For the Love of sensible shoes.

Ok, SO I will start with a slight history into my shoe choices over the last 10+ years. I liked shoes that weren't really shoes. We are talking Primark ballet pump type shoes, shoes that cost about £4 and made you feet cry. Need to walk for like 8 hours, I'd wear pumps, need to go out when its raining, oh pumps it is, oh its -2 outside, no worries I'll grab my pumps.

It is stupid but I didn't care. Last year I took the plunge and invested in a pair of Mary Jane doc Martins.... Finally cold wet feet had started to get to me a little bit. I won't lie I am having trouble getting along with them even a year later but that's another story. Last year however a couple of times I did start wearing my boots when it was very cold, one example would be as when we went to Longleat and I had on my pumps but within about 2 minutes I went back to the car and got my boots out of the boot... haha... boot.

The main reason I didn't like boots or sensible shoes was that DAMN confidence, or lack of it should I say getting in the way yet again. I always felt like boots or high closed in shoes made my legs look chunkier, that they didn't suit my shape. Because I always wore crap shoes the minute I put anything substantial on I feel like my legs are being suffocated and I am burning up. They felt clumpy and clumsy on my feet and that just made me feel bigger and chunkier. So my feet suffered because of those bloody ridiculous insecurities again.

I won't lie I am getting fed up of wet feet, or cold feet that actually hurt to walk on. I am worried that walking in shoes with NO support will cause damage to my body in the long run.

So I was strolling through town on my lunch break a few weeks ago and I spotted a pair of Clarks boots. They had wool lining that poked out the edges and I just fell in love with them. I did that thing where I walked passed and then quickly backtracked to have a look. They were quite pricey at £90 but Clarks had a 20% off voucher so they were only £72. I was going to post about them after Christmas as they are wrapped up under my Mum and Dads tree at the moment but I seem to have gone a little boot crazy recently ha!

I loved them and everyone said they looked lovely on. They fit very well and are so cosy and warm. I think when the weather gets bad these will be great to wear!

Matt and I then went to hyper Japan last weekend. I was going to blog about it but I didn't really end up taking any photos or anything. We did go up a little early and went to Spitalfield Market first and had a look around. I popped into Office as we have been desperately trying to find Matt some shoes as his are finished and I saw these little ankle boots.    

I fell in loved with them, with the black Friday sales they too had 20% off of them and made them £62. I fretted about them and in the end Matt told me to just get them. They are so gorgeous and they go so well with my dresses and skirts (as shown in my pictures above!) They didn't even need much wearing in. I thought these would be good for an in-between as the Clarks boots would probably be too warm to wear at the moment. They are real leather they are very comfortable. 

Anyhow I was very happy with my purchase and I thought that will do, but we popped to town yesterday and they had these beauties in Clarks half price for £35.. again real lather and so comfy. 

I was again fretting over them and while trying to sort my tights out Matt went and bought them for me. I have to say although similar in style they are quite different in colour. I think these will go with more than the tan ones. I am undecided if I should keep these ones or not but we shall see.

I am loving wearing boots and shoes though, they are comfy and warm and my feet are happy when I am out in them! I can't wait to wear them with nice dresses or long days out over Christmas! 

I think it is really worth spending a little extra on shoes, I feel like they are really important thing you have to wear every day. I also am beginning to notice when you so spend a little extra you get a pair of shoes you love, that will love you back and last for a long time!. 

I do however have a couple of pairs on my wishlist for the new year sales! 

I think these will be better for spring/summer but we shall see.! I am glad I finally have shoes that I can wear out now without worrying that they will get destroyed in the rain or there might be a chance I will loose a toe to frost bite! 

Now just over 2 weeks until I can get my hands on my super cosy ones!

Happy New Year one and all.

Ok so I am back at work. I haven’t updated in a while but I thought I would do my last post of 2012 as it is News Year’s Eve. I have no plans really, I am going to get a fairly early night with Matt tonight so we can get up early and go into London to go to the zoo and to Forbidden Planet. It should be great. We never really fancy doing anything NYE so we thought we would enjoy our day off together tomorrow as we are both at work today and I’m already tired and it’s only midday. I am starving hungry already bah. So we are planning on getting in and having a takeaway and curling up in bed. Then I will get ready fairly early tomorrow and venture into the London and go to the Zoo as the weather is meant to be nice. Sunny but cold and the best part NO BLOODY RAIN! Hurray.

I was so excited to have time off over Christmas, I ended up having Christmas Eve off so I had 9 days in a row off and it went so bloody quickly, I am not impressed. It was nice though even though it didn’t feel like Christmas at all. I guess all my life so far has involved me being in education over Christmas, so it was the first year that I didn’t break up for the Christmas holidays, instead I worked all the way up until the 21^st booo.

So anyway Saturday I cleaned ALL BLOODY DAY! And then went out for Chinese food with Matt and his Dad and that was lovely. Then Sunday was pub day with Gem and we exchanged gifts and Monday I went to see Laura for the afternoon.

And then of course it was Christmas day. I was up pretty early and unwrapped gifts at Matt’s and then unwrapped gifts at home.

I got some pretty cool stuff for Christmas.

UNICORN

Farsacpe Boxset

Star Trek Boxset

Rocketdog boots

Penguin hat and necklace

Benefit make up

Nail Varnish

Mustachio monster

Tiny Labbit

Panda Watch

Rocket Dog Boots

And lots of cool stuffs!

I also got a amazon gift cards and a Wallis one. I decided to invest in some black and white simple Vans and the weather at the moment isn't full on boot weather but it isn't dolly shoe weather either.

I wanted so Vans that were Lo Pro because I have a horrible habit of tripping up a lot on the ones with very thick soles and they feel a bit chunky on my feet! Anyway my friend has the plain black and white spot ones and I saw these and feel in LOVE!

They have stars on them and I LOVE things with star patterns, makes me very happeth!

I am really hoping they MIGHT come today as I ordered them on Friday but its doubtful with the bank holiday and that. But if they do I AM WEARING THEM TO THE ZOO TOMORROW. I might even be sneaking and see if i could get away with wearing them to work bwahah.  

After doing all the family mumbojumbo, I went out to Brighton with Matt on Thursday. We were worried with all this awful weather it would be a wash out but it turned out to be a lovely day. The sun even came out for us and it stayed dry! I went to the sales a couple of times last week but it was all a bit crappy. In Brighton however there was a fox necklace that was £27 down to £15 so I snapped that up.

It's such a cute little necklace I love it! and it's really bright vibrant colours so it stands out against my clothes which i like!

We had a LOVELY lunch too at our favorite pub and then went shopping and the Pier was open so we were happy and Matt won me an Omnom toy to go with my other one at home and I ACTUALLY managed to win him an android toy. I was very excited about winning it!

So I haven't managed to get any bargains really in the shops, but I did find my vans cheap and some Iron Fist sun glasses reduced from £25 to £6 BARGAIN and they are really cute too. I love the colours a lot!

So i get to finish at 4:30 today yaay! which is just over an hour away..... (I started writing this at midday and its taken me a while ahah)

Today has not been productive. But hey ho!

The weekend is long gone now.

It’s Monday again. OOOooooOoooh. Mondays are the worst. There’s that IMPENDING DOOM AHEAD of a whole 5 days until the weekend again. Ugh. Last week went by insanely fast. I like coming in and getting on with a bucket load of work. It makes the day zoooom by and it is interesting, but today I have very little to do.

I do however have Saturday to look forward to, as Matt has managed to get it off. HURRAh! I’m so excited to spend a day with him and we will be going up to London to Forbidden Planet for the Halo Mega Bloks day.

I got a really nice jacket at the week and some amazing nail polish.

I went shopping on Saturday to get some jumpers for work and instead got a jacket lol! It was way too busy and manic in Croydon on Saturday to think straight let alone shop! So I found this jacket/coat in H&M and I’m glad it fitted as the back of their coats are usually way too small for me. It was £35 and it has a real Sherlock Holmes feel to it to me anyway with the pattern! I only own massive coats or just hoodys and I thought it would be nice to have something a little smaller for when I got shopping or just to the pub and a MASSIVE HEAVY coat is necessary! 

I also tried some Model’s Own nail polish at my friends house when I went to my party last weekend and was so impressed by it I had to go and buy some! They didn't have the one I wanted, but I got a purple, baby blue ( which I plan on caking with glitter so it looks like snow and ice) and a disco ball one that looks like glittery confetti!

I’m going to go at lunch to boots and see if they have the other colour as they are 3 for 2 at the moment so for £10 I get three really really good nail polishes!  I’m not sure they will have that range as only the bigger store seem to have them but fingers crossed!

I have also wanted to show off the boots, skirt and scarf I got last week. 

The boots I super nice and were from Tesco and the Skirt has tiny black swallows on it and is a skater skirt style. The scarf is HUGE and is covered in moustaches and both of those are from New Look. 

I really enjoy the fact that I do have some money now and I can buy some bits and pieces that I like. I try not to go crazy with spending my money as I owe so much and I don’t know how long I will have this job for, but it’s nice being able to buy some new bits and pieces and not wonder if you will have enough money to eat in the week.!

So yeah got a few new bits! And the impending doom of the week ins ahead of me. But before I know it, it will be Saturday again and all will be good.

So goodbye for now.