Pinterest Craft Fail...sort of

So my friend's daughter is in town for the summer. She loves tie dye and I was looking for something to do with her. I saw a few things on Pinterest where they used Sharpies to tie dye shoes. I showed her, asked if she wanted to do it, she said yes so I ordered the supplies (thanks Amazon Prime Day!). I researched a few different designs we could try. She wanted to do all rainbow, normal tie dye looking with doodles on top when finished. I wanted to do a galaxy-ish motif. To say things didn't go as planned is an understatement. Certain colors worked better than others, we got high on alcohol fumes, it was a mess. We did have fun though, and that's all that matters. I think her shoes turned out way better than mine and she is proud of her work. I was sad mine didn't turn out well, but tried to save it by adding color to the seams and adding affirmations to each one.

Check out our work below and let me know if you've ever tried it!

Supplies at the ready

My design, supposed to look like a galaxy

Em's design - very colorful

Left foot - finished product

Right foot - finished product

my finished pair

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