Letterboxing Shoes

Yesterday I spent a LONG time working on painting my shoes. I was volunteering at the zoo the next day (today) so they had to be finished before I went to bed. I took my black converse shoes and started painting them white. School is starting up here soon, so that means new shoes. Plus, these shoes have holes in it and are well beaten up. So any who, I painted them white, put a couple of more coats of white on, then now what do I do? Well, I decided to stamp it!
Sunday I spent a good 6 hours carving out stamps for a new letterbox series. So I took those stamps, plus mine and Tyrus' signature stamp, and stamped those onto my shoes. The first stamp-on was perfect and I painted over it with paint. Most of the other times I tried stamping the stamp on my shoes, they ended up not fully printed so I had to paint over them. For some reason, when I stamped an image black and painted over it... some how the ink turned green. Black ink+white paint=green?
It took a really long time to paint these. Like over 6 hours. But the work was worth it. I think they turned out great.
When I was in the processes of painting my shoes white, my dad walked in the room and was like "What are you doing!?"
"Painting my shoes?" I stated.
"WHY?"
"Because they're old and have holes in them..."
"Oh, okay." And he left.
Every time I paint something, he flips.
Below are some photos of my shoes. (I still need to clean up soome spots)

Our Couple's Creed stamp (left) and Nyan Cat (right)

This orange cat stamp was my original Catchow stamp.

The AtlasQuest Chick. It is the only image (aside from NESW sign) that was drawn on.

Catchow and Tyrus signature stamps.

I only took pictures of my left shoe (it looked the best).



Now after all that painting, I sprayed it down with this coating to help the paint stay. I could still smell the spray on my shoes when I went to the zoo today. While at the zoo, my fellow volunteer said she liked the armadillo on my shoes.

Quick story while I was at the zoo today. The keepers put the male koala in the indoor exhibit with the female. The other volunteer and I were in the exhibit picking up their poo (fun right!?). While in there I herd this noise like some one's stomach was growling. Looked up at the other volunteer and she didn't say anything. Continued cleaning and herd the sound again, this time louder. We both looked up at each other then to the kolas. The male had moved really close to the female and she started to growl at him! Never in my life had I ever herd a kola growl! This went on for a good 15-20 mins with the two growling at each other before the keeper took the male out. Interesting day today.

~Catchow