This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Duck Brand for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I come from a frugal family- “Make Do and Mend” and all that! So this spring when my daughter came home one day with her boots all split, I knew that I didn’t want to buy another set for only a few weeks of wear. Enter Duck Tape® Minis to save the day!

And you know what? It was EASY. And only took 20 minutes and TWO ROLLS of  Duck Tape®!

I chose the pink and green for spring!

I started off by cleaning the boots & examining that split. It was massive. I thought for sure these boots were a goner!

I started off by just repairing the split with some standard-width Duck Tape®.

That fixed the split. But that’s not quite good enough, is it? We also want some CUTE. So I started laying down strips of Duck Tape® Minis, alternating green and pink.

I stared over the toe and worked my way up.

I love the thinner width- it was SO much easier to work with on the curved areas! Really, this stuff is brilliant. Once I got up so far over the instep, I worked the strips around the part that goes up the leg.

Where the ends were messy in the front, I added a vertical stripe to hide them! Clever and stylish, I tell you.

I decided to not to worry too much about the bottom edge as I was working- I left the ends ragged. Then, once I was done covering the whole boot, I went around the edge CAREFULLY with a *sharp* craft knife, cutting delicately along the edge of the rubber sole. Voila. Clean edge!

So now my daughter has a “new” set of boots that will last the remainder of the wet season, and for under FIVE BUCKS. Seriously, I feel like I won the lottery!

I love being thrifty- could you rescue and re-do with Duck Tape®? I’d love to hear your thrifty solutions!

For more great ideas, make sure you check out Duck Tape® on Pinterest, on Facebook, and on Twitter too! And if you need to learn more, you can find Duck Tape here!

Happy Crafting!

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