After a year of skating on my new, expensive purple skates, I finally admitted that the plates are too heavy and they are contributing to my back and hip pain. I started wearing my old, cheap skates again and I have fallen back in love with derby.
Well, after having purple skates for a year, it pained me to skate with plain, old black ones. So, I decided to pimp them out!
Here is what they looked like before.
I was too lazy to take the wheels off, so I just masked around them.
I sprayed them with two coats of Outdoor paint.
I then prayed them with a matte finish, clear sealer.
After they dried, I applied Modge Podge where I wanted the racing strips to be, and then I put some gold glitter in a salt shaker and shook it over the stripes area, then dusted off the excess.
Once that dried, I sealed the glitter to the skate with another coat of Modge Podge.
Here is the finished product - A purplelicious set of skates with gold strips, what better way to represent Ford City than with the good old purple and gold!
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4 comments:
so friggin sweet!!!!!!!
Fonda, these are amazing! Good job!
xo- Auntie
those are so cool looking!
Those are some skates, Rhonda! I haven't made it out to watch any bouts this year. I suck.
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