Day 4 was pretty basic. My phone was in much need of a back cover overhaul. I never like the last thing I had painted on it but it was fairly permanent so I left it for the last couple of months or so. It took about an hour to scrub everything off. It required a bit of time soaking in a mixture of stain remover and dish soap and a whole lot of scrubbing to get the paint off. Then about 15 q-tips to get the little dots of nail polish removed. My fingers hurt from all the scrubbing but watching Battlestar Galactica eased the pain :)
The previous phone cover when first painted - it was horribly scratched before I repainted it:
Day 5 involved more glitter (yay!!). For a while I had wanted to test out DIY glitter shoes that I had seen on many sites (like here and here). While most of those shoes were done with gold glitter I don't wear gold too much. Naturally silver was the next option.
Originally I wanted black glitter but it wouldn't show up when I tried it, unfortunately.
Basically I just combined approximately even parts Modge Podge (mine is matte) and glitter and pasted it on the boots. When it dried I added more, covering up any gaps or spaces. This stuff got everywhere and somehow ended up on my face, as glitter always does. -_-
I think that it looks a little futuristic and spacey, which I'm okay with. I'll leave the silver for now, but I might change it to a dark purple and see how that goes. I've already got some random outfits planned in my head for such dramatic looking shoes.
For some reason, every time I look at them, I think "glitter cowboy books" even though they are not...it's weird...
Safety pins and origami next :)
Happy Hanukkah!
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