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Shoeps: An alternative to laces?
Do your children HATE tying their laces? Does your footwear have THE longest laces in living history? Then seriously, you need to get your mitts on some Shoeps. Now I’m not one for gimmicks, I’ve seen the crazes come and go, everyone goes mad and basically that becomes your only choice when shopping but these are different. They aren’t just trendy and epically cool but they actually work, yes you heard me THEY WORK!
They come in this handy little package of 14 and are available in 11 different colours, including rainbow, YEAH RAINBOW! I wish I had noticed this before I chose the pink because believe me they are epic, who doesn’t want rainbow laces!
They are a rubberised stretchy material which clips on the underside with ease. There is enough give to get your feet in comfortably and allows movement when walking but are ridged enough to ensure the shoe doesn’t bag or feel to loose.
Fastening them into the lace holes is super easy and I had ‘laced’ both my Converse in less than five minutes. I honestly only wear Converse and as great as they are I literally hate how long the laces are on them, when I was young and cool it didn’t seem to matter where i shoved them, or cut them down but thats when I had the time to care where I shoved my laces. Now I just wanna throw my shoes on before taking the pooch for a walk or that frantic trip to the supermarket so I’d rather be able to slip into my shoes and not worry about tripping up and breaking my neck on said frantic trip to the supermarket.
They look awesome, are super comfy and at a reasonable £12.99 for a pack of 14 I’m sold. I bought the rainbow set here and are destined to go into a Converse make over for my daughter who is an avid My Little Pony lover, tutorial coming soon.
I’m now off to buy my entire family Shoeps just so I don’t have to hang around whilst everyone else ties their laces!
*I was sent the Shoeps free of charge to try from Grumbies, all opinions are my own*
Children’s Summer Style
Doctor Who inspired Converse Upcycle Tutorial
We all have a pair of Converse kicking around the place, usually that are at least 5 years old. Ive owned a pink ankle boot pair for almost 10 years now and to be honest (i did wear them everyday for almost 3 years!) still look like they have at least another 10 years in them but in all honesty, i was sick of the sight of them!
And after lusting after these babies for almost 6 months
And after the success of my Dorothy inspired brogues a few birthdays ago.. ( you can find that post here http://insideemmasattic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/tutorial-dorothy-inspired-shoes.html )
I knew there was some way i could create my own, unique pair of Doctor Who inspired converse but without breaking the bank!
And voila… I did! It was a lengthy process but here’s how it went!!
Supplies:
Blue glitter glue
Old converse
paint brushes
Method:
I basically took out the laces, they had seem better days even with Hello Kitty on them! And grabbed a small paint brush about began around the sole and any other areas i didn’t want to get paint on.
(i chose glitter glue as apposed to glue and glitter and the issues i had with the Dorothy ones was that after wearing they would crack, i had my fingers crossed that this wouldn’t happen with the glitter glue)
As you can see this was going to be a LOOOOOONG process as it didn’t really cover well.
I continued to be careful around the sole but gave in and just painted over the eyelets, with them being metal it didn’t adhere well so it does simply peel off, however if you are not as impatient as me then do take care around them.
A few more days and layers later, they began to look a little more like what i had in mind. Do bare in mind it took well over a week for me to complete the painting as with them being canvas they needed the full 24 hrs between layers to allow for full drying or you end up just spreading the glue and glitter around and that’s not really what you are going for!
As you can see they are starting to cover well but the colour clumps in areas, don’t worry it does all fill in in time.
This is near the end of the painting, i think i put on an extra 2 or 3 coats just to make sure no pink was showing anywhere. they do go stiff but are still comfy to wear, they do move and give they just aren’t as ‘soft’ as they where before the glue but you cant expect them to be.
And finally after a week of painting and drying and some 1″ wide blue ribbon they are finally finished!!
Yeah i squeed a bit when i had finished them!!!
You don’t have to do your blue, they could be rainbows, or pink or whatever your imagination tells you they should be!
Go, have fun, be glittery!!
L x
