DIY Baseball Heels

The Look for Less - Thrift Store Edition

DIY Baseball Pumps

Welcome to our blog! Today I would like to share an upcycle that I did for a friend whose son plays little league baseball - baseball pumps! This was so much fun to do. She wears heels everywhere and we saw some ideas of shoes like this:

 



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 Very cute, huh? But over $100. Boo... So my friend showed me some of the shoes like this that she liked and I ran over to one of the thrift stores in town to see if there were any size 6 shoes that would work and I found these: 


 Aren't they adorable? Who am I kidding, all size 6 shoes are adorable. But what I really liked about these is that those stripes kinda look like stitching and I might could follow their lines for baseball stitching.... And they were only $5!!!

I needed to get them one uniform color to begin with so I taped off all the parts that were solid and found a can of antique white spray paint and went to town. 

 After 2-3 coats, it became clear that the raffia was absorbing the paint and they were never going to be one solid color. I tried a couple of different ways to fix this and what ended up working best was a grey primer paint. 

 They look nice just all one color, don't they? The next step was to create the baseball stitching. I used fabric paint pens for precision and even created a line down the middle to make it really look like the material was separated. This was so fun to do!

 One of the things that I really liked about the original picture was the red soles, so I painted the bottoms red and it turned out really well. The final step was a quick clear coat to set everything and that worked great.

    

I really love how these turned out! I need to get a picture with them in use at the ball fields so you can get the full effect. :-)

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Supplies: 

Cute shoes ($5)
Antique White Spray Paint (Free!)
Pack of Fabric Paint Markers (Free!)
Can of Clear Coat (~$3.50)

Total Cost - $8.50


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