Awesomize old shoes

I've been meaning to post more of my crafty DIY-type projects up here. (Shoot, I've been meaning to post more up here at ALL. I've been so busy with my rain barrel company, I haven't had time to invent useless crap.)


But anyway, here's something I did a while back that I've been meaning to put up here.


I had an old pair of shoes that were kinda ugly on the outside.

[Shown are a different pair, but you get the idea]

And I wanted to awesomize them. So I got a pelt from an old green carebear doll, cut it up and I used Gorilla Glue to stick the pieces on the outside. I didn't really have a pattern for cutting out the pelt, so I just started sticking pieces on and cutting off the excess. If you try it, it's way easier than you think. (But not super easy either, I mean, it's probably an intermediate-level craft project. If crafting were a ski slope, it would be a blue square.)

When I wear them out, most people think they are slippers, and they wonder how I'm able to do such awesome dance moves in them. ("Wouldn't that require more friction?")Then I show them my soles, and they are amazed and they want to be me.

Scoring scissors

If you go to the craft store, there are scissors of all kinds: ones that make wavy lines, zig-zig lines, stuff like that.

Something I think would be useful:
Scissors that make a row of really-close-together tiny holes. Like perforations. This would enable you to make something that could later be torn really easily.

My use for this would be for my sticker-making hobby. Let's say I wanted to display a roll of small stickers on the backing. If I had these scissors, I could score a line between each sticker. Then the user could just rip off one.

These could also be used when you're making flyers: You know the part at the bottom where people rip off your phone number?

There probably would be 1000 other creative uses for arts & crafts.