Shoe Girl's Shoes!!

So I have always loved The Shoe Girl's Blog and she has finally launched her own line. I just love it! I have been following her progress for a long time now and just love the end product. I cant wait to see more of her shoes! I love the bright colours, girly fabrics and the floral inner is just too cute. Here is a preview of my favourites:

Shoes from New York Fashion Week

So we all know that some weird and wonderful things come from NYFW, here's the scoop on the shoes that went down... I must say...NOT loving it...

Pretty Loubi pic for the day...

Punk Shoes

So as you may have noticed, my style is more girly and pretty kind of shoes but one of my shoe obsessed friends has asked me to do a post on "darker" shoes... So Bryce, here it is:

My Challenge for you...

We all know I am a total shoe lover and will find any excuse to wear the prettiest shoes but I have a different type of challenge for you. Take one day, or even just an afternoon and leave your shoes at home.. Go for a walk on the beach, dance, dig your toes in the sand, feel the ocean on your toes or even just water your garden and feel the soft moist grass beneath your feet. What I'm saying here is take time out from work, wearing heels, playing the mom role, trying to please everyone else and make time for yourself to just relax and really live, just feel and experience some of the beauty around you, even if it's just for one afternoon this week.

I just love these shoes!

Those shoe moments where you just wish you could disappear...

I needed these today!

So as some of you may or may not know.. I recently started a new job. And today was like the perfect spring day so I decided to wear a pair of cork wedges.. Not such a smart idea... So being in the centre of Cape Town, parking near work is rather limited to an open piece of land (really lots of rock and gravel) up on a really steep hill...
Not a good combo.. steep hill, rocks and rather high heeled shoes. And to make matters worse a cute guy would arrive at the same time and ended up walking behind me while I wobbled down the steep and very uneven hill in my heels. Eventually he overtook me hehe...
I think I even heard him laugh!
Anyways my shoes worked well the rest of the day, next time I'll keep flats in my bag for the downhill trip!


So here are some other embarrassing shoe moments from our shoe loving friends:

I don't remember my exact age, but I was in Junior High School (7th, 8th or 9th grade) and I had earned a little money from babysitting. Of course, I wanted to buy myself a pair of shoes.  I had about $20, but at the time I had learned the value of money, so I decided to go to this store in East Cleveland that sold shoes for $10 a pair.  I bought a pair of pleather (short for plastic leather or fake leather), brown shoes that were pointy at the toe, tied up the front and had about a 1 1/2 in heel on them. They were perfect! However, at that young age I knew that I was buying a pair of cheap shoes and I remember having a second thought about that, but at the same time," a deal was a deal" . The very next day, I had to wear my new shoes to school. I thought that I was so cute while proudly wearing my new shoes that I'd purchased with my own money. 

It was probably after lunch period with maybe 2 more hours left in the school day when MY HEEL FELL OFF!!!! The entire heel fell of my shoe while I was walking down the hall. I couldn't believe it! I didn't know what to do. I am standing there trying to place the heel back under the shoe as if it is going to re-attach itself back to the shoe somehow. Of course, that didn't work.  Since I didn't have another pair to put on, I had no other choice but to limp around the school for the rest of the day with one heel on and one heel off. From that day on, I promised myself that I would NEVER, EVER, buy a pair of CHEAP shoes.

I was returning from a shopping trip and taking a walk down watford high street when I found myself stuck and unable move.  My heel was stuck between the cobbles in the street...Darn you cobbles! Having tried to discretely release my heel and having no luck, I had to let the whole street know by taken the shoe off and using my hands to pull it out of the ground and then fell right onto my bottom!!! Oh the shame!!

For many years, I was in charge of the baby and bridal showers at our church. As a stay at home mom, I often felt a bit "frumpy" alongside the working gals, and decided I needn't look any less professional at these events. So for one special shower, I got beautiful purple flats to coordinate with my purple skirt and nice top. I would look SO pulled together! The day of the shower, I finished the last minute details at the house, then loaded everything into the car and drove my purple-skirted, nicely-made-up self to the church for the shower. Imagine my surprise when the first guest arrived and I realized I was still wearing my old pink very worn slippers! I had been so comfy as I got ready at the house, I forgot to put on my new purple shoes. So much for looking pulled together! LOL I ended up hostessing the shower in my stockinged feet (good thing there were no holes!)

I have taught for 15 years. I was in my classroom one day (about 8 years ago) leading an exciting discussion with my students. We were into the topics and I was asking questions and getting responses --it was really going well. Then, I glanced down as I was thinking about how to word an answer, and I realized that I was wearing one blue shoe and one black shoe. They weren't even the same style or height--one had a cute little bow with a 1 inch heel and the other was a plain flat shoe. I looked back up at my class and met the eyes of a student in the back who had just made the same discovery. I moved around to behind the desk and took my shoes off and finished the class as best I could -- distracted though I was. I had a break after class and went home and changed. I saw the student in the lab that afternoon and she commented about my nice shoes. I laughed about it with her (feeling completely embarrassed!) and went on with my day. My husband thought it was hysterical that I could go to work and get through a half a day without realizing that I was wearing two different height shoes!

My sisters and I went out one night together in Washington DC. One of my sisters decided to wear shoes that looked good but were very uncomfortable. We had a long walk to and from the restaurant to the metro station and then another walk back to the car. By the time we got to my other sister's apartment, my sister's feet were killing her. She borrowed a pair of fluffy slippers from my sister to use to drive home (a  45+ minute drive).  On her way home, she was pulled over at a sobriety check point. She had to "walk the line" wearing fluffy slippers. I wish I had been there to see that sight. I think the policemen were shocked that she was driving sober, but fluffy..

Happy Spring Day!!!

Yes!! Winter is technically over! Bring on spring, summer dresses, wedges and sunshine!

Here are some vintage spring inspired pics that made my day!

Some insight into the mind of a self confessed shoe lover

So lately I haven't been writing very much on my blog, instead I just let the shoes do the talking. It is no secret that I have a thing about shoes. Some might say too much of a thing. I mean I do have a blog dedicated to just shoes, I have so many shoes that I don't even know how many I have (I'm guessing 100 pairs??), my summer shoes are being stored in the garage because there isn't space in my closet (once summer comes I store the winter ones!) and I have zero will power when it comes to resisting buying more shoes!

So why exactly do I love shoes you ask? Here are some reasons:

1. Shoes never make you feel fat. Who cares if you have to go up a size in shoes, they are shoes, not a skirt. Your feet didn’t grow, it is not the chips you ate last night, it is absolutely, positively, the shoes’ fault.

2. You always, always need another pair of shoes. No one can ever say you don’t. There is always an outfit, or an event you don’t have shoes for. If not, buy an outfit you don’t have shoes for or make up an event.

3. Shoe shopping always makes you feel better. Don’t believe me? Try it sometime.

4. Shoes are pretty.

5. You can buy cheap shoes. With Mr Price, Legit and Woolies, you don’t have to spend a lot to find the latest styles. If they last a season, who cares? Throw them out.

6. High heels make you look taller. And thinner...

7. Feel like you are too conservative? Just buy a pair of red heels. Wear them. Voila, you are now one hot chick! Shoes can change the whole look of an outfit in less than a minute. And the way you feel.

8. And, of course, the right shoes can make you feel like a million dollars.

And on the topic..I saw these shoes today and had, I mean had to have them. Especially since they were 50% off thanks to a sale. Forget that I have nowhere to wear them. Forget that I have nothing to wear them with. Forget that I am on a budget. Forget that I’ll probably break my neck trying to walk in them. Forget all of those things. When you have an addiction, you have an addiction and that good sense you had is thrown to the wind...