Saturday, March 20, 2010


This made my heart stop. I have a thing for hot air balloons. Isn't it lovely? hand stitched with lovely pages waiting for me to write in them. Tres sigh.

www.stitchedcards.com

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

SHOES

Okay, in case you didn't know I'm a bit of a shoe freak. I love all sorts of shoes from very high heels to flats to wedges to boots to sneakers. I have 6 pairs of converse and an untold amount of heels. My friends often lament they are not my shoe size because they'd like to borrow my shoes. On that count I'm rather glad that I'm a gigantic 9 and a half! Which is not nearly as gigantic as I thought it was cause it seems that lately the stores have been running low on my shoe size. NOT cool. Therefore I resort to online shopping. www.Zappos.com is the best online shoe source hands down. They have a HUGE variety of colors and everything from the really expensive to the more affordable. I haven't even gotten to the best part yet! FREE SHIPPING BOTH WAYS. You save SO much money that way and the packages always come in 2-3 days. LOVE it! Anyway lately I have been coveting these boots....
Which are like a thousand and something dollars. WAY out of my price range but OH so lovely. I want a pair of brown flat boots some kinda bad. Last night I found these.... A little more affordable, but I'm a struggling student so I'm gonna pray they go on sale. Speaking of sales, the reason why I found these beauties is because I was on the Steve Madden website buying these....
Which had finally gone on sale enough that I could justify it to myself. yay! I am a tad regretful I didn't get them in black, it would have been more practical but oh well! They're so pretty! And while I was at it I bought these for only 20 bucks at Target!


I love target. These look better in person. Although the pair I really wanted was these....


a bit too pricey though.

Anyway, what kind of shoes are you wearing (or lusting after) this spring?

sincerely,
Lauren

Monday, March 15, 2010

Slacker

There are no other words for what I've become. It all started when I went to the Library. For some reason whenever I have books, I lose absolutely all interest in anything Internet. I bury myself between their comforting pages and pretend I am far away in some imaginary world in which I will never have to return. Lovely is it not? And here I am with a brand new blog and already I take a 2 week break. shameless.


I'm blaming the books. Books are a wonderful thing. I used to hate to read when I was really young but then my Mother gave me Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children, and Harry Potter, and Sweet Valley High... and I was simply lost. There were millions of other worlds out there just waiting to be discovered. I could pretend that everything in life was perfect with a book. I could ignore things that I HAD to do with a book. Like Homework, or cleaning my room. ech. And so my love affair has continued on although I read older books now. How many times have I been lost in the pages of Pride and Prejudice? Or East of Eden? I will confess that I still read Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia. Somethings you never quite grow out of. I also read romance novels. Now, don't judge. But sometimes you need a book that doesn't require you to think. All it asks of you is to curl up and become lost in its words and pages. The plot lines are often predictable but there is simply something in every woman that yearns for a happy ending, and in that with those books I am always satisfied.



Certain books will always haunt you for one reason or another, Kissing Doorknobs, Stepping on the Cracks, The Bridge to Terebithia are a few from my childhood that I've not forgotten. And sometimes I'll be daydreaming and a place, a scene from a book will come to my mind and I'll smile like I'm welcoming an old friend. I don't always remember where it comes from, what book it goes too, but it makes me happy to remember.



So I suppose in conclusion that I encourage you to read. Not just blogs. But a book, a good long book in a cozy chair, under a blanket with rain beating at your window and hot cocoa in your hand. Lose yourself in someone else's imagination and don't come up for air until you have to.



sincerely,
Lauren