Day 1264 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Looks Like Rain Dear | Irregular Choice 

A break from the planned continuation of unicorn heels, after red Trixy last week, because a week past Friday Irregular Choice launched their Christmas collection. Quite early for once! I bought several pairs and they came the next day and I'm going to do fit reviews for each and then hopefully get a more in-depth look up on Pink Haired Princess later. The weather has definitely not been camera friendly this past week, so I hastily emptied the piles of shoe boxes from the shoe room floor when I spied some light at the weekend. I managed two pairs before collapsing in a heap, so here's Looks Like Rain Dear, brilliant name by the way!

Day 1238 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Little Red | Irregular Choice 

Last week I shared the very Easter looking Hop To It from several years back and today I have something a little more recent, from AW21. I personally love this heel. It's a very old shape which was reintroduced about 5 years ago and continues to be used in the current collection on the likes of Fleur de Lis and Go Fish. There's been a slight modification, in that the curves are more pronounced now, which only makes it better in my opinion. The inside edges of the heel tip though are actually rather sharp, so be careful on textured (looped) rugs or carpets, that you don't get hooked and caught up in it.

Day 1218 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Wish Magic | Irregular Choice 

New pair of shoes incoming! It's been a while since I've had a new season/new style from IC, but these wand heels from their Magic Sceptre collection that launched last week, really spoke to me. First though, I have to apologise that the photos aren't the best. The first pair of tights I wore were a disaster when it came to editing (I suspected as much and should've trusted my instincts, but you never know for sure until you've started resizing them online), so I had to reshoot the whole lot. By then, the sun was shining and creating all sorts of brightness and shadows and my phone wasn't positioned as well as the first time and chopped off the bottom of the shoes, so I had to try for a third time...I was beat by this point!  I've salvaged what I can, albeit with shadows and Casper legs, but I've covered all angles as usual.

Day 1189 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Finders Keepers | Irregular Choice 

I'm going to tell you from the outset that these photos are rubbish! It kept snowing on and off, filling the room with blue light and I didn't have the energy or time to retake them.  I've adjusted as best I could, but the lighting/colours aren't perfect (particularly of the heel, which I'll come onto later).  So after falling in love with the Satine thigh high boots and eventually buying them, albeit slightly apprehensively, as I wasn't sure how flexible they were going to be at the knee (given I'm usually in a wheelchair), I was really pleased to see different uppers of the same style in these Finders Keepers for AW19. 

Day 1146 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Santas Globe Irregular Choice 

Sorry I'm a day late, it's been a busy week already and I was going to persevere last night at midnight and get this post finished, but my brain was frazzled. I knew the post was going to be quite picture heavy too, so I wanted to wait until I could see straight! So, another pair of Christmas shoes for you this week and Irregular Choice have really gone to town on their festive releases for 2018. Last week, it was light-up gingerbread ankle boots and this time, it's the amazing snow-globe heels. So we've just seen the carousel release where the horse was inside a glitter globe heel with liquid and this is similar. Instead of a Santa character heel, he's actually inside the heel.

Day 1117 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Irregular Choice Stars At Night 

Ahh, it's so nice to be blogging again after a couple of really busy weeks. Unfortunately not doing anything fun, but tidying, eBaying and still recovering after a trip to the dentist. The dentist was painless (replacing a filling), but seems to have hit me quite hard M.E. wise and I've been more lethargic and sore than usual. Well, it's probably not all down to that, I generally have been attempting to do more lately, but it played a role. It's affected my motivation and mood most days too and when I struggle to blog, keep up with emails and social media, I feel like a terrible person, failing at life and a very bad blogger!  Then the more I get annoyed with myself, the less I do, the less I do, the more I get annoyed, vicious cycle! The tidying and eBaying hasn't even been particularly immense (nor fruitful), but it's zapped my energy and increased the aches and pains. The good(ish) things have been shoe filled parcels aplenty! Though that in turn stresses me out (not just because I'm spending money like it grows on trees), but because I have the longest list of photos to take, blog posts to write etc etc for every new pair that comes in the door and there's been a lot!

12 Shoes Of Christmas - Day 12

Christmas Eve already and the 12th and final day of the Irregular Choice '12 Shoes Of Christmas' challenge.  It's just flown by.

Day 1048 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: R2D2 Irregular Choice Star Wars 

Hello lovelies, how are you all this week? We're in the midst of getting a new kitchen fitted, so we've been washing dishes in the conservatory, making 'meals' in my parents bedroom, using their en suite to fill the kettle and keeping a larder in the living room, fun times! There's been a bit of a mix-up with the sink not fitting the unit, so that's going to set things back a few days unfortunately, while we wait for a new one to arrive. It meant they finished early yesterday though and I could sneak off to re-shoot these photos as they hadn't worked too well last week. Not much better this time...I sound like a broken record, but I do hate the lack of natural light this time of year.  Even as I was taking them, light was fading, so I was working at record speed!

Day 1031 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Peach 'Take A Bow' Irregular Choice 

Another outfit post for you this week, rather than just shoes. I figured I may as well work my way down the very long to-do list! I wore this back in May when I had a dentist appointment, remember I had two outings in the same week, then fell sick and thus the blog break began! Speaking of, I'm really happy that I'm managing to blog regularly again, I'm still not up to speed (I will get back to reading your blogs very soon), but I'm coping-ish.

Day 1007 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: 'Dreamy' Santa heels Irregular Choice 

Something a little bit different today, an outfit post!  I know it's been too long.  I go to physio, maybe every 3 weeks or so now, so I know it's not as exciting as the old outfits, but I figured I might as well show you what I wear.

Day 997 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Black velvet 'Antonella' Irregular Choice 

How are you all this week?  You've already seen these shoes in brown with an orange deer and here are the black pair.  I loved them so much, I just had to get both colours.

Day 989 - Shoesday Tuesday

Shoes: Brown velvet 'Antonella' Irregular Choice

Sorry for the lack of posts in the past week, I've just been so tired and lost all motivation, but I'm feeling more focused this week (albeit still pooped).

Day 977 - I'm Slicker Than An Oil Spill

Shoes: Black spot 'Chuckles' Irregular Choice 

Yesterday I had a trip to the opticians. I've been struggling for the past 4 months to make an appointment, between the buses not stopping near there now and a million other things. However, my eyesight isn't any better or worse since last time, so it wasn't urgent. I managed to resist some new frames which sorely disappointed the lovely lady that works there-as she loves spending an hour or more (no joke) with me picking out fancy glasses! I did spy a lovely purple pair with leopard print legs and quite a sharp shape on the way out that I really would've loved but I already have two pairs that work fine for me and can't afford an unnecessary splurge like that just now. It was quite funny because the optician was like "sooo are these the Prada you're wearing today?", I sheepishly said "erm, no, these are the other pair I got. The cheap pair. I actually prefer them." He was a little perplexed that the plain black £30 frames are my favourites! The thing is I'm pretty blind (have worn glasses since age 5), but I never wear them outside. I just never have and it works for me because I can get by extremely well without them and don't want to become completely reliant on them. So obviously I felt I had to wear them outside yesterday, but I got as far as the bus stop opposite my house (literally a few steps) before I took them off because I couldn't see! Honestly it took me about 2 minutes to walk down three steps because I wasn't sure where they were!  I remember once forgetting to put my glasses on before going into the opticians and I'd walked up the shop floor, signed something at the desk and sat down and when the optician came out he said "I notice you seem to get by perfectly alright without them".  He'd been spying on me the entire time, oops!

Wearing:  Floral wiggle dress ASOS,  polka dot tights Primark, unicorn ring Miss Selfridge, turquoise ring my Granny's, pearl ring gift, flower ring Matalan, green Charming bag Love Moschino.    
Fit: Very small and tight fitting, so I sized up. 4 1/2" heel, velcro strap fastening.
Comfort: No issues with these.

Day 971 - My Baby's Coming Home For Christmas

Shoes: 'Dreamy' Santa heels Irregular Choice 

Another day, another Santa heeled outfit! This was Christmas day and for once I wasn't organised at all with what I was going to wear. At the last moment, I spied this gorgeous Coast dress which I bought a while ago having tried it on ("just to see if it fits"). Turns out I couldn't leave Debenhams without it! It was rather pricey (or at least more than I'd normally pay for a dress) and I've never really had the right occasion for it yet. I don't think you can properly see how pretty it is here, it's gorgeous in real life with a full skirt and net layered underneath.  So, I would normally pair it with bright pink shoes or something that blends, but my Mum insisted I wear my Santa heels to show my nephews (I got a grunt from them at most). They actually looked quite cute even though I wouldn't usually wear blue with black (you know how fussy I am with that). I was pretty shattered from the get-go on Christmas having overdone it a bit on Christmas Eve, so didn't enjoy it very much. It didn't feel much like Christmas either. We didn't stay too late at my sisters, but I still felt like hell yesterday. In agony all over and completely exhausted. So much so that I contemplated being sick at 2am this morning when I couldn't sleep for the gale outside, but thankfully got a good sleep after that, hence the productive day today! I'm glad Santa let me have these shoes early, because I've certainly had my wear this year!  How was your Christmas?

Wearing: 'Kayleigh' floral dress Coast, blue fishnet tights House of Holland, stag ring Primark, stag (smaller) ring and hare ring (part of set) Topshop, green and blue bow vintage brooch my Granny's, blue jewelled hair clip gift, Christmas bracelets left in my stocking from Santa, green Charming bag Love Moschino.
Fit: Quite small fitting, so I opted for the size up. 4 1/2" heel.
Comfort: The lining of the shoes is a little scratchy after a long period, but no real issues with them.

Day 970 - Her Beauty In The Moonlight Overthrew You

Shoes: 'Dreamy' Santa heels Irregular Choice 

Hello my lovelies. I hadn't realised my previous Christmas message was actually my 1000th post, although we still have "Day 1000" to come! That was a nice sentiment to mark the occasion even if it did happen entirely by accident! Onto this outfit and this was Christmas Eve. What a day that was. We've been battling gales and I'm usually all for a little adverse weather action, but this time it was just plain scary. You could hear the wind building like a tornado in the sky (I'd imagine) and then blasting everything. It was whipping, the noise was incredible and you could feel the house move with every blast. All I can say is our half built extension must be made of strong stuff that it's not crumbled before now (along with our church which is currently covered in scaffolding-it took some guts walking under that)! I had two church services to attend (the evening Christingle and then the 'midnight' carol service later). I actually changed into my star/moon Henry Holland dress (seen here), leggings and gold Irregular Choice 'Spatz' boots (seen here) for that as it looked too cold and windy for this outfit (too dark for photos of that at 11pm I'm afraid)! For day, I ended up not wearing these earrings for fear of taking off with the wind and they're a little bit too expensive to lose.  I changed into my Mawi green jewelled ones instead (seen here) which are much more weighty and I took my ASOS green book clutch (seen here) which I forgot to photograph.  I'm a bit undecided with these earrings...they are massive (as they are supposed to be), I'm not sure if they feel too 'novelty' for me.  I'm not sure my neck is long enough for them!

Wearing: Floral wiggle dress ASOS, gold star tights and green marabou clip earrings House Of Holland.  
Fit: Quite small fitting, so I opted for the size up. 4 1/2" heel.
Comfort: The lining of the shoes is a little scratchy after a long period, but no real issues with them.

Day 968 - You Can't Fight The Tears That Ain't Coming

Shoes: 'Dreamy' Santa heels Irregular Choice 

Wednesday I had a check-up at the dentist. They always love my shoes there, so I just knew I had to wear my Santa heels. That meant wearing them two days running, which I'd usually try and avoid, but I couldn't exactly wear Christmas shoes for my next appointment in 6 months could I? As it turns out, I have to go back and she (annoyingly) fitted me in right before Christmas (Monday), so I could've saved my Dreamy heels until then! I was mighty flustered this day because my hair wasn't sitting right and I didn't have much time to get ready. Then the waiting room was packed and we had to wait 20 minutes, so I was getting very irritated.  It was one of those days where everyone was annoying me!  Anyway moan over, it's very difficult to photograph the back of your own feet showing off these heels (if you didn't already guess).  I wanted a completely different angle from yesterday though.  

Wearing: Heart 'Betty' dress Swan by Clements Ribeiro, polka dot tights Evans, patent belt taken from another dress, hairband Limited Edition at Primark.
Fit: Quite small fitting, so I opted for the size up. 4 1/2" heel.
Comfort: The lining of the shoes is a little scratchy after a long period, but no real issues with them.

Day 967 - Every December Your Star Lights The Sky

Shoes: 'Dreamy' Santa heels Irregular Choice 

It's surprising how quickly you can get out of a routine. My posts here have been somewhat irregular and it's down to too much going on around me. With builders in and out, constant deliveries and people popping in, I just can't concentrate to write a proper post and edit photos. Plus, like I say, I haven't been out all that much either, so there's been nothing to post! On Tuesday my friend and her little boy came through and we went out for tea and cake and swapped Christmas gifts and cards. It was nice to get properly dressed, even if it was a quick outing. It wasn't entirely relaxing (not why we left), as the place we went to was very busy and noise is really irritating for me when I'm used to being in the quiet (ish). Then the waitress dropped and smashed several plates right behind me onto the tiled floor. I was actually glad to get home for some peace although I did feel like I got all dressed up for nothing. Nobody besides my friend, even noticed my Santa heels! I guess locally they are all accustomed to my silly outfits, so it's when I go further afield that I get a big reaction!

Wearing: 'Grace' lace dress Swan by Clements Ribeiro, leopard fishnet tights House of Holland, cardigan Red Herring at Debenhams, green clip-on earrings Mawi, Once Upon A Time book clutch and elephant belt ASOS, mermaid and seahorse rings bought locally, midi ring (part of set) Miss Selfridge, other ring my Grannys.
Fit: Quite small fitting, so I opted for the size up. 4 1/2" heel.
Comfort: The lining of the shoes is a little scratchy after a long period, but no real issues with them.