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This is a pretty simple outfit that I used to highlight a pair of shoes I DIY’d.  It’s been a long thought process to get to these as I’ll explain lower down in this post.

Initially I was inspired by the Dexter chair in the Metropolitan Homes Showtime Showhouse.  It’s funny because I had the next issue of Metro Home & read a write-in where someone complained of “glamorizing violence” or whatever and referred to the chair.  It piqued my sick interest so of course I tracked the chair down online.  I received the earlier issue later on & this is their mini-article about the chair & the Showtime Showhouse.  BTW, the “blood” is embroidered on white leather.  Divine!  So, liking the splash of red on the white, I started thinking about that but with shoes!  I also cross-referenced this obviously macabre leaning with Louboutin’s red soles (obviously, how could I not?) 

So, I got myself some shoes  that I wouldn’t mind ruining.  My first thought was to pick up paint at Joann’s fabric store since I’m there all the damn time.  I bought the Liquitex acrylic color in Cadmium Red Deep Hue in a tube. 

In the meantime I had found a puffy white heart necklace at Walmart (took me 3 tries to buy it – a story for a different day).  When I first spotted it I thought immediately to dip IT in red.  (By this time I had read a couple of the Twilight books & was loving Edward & that whole creepy vampire/blood thing so the heart was really more about that.)  I dipped it first as the shoes wouldn’t fit in the small bowl I had.  Here’s the heart necklace:

Then, I tried the paint I had on the first pair of shoes:

They’re, ahem, a little chunky due to the thickness of the paint.   My dear, patient husband suggested I try the more liquid type wall paint.  I took myself off to a jaunt to Lowe’s and picked up some liquid red:

And here they are.  FINALLY.  I’ve had this in my brain for so darn long it was getting a little uncomfortable.