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DIY Simple High Heel Shoe Repair

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Look at this face. hobbes02

Meet Hobbes, the destroyer of shoes. Actually, I should give him a little credit because he has only ruined one pair of shoes, however they happened to be one of my most favorite pairs.Thankfully he didn't do too much damage to them, so instead of throwing them away I decided to try to fix them.

In this tutorial I'm basically just explaining what I did for this specific pair of shoes so hopefully this tutorial can be helpful if anyone else has similar damage to some shoes.

suppliesSupplies.02First, I had to finish what Hobbes started. I removed the rest of the material from the chewed up heel, and then removed the corresponding material on the other shoe.03I rolled the heel on the scrap leather to eyeball how much I'd need to cover it and cut the excess off.04In small sections I glued the scrap leather on the heel and kept it taut as I worked my way up.05 06 07When I got up to the top of the heel and underside of the shoe I cut a notch into the leather so I could stretch it to wrap around the heel.08I applied the glue and then laid down one side of the leather.09Then, using the grove in the middle of the heel, cut the excess off with an xacto knife. 10And then I repeated for the other side.11He popped off the heel tip while he was enjoying my shoe as a chew toy, but thankfully there was almost no damage to it, so I just folded over the extra leather, applied glue and stuck the heel tip back on. Then I applied a good bit of pressure for a few minutes while the glue cured.12On the other side, since I wanted them to look the same, I had to pop off the heel tip and then I repeated the last few steps to glue it back on with the scrap leather sandwiched in between.13He made sure to damage just enough of the back of the shoe to where I felt like it needed to be covered as well, so I did that and added a little design element where the leather folded down towards the outside of the shoe. 14Then I cut the excess off, forming a little cap on the back.15I did it a bit messy though and the edge looked really rough, so I ended up cutting a thin strip of leather to cover that ragged edge.16And I repeated on all the edges, to make everything cohesive.17And here they are, complete!

I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. What do you all think?