Meget ofte virker det, og nogle gange virker det ikke, og nu har jeg lavet noget, som ikke gik, som det skulle.
Det drejer sig om mine nubuc UGG sneakers. Alt for dyre, meget lækre at gå i, og i den skønneste pudderfarve. Men meget sarte. Så efter turen til Spanien med masser af kuffertkørsel, snæver plads i flyet og små favorit mennesker, der af en eller anden grund altid skal stå på ens fødder, var det sparsomt med den skønne pudderfarve, og alverdens skrubben og vask gjorde ingen forskel. De var nærmest ulækre!
Så hvad gør man? Man farver dem! Og det gik godt - lige indtil dagen efter, hvor jeg fik en plet på den ene, som jeg bare lige ville reparere, hvor på jeg væltede narvsværten ud over det hele. Og det var farvel til de sko. De røg ud af huset, før jeg fik taget et billede, så her er kun billeder af skoene før behandling.
Blev jeg sur? Nej, egentlig ikke. Bare lidt ærgerlig. Jeg havde jo 'forlænget' deres eksistens ved at farve dem sorte, som faldt ud som pæn mørk grå, så det var da noget ærgerligt, at uheldet så var ude.
Vil jeg gøre det igen? Ja, helt sikkert! Læren for mig er ikke, at jeg skal holde mig tilbage næste gang, jeg får en ide om at bevare noget. Læren er, at det er umagen værd, og at jeg måske bare ikke skal gøre noget, når jeg kun lige har 5 minutter, før jeg skal noget andet, men at jeg skal tage mig tid.
When something doesn't work, it gives me an irresistible urge to fix it! If it is something, which I have experience in doing, it doesn't take long, before I get going, and if I have no experience - well, then it doesn't take long, before I get going!
Very often it works, and sometimes it doesn't, and now I did something, which didn't turn out the way I wanted.
It's about my nubuck UGG sneakers. Far too expensive, wonderful to wear, and in the most beautiful powder color. But very delicate. So after the trip to Spain with lots of rolling suitcases, very little space in the plane, and small favorite persons, who for some reason always stand on your feet, it was so an so with the beautiful powder color, and all the washing and scrubbing in the world made no difference. They looked awfull!
So what to do? You color them! And it went well - right until the day after when I had a spot on one of the shoes, which I just wanted to repair, and I knocked over the bottle with nubuck color, which went all over the place. So goodbye to those shoes. They went out of the house, before I had taken a photo, so there is only a photo of the shoes ready for coloring.
Did I get mad? No, not really. Just a bit annoyed. I did actually manage to 'expand' the lifetime of the shoes by coloring them black, which turned out to become a nice dark grey, so it was a bit unlucky that the accident happened.
Will I do it again? Yes, definitely! The lesson for me is not to hold back the next time, I get the idea to prolong the lifetime of an item. The lesson is, that it is worth while, and that maybe I shouldn't 'just' do it 5 minutes, before I have to do something else, but take my time.
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