READING THIS BLOG IS LIKE WAITING FOR THE FIRST SHOE TO DROP.

VENI, VIDI, VISA  (We came, we saw, we shopped)

Tonite I want to tell you the rest of the story... it went like this.

I LIKE THESE SHOES.
BUT I LIKE THE OTHER ONES, TOO .
HMMM.
THAT GIRL JUST PICKED UP
THE ONES I LIKED FIRST.
NOW, I THINK I LIKE
THAT ONE MORE.
I'LL JUST WAIT...JUST WAIT...
UNTIL SHE PUTS IT DOWN.

THEN...
                                THAT'S WHY!!!

 Are these not the cutest shoes ever?
                     I DO CUTE!

A picture I culled from a magazine was my inspiration.  I added the dots on the toe caps by punching out paper circles and decoupaged them on with varnish.  I printed the phrase...POOR CINDERELLA...over and over for the insole.

"I DIDN'T LOSE MY SLIPPER

AT MIDNIGHT BY ACCIDENT;

I KNEW ALL TOO WELL THAT 

SUCH A TINY FOOT WOULD

MADDEN THE PRINCE WHO WAS

LOOKING FOR A WIFE...NO

ONE HAS YET SEEN THAT SIDE

OF ME, 'POOR' CINDERELLA."

       ...LUCIANA BOCCARDI

I love that quote and use it often in my altered books.  It puts a whole different slant on the Cinderella tale.

IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT I LIKE DIFFERENT SLANTS...SOMETIMES I LIKE TURNING THINGS COMPLETELY UP SIDE DOWN. 

After I had establish my Cinderella theme, the rest all just fell into place.

Into the first shoe I glued a red and white bird.  It was a brown and white bird, but remember that Charlie Brown tree?  This was a Charlie Brown bird.  Red paint and a black marker trimmed that tree.

Why put in a bird?  Remember the Cinderella story.  The birds all fluttered around and helped make the dress for the ball.

                                          

                                         

 I had planned on using red lace around the shoe opening until the shoe itself told me... LESS IS MORE.

I know some of you are saying, "less is just less", AND YES, THE SHOE DID SPEAK TO ME.  

Always listen to your work...if it goes south you are not listening.

 

Remember the mice in the fable?  Or maybe they were rats.  Anyway they were turned into coachmen.   

They told me something too.  They told me there should be two of them.

 The coachman has a beautiful red coat, as any coachman should have when he is taking a princess to a ball.

"GOOD TASTE IS THE WORST VICE EVER INVENTED."

...DAME EDITH SITWELL

ONE TWO BUCKLE YOUR SHOE

 I NEEDED A BIT OF BLING THERE......................

I hope these shoes lived up to all the hype I gave them.  I didn't really almost wet my pants.  But I did have a lot of fun.

WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO FIND THESE IN YOUR MAILBOX?

     A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME YOU MIGHT.........REDFOX