easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Sep 15th, 2011
Happy Birthday to me! And what a perfect chilly-but-sunny day for frolicking in the grass wearing my new shoes. Aren’t they gorgeous? These are Queenie shoes from Fairysteps, in pink dragon leather to match my beloved handbag. I may have put them on before I got out of bed this morning, to the accompaniment of [...]
Posted in shopping on Jun 3rd, 2010
I wonder how many times I’m going to start a blog post with “my friend’s Patrick’s such a bad influence…”? Yes, here I am again, showing you something that Patrick showed to me. I was musing about clothes for keeping cool in the summer, and he sent me the link to Social Suicide’s new “Holidaze” [...]
So, the weather’s just starting to get to the point where it might be warm enough to take off my Doc Martens, and start looking for some pretty shoes for the summer. A colleague came into work today wearing a pair of these. I was very well behaved, and didn’t wrestle her to the ground [...]
You may have gathered that this is my favourite time of year not because we’ve finally had a whole afternoon of unbroken sunshine – but because the new styles of winter boots are just starting to appear in the shops! OH MY GOODNESS, PINK PATENT TARTAN DOC MARTENS. *faints with joy* Mind you, I do [...]
Yes, I know – yet another pair of pink shoes that I can’t wear! These are by Vivienne Westwood, her men’s Hammer Head style in bright pink. I first saw these in a magazine advert, and scoured the internet to find a place where I could buy them. As always with men’s shoes, they’re not [...]
These are Topshop’s “Kameryn” brogues. The pink and black pair have now been moved into their “last chance to buy” section, and in their place the silver, white and pink ones have arrived! Now I just need to save up £64, and these little beauties can be mine…
This month’s Elle magazine comes with a £15 gift card for Kurt Geiger. Ten lucky winners will have a card worth £1000. Sadly I’m not one of them, or this would have been a much more extravagant post! The catch is that you have to sign over your contact details to both Elle and Kurt [...]