Flip Flops for my Fashion-ista

I used to read a book or watch some great HGTV before I went to bed at night.  For my birthday in May my family treated me to an ipad.  Yippee.  Now I spend my time before bed surfing the blog  world and half paying attention to the real housewives of somewhere on tv.  

During one of my insomnia filled evenings I came across this adorable flip flop tutorial http://www.infarrantlycreative.net/2011/05/decorated-flip-flops.html  and thought they would be great for my little fashion-ista niece Lolly.  She would love getting to pick her shoe accessories each day, yes one more accessory.  Maybe a new choice added to her morning routine will buy my sister a few more minutes of morning peace. 

This idea was bouncing around in this ping pong /slot machine brain of mine for a quite a few weeks.  Finally I found a moment to sit down and work on them.  The tutorial called for snaps to hold the bows on, these were too wimpy for my tough kids, so I ended using some heavy duty velcro that Athena already had at the house. 

 

My other niece could care less about bows and glitz, she is more into gabba and skate boards.  When I found this post http://www.infarrantlycreative.net/2011/07/monkey-and-frog-hair-clips-east-coast-mommy.html  with these cute monkey and frog hairclips, I thought those would make cute shoe toppers for Kathryne.  Below is my attempt at them.  None of them are perfect, but my girls loved them.

So this past weekend after lunch at Cheviche on Canton St. (yummy!), I wandered over to the Chandlery and found an adult version of the same thing.  http://www.lindsay-phillips.com/  They are 50% off this week.  My feet are too big for theirs so I am thinking about making my own.  This will be a great way to make my men’s, basic black, reef’s, the summer go to shoe in my house, look pretty and girly.  Here is a tutorial I found for the adult version.  http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/03/interchangeable-flip-flops.html  Is anyone else interesting is trying with me?  This might be another fun idea for a future meeting.   We could make them for the adults or the kiddos, the boys might love some with little cars or super heroes.

Best,

Portia