12 Shoes Of Christmas - Day 1

Over the years of blogging, I've been very fortunate to meet so many wonderful people with shared interests as myself. The majority of my friends (even those I studied fashion with) think of me as a crazy shoe woman and roll their eyes if I spend any longer than a minute discussing heel heights, favourite linings, my thoughts on the latest character heel or which shoe is getting priority on my virtual wishlist for fear of selling out. So I'm extremely appreciative that I have Tomi in my life. We struck up a friendship years ago, over, you guessed it, shoes! Irregular Choice to be exact and though we've never met in real life, I really value our chats about the stresses of online shoe shopping, trying to guess future releases and also what's going on in our lives. She's the first person I want to talk to when there's exciting shoe news and we strategize and encourage each other on special release days. She's just as crazy about shoes as I am, so would never judge me for talking endlessly about them (and between us, we really do).

Day 991 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Black 'Cherry Deer' Irregular Choice 

Of course I had to show off my other deer heels after 'Angel Cakes' last Shoesday Tuesday.

Day 907 - Let’s Go To The Beach, Each, Let’s Go Get Away

Shoes: Beige Lady Dragon Cherries Vivienne Westwood Anglomania & Melissa 

I've realised the heat doesn't agree with me! I've been forced to buy hayfever pills, as my Vaseline up the nose and cucumber on the eyes tricks were starting to fail. I already take a lot of medication, so hoped to treat it without more pills, but there's no point suffering right? Then I have this blotchy rash on my chest, which I've stopped itching, but it still looks terrible. My legs are joining in with the blotchy-ness and I've got two unexplained bruises on them and don't even get me started on my burning and parched face. That said, it's so lovely to not have that wet stuff falling out of the sky to worry about and actually getting a (maybe) whole season of summer. This dress is a little tricky to wear as the lining is much shorter. The dress would just be comfortable on me bare legged, but the fear of the lining exposing my booty at the slightest gust (and it's been rather breezy out there), meant I had to rethink this. I didn't want to wear it with leggings as it defeats the purpose of dressing for summer, so I added this little net skirt underneath. It's also lined, so gave me that little bit extra length and it wouldn't blow up in the wind, like the dress would.

Wearing: Blue polka dot tea dress Pearl Lowe at Peacocks, grey net skirt Primark, red belt gift, ice cream hair bows Yama Yama Pretty Mama.
Fit: 4 1/4" heel, true to size.
Comfort: No issues with these.

Day 903 - Keep Partyin' Like It's Your Job

Shoes: Beige Lady Dragon Cherries Vivienne Westwood Anglomania & Melissa 

What up peeps? Yesterday wasn't quite as hot as it's been, but still a lovely day. This dress is one of those hard to style ones, that isn't bright blue but not navy and so pairing it with either, looks a little off. So I took the opportunity of not having to wear a coat or even cardigan...the leggings weren't a perfect match, but didn't clash too badly. I have to admit I always struggle with blues (and browns too), because wearing too much of those colours doesn't look right (you can't really pile blue on blue like you can with black) but not much else goes with them. Anyway, I love the little doggy print and it's a cute casual look. Oh and I totally need to wear scratch mitts in my bed! My neck and chest has been so itchy and while I'm sleeping I've been scratching it (you can see a weird lumpy/scratch on my throat), I'm blaming the heat!

Wearing: Scotty dog dress H By Henry Holland, vest and leggings Primark, flower hair clip ASOS, Minimal Baroque sunglasses Prada.
Fit: 4 1/4" heel, true to size.
Comfort: No issues with these.

Day 893 - This Tunnel's Dark, But There's A little Light Glowing

Shoes: Beige Lady Dragon Cherries Vivienne Westwood Anglomania & Melissa 

Yesterday I popped out with my friend and her baby (well he's 2 now, so technically not a baby any longer) for a catch-up. We went to a local farm....yeah, the outfit was decided before I knew where we were going. It was a lovely sunny day and we had tea and scones and a good ol' chat. I was definitely overdressed (I could actually feel the looks I was getting as soon as I stepped out of the car) but if you can't wear Westwood shoes, a fancy dress and designer handbag and sunglasses to see chickens and lambs and walk over hay and chicken-wire, then when can you?! Swinging my leg over (without flashing) to sit at a picnic bench in a pencil skirt wasn't actually as tricky as I imagined! I've been suffering since though, my health is just crap right now (even more so than usual), I just can't cope if I've done any sort of activity, no matter how trivial (I was only out for an hour). So I spent all evening just lying down, doing nothing and I'm shattered and dizzy today.

Wearing: Blue polka dot wiggle dress ASOS, red belt gift, Charming clutch bag Love Moschino, pearls Primark, zebra, mouse and bunny ears rings Topshop, unicorn ring Red Herring at Debenhams, Minimal Baroque sunglasses Prada (not shown).
Fit: 4 1/4" heel, true to size.
Comfort: No issues with these.

Day 875 - So Many Secrets Are Unravelling

Shoes: Beige 'Lady Dragon Cherries' Vivienne Westwood Anglomania & Melissa 

After taking a few days off to recuperate from my trip and also getting stuck into eBay again, I've had no time for blogging. I did manage out on Monday, in sunglasses and sandals, only to get wet in the downpour that lasted only the duration of my short walk (someone trying to tell me something?). I was trying to defy the weather and put a little sunshine into my day despite the gloomy and completely non-May-like weather we're experiencing. Can you believe there's been fresh snow in some of the more remote areas of Scotland? In May? That's just nasty! You can't get much more sunshiney than this dress, it's a mixture of happy colours and after changing my mind a couple of times on shoes, I decided to really show the rain with these cherry sandals. Take that! Or not! I'm pretty sure the anorak and glove wearing people I saw on my walk, thought I was completely insane which made me chuckle ; ) You can also check out my brighter than bright makeup on Monster High Monday here.

Wearing: Floral dress, leggings, vest and cardigan Primark, belt taken from another dress, ice-cream hair bows Yama Yama Pretty Mama, Mischief sunglasses Irregular Choice.
Fit: 4 1/4" heel, true to size.
Comfort: No issues with these.

Day 828 - Mama Told Me Not To Waste My Life

Shoes: Red velvet 'Lillie' cherry Topshop 

Hello, still not got round to editing my outfit from a week past Sunday (!), but here is my look today. I would wear this dress pretty much every day if I could and for today I decided to team it with my lovely cherry platforms from Topshop, which I don't think have been worn since the Christmas before last. They are super, super pretty. I've just about finished my Monster High Monday makeup post on Pink Haired Princess which involved bright red lips and a purpley smokey eye as you can see, a little different from what I'd usually wear (the lipstick was crazy bright in the flesh)!

Wearing: Heart 'Betty' dress Swan by Clements Ribeiro, black tights and coat Primark, belt Dorothy Perkins.
Fit: True to size, the ankle strap is particularly small but fine for me in the last hole. Heel 5 6/8", platform 1 1/2".
Comfort: No problems, quite high though so not for everybody.