Spring sandals!

With spring weather already being felt around the Bay Area, I am looking for
some comfortable, slightly dressy, but not too dressy low wedge sandals.

I noticed that Steve Madden has a lot of fun options. What do you all think?



Go with a simple brown leather option (Flipperr, Killian)?


Or maybe a slightly funkier metalic (Kailee, Jannis)?

Or go all out with a burst of bold color (Knitte, Flirtty)?

Steve Madden shoes can sometimes be uncomfortable or poorly made, so
I would definitely have to try these on in person before buying.



Reefs - for super casual days Classic Reefs are my favorite flip flops of all time!

No one believes me when I say that these are the most comfortable flip-flops
on the planet, not until they try them that is. I even had one friend to whom I
kept singing the praises of my reef sandals. She didn't believe me for the longest
time. Then, several years later she bought a pair randomly and started
recommending them to me and telling me how fabulous they were, forgetting
that I was the one that recommended them in the first place. I thought this was
quite hilarious.

Healthy eats

A few weeks back my brother and I decided to try our hand at
healthy cooking for a change. :) Our usual motto is more butter,
more better, but this dinner turned out rather well. We made:
Soy maple glazed salmon, edamame rice with sesame oil for
flavoring, and pan fried asparagus (yum! spring is here!).

Back!

So sorry for the long absence... I've been traveling and working and haven't had time to post, though I have been thinking up tons of things to write about. Hopefully I'll be able to get to lots of my ideas this weekend. And we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...


Here are a few pics from my travels. These were taken in and around Stony Brook, a quaint little town on Long Island where I'll be living starting in August. It's really rather suburban, but at least it's only an hour and a half on the train to New York City! So, my shopping shouldn't suffer too much. :)

Donna Karan's Closet

Donna Karan is Selling off personal items from her closet for charity
next week, March 14-15 at the Stephan Weiss Studio (711 Greenwich
Street). I'm actually going to be in New York next week. Maybe I'll be
able to swing by! Items are going to be priced between $20 and $2000
and proceeds will go to the Urban Zen Initiative.

White Elephant Loot

I got a bunch of fun stuff at the White elephant sale on Saturday
(basically the best rummage sale ever!). The sale was humongous!
There were people bumping into you and goods everywhere you
turned. It was actually quite hard to get into some of the more
popular areas like jewelry, but we prevailed. :)


These Salvatore Ferragamo wingtip flats were just too cute to resist.
They look practically brand new!


I love these vintage patent leather bags. It actually looks much better
in person and is made by Lewis.


I got this pretty Schiaparelli scarf from the nice lady manning the scarf
and handbag section. She had the most amazing vintage pink Vera Wang
scarf stamped all over with white elephants, perfect for the White
elephant sale.


I also got some long white cloth gloves.


From the jewelry section I picked up a few things, a hair clip (on
left with green accent), a Hobe necklace (top), some art-decoish
earings (right), and two of the cutest little vintage bow pins (bottom).
My plan is to stick these two pins onto a hair band for wearing.

All about heels

Recently I have noticed that heel modifications and embellishments have
been at the forefront of shoe design. I love all of the interesting and playful
ways designers have been able to turn the sensible heel into a work of art.
Here are just a few examples...



These Giuseppe Zanotti platform cutout wedges (left) created quite a buzz a few
months ago (I saw these in person in paris and they were really quite fabulous).
For a somewhat similar feel, but a much lower price tag, try these Steve Madden
Champyun's.


Cone heels have been on my wish list for awhile now. So far I haven't bought any,
mostly because I'm not sure how well I would be able to walk in such a narrow heel,
but these Chloe Horseshoe Slingbacks (left) sure do tempt me to give them a try.
The Nine West Drazlys (right) are a cute and affordable option.


These Prada flower heels are just plain gorgeous.


For a more extreme heel modification, Marc Jacobs has been creating some
wacky sideways heels (from March Jacobs Spring 2008 collection) where the
heel is actually detached and then reattached sideways to the ball of the foot.


Taking one more step toward the wild side, these shoes -- I'm not sure they can
really be classified as heels since they don't actually have a heel -- by Antonio
Beradi sure give you something to ponder.

Jovovich-Hawk for Target

The Jovovich-Hawk line for Target comes out on Sunday (March 2).
I'm definitely planning to check it out. You can see their vintage-feel,
bohemian influence in many of the pieces.



Cute items in black and white. I especially like the V-striped shirt on
the right.

I'm not sure about these pieces as they might not work so well
in person, but I have been looking for a big floppy hat lately and
the espadrilles work well with a lot of the fun, flirty dresses.