Down the Pinterest Rabbit Hole

I've been neglecting the recent contributions of the Pinterest Friend, so let's take a look, shall we?

Blue. Polka dots. Ankle straps. Does the PF know me or what?

She was horrified enough by these until she found an entire board filled with them, and then she was even more traumatized. I'm sparing you the whole board because I don't want you to need therapy.

Um...it's a good way to use the doilies around your house...?

I love these in blue! I have them in coral!

See?

Speaking of coral, this is the perfect segue into the party where I got excited about wedges and went searching for more on Pinterest.

I want to like these. I like the colors and the straps, but they just aren't quite right.

Sigh. Love.

Love the color, love the straps, sad about the slingback.

I really like these, but I'm not sure I could pull them off. The fabric reminds me of an outfit I had in junior high. It was shorts, a tank top, and a jacket. My sister had one in different fabric. We were awesome and wore them for Easter.

Enough shoes for the night. I now have to be mean and make the puppies wake up and go outside.

More Birthday

I tried to post yesterday, but our internet was wonky and I couldn't do it.  I wanted to show you the awesome shoes my parents gave me for my birthday:

I opened these first and wore them on my birthday.  I've gotten a little addicted to this orangey coral color lately.

These were second and wow to the brightness!  Actually, these arrived on Thursday, addressed to the hubby (who was still in Mom's address book from Christmas).  She sent me a text to let me know the package was coming, but they arrived before I got the text and could tell the hubby, so he opened the box.  I think his exact words were, "why did we get weird ass shoes in the mail?"  He actually liked them once I put them on yesterday, so he is now forgiven for insulting the shoes.  Are they crazy?  Yep!   But they're also awesome.

I also didn't show you the calendar shoe from my birthday:

It's actually pretty fun.  Usually the weekend ones are some kind of crazy that I'm forced to look at for 2 days, but I was pleasantly surprised for my birthday.

Speaking of birthday (and I'm going to drag this out for as long as possible), SDK took me out for sushi yesterday to celebrate, and then we went and wandered around DSW for awhile.  Neither of us bought anything, but we enjoyed looking and trying on.

Tomorrow, gifts from the BFF!

November Orange

I realize that now that Halloween is over most of the world has moved straight on to Christmas.  But it's still Autumn, dammit, and we have Thanksgiving before we can move on to Christmas.  Not that anyone will listen to me.   I'm a fan of Fall, and a fan of Thanksgiving, so in honor of both, today I am bringing you the lovely Fall color of orange:

 

 

I'm sure someone can pull off orange dress shoes.  Maybe I am one of them, but I'm not sure what I would wear them with.  I do have 2 pairs of coral shoes, but these are definitely orange, especially the top pair.  Actually, come to think of it, I kind of like that bottom pair.  Maybe I could pull off orange shoes.

 

These boots are insane, but very Fall, don't you think?

 

 

Ooooh...I love these.  Again, not sure what I would wear orange and pink shoes with, but I really like the color combination.

 

Fall is fun, people.  Autumn leaves and pretty colors and turkeys and pilgrims and all kinds of good stuff.  Christmas will be here soon enough.

Holy Saturday

It's amazing how spending the day outside in the fresh air can make a person so tired.  And puppies.  The dogs are wiped out.  We decided to spend our Holy Saturday having a family adventure and took the dogs to Folsom Lake.  It was gorgeous, and we had a great time.  The humans enjoyed the beautiful weather while the puppies enjoyed all the new and interesting (i.e. disgusting) things to smell.

Tallulah was all about frolicking in the sand.

While Chalupah learned to fetch sticks from the water.

It was a good day and now we're all tired.  Puppies are snoozing, hubby is in bed, I'm about to go there myself.  Tonight's shoes don't really have a theme, exactly, they're just shoes I like that seem kind of springy.

 I wish I had these right now to wear for Easter tomorrow!

I love these, but it's the same complaint I always have about flip flops:  You can't see the pretty part!  And the pretty part just gets filthy.

 

The PF sent these to me.  If I can't have the top pair for tomorrow, then I definitely want these.  Actually, can I just have both?

 

These look kind of gray to me right now, but they are a really light, icy blue.  I love the detailing, if not the slingback.

 

I would like the coral and the turquoise, please.  Maybe one color on each foot.

Yes, yes, and yes.  Also ignoring that darn thing between the toes on the far right pair.

I'm not sure I would buy these, but they are so fun and bright.  I would definitely try them on.

For my green peeps!

Good night, all.  Tomorrow we celebrate the resurrection, so be sure to get a good night's sleep!

God's Work, Our Hands

Today was God's Work, Our Hands Sunday, the day we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the merger that created the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).  I won't bore you with a bunch of Lutheran history, but there were 2 groups of Lutheran churches that decided to merge into one national body.  I was in 7th grade at the time and didn't realize anything had even happened...  Anyway, as part of the celebration churches all across the country went out into their communities to do service projects as a way of sharing God's love with our neighbors.  We all got to wear these shirts:

 

Every picture I've seen shows the shirt as a different hue of yellow.  I'm not sure what it would actually be called.  Goldenrod, maybe?  They've got more orange in them then it looks like in these pictures.  So I wore my t-shirt for church as well as service projects, which meant I needed to find shoes to go with it (I wore flats for the actual service, I'm not entirely crazy).  It was no easy task.  I could have just gone with black, but where's the fun/challenge in that?

 

 

My first thought was gold.  They don't look too bad, here, but in reality they didn't go at all.

 

 

I didn't think these would be right, and I was correct in that assumption.  Totally wrong yellow.

 

 

Out of desperation I even tried coral.  You can imagine how that went.

 

 

Finally I pulled these out and surprisingly, we had a winner!  The yellow in the shoes is a fairly close match to the shirts, and from a distance I thought it looked pretty good.  I'm guessing no one else in the ELCA had quite such fabulous shoes...



 

 

 

 

My Poor Hairbrush

The handle snapped off my hairbrush about a week ago.  I continue to use it until I can get another one, but every morning I find myself singing The Hairbrush song from Veggie Tales Silly Songs with Larry:

It's a classic for a reason!  I've done one other Veggie Tales post, but it only had 2 pairs of shoes, so here are some more:

God DID make you special, and now you can have shoes to remind you!

I'm not a huge fan of crocs, but I like the little attachment thingy (I'm sure there's a name for it, but I have no idea what it is). 

Slippers!  But I don't know how I feel about shoving my foot into Larry's mouth.  Aren't I supposed to put my foot in my own mouth, or at least try to avoid that?

 

The PB needs these.  Potential Nana, can you get on that?

Then the PB can become a toddler and have these!

But I want these!  Hmmm...2 pairs of yellow high tops in 2 days.  What am I trying to say?

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014.

3 Things:

1. An amazingly lovely and helpful woman at the bank today who helped make a crappy and annoying situation better.  She was my hero and now I love her.
2. I wore my awesome coral shoes today.  The happy color helped cheer me up.
3. A hilarious conversation with our 16 year old intern who was fascinated by long distance calls.  It started when we were talking about toll-free numbers and he said, "wait, are there numbers that are toll...full?"  Party lines just about blew his mind.

Ladybugs

I need something to make me smile today.  2 years ago I posted Doodlebug shoes in honor of KAH's birthday.  Of course, it's his birthday again today, which makes me smile.  Although I can't believe he's 24.  He was born when I was 18, so for this year we're inverse ages.  I posted this picture on Facebook this morning:

This is from when I used to do daycare for him and his sister, and this is how I tend to think of him (although I DO realize he is a grown man with a job and a life, of whom I am incredibly proud).  I have a small obsession with small children in overalls, so dressed him in them as often as possible.  

So that's my doodlebug.  I already did a doodlebug post, though, and there weren't a lot of options, but doodlebug led me to ladybug, which makes me think of The Bean, which also makes me smile.  So today's post will be ladybug shoes, of which there are lots.

 

These are very sweet.  I might even wear them if they came in my size.

I would totally wear these in my size, but only if there was a small child (or several) who had matching pairs and we used them for puddle jumping!

 

So cute.  But dang those are some big eyes.

I'm thinking my mama could totally make these in a variety of sizes.

Ribbon laces!  You know I'm a sucker for ribbon laces.  In fact, I wore my coral canvas shoes with the ribbon laces just yesterday. 

I love all the colors on this.

See?  I should post more often as this one has given me several things to smile about.

So Very Many Shoes

I had a meeting at the church this morning at 8:30.  It was early on a Saturday, and my brain was less engaged for the getting dressed process.  I decided to wear a dress because it was comfortable and I didn't have to iron it.  Then there was the matter of shoes.  My flowered sandals would have gone nicely, and I have worn them before with this dress, but I wasn't in the mood to put up with the thing between my toes.  So I went with these:

 

 

I've had them forever, they are comfy, they are cute and casual.  They don't really go with the dress, though, I just chose them as the best option for my parameters today.  And therein lies the beauty and the annoyance of shoes:  There are just so darn many of them.  I kept thinking how cute a pair of coral, navy, turquoise, or green sandals would look with this dress.  I have none of those.  And truthfully, I don't really NEED any of them, either.  I'm not going to buy a pair of shoes for every possible outfit or color combination  Sometimes, though, I have an image in my head of the perfect shoe I want for an outfit, and it kind of sucks when that shoe isn't in my closet.  Now I just need a Star Trek replicator that will produce that shoe on demand.