My Baby Shoe Re-Do ~ Part 2

Hello my dear friends,

I honestly didn't think that I would be writing this post today since after I finished last night I had no idea what I was going to do with my second pair of baby shoes. It is amazing what can happen when you sit and look at something long enough. All the sudden a picture formed in my mind ~ the finished creation for the second pair!!

It really didn't take long to get everything I needed together since most of it was still on my work table from yesterday evening and within an hour I was taking photos to share on Todolwen!!

This is what the second pair of baby shoes look like last night.

Remember my little harvest of rose buds from my old rosebush ~ here they are dried and ready to use.

Another thing I wanted to share with you is this really neat wool I found in a sale bin at Michaels - doesn't it look like moss on a string? I used some of it in both pairs of baby shoes.

I was very happy with what I had done with the first pair of baby shoes so I decided to keep the same general idea but to still do it different ~ if that makes sense?! Take a look and see what I mean.

Here is the result ...

This is what I had pictured in my mind this morning!

Everything is delicate and petite

 ~ like it was meant to be!

As you see the same idea but yet different ~ a standing little shoe nest and a hanging little shoe nest.

They only thing I change was the color and theme.

I stuck to certain things I had used with the first pair of shoes, like the old shoe buckle as a hanger.

The dried little rose buds were perfect for this project ~ not too little and not too much!

I hope you have enjoyed my two part baby shoe re-do. I have certainly enjoyed making and sharing them with all you lovely friends in blogland!

I hope you are all well.

Have a peaceful and creative day,

Karen B.

My Baby Shoe Re-Do ~ Part 1

Hello my dear friends,

a few days ago I went wandering in my craft room with all it's corners and hiding places to search for something to create with and I came upon 2 pairs of little shiny black baby shoes. Looking at them I knew why they were still sitting in my cupboard untouched ~ I didn't like the look of them!

Sweet and neat, but not my thing!

What to do?? Cover and smother them with lovely white clean Gesso!

I decided to paint the plainer pair of shoes in a pale blue ~ robins egg blue ~  and to speckle them with dark brown stain ~ just like robin's eggs!

So far, so good! Now for the rest of the transformation aka re~do. What to do, what to do?? All the sudden I knew what these little shoes were going to look like.

Little nests!!

Spanish moss, some feathers, a little piece of moss green wool ...

a few speckled eggs and an old earring with light blue sparkles and my first baby shoe nest was finished!!

I love it!!

But there was another little blue shoe to be recreated ...

and this is the result of the second little shoe!

A pale brown crinkly seam binding ribbon ...

covers the old brass buckle that I used for a hanger.

I used the same bits and pieces with this nest as I did with the other shoe nest.

The finishing touch on this creation was to use the other little earring.

And last but not least ...

there is still the other pair of little baby shoes waiting for their re-do

 but you will have to wait for my next post:

My Baby Shoe Re-Do ~Part 2.

I have already started to work on them and right now they look like this!

I hope you will drop in to see the result of my next creation!!

Have a peaceful and creative day,

Karen B.