Customized Shoes: Practice Round

I'm customizing TOMS at a One Day Without Shoes event April 5th. See details and a previous post about the event here, featuring a pair I customized that will be available in a silent auction that day.

I haven't customized shoes at this type of event before, and I like to be ridiculously prepared for things like this, so above are a couple pairs of shoes I customized for practice! They aren't TOMS, instead they are some white sneakers I had laying around that my aunt handed down to me, but they still gave me the sense of what it's like to paint on a three dimensional fabric piece.

Nyack's One Day Without Shoes

April 5th, 2011

10am - 6:30pm

ML Gifts & Accessores - 75 S. Broadway, Nyack, NY

More information about the event here, here and here.

One Day Without Shoes

On April 5th, ML Gifts & Accessories and Maria Luisa Boutique will be sponsoring Nyack's One Day Without Shoes.

TOMS Shoes started a One for One movement, where every pair purchased means one pair of new shoes is given to a child in need. On April 5th TOMS is challenging all of us to go a day without shoes, and experience what children growing up in developing countries go through every day.

Join us on April 5th at 75 S. Broadway in Nyack, 10:00am - 6:30pm, to show your support and raise awareness! There will be a silent auction featuring TOMS shoes customized by local artists, many of those artists will be customizing shoes on site throughout the day, and a barefoot walk at 4:30pm.

Here are my custom paisley TOMS being auctioned off at the event...

Customized TOMS Shoes at the Nyack Street Fair

Yesterday was the Nyack Street Fair here in Nyack, NY. ML Gifts & Accessories put on a TOMS Shoes Style Your Sole event. As if the TOMS One for One movement wasn't enough of a reason to purchase a pair of their shoes, if you purchased during the street fair you could get them customized for free! Another Nyack artist, Shawna L Handke, customized my brand new olive canvas classics with the DESIGNosaurus type and brontosaurus.

If you don't know about TOMS Shoes, check out their website to learn about how every pair purchased means a pair is donated to a child in need!

Thanks to ML Gifts & Accessories and all artists involved for a fun event and a great new pair of shoes :)