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A Sutton Coldfield mum sent her friend a £325 bill - after her three-year-old daughter returned from a play date with pen on her boots.

Fashion designer Sarah Bryan claimed her daughter Isabella came back with scratches and black marks on the designer footwear.

Ms Bryan said the red Italian leather boots which cost £325 were “ruined” with marker pen after the play date with her friend Nicola Gibbs’ daughter, Stacey, three.

But Ms Gibbs is refusing to pay up, saying “kids will be kids” and that shoes get scuffed.

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Single mum-of-two Sarah, 28, fired off an angry email to her friend after their two daughters had spent an afternoon playing at Nicola’s house.

When Isabella returned home, Sarah noticed her red boots were damaged.

She told The Sun: “Obviously shoes get scuffed on the soles, but these look like they’ve been worn for a year, not for a few hours.

“There’s also a big black mark on the toe where they’ve been drawn on. I was devastated when I saw them.”

Sarah, who describes herself as a “designer, actress, blogger and public figure”, immediately fired off an email to Nicola.

It read: “So Isabella has just come home from her playdate with your child and I am disgusted to see her new Italian leather shoes are all scuffed and have a Sharpie Mark on them.

“Below is the bill for these replacing because they can not be fixed these are fine Italian leather!

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“As a designer I do not want my child looking anything less than pristine.

“Bill for a replacement pair of Italian fur booties £325 to be paid by 01/02/2017 before I take this higher. Thank you, Sarah”

Sarah, who also has a 13-year-old son Keegan, says her daughter is a model and owns about 60 pairs of shoes and only wears designer labels and gets clothes shipped in from a specialist Spanish boutique.

She said: “If your child comes back with scratches on their body, you’d be like ‘what’s happened?’

“It’s the same with her shoes. She’s not supposed to go outside with them.

“Wherever she goes, she goes with a bag of other shoes.”

And she also defended spending so much money on her daughter’s wardrobe.

“A lot of other people just get their kids’ clothes from Primark . I don’t mind handing a few pounds to them for their dresses.

“But Isabella’s are usually Spanish boutique stuff. She’s actually a model so I keep her in nice clothes and shoes all the time,” she said.

“These boots are important for her modelling work because they match her outfits.

“Nicola was in charge and she was looking after my child, so she’s responsible for the damage.”

But bemused Nicola, from Wakefield in Yorkshire, refuses to pay a penny towards the damage and yesterday branded Sarah’s bill “a pile of nonsense”.

She said: “I don’t know what her problem is to be honest.

“She must have more money than sense if shes going to pay that much for a pair of shoes for her daughter and then complain when they get ruined.

“Kids are kids, they get messy, they ruin things, that’s life.”

This is not the first time Sarah has hit the headlines.

Previously she claimed to have made a dress from pubic hair after appealing on social media for donations, and before that made a dress entirely from Skittles which she wanted Lady Gaga to wear.

She also made a dress made entirely from new £5 notes.

Sarah has also appeared on Channel 5’ s programme Tattoo Disasters to get rid of the word ‘FCUK’ which she had inked on her shoulder when she was 16.