Breaking In Rainbows

Rainbow flip flops are some of the hardest shoes to break in. Because they are mostly leather, the thong and the foot bead will conform to your feet, but they are very hard to break in. 

I kept my first pair of rainbows for more then 6 years, and I have had my newer ones for 3 years. They are the best investment ever! 

Their are two ways for breaking in your new Rainbows. Way one is to get them wet. If you want don't want to totally soak your new shoes, you can use a spray bottle to moisten the straps and the foot bed. I will warn you this may cause the bottoms of your feet to become brown... 

Way two is to just deal with it and just let your feet be in pain for a week to a month. This is the least appealing to me personally... If you want to buy a pair of Rainbow's you can go here. If you have any suggestions on what types of post you all want me to do please let me know in the comments or email me at thetotalprepster@gmail.com. 

Thank you for reading and have a preptastic day! 

Your Faithful Prepster, 

How To Make $15 into $40

I have had this cute Target dress for over a year. The last time I wore it to school one of the buttons in the front fell off. And for obvious reasons I couldn't wear it any more until I got four buttons to replace all the buttons. So a few days ago that is what I did. I went to a local fabric store and bought some ADORABLE coat of arms gold buttons.

All four buttons cost about $7.

I thought I would show y'all how I turned a $15 Target dress, into a $40 name brand looking dress. 

This was the dress before I put the new buttons on. Its simple, and I am sorry the picture is so crappy but my real camera was hiding from me and I found it after I finished taking the pictures with my iPhone.

3 of the 4 buttons that I cut off of the dress. I have no clue where the other button is, I lost it over a year ago at school so who knows were it could be. As you can tell they are quite bland. 

So what you will need is a lot of light (which I did not have when taking this picture), whatever color thread the dress is, (my dress was navy, so I stole, and then returned, some navy thread from my Moma), a needle, which is in between the spool of thread and the tiny pair of scissors. A tiny pair of scissors (makes cutting off the buttons easier and simpler), a big pair of scissors, which I also stole and then returned to my Moma. 

I stuck myself a few times, but did not make myself bleed. You can thank the callouses that I have built up from all my years of piano. 

It takes some talent to put those buttons onto that dress. Okay, not really, but for a person who had never sewn buttons onto anything in her life before, I did pretty well! 

The dress after I was finished! What do y'all think? I would love to hear about your turning something that was cheap into something that looks a lot nicer! Thank you for reading!

Your Faithful Prepster,
mSv