customising my melissa shoes

Before

Nuded up.

Final product.

Now, I didn't do this for fun, or to be different. I've had these

shoes for a couple of years and they have served me well. I have

danced, partied and worked in these babies ... often a little too

enthusiastically, resulting in plastic bows that may at first look

to be entire, but are actually in many, many pieces and are being

precariously held together with hope, superglue and blutack.

So I'm being proactive and replacing the bows before they start

looking like a disgrace. I did email Melissa Australia to get replacement

bows and I was told they SELL the shoes, not MAKE them, hence

don't have "spare parts" - how odd is that? So I bought some grossgrain

ribbon from Spotlight today and got to with with a needle and

thread, and a bit of fabric glue. I'm super happy with the results.