Ain't Dere No More!

Possibly my favorite 2014 shoe so far.

Sometimes a shoe is born out of covetousness on my part, like the 2013 King Cake shoe. I was craving King Cake so bad but wasn't going to be in NOLA the whole of Carnival season that year,* so I made the King Cake shoe partially to exorcise my King Cake craving...

For quite some time I've been coveting this gorgeous but out of my price range sterling silver Heather Elizabeth Designs bracelet. There are also some great items in Fleurty Girl's Ain't Dere No More line, including these great magnets. As much as I loved the look of those magnets, I didn't want to pay $15 for a set of seven to decorate a Muses shoe, and they're relatively easy and cheap to make.

I bought a bag of glass stone "decorative accents" at Michael's (I think about $2/bag; I also bought a fresh tube of Recollections glitter in "Muse" that day, and probably used a coupon on the glitter rather than the stones, but you could of course use a coupon):

I pulled up a bunch of logos online, and printed different sizes and versions of the logos to experiment with. Included in my first round of Ain't Dere No More glass stones: Pontchartrain Beach, Bali Hai, Rosenberg's (1825 Tulane!), DH Holmes, McKenzie's, Dixie, Schwegmann's, K&B, Falstaff, Jax, Maison Blanche and Mr. Bingle:

For this shoe, I used one of a pair of size 6s that were on clearance at Target ($8.98 for the pair)

The main body of the shoe was coated with K&B purple glitter from The Glitter Source, the sole was coated with Recollections in gold, and the heel and interior of the shoe was done in that green glitter with a little gold in it (that stackable brand from Michael's that doesn't appear to be online, Art Minds, I think?)

Shoe after glittering with glass stones and feathers; before the addition of gold sequin trim along the bottom edge and lettering

Cream and purple feather accent on the back, with an emerald green rhinestone at the base:

*But is a testament to the kindness of others that I ate from no less than three King Cakes that season nonetheless, two that were sent from NOLA and one which was brought back to Memphis by my loving husband.