Oxfords Obsession

Vintage Sandler of Boston shoes

Sometime last fall I decided I needed a pair of Oxford style shoes. They look so cute with short skirts and knee highs, or with cropped skinny pants!

Anyway, I searched for a while--every night on the computer and every thrift store I went to.

I finally found this pair on Etsy, and the price wasn't bad so I bought them and started waiting.

Time went by and my shoes never came...how sad was I, when I discovered that the Etsy shop where I bought the shoes was gone out of business!

Long story short, I opened a case (with Etsy and Paypal), got my money back and kinda forgot how badly I NEEDED the oxfords in the first place...

Few of months later, on my birthday, this mystery box arrives. And you know it, inside were my shoes!

I have no clue what happened, but it was a nice surprise!

Tried them on--perfect fit. Too bad the bottoms were about to fall off.

No big deal, some super glue and I wore them to my party night out!

Super glue doesn't last forever. Just one other time of wear to be exact.

Last night at work the other shoe started smiling at me--I didn't smile back. Lucky for me there was some more super glue there so I didn't have to hop to my car on one foot at the end of the night.

Tomorrow they will meet my shoe doctor and hopefully be saved.

Before super glue failure

New Old Dress Tie Dye Project

Today's project.

I dug out the fabric coloring pouch I bought like two years ago. Found the old, white dress I bought (for $2) about a year ago.

Planned for about an hour (and played some games while doing it...) how exactly to start, and then with some unexpected help from my dear husband decided to go for the tie dye look.

I took the dress and twisted it until it naturally kinda rolled in half, then used two hair elastics-as I didn't have one rubber band in the house-to keep it rolled together tight.

I prepared the coloring mix as told on the box. Then I just dumped the dress in, pushed it around with kitchen tongs and left it there for about 20 minutes.

I couldn't wait to see how it turned out so I probably didn't do great job rinsing it. But I'm going to have to wash it before first use anyway.

And here's the end result, hanging outside to dry!

The color I used was Royal Blue. Love it.

That Nordstrom(c)rack.

As an avid thrift store/vintage shopper it's been a while since I've been to the mall.
Thanks to a giftcard from a friend and half a day off there I was.

Not that I'm a stranger to these amazing shops (Nordstrom Rack, Off Saks Fifth etc.), I have spent countless of hours going through racks of clothing and boxes of shoes while numbers from the price tags fill my head...
Math was never my favorite subject in school, but when it comes down to figuring out what the sale price will be after my discount or counting how much I saved (original price $150, sale price $22.50-I saved whopping $127.5!) no problem!

What I really wanted to find, was a pair of white high-top Converse sneakers. But after spending half an hour looking through the shoe shelves, constantly reminding myself I DON'T need a pair of some other amazingineedtohavethesetheyraesocheap-heels, no such luck.

Instead I justified spending little over $30 on this little piece of plastic...only because it says Marc Jacobs on it. Well, and it's cute.

marc by marc jacobs coin purse

It's funny how my mind turns very cloudy as I look through more and more deeply discounted designer stuff. I feel like I can totally justify spending $100 on a designer shirt since the original price was $300! Or $250 on Prada heels, after all the price used to be $595...it's the hidden "c" of the Nordstrom(C)Rack!