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yellow shoes
Monday, October 13th, 2008This one is from Topshop, and it’s £55.00.
The Target version, $19.99.
The Topshop one is leather, so it will breathe and age much better, and I’m really not sure how you can compare them value-wise.
I tried to post about the election, but it’s really hard to follow closely when your ears are full of sand. [...]
fantasy purchase of the day (& other news)
Monday, September 29th, 2008There must be a pop star somewhere in Britain who can afford this lovely Welsh blanket from Toast at £245, but I don’t know them. That’s about $500! For a blanket! Not saying it is objectively too much though, for a traditional ethnic craft item of immense beauty. If I was a wealthy superstar, [...]
I want this cushion
Thursday, September 11th, 2008These Union Jack cushions are getting very popular among the posh, or so you would think from rooms of the magazine-interior classes. The famous British flag, once much-maligned by the masses of its own country as a symbol of extreme right-wing skinhead violence and racist thug organisations, is now a worldwide popular emblem of whatever [...]
fashion update
Friday, July 25th, 20081. I haven’t yet blogged about the Badgley Mishka $1k + Oscar dress I picked up for $17.77 (approx), because it would need a photo, doesn’t look good hanging on a hanger and I haven’t taken one of me in it either, because although it sort of fits me, “sort of” in this case means [...]
Happy July 4th
Friday, July 4th, 2008I celebrated the day by getting a bunch of ball gowns from Neiman Marcus Last Call (original value about two and a half grand: $50 in the supersale) (although they are not all what you would call exactly at their best). No idea when I’ll be wearing them. Probably not to the farmer’s market. There’s [...]
headline of the day
Friday, June 13th, 2008Supermarkets slash food prices by millions: so no more worries for the poor British food shopper then! (Bread down from one pound fifty to minus 4,200,000 quid and 57p, etc).
Seriously, this is exactly the sort of British drama I love, and it’s making me wish I was over there trawling the aisles for bargains. Although [...]
morals of the shoes #2: buy what you like (that fits)
Friday, June 6th, 2008Nordstrom delivered these for free from a non-local shop, even though they were reduced in the summer sale. Bargain!
They are comfortable, but not as comfortable as my really tall hippy platform sandals from Payless Shoes 3 or 4 years ago (Payless has gone a long way downhill since then, unfortunately). I also got some [...]
make your own Toast-y necklaces
Friday, April 25th, 2008I love the current Toast collection, but don’t really have enough spare cash to buy anything from them. Luckily, most of their stuff will still suit me when I’m an old lady (by which time I plan to have more money), as what they do is beautiful classic colonial English style, so instead of buying [...]
vintage pocket calculator
Friday, March 14th, 2008Do you remember the first time you saw a pocket calculator?
I was about six or seven, and for some reason my Dad had borrowed one from another, presumably richer, person. Apparently, they could be got for under $100 in those days, although I don’t know how much that was in British pounds. I remember [...]
Now you can make your phone portable!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Sorry; it’s mine, and I don’t think they make these anymore.
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