Dusty Rose Mini Beaded Shoes

The kit came with just the soles, holes drilled through the toe for attachment, and I have looked and looked again for a way to get a hold of more. Even my Japanese contacts are unaware of where to purchase more of them and according to my art teacher who's helping me with some mold work these are too thin to do the way we've been practicing. I've found many websites for helping to create custom doll shoes, so if this becomes something I'm really fond of you can count on seeing more of them! It bothers me that they are almost the exact size as Barbie Doll shoes. I don't know if this speaks more to Barbie or these dresses being a bit off scale.

I've taken photos of my beaded shoes next to some regular plastic silver-shiny made-in-China Barbie shoes. Despite being extremely similar in size I was unable to fit the beaded shoes onto Barbie. I had a Cinderella moment and sat around trying to force them onto her for the photos, but alas, her feet are just too big. At least this gives me a pretty good template to make Barbie shoes in the future!

Done with glass seed beads in purpleish solid size 11 and clear peach silver lined size 11. Threaded with pink One G Japanese nylon. Uses peyote stitch mostly but some right angle weave.

Edit: Since creating these I have learned about scale. Barbie is "1/6" scale, and my dresses I've concluded are closer to "1/12" scale, which is half the size of Barbie. I'll be working this new information into future work.

Color Total: 2
Bead Sizes: 1
Bonus: Plastic soles
Size: 3/4 x 3/4 inches
Time: 30 minutes each shoe
Figured out the shoes! Remember these cute things?

Well, after much searching (and even getting some translations from native Japanese speakers) for just the sole as used in that piece I've found the original piece that Japan mutilated for its own needs: http://www.fashion-doll-guide.com/Vintage-Barbie-Red-Open-Toe-Shoes.html
If you have a look at that tiny page it is clearly the same shape along the sole - a tiny spike heel and that same thin sole curve. The only difference I can really tell is that it's actually a finished shoe and would be difficult to modify without the chance of deforming the sole. It is slightly different (the back of the shoe sticks out a bit more and it's possibly a little thinner).
What's the best part about finding this out? Now that I know just what I'm looking for I eBay'd them up... pretty overpriced for plastic shoes if you ask me. Searching elsewhere provided little help, everything for them is marked "vintage" because apparently B