When I was a little girl, I loved taking dance classes and loved my dance shoes.
I'm so excited to play this season of "So you think you're Crafty" and while looking for my audition project, I remember my childhood passion and love of dance.

I went to my local Payless Shoe Store and bought these small white ballet slippers. I'm not going to lie... I love how they smell. So fresh and new :)



Anyways, when I got them home I got right to work.
I took of the price tag ($16.99) and picked out my embroidery thread. I went with pinks and green. Then I picked out pearls to hand sew on.

supplies in total: $23

To sew on my pearls I did a simple back stitch.



1)Down into the shoe and out (1inch in size)
2)Lace the pearls (the 1 inch fits 3 small pearls)
3)Pull back toward you
4)Down into the shoe with a small loop (to secure to the shoe) and out
5)Back through the beads(going away from you)
6)Then repeat until you bead everything on the shoe opening.

The flowers are a little more complicated, but can be found in any normal Embroidery book. I did a bullion stitch that went into a woven wheel.



My favorite Embroidery book is by Anne Butler.





I hope you love this idea. I love making something ordinary... into something special.



These would be so great as a babyshower gift, a baptism gift, or a birthday gift.
~H

PS these got me into the next round of So You Think You're Crafty