diy: heart flats

Ask and you shall receive! I got a surprising amount of interest in my humble little heart flats, so here's a "guide" on how I DIY-ed it. I put "guide" in quotations because it's ridiculously easy.

So, in order to make something like this:



You just need these things:

- flats you don't mind messing up. I recommend suede-finish kinds because it better matches the felt texture of the hearts. (you can find cheapies at GoJane)

- hot glue

- stiff felt

- scissors

And here's what you do:

1. Cut out the shape you want from the stiff felt. My shape of choice were hearts, obviously.

2. Hot glue the shape to the flats. I only used one big dab of hot glue to anchor the entire heart and it hasn't proven a problem yet.

That it! See why this is more like a "guide" rather than an actual guide? Haha! I don't know how waterproof these are, but I have worn them in the rain a few times without incident. It shouldn't matter much anyway if they get ruined since it's essentially a $20 project, depending mainly on how expensive your flats were. Even if the hearts do get weather-damaged, you can always rip them off and glue new ones in their place.

You can see me sporting these here, here, and here.

Have fun!

zoot suit riot?

What a dreary morning. Clouds are blocking out the sun and there's so much humidity in the air that I can almost see the droplets of water suspended in the air. Ick.

I didn't get a chance to snap my OOTD before I headed out the door, so here's an oldie:

truly madly deeply paris tee, urban outfitters
plaid shirt, h&m
black skinnies rolled, earnest sewn
allie flats, bcbg
rings + evil eye bracelet, misc stores

I was looking a lot more like my high school/early college grunge-y self that day than anything else. I think it's the plaid shirt that makes me think that. I wore a lot of plaid back in the day. Like, Kurt Cobain plaid. I don't know why. I wasn't even that angsty, and I certainly didn't smell like teen spirit. (I did love me some Nirvana, though.)

In other news, I found these yesterday night and promptly ordered them. I have a few outfits in mind that could use these sweeties:

'Trip the Light Fantastic' by Seychelles in taupe

I love them because they remind me of flapper shoes. For the record, I don't know a flapper, have never known a flapper, and probably will never know a flapper, so I don't actually know what their shoes look like. But in my head, these are what they would wear to do their little flapper dance in their flapper dresses to their flapper music. Just work with me here.

They're available from a bunch of places (Urban Outfitters, the Seychelles website, and Zappos to name a few) if you're interested. I'll do a review once I get them in my hot little hands! Come onnnnnn UPS guy! Get these babies over to me!