Noooooooooooooo!

My most favourite pair of shoes in the universe have finally cracked under the pressure of beingness and then crawly:

I thrifted these shoes a whopping 12 years ago in London and for a pair of second hand faux leather loafers they have definitely done their duty!

The problem is I'chiliad still madly in lurv with them and turn down to let them go…unfortunately the local cobbler said admittedly nothing can be done in one case faux leather starts to crack and peel.

Oh actually?

I put on my refashionista-thinking-cap, grabbed some gear I had around the firm and fixed them upwardly every bit best every bit I could!

Here'due south what I did:

I snagged some aboriginal black shoe polish, a blackness marking, sometime paint brushes, a scrap of sandpaper & my miraculous shoe goo (if you've never used shoe goo get some immediately every bit information technology is pure awesomesauce for repairing just virtually any kind of footwear – nope, not reimbursed for my shoe goo shout out, I simply really, actually lurv it!)

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Showtime I sanded off all of the peeling $.25

and so filled in the cracks with permanent marker

rubbed a load of shoe smooth over everything

and and then painted over the areas with a generous glaze of shoe goo (= sealing it with a permanent thick prophylactic cover)

*if you're fortunate to take coloured shoe goo in your function of the earth by all means skip the marker & polish and but use the correct colour to the croaky areas later sanding

equally shoe goo is meant to stick, repair & seal and non necessarily be seen information technology doesn't paint on quite as polish as I would accept liked so I added a few pieces of velvet ribbon to muffle the bloopy edges

Not 100% perfect simply my shoes are now completely clothing & funktastic once over again!

The moral of the story?

Only because a professional person tells you "no" doesn't mean your imagination tin't come up with a "yes"!