New Website!!!

Greetings Dear Sparkle Lovers!

I'm so excited to announce the launch of my new website!!

Blingforyoursole.com

I'm very excited to share it with you.  As much as I love blogger, I find the features to be incredibly limiting and enjoy a cleaner and more aesthetic look.  If for some reason the address redirects to this blog, you should clear your browser cache and either refresh the page, or restart your browser.

Fashion!

So if you're a big baseball fan, no doubt you saw Zoey Deschanel's awesome sparkly red shoes.

Well let me tell you about them.

Aldo shoes created a 40th anniversary special VIP shoe.  Only 100 were made, and were not really for sale (at least from what I understand only a few celebrities in the world received them), and they have about 5,000 Swarovski crystals covering the shoe.

The cost $1500.

For $1500, is that enough bling for you?  Honestly??!? 

My Volcano shoes have over 10K in crystals!  And my other shoes about 8K!  For this particular shoe fully encrusted with Swarovski crystals would cost you 40% less.  That's 2x the amount of crystals for less!!  Yes, Aldo is selling a pair of replication shoes for far far less, with FAKE PLASTIC rhinestones.

For this particular crystal placement, I could strass your shoe for the price of a ballet flat
(*with respect to your crystal effects choices*)

Find me on Facebook too!

Greetings my sparkly friends!

I can also be found on Facebook

I'm trying to update both this blog and Facebook at the same time, but sometimes videos look much much better over on Facebook!  I'm working on a youtube account, but need to learn how to watermark my videos too...

How sparkly are you going to be for halloween!!  I can't wait to show my sparkly costume!

Happy News!

I'll be transitioning this website to a new and better website! 

Thanks for being patient during the transition!  Once it starts it'll probably take about a week to get it where I want it.

Why choose me? It's all about the detail!

So why should you pick me as your shoe/accessory strassing expert?  

Because it's all about the detail!!  Sure, there are shoes on Etsy that you can buy for less, but I'll tell you the most important thing... most of the time those shoes have plastic or cheap crystals!  I ONLY use quality crystals.  As of now, I use Swarovski.  There is a dramatic difference between cheap crystals and quality crystals.  

The beauty of Swarovski crystals is the care that is taken with the cut.  They actually just changed their crystal cut to what they call Xilion rose which has improved faceting for maximum sparkle.  

Another aspect to the beauty of my shoes is the nature in which the crystals are placed on the shoe.  I prefer random placement to create a better sense of depth and (for lack of a better word) maturity.  

I really take care to get the details just right on a shoe.  I like to take care of the details first and then fill in later.  You can see on the above picture the detail and lines of the shoe.

Below you can see how I do what I do.  The edges are so important to get right!!  If it's not done right, it just looks cheap.  I often times find myself examining Christian Louboutin strassed shoes with some derision because there is an obvious focus on mass production and lack of attention to important finite details.

Again, an outline before I really begin strassing.  Though the heel depicted here is fully strassed, you can still see the outline I did first.  I learned the hard way to never ever strass to the very very bottom of a shoe, which is why the heel cap is still painted, but not strassed.  

And lastly and most importantly, you get a quality and custom shoe/purse/cellphone case/whatever that doesn't cost you an arm and a leg like these shoes that run about $6,500!!

Basic, Basic Refined, Refined

Here are better examples of the three types of pricing I am offering and a great example of the different types of crystals.

Left: Basic Refined, Jonquil AB crystal and Sunflower standard crystal
Middle: Refined, Volcano crystal effects
Right: Basic, Fern Green and Peridot both standard crystals

As you can see the Basic is ok, the Basic Refined is very nice, and the Refined is drop-dead gorgeous 

There is really so much that goes into the process for these, and the reason why I absolutely love the Basic Refined and Refined is the detail!!

Fern Green and Peridot

These are the shoes I made for a company holiday party.  I randomly placed Fern Green and Peridot crystals on the shoe to create a greater sense of depth.  Plus I didn't want the shoes to look like cheap glittered shoes.  Using two colors really sets these shoes apart.

You can see the black of the shoe coming through.  I elected to not paint these shoes because of the definition it creates between the two colors.