shoe Makeover with Acrylic Paint

Last January I was on a speedy trip through Goodwill  and found these adorable flats. They are SO comfy and have been well loved ever since!  And as you can see, they've been a little too loved and have gotten really scuffed up!  They were looking so rough and I was so close too giving them back to Goodwill!  It made me sad too since they were my favorite shoes!

 You can't really see in this pic but they were all scraped down the sides too.

Then I saw around bloggy-world where someone spraypainted their shoes.  I was going to try that but the spray paint I wanted to use was over $5.00!  Yikes.  (I could buy another Goodwill pair for less than that!)  Instead I went to Michael's while they were having their Acrylic Paint sale and picked up a bottle of silver metallic paint and silver glitter paint.   Acrylic paint is so cheap...as in less than a dollar!

After taping them around the edges of the soles, I took a foam brush and painted them with several coats of silver metallic paint. (Four, maybe?) On the very last coat I added in some glitter paint to give them a little sparkle! =D  

I was seriously impressed with how they turned out! Even my hubby was like, "Wow!!"  I even wore them to the Biltmore the other day and they held up great!  (Although after taking these pics I see that my taping job wasn't so hot....I still need to scrape off a smidge of paint from the sole! Oops.)  

Levi wanted me to take a picture of his feet too!  =)

Aaahhh..it's amazing what a little paint can do!!

I {heart} silver flats

I'm really, really happy with how these turned out!  This project has totally changed how I look at shoes...now I'm staring at my other shoes imagining them after a paint job!  This could be dangerous! =D

What do you think?  Do you have any shoes that could be rescued with a paint job?  

{P.S. I'm going to use this for last week's Project 52 post since the theme was "Green."  This was a "green" as in a "frugal" project, so it works...right? =) }

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