Podcasts

I had really good intentions to post this weekend, but life had other plans.  Sunday's plans involved seeing a friend from seminary who I hadn't seen for a couple of years so thahappy t was awesome.  Sadly she is here because her mom is having health issues, so while I was very to see her, I'm not happy as to why she was available to visit.  Also, what is up with the last 2 Sundays involving visits with friends whose moms (in law) are so sick?  Again, prayers and good thoughts are appreciated.  At any rate, I was very happy to see my friend.  And then I went to the office.  To be fair, I dropped the hubby at the office at 8 am, came home to get ready, drove to Turlock to hang out, then drove back to the office, where I worked for 4 hours, so while I did work on Sunday, the hubby worked for 13 hours.  Because he is crazy.  But then I was too tired to post when we got home.

I was also too tired to post on Saturday after 11 hours at the office, but this time it was my own fault.  Why you ask?  Well, thank you for asking, I will tell you:  The business has developed a national podcast network.  We currently have 19 shows with almost 100 episodes published.  It's really cool.  The hubby does the MMA and Fantasy Football podcasts and he asked me to do a Book Review and Bible Study podcast.  So Saturday I did my first episodes of each and learned how to edit them.  It took me 8 hours to produce 1 1/2 hours of podcasts.  I'm really hoping I get better at editing so it doesn't take so dang long.  It was actually fun to do, as well as being slightly terrifying.  It's more terrifying now as they went live today so now people can listen to them.  I half want lots of people to listen and half want no one to listen.

At any rate, since both podcasts involve books, I clearly need shoes.  I've done book shoes before, and these shoes specifically:

These are by Charlotte Olympia, and I still think they are really cool.  But it turns out they come in multiple colors! 

 

Clearly I need as many colors as possible so I can wear them while I podcast about books!  AND there also...

 

Purses!  Book shoes and book clutches.  I'm in love.  I wonder if the hubby would let me buy these out of the office budget?

So, if you want to listen to either of the podcasts you can use the following links: Book Review, or  Bible Study.  Or, you can go here and check out all of our podcasts!

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014.

PS -  if you read this whole post thinking, "what the heck is a podcast?!"  I shall attempt to explain:  Podcasts are like radio shows.  In fact, many radio shows are also podcasts, like ESPN's Mike & Mike or NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.  Unlike radio shows, though, which air at a specific time, podcasts can be downloaded on a variety of devices and you can listen to them whenever you want and however many times you want.  I hope that helps.  The end.

Still No Tea Party

Dang.  May 24th is here again, bringing with it International Tiara Day, and just like last year I'm STILL not home having a tiara tea party with nieces.  I really need to reprioritize my life.  I guess I'll just give you more tiara shoes.  

These are really floofy, but I had to show them to you because they aren't pink!  It's not that I completely hate pink, but tiaras should not have to equal pink.  In fact, come to think of it, I rarely see Kate Middleton wear pink.

 

Whoa.  Speaking of floofy.  And pink.  But I actually kind of like them.  At least there are some added colors, and I like that they're tennies.  For the princess who wants to be floofy AND practical.

 

Also practical.  Not pink.  Maybe I'd like them better if the gold parts weren't bedazzled.
 

Ohhhhh...thank you Frozen for giving me blue tiara shoes.  I doubt they come in my size, but I would totally wear them to my next tea party if they did.

 

Yep.  This pretty much sums up my day.  Throw in some snuggles with an adorable baby and I would be one happy baby snuggling, tiara/new shoe wearing, cooking eating fool.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014. 2015.

Larger than Life

My cousin sent me these picture from Las Vegas this past week:

Look at her cute hubby and that fabulously crazy casino carpet!  And the giant shoe, of course.  How crazy is that?

 

No hubby or carpet in this picture, but the shoe is pretty fun.  I went looking for other shoes and came across this article about these 2 shoes and how popular they are as a photo op.

The rest of the pictures aren't in Vegas, but are still giant.  I like this one.  Very shiny!

A giant shoe with lights.  That's fun and also weird.

Dang.  No.  Looks like it also has lights?

These 2 scare me a little bit.

Thanks to the cousin for the pictures and the inspiration!  In California news, we're having lovely rain today.  It's a little muggy, but quite delightful.

Memory Lane:  2013. 2014. 2015.

Too Late

So, I've made a few changes to the blog.   Blogger had some new background options, so I thought I'd give the books a try.  I know, it's a blog about shoes, not books, so maybe this is weird, but I also love books.  Is it too weird?  I also added the the Follow button off to your right.  If you want to know when I've done a new post, you can click on the follow button, put in your email, and the blog will send the post right to you.  Or maybe I'm being presumptuous that you will want to follow.  Gaaaah, now my blog is weird AND presumptive!

Moving on to what is hopefully neither a weird nor presumptive post.  It's a post about fun ideas that come too late.  The other day a friend posted the following on Facebook:

Dang!  3+ years too late!  The Bean, Flower, and Laughter would have looked sooo cute wearing my shoes with their  flower girl dresses.  Somebody needs to get me a Tardis so I can go back in time and fix this.

A day or so after this was posted the Pinterest Friend sent me a link to this article which contains, among others, the following pictures as possible wedding shoe pictures:

I hate those shoes first off.  But the picture is kind of cute.  I doubt I would do one like it, but it's a fun suggestion.

 

I suppose I could actually do this picture now since I do still have the shoes and the rings.  Would it be weird to do it 3 years later?  Yes, probably.

 

I think this is adorable.  And I don't have to be sad about not doing it because I didn't wear tennies and neither did the hubby.  But I do wish I'd gotten a picture of our feet together.  As his shoes were rented, we can not recreate the opportunity.

 

Who climbs a tree in their wedding dress?  This is crazy.  And I also would totally do it if I thought I could get away with it without ripping my dress, getting it filthy, or falling out of the tree and breaking something.

 

Again...rented shoes.  BUT, I could always do it with some every day shoes.

This one is my favorite.  I really wish I'd gotten a picture with the bridesmaids and their shoes.  Sadness.

Dangnabbit, people, don't post stuff many years past the time when I need good ideas!  You're supposed to be my friends and help me out in the creativity department.  Please try to anticipate any possible shoe-related picture that might arise in the remainder of my life and send me those ideas in a timely fashion.  Thank you.

Potential

Tonight's post is brought to you by inspiration from the Pinterest Friend, although not from Pinterest this time.

The PF has recently started her own photography business and got these as part of a bunch of props.  How cute are these?   I told her that we would book a newborn shoot with her and these shoes for the Potential Baby.  You know...some day...maybe.

I'm not a huge fan of animal print, but I went in search of more giraffe print baby shoes.  I actually chose these for the bows because now that I'm looking at them again I'm not terribly fond of the pattern.

 

Look!  The same shoes with a black ribbon.  AND the same shoes from the first picture!  I try to find my excitement wherever I can...

These just crack me up.  So fancy!

Maybe the PB could actually be PT (Potential Twins), a boy and a girl and then they could have coordinating blue sparkly shoes.  I need therapy, don't I?

 

Or I could just get a whole bunch of colors of sparkly tennies.

These might actually be doll shoes, but I think they're adorable.

In conclusion (a conclusion that has nothing to do with the rest of the post), I would like to know why there is no chocolate in my house when I want to eat my feelings.  I do not approve of this chocolateness in the slightest.

Emotions

Have you seen the movie Inside Out? The hubby and I watched it tonight and it was really cute. It's also a really bad idea to watch a movie about complicated emotions when my emotions are overly complicated right now. Yep, I totally cried because I am pathetic. I shall move on by looking at shoes. 

Joy is all golden, but she has blue hair. I really need to find more joy in my life.

Anger is red and his head lights on fire when he gets really upset.

Sadness is blue of course. They really should have asked me to voice her. I could nail it right now.

Disgust is green and quite stylish.

Fear is purple and wears houndstooth. This is what came up when I typed in lavender houndstooth. It doesn't make sense, and yet is kind of perfect. 

All that crying made me tired, so I'm off to bed now. 

Disney Shoes

A Facebook friend sent me a link yesterday to some shoes by Instagram user grizandnorm. They are remained Disney shoes, and they are are really cool. I Googled the artists and found a whole bunch more of the shoes. I've included a few,  but here is the link to the Google search if you want to see more. 

How cool are these? Even the villains get awesome shoes! 

5th Day of Christmas

I've shown you all of the Christmas crochet I did this year, so I had to come up with something else to post about today.  You might remember that 2 years ago I did a 12 Days of Christmas series, so I've already done a 5 Gold Rings post, but I thought I'd use the same theme to do a slightly different post this year.  And so I give you Fiiiiiiive Goooooold Ring(holder)s...ba dum bum bum!

Very golden.  I don't know if it's the lighting or if it's actually a rose gold, but I like it.

That's a lot of gold sparkly thingies.  I have an ornament on the shoe tree that looks a lot like this.

This one is pretty.  The braid is a little tacky-looking, but overall I like the pattern and details.

Ooooh...jewels.  And if this was a real shoe it would totally kill my feet.

Rose gold sparkles?  I think this one is my favorite.

It's been a rough day.  You ever have one of those days (weeks?  months?  years?) where you feel like you're being punished for something?  It's been like that for us lately.  I don't believe that's the way things work, but some days I can definitely understand why people do.  Ugh.  Where's the fast forward button?