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What happened with your first post was that you posted it in the DIY section, instead of on the boards. If you check out the dark green toolbar at the top of the page, you'll see where it says "BLOG BIOS BOARDS CLASSIFIEDS DIY GALLERY" etc. Each section is separate. So the DIY section is devoted just to DIY stuff! It's kind of confusing, because we've also got this DIY subboard on the boards - people definitely use both though - and you can use either/both as you want!
It's a little easier to respond on the boards, I think, so this might be an easier place to ask for feedback, and the DIY section might be easier to post tutorials, photos, etc. because it's formatted for photo posting. But really either is okay.
Your shoes are really cute! I love the style - and I think pearls and crystal look graet together. :)
You mentioned you're not very crafty, so I wanted to make sure you saw the search bar in the corner of the righthand sidebar - there are a bunch of shoe tutorials that might help! I'm not crafty either, so I used some of the tutorials I found on WB while I was wedding planning too. http://www.weddingbee.com/search/?search=diy+crystal+shoes&sa.x=0&sa.y=0 should link to a search for crystal shoes (but our search bar has been acting up a little bit lately, so if it doesn't work, just try searching using the search box, haha)
Welcome again! You're going to love our community.
@daydreamwanderer: 
thanks for the welcome and for the search link - I thought I'd found most if not all, but I musn't have searched properly as I've not seen a lot of these threads!
I've just looked at quite a few crystalised shoes and I'm still not sure about crystal sizes. Whether it would look better mixing the sizes up or to keep to just one size, say 3mm??? Hmm, I'm a Libran so am hopeless at making decisions 
Are they really expensive, or could you buy some different sizes and kind of do a mockup (without glue; maybe not on the actual shoe) to see how the mix would look?
@daydreamwanderer: I think I might do that as I have a similar-ish old pair, either that or I might just buy a load of crystals and pearls and have a play positioning them and see what looks best before gluing.
The pair I did I used 3mm, 4mm and 5mm crystals. It took about 2500 crystals total. I glued them very randomly. The next pair I intend on doing I am only using 4mm and 5mm crystals.
These are the shoes I did. I used swarovski flatback rhinestones in sizes from 20mm all the way down to 3mm. I ordered so many times, that I kind of lost count, but I probably used close to 2500 stones. BUT, I would not trade them for anything, I LOVE my shoes! I just spread a little E6000 glue at a time and radomly placed the various sized stones on using point end tweezers. I didn't follow any particular pattern at all, just went with it. Give yourself time, it is time consuming!
@Vegas Pug: I LOVE your shoes!!! Was the base color of them the same color as the crystals or a different color???
@TeaOgler: they look fab! I love how neatly you added the 3mm to the edges, which is definitely something I'm going to try to do.
@Vegas Pug: they're stunning - lovely colour too. Gorgeous bouquet - I've decided I've enough on doing my shoes so have ordered a vintage crystal bouquet!
@jennyDtobe: Thank you! They started as gold and then I used the amethyst flatbacks.
@talamasca: Thank you! My girls wore eggplant and I really wanted to have a colored shoe, so I went with the purple. My bouquet was made with brooches all given to me by family and friends.
So, it's been a while! I didn't like wearing the shoes I originally bought so I recently bought a pair of gorgeous flat pointy toe white satin shoes and they arrived yesterday :-)
Anyway, I thought I'd see what the gems would look like on them and I placed a few (without glue) and was extremely distressed to find that the sticky jewel setter has left marks on the shoe!!!!!
I was already nervous in case I added too much glue and now I'm going to have to buy a different gem setter (going to get a Magical Pick).
Well, here they are in their practice shot and I'll be adding them properly as soon as my Magical Stick arrives :-)
Well, I finally plucked up the courage and made a start on adding the crystals to my shoes and what fun I've had! It's so easy and I absolutely love doing it
I've spent about 3 hours so far and used approx 450 crystals (including coloured ones on the backs). By far the hardest thing is doing the same design on both shoes and I unfortunately added 1 extra gem to the top line on the inside back of the left shoe, which meant every line then had an extra crystal compared to the other 3 sides, but surprisingly (especially as I'm a bit of a perfectionist) I really don't care cos I think they look really good and it's just so much fun! I can't wait to finish them off next weekend....
yay I finished my shoes this weekend 
It took another 2-3 hours and I'm not sure how many crystals I ended up using as I lost count 
It's quite difficult trying to match the design so they aren't 'perfect', but I'm pretty pleased with myself for perservering.
I'm going to wear them for a bit to see how many pop off as the shoes crease so I can stick them back on and then hopefully on the day they'll all stay on *fingers crossed*
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Hi, I just posted, but I think I might have put it in the wrong place cos it doesn't seem to be showing on the boards! I've just joined, so not au fait with the layout, etc yet, sorry
http://diy.weddingbee.com/topic/crystal-shoe-help