shoes that make the lady make the lady?

Best advice I've heard in a really long time. #dontmatchcrazywithcrazy

True story my friend. Crazy swirls around you. Crazy can make you crazy. Crazy makes you mad. Crazy doesn't know it's crazy. When normal is crazy, to crazy you're normal. So when crazy heads your way, don't up the ante, fold. AND seek immediate attention from a retail therapist.

Meet little lady lovely in a 9 page Vogue Paris spread. She's the little beezy I wanted to be at 8.  Some would call this crazy.

p to the s. i bet your shoes never cheated on you, stabbed you in the back, or pretended to be someone they're not.

We all learn lessons the hard way.  We all learn lessons by doing.  And one thing I've learned in the past month, if you don't throw it out in the universe, it can't throw it back at you.  So throw it out there big or small and watch what happens.

Exhibit A

These Louboutins are my Christmas present from my practical, "that check will pay your car payment for 4 months", hubs.  Jaw dropped.  Beyond surprised.  For the first time I said "I die", and actually understood what it meant.

A while back I shared my Polyvore dreamlist and told my hubs, the day I buy myself a pair of Louboutins, in my mind I've made it.  He remembered my list.  He found an even more beautiful pair, and sob story short, the shoe didn't fit.  They were too small, and sold out.

Exhibit B

We marched right down to Neiman Marcus and found a similar pair, that I actually loved even more... The very last one... in MY size.  I died twice this week. 

Exhibit C

Don't let me fool you.  I probably shouldn't own these shoes within our means, but here they sit, packed neatly away in the box, sleeping in their red sleeping bag, waiting for the right occasion to come out of hibernation.

Exhibit D

The thing that really made my Christmas and put my life in perspective:  Our itty bitty not even a foot tall Christmas Tree... Which my mother in law sent us because she knew we did not get a tree, because our apartment is too small with too many animals to knock it down.  But this little nugget really made our entire holiday.

Verdict

Sure the shoes made me swoon, smile, and die, but it was the tiny tree, the crazy beautiful friends and family, and ever surprising tall glass of water of a hubs that really rocked my Christmas world.  #luckygirl  Universe, I owe you one.

santa baby i love you...and a few of my favourite (digital) things.

love love love polyvore

Have you heard of Polyvore?  In the simplest terms as I can put it, it gives you a chance to be Anna Wintour herself and style your dreams.  You mix and match products from your favorite stores, and it has steadily grown to be the world's largest online fashion community.

Above that, so many people benefit from Polyvore.  Consumers love to create, lust, dream over and eventually buy the outfits and "sets" they and their peers create.  They can also find an array of styles and colours without scouring thousands of websites themselves.  Basically, I think Polyvore introduces fashion to fashionistas.

For bloggers, it's a dream come true.  You can embed sets on your blog, and the words, brands and trends you add tend to drive a ton of traffic to the post.

Not to mention brands benefit from Polyvore.  Your products can be styled by some pretty stellar and fashionable people, and more than that, introduced to an international audience who may have never discovered you otherwise.

Enough talk... These are a few of the things on my holiday DREAM list.

Two things you should take note of here, if you care to... The Burberry Prorsurm line has captured my heart and the obsession with buying these Louboutins has absorbed my soul.

santa baby i love you by whitneybenj featuring brass jewelry

Inspired and ready to lust?  Go build a set and comment me the link, I love seeing the taste of others.