Savin' Maven Monday: DIY Painted Soles

Happy Monday my loves. 

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. 

Mine was spent with friends and family. No 'honey time' this weekend :-(  I've been stealing so much of his time that I figured both of us needed a break. Not that I didn't want to spend time with him or vice versa-I just needed some 'me' time to catch up on things...things like blogging! I'm sure he doesn't mind the break either. 

I also got a chance to work on another DIY project. I gathered inspiration from this post along with these cute shoes in order to create this project. 

Here's what you'll need:

***shoes, of course (loafers found on clearance for $6-Old Navy)

***painters tape

***foam brush

***acrylic paint-I used Teal by CraftSmart

***modge podge (not pictured)

***newspaper (or anything else you would like to use to protect your floor)

That's it!

You're ready to begin...

STEP 1: Cover your heel with painter's tape so as not to get paint all over the back of your shoe while painting the sole.

STEP 2: Place newspaper on floor. Paint the heel of your shoe with 3 coats of acrylic paint-you may use as many or as little coats as you like until you reach the shade that you desire. Let dry. I waited at least 24 hours before I moved on to the next step.

STEP 3: I wanted to do something funky and fun with the sole so I taped off sections in order to end up with a striped effect. 

STEP 4: Cover the bottom of the shoe with 3 coats of paint-see STEP 2. Allow at least 24 hours to dry then cover both the heels and soles with 1 coat of Modge Podge to create a glossy finish. Allow 1 hour to dry then remove all painter's tape. 

This is the end result. 

Now I'm not sure how long these soles will remain this pretty teal color but again it was just an experiment. I would've cleaned up the bottoms but since I'm only gonna be walking in them then why bother. 

How fun are these though!?

I can't wait to wear them-even if only to see how long the soles will last.

What are your thoughts?

Is this something you would try?

I can't wait to hear from you.

Thanks for reading!

XOXOXOXO

Savin' Maven Monday: DIY Coffee Table

Happy Monday loves.

I hope you all have had a great holiday weekend. Mine was full of grilled food, studying, and catching up on some much needed reading-what fun! My girlfriend and I have planned to go thrifting and window shopping at Target today so we shall see how it turned out in a later post.

Today's DIY is a very simple one. I recently moved into a new residence and we all know how that can be. In an effort to start fresh, I trashed most of my old furniture-leaving me with random pieces throughout my house. Since I have lived alone, I have never had a coffee table-how weird is that? So when I found this coffee table at Goodwill for 

**10 bucks**

a couple of weeks ago I knew it had to be mine.

The only issue that I found with the table was that the color didn't exactly match with my dark floors so I decided to pull out a little spray paint.

I like the consistency of the Krylon brand so I purchased two cans of Satin Black (only one shown here) and used Primer that I had leftover from a previous project. I made sure to choose the Satin finish versus the Matte finish because I wanted it to have a little bit of shimmer and shine!

I'm not sure that I need to list the steps for this DIY because it's pretty self-explanatory. 

Prime. Spray. Dry.  

The most important thing to keep in mind when spray painting is to obviously complete the project in a very well ventilated area-particularly outside. Oh, and please wear gloves! Otherwise your hands will look like this:

Here's my table after one coat.

***I allowed at least 24 hours between applying the first and second coats***

After two coats, there's really not much difference...

And that's it!

 I wiped it off a bit and tah-dah! 

Here you have it, set and semi-decorated.

Please keep in mind that I still have more decorations to add so it looks a bit bare at the moment.

Have you spray painted any of your furniture before? 

If so, what was your experience like?

Thanks for reading!

XOXOXOXO

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