I now have a pair of "not new" dress sneakers.

I can only wear sneakers on my bad feet so I wanted to dress them up a bit. Okay, a lot. This was EXPENSIVE...I didn't use the cheapest rhinestones, but I also didn't use the most expensive. These machine-cut gems gave me the best bang for my buck (but, I'm thinking I easily have over $50 in stones on these). I also Shapied the white rubber sides and got dressier laces. Probably took about 5 hours. I'm tough on shoes, but will only be wearing these when I go out to a movie, dinner or some special event. We'll see how they hold up. (I think I could do a lot of damage if I kicked a ne'er do well while I was wearing these.)

An expensive update to almost-new sneakers.

I got these sneakers for Christmas last year and have barely worn them as I've kept them for zumba and I've only been a few times. I expect I'll be getting another pair for Christmas this year (isn't it nice to have consistent friends who know what you need?), so I decided to try to turn these into "dress" sneakers. (I can only wear the one brand of sneaker, no other shoes allowed on my bad feet.) It is taking an awful lot of rhinestones and they are very expensive (and they aren't even Swarovski, those would be super glittery). However, it isn't taking half as much time as I expected. I did this shoe (I'd say I'm about half done) in under two hours. If the glue holds as promised, I may even make a second pair someday--if I can find a "used" or more affordable source of rhinestones.