Has anyone blinged up their shoes using crystals? My friend is making mine (shoes) and I spent ages trying to source little sew on crystals like the ones in the attached picture. I couldn;t find them anywhere and even contacted Swarovski directly as I have dealings with them through work. They couldn't help me so I gave up on that route. I started looking at normal shaped crystals and they do a solid white. I was concerned as my dress is ivory, albeit light ivory but I was still concerned it would be a bit stark in comparison. I searched some more and found some more crystals that I thought were white - and were cheaper than swarovski so I ordered some of them. They arrived and were a slightly ivory shade. Amazing I thought, this is just what I need. I ordered some more in different sizes and they arrived looking all sorts of horrid shades of yellow. I called the supplier and they said this is a new batch and is what they are. Ok so I need to send them back and I'm back to square one.
I contacted swarovski again about ordering some of the white crystals but they aren't cheap and only come in packs of 1440 per size. I'm faffing about because I don't want to commit!! The shoes will be nude leather with what was going to be Ivory tulle over the top but I'm not thinking white will look better with the white crystals?? I have to pick them up from London which is nowhere near so would have to ask someone to do me a favour so i want to be sure of what I'm ordering.
Has anyone ever covered a pair of shoes in crystals? How many did you use?
Should I stop obsessing over where white/ivory thing and let them be their own entity and get the white?
This is the inspiration pic. I think I'm just feeling a bit overwhelmed as time is running away from me at the mo and people keep arranging things to take up my weekends!!
