Insights for your work week.

What moves you? What shakes you? What stops you dead in your tracks?

I have several answers to these questions. I thought I should expand this blog to include these things, so you can learn a little more about me.

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1) Fashion: It moves me to hunt for bargains, buy more shoes, and find it in everyday life. It shakes me out of my comfort zone to experiment with my wardrobe. It has the ability to stop me dead in my tracks, plotting out ways to sneak a snapshot of the inspiration.

2) Music: It moves my soul. It shakes up my emotions. It does the reverse of holding me down-it lifts my spirits, gets me going, and may make me bust a move.

3) Art: It moves me to expand my talents. It shakes my view. It stops me dead in my tracks whether it's a modern sculpture downtown, a famous oil painting in Italy, or the giclee in my apartment.

Whatever it may be, let it continue to inspire you! All I want to do lately is sit down at the piano and jam out or pull down my box of paints and paint what's running through my head.

For now I'll just let it simmer a little more...

Happy Monday!

***I have included a few of my recent favorite albums...Grizzly Bear, which I was able to see live a few weeks ago, Discovery, which is a recent combo of members from Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, and there is also an image of the members of Ra Ra Riot!

***Please bear with me while I test out "board" programs and decide what I like best! :D

General Apologies.

My apologies for lack of blogging! I have been out of town for work for a couple weeks. I have been brainstorming about different things I can do to make this interesting again...Has anyone looked at Snippet & Ink before? What I love about it most are the frequent Boards of themes/colors. I was thinking of using similar tools regarding fashion finds and trends that catch my eye...what do you think?


And don't worry. I'm not going to blog about Michael Jackson. While I think his talent will be missed in the world, I know everyone is getting an overdose in the media, and I don't think I need to mention him here.


In the mean time, the most fashionable everyday teen I've seen:

Hello! I definitely was nowhere near that cool as a teen. I think I was still suffering from braces, triangle hair, and bottle cap glasses :)

Have a great day! Maybe I'll document my 4th of July fashion festivities...

Show Stoppers.

When I was at Shoeffle with Corina in NOLA, we gawked at these shoes. They did not come in my size so I had to order them online! They are SO comfortable and SO cute. In the store they were nearly $100 but online at overstock.com they were half the price! The flower is made of grosgrain and the heel is also similarly wrapped. Allover taupe satin.

I will look over my budget and seriously consider purchasing the wellies I posted about yesterday...thank you for your opinions!!! :D Happy Friday!!!!

“You put high heels on and you change”- Manolo Blahnik

Justified Purchase?

So all night long the storms woke me up because lightning would light up my entire bedroom...

Regardless, I eventually got out of bed and got dressed for work. I drove my small SUV through the storm and this is what I saw when approaching downtown...



Does this weather justify these? Probably not but I sure love Hunter Wellies....


Sigh...I guess I'll hold off on purchasing...

"Brilliant to the top of his army boots, those boots were leather Wellingtons." Lloyd George describing General Douglas Haig.

Out on the town sans boo boos.

Alright, who here is sick and tired of being in pain throughout the evening while wearing your "evening shoes"?! I can't stand it!! While you look fabulous standing still, everyone can't help but notice (especially if you blurt it out..) that you are in pain. Solution? Evening wedges! I will put them to the test during my summer weddings.

Again, photo taken on my new Ikea bathroom rug. What I love about wedges is their ability to lift you up while not bringing you down...lol.

"Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies." ~Levende Waters

And I thought this quote was drop dead hilarious...

"Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley." ~Author Unknown

Lift me up, wedges.

Yes, by now I have purchased new shoes. After the big purge I even had empty space on my shelves! I went to DSW last week (typicaland spent $0. I'm serious. I went through the aisles and a few shoes caught my attention but I thought back to my challenge, and to those shoes that did not make the cut, and it made me re-think my shoe buying habits. In my head, I thought "would these be voted off?" and ended up walking out empty-handed.

About a week ago I visited Corina in N'Awlins and visited a cute boutique called Shoeffle in Covington, LA where I've been known to purchased a pair or two. I settled on two pairs in the store, one dressier wedge for Shellie's upcoming nuptials, and one summer wedge that will go with just about anything.
Here are the summer wedges:

The wedge is a little glossy, and I think made of cork, which makes them uber light and airy. The shoe is made of a shiny linen, studded to the wedge. I took the picture atop my new rug from my Ikea outting yesterday. It lives in my vanity/sink area between my closet and bathroom.

What do you think of the shoes? Has my challenge worked to only choose worthy shoes for my closet?

"Summer is a great time for wedges. With a wedge even we can appear tall"-Mary T Isreal West

Donation Station

Success!!! I took all my shoes (and quite a few bags of clothes to get rid of...I got on a roll and couldn't stop!!!) to my local Buffalo Exchange last weekend and collected a little cashola in the process, but mainly donated to the battered women's shelter. I tried to sneak a picture of the donation bin to show you all the shoes departing, but I wasn't fast enough.

All in all, this was such a great thing for me! I purged and now I make better shoe purchasing decisions! No pair will be bought on a whim!

Thank you to all the readers for your help...I want to keep blogging and hope you'll help me decide what to do next!!! :D