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When we last spoke shoes, we were here:

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The beautiful Boutique 9 Udells in a luxurious purple. Then I found this picture while browsing purple wedding details on The Knot:

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Gorgeous, right? At that point, I had never heard of shoe clips, so I promptly began educating myself on these magnificent accessories. I never thought about adding embellishments to a pair of shoes, but it really can give you a wow factor that you don’t get otherwise!

First I thought about buying a pair to add to my shoes. Some of them can be relatively expensive, but I found these two options on this site for reasonable prices:

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I had a specific picture of what I wanted in my mind. I loved the idea of having pearls and crystals, but I wanted to keep with our color scheme. When I failed to find shoe clips that had both purple and green accents, I thought about trying to make them myself.

I visited Michael’s and got some supplies. I started with two wreath-style brooch clips like the one below and a thin-gauged wire thread.

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Then I wanted some pretty crystals, and I found beads that seemed to fit into our color scheme well:

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So I spent an afternoon stringing beads randomly through the wreath brooch clip - it was actually pretty easy, just time-consuming! But what about how they would look on the shoes?

I’m still undecided. Some days I like the way they look, but then sometimes I feel like they look a little too homemade. As of now, I am able to pin them onto the shoe if I like, or if I decide to keep them for sure, I will probably sew them into place so that they lay a little flatter.

Here you can see the shoes with and without the DIY clips:

What do you think? Keep the clips or lose them?

Have you ever DIYed something and then been unsure about it?