Hello friends, trust you are all doing good, it is another amazing week of creativity and I would not hesitate to share my new experience with everyone here.
Actually, this is my first post in this community and I am glad I came across this wonderful #DIYHUB community where I could share my craft work and equally learn new things.
During the weekends I decided utilize the little time I had to recreate an amazing handcrafted shoes, I finally decided to make a simple sandal.
The materials I needed to make this sandals were':
- A sole
- some gold chains
- A nora or Marco for the insole but I made use of marco
- dye
- Shoe polish
- Gum
- scissors
- sandpaper
- leather
- last
- hammer
- buckle
- punch
- lining etc
All these materials were available at home exception of a ready made sole and a gold chain. I had to go to the market to buy a black sole and some gold chains,.
unfortunately, I did not see the kind of black sole that would be suitable for it, but rather I saw the sole I wanted in a white color, I felt sad about it but instead of letting go I had to make use of my creative mind, I bought the white sole.
Getting to the house I dyed the white sole, at first I doubted if it would really turned out nice but I just had to give it a try.
I dyed it thoroughly and dried it in the sun, after sometime, I dyed it again to ensure it's gets very dark and sundry it for some time and boom! my black sole was ready.
I had to proceed with other aspects, I cut out a welt from my Nora material and added to the top edge of the sole using my gum.
The next process was to prepare an insole, I carefully carved out size 38 on my Marco material and padded it with my leather which is carved out of the same size.
I added gum to the carved Marco and the leather, I further padded it after it got dried, my insole was finally ready for attachment.
I cut the leather into long strips of equal sizes and attach the chain carefully on it. I further attach the stripes on my insole using gum, I allowed the gum to dry and get sticky.
I attached a buckle to the other end of the stripe and boom! my sandals is almost ready. I tried it out on the shoe last and it looked nice.
To the final step, I added some gum to the sole and round the back of the insole , I fixed it into the sole, it wasn't properly fixed so I had to make use of the mallet to hit it in carefully till it entered well.
My beautiful sandals was ready but still needed some drying, I dried it out the next day and polished the sole again. It actually took me two good days to do this DIY , I was glad I finally finished it and it still looked nice.
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This is indeed creativity, wow you have done really well by making this Sandals and am amazed by your work. Keep it up and more creativity to you
smiles! thank you very much for stopping by, You can equally make one for yourself, it is actually easy to create
This is a wonderful transformation and the sandals are indeed unique. The hours you spent in making this was worth it. Well done and cheers to more creative ideas.
I really like this model of sandals, I think they are very stylish. How amazing how you were able to make them at home, you have a great talent 👏🏼✨
yeah!I was equally amazed at the great transformation. I can make one for you as well if you need it.