Recycle Your Old Shoes
In this age of awareness and wanting to recycle or reuse as many items that we can,, this question arises. What can I do with my old shoes? Most recycling centers will not take old shoes. Shoes are generally made from multiple ,,ponents which need to be handled differently in the recycling process.
I will offer some ideas for those old shoes laying around your closet floor or under your bed. Keeping old shoes out of landfills and finding new ways to use them is the "green" thing to do. You might be surprised at some of the ideas that I have ,e across to recycle or repurpose your old shoes,
You can have them bronzed and do a few different things with them, Some like to just keep them separate and sit on a dresser, You can have them mounted on a block of wood or marble,, A frame can be added with a picture of the child for an enhanced look,,
I've also seen these done as a pair of bookends, That idea would be so cute with a collection of children's books, Personally, I think bronzing a pair of high heel shoes and making them into bookends would also be a unique way to hold those books together,
Shoes from a small man's foot could be bronzed and used as pencil holders on a desk or for tools out in the garage, Take those old shoes and make them into a planter,, You will want to drill a few holes in the bottom for drainage and possibly put a few coats of polyurethane on the outside to avoid decay,
Place the shoe or shoes in a haphazard display in your garden or at the edge of your porch giving the impression that the shoes have laid there so long they sprouted growth,
I also saw an idea that I thought sounded pretty clever, Drill a pair or pairs of shoes onto a tree and make planters out of them, The idea was to make it look as if the shoes were walking down the tree trunk,
Image Credit: Old Shoes at Pixabay
Use cotton filler that is used to make pillows and stuff it into the shoe, Cover the cotton with a contrasting fabric stuffed around the cotton and into the shoe, Embellish with bows or anything that will fit the style and color of the shoes, Stick a few sewing pins into it and you've got a pincushion,,
Now, this is a little more difficult to do but you can make a pincushion out of a ladies shoe too, A high heel shoe made into a pincushion is perfect for the seamstress,
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