I needed some bright pink shoes for her and only had white.  My daughter had
a brainstorm and suggested I paint them. I thought Why not?  I snipped the tiny
threads holding on the vinyl bows.  They are shiny vinyl so I lightly sanded
them first.  Then I painted them with acrylic paints and covered them with sealer
when they were dry.  It worked great!  I ran my fingernail over them but they did
not chip or flake! Then I tied some tiny ribbon bows (I didn't like the vinyl 
ones-they were too big) and glued them to the shoe.  After that we made some 
lavender shoes and then got very wild with some polka dotted ones.  The shoes
I used were from Tallina -#299 in a size 9 fit Linda.  Tallinas also sells this
shoe for Betsy (with socks), MAC and AG.  Maybe some of you have done this before
but I never had and now I am planning gold metallic and flowered and lime green...