A pair of Sparkly shoes and a Tote Giveaway!!!

HI everyone,
How can it be Friday again… it just WAS Friday!! Oh well, I’m glad it is. I was hoping to go to the 100 mile Yard Sale down in Missouri, but my hubby said we can’t this year. Boohoo! Oh well, I think I’ll clean house until it’s time to go to the Food Pantry.

I was looking on Etsy the other night and saw some blue-with-silver-sparkles leather… This is the one I saw…and liked it. I think it would make such pretty little girl shoes!

Blue silver sparkle suede leather

I had bought from this Etsy seller before and she sent me some little samples as a free gift… a few about 1 1/2″ x 5″.

I remembered a sample she had sent me that was black suede with silver speckled and sparkly flecks like the blue one so I wondered if I could cut out a pair of shoes for Ten Ping or Bailey. I had just enough to cut out some shoes for Ten Ping and went for it.

It turns out that blue leather I just showed you is a different kind of leather than the one I had the sample of… the one I had was suede on the backside. I messaged the seller and asked if she knew if the black suede type could be wet-molded and hold its shape. She said she didn’t think so, but she welcomed me to try and then let her know. So, I decided to go for it.

It did hold its shape after wet-molding it and so I proceeded with making Ten Pings new shoes… (wet-molding means to shape the leather around a mold or some shape to make it conform to the dolls foot. In my case, I wanted it to stay raised up over the vamp part of the shoes, and give her toes room to “wiggle!”) :o)

I know they are a bit “Holiday-ish” but it’s the only color I had, so I just tried it anyway…

Ten Ping likes them and doesn’t understand about “Seasons” right now. I’ll explain it to her… They need a few tweaks, but I liked the idea of the elastic cording to hold them on and then I added a silver button to hold the cord in place.

Okay, now for something completely different.

I enlarged the tote bag I made for the Beach Buds set by 20% and wanted to see what size it would turn out to be. I used some Batik fabrics and made another one and it turned out so cute, I decided we’d have a GIVEAWAY! It’s been quite a while since we had one, and this will be fun! It works for the Ruby Red Fashion Friends AND I tried it with the Dianna Effner Little Darlings and Natasha said it was good for her too! So here are some pictures, and if you want to be added to the drawing to try and win it, just tell me which doll at your house wants it! You can enter to win it until midnight Friday night and I’ll do my best to get the winner’s name posted Saturday morning.

(Sorry, neither of my girls had anything to wear… so they are covered up with some fleece…)