Trouble with a captial T!

I need to make my budget last..

RIGHT???

HEEEELLLPPP MEEEEE!

I have a monthly shoe budget of $100 smack-a-roos

Sometimes I might go over by like twenty, but I try to stay true to it. Unless I do more clothes shopping. Which spoiled me, is another budget.

(sidenote: I gave myself these limits)

But this month just barely started, I got a pair from shoedazzle already. So I have $60 left and I want these shoes..

Sooo how about these STEVE MADDEN'S ? OH HELP ME. I adore them, I can not find them on 6.pm or anywhere else yet. But $129??? Way over my monthly budget.. Eeek. Plus that is on sale. The only downside to them is the 5 inch heel, I dont mind a good heel and I love being almost 5"10 flat foot..but sometimes...I just do not want to be towering over my man. Jeez though, look at the detail.

Okay and then what about these??

Two Lips, @$79 on sale they are not bad, if I do not want anything else all month. The wacky heel is really neat and I would be so excited to own them. But not sure if it is worth my whole shoe budget. You???


Oh and how AMAZINGLY SEXY AND UNQUIE are these, Colin Stuarts. They are on sale for $49. Wow, just meeeeeooow. Maybe can get these and another pair of Colin's. sigh. But I don't just want those.


These Colin Stuarts are waaay affordable at $29.99, So I might get one pair for sure this month. But what I really want?? The orange, black and brown ones.=) See my problem!

Lastly, are these quaint flower detailed Miss Sixty's
@ $119 though, not sure. I prefer quainty with the power of the internet. I mean you can get your quailty, comfy, last forever, brand that you love shoes in multiple pairs. Not like back in the day where you couldn't..but I too believe in sometimes just splurrrge. Plus I do not have any Miss Sixty's.

(all above pairs are at vs.com, I won't even get into what I found on 6.pm and dsw.com)

So what would you do??

See I am thinking just get in trouble and go waaaaay over budget

or

Sit down and just change my budget??

hehehehhe

okay or just stick to the budget and be freaking happy that I can spend $100 on shoes a month anyways??

sigh.

I knew you would say the last one. I should do that, so for anyone who liked the links. Just go buy them yourselves. I can enjoy them through your posts.=(

Have a great weekend. For reals. Even if you just broke my heart for being senisble.

~Hugs~

Bridgette

BBQ's and SHOES

I am sooooooooooooooo gobbling up the cute flats that are everywhere this month. Even in the June issue of the US Cosmo they are going on about flats. Walmart and Old Navy have some adorable ones, and that pair of Steve Madden sandals( which would be my whole shoe budget for the month) are just begging to come home with me. Anyways, check out that page. Good deals!!

My last two grabs before the Month was over!

THESE Steve Madden, Suede Heels is what put me over my budget. But, well see, I am a bit of competitive gal and this other gal came in and the last day started trying to take these from me. While I had orginally said I would not pay over the um, 20 bucks I had left in my budget, well that did not happen, she started by just raising by a few dollars, then she put me into the 40's. Well lucky me, the time difference made the auction end in the early wee mornings over there. Soooo HAHAHAHA LOOOOOSER. I mean sorry for you loss, but I got them, I paid $47 bucks, but they retail at like $100 something.








Aren't they lovely? I can not wait to dance in them and have them swish.























So I got these nice Jessica Simpson flats, where is??? Shoe Metro via ebay. I paid with $16.79 not including shipping.

Hey y'all! I hope everyone had a good weekend. Especially those that really understand the meaning of the Memorial Day, the sub-culture that is this miltary life. Not saying others don't understand, but sometimes it is like that inside joke. You can laugh, but you don't full down in the belly laugh unless you are part of it. To me that is how miltary life is. You can try to understand the pain, craziness, tightness, up hill battle, all the while worth it struggle of your "normal" life, but unless you are inside it. You just don't get it. Which is fine.

But anyways, thank you to my hubby, who even though he is serving here overseas, and being on an international base does not get him most American Holiday's off. I thank him for his service, I thank those other dear soilders, that through him I have come to know and love. Thank you to those that have fallen in the past and those that will fall in the future. God Bless America.

Also, God Bless America and the food we can cook up.=) We had our bbq on Sunday at a friends house. Ooooh yummmy, let me tell you what too, I have eaten quite a bunch of different countries foods. BUT USA, is the top. Because we get all those different people, from all those diffferent countries coming to USA, then it gets flipped, added to and made better(only in my opinion) and WAHHHBAM. Yum-o. Plus I have fed Germans, Belgians, British, Italins and Romanians, they love the flavor we add to our dishes. Sigh. Anyways so we had our nice bbq in an overcast sky. The strong miltary, multi country service memebers, should say men aka boys, decided to use all the ice and water from the coolers and one by one soak each other. It was awesome.

Okay enough of that for now. Sorry I started to just ramble, if you even read this far. I made sure I put the new shoes I bought over the weekend at the top. I had to get my last May purchases in. I went over budget a lil bit, but, better than I did in April.=)

Here's to June, a new budget for shoes.....and the deals I can find. God Bless Shopping.

~Hugs~

Bridgette

Boyz and Heels??

I will not put the picture out, because my little brother might die if he ever found it online..well one day when he would care. But my 11yr brother Mason said...

" Why do you have so many shoes"?

Me " Because I loveeeee them"...

Mason " I don't see what the big deal is".......

AS HE THEN PUT THEM ON, actually a pair of Nine West heels I showed in this post.


Mason " Oh, wow....Bridgie, how do you wear these things"

He was trying to walk in them, I am laughing at his basketball shorts and shirt is combined with my floral printed heels.

Me " I am so taking a picture of this"..laughing and laughing....

Me" Put one foot in front of the other, don't try to walk super fast and DONT BREAK them"

Mason : wobble, wobble, giggling, walking, then almost falling:

Me : click(photo)

Mason : hurry and kicks off shoes: " Noooooo pictures"


I just had to put that out there for um...the world? Hahaha to see. I love my sibilings, have I mentioned how amazing these lil guys are??

Now If I ever get Jessica, the little sister trying the shoes on, I will go ahead and post some pics. But, alas, I can not do that to my bro.

Happy Memorial Day my fellow Americans

Thank you to my husband and all the other fellow soilders out there. Past, present and the ones to come.

I always say a quote I heard form a General " hate the war, but love the American warrior"

~ Hugs~
Bridgette

Gluttony is a sin....?

Hey y'all...so been way too long since I did much of anything besides just comment. Did you like the change I made to the page? I did, you know what I miss though? My playlist. For some reason I can not get it to work.






*note to self, try to get it to work and remember mitching and moaning about it and wanting to cuss out the website..IS NOT trying to fix it.



Okay on with some recent shoe purchases...































Above pair: Nine West, satin pumps via ebay for a big ole whopper of a price. $21 with shipping. Now as for those that might, I say might, be new here, I never buy used shoes on ebay. Nothing against it and I will buy other used stuff, but shoes to me, fall under the undergarment area...ONLY NEW. So that is even better of a price right?


























Above pair: One of my fav, Steve Madden
::sigh::

These come from one of my favorite sellers on ebay, shoemetro
with shipping just $35!!

Oh and guess what? These are my first gladiator sandals. I have some that are kinda like this style, but I just did not get into last summer, and I know that they are hot still, but I just always kinda like buying when things have run their course of being " it" or right before they do.

Above pair: Steve Madden, snake skin printed flats. This is also via ebay. But it is a seller I have never used before and one that has under 100. Which is the feedback rating, when a 100 people have bought from people, I usually feel pretty good. But I do not have snake print, I have several other animal print, but not snake. Plus for $17 bucks, can't beat it.

Well shoot, my laptop just told me 25% battery left...so gotta close this entry out. I have some pics of some purchases from Target.com to post, but another day perhaps.


I hope all you lovely bloggers are having a good kick-off to summer.

~Hugs~
Bridgette

40 and Fab? Or maybe needing some work?

I am refering to this being my 40th post and that my blogging needs some work. If you are in your 40's..based on some women I know in real life and on blogs...you do not need work. You are 40 and fab.=)

I will be coming up soon with some pictures of shoes I wore in Spain, actually one of them well be a full body pic. Eeeeekkk!! I have not done this well cause, I am currently in the battle to loose weight and do not enjoy my body and did not want the world to see me as a "big" girl. Atleast on the blog. How lame is that? I am me, for whatever that stands for. I am me. Soooo I figure if y'all love my shoes, I do not have to only show shoe posts, I mean not jumping into fashion blogging or anything, this is still feet obession over here. I also work at a teen center, so the clothing posts would get stagnt rather quickly. But if I slip in a full body post....oh well.

Deal with the curves!!

So I will get some pics up soon, for now off to work.

happy Monday

~Bridgette~

Loud and Proud

Just a post to show me wearing some of my new shoes. Been awhile since I actually posted me wearing some. Then I threw in an old pair of Uggs. I mean who didn't love these? I mean the trend made them typical, but I just put them away till it was not the "in" thing. Then volia, Europe is boot and Ugg look a like central. Sooo still try to not wear them, but when it is cold. They come out. Hope everyone had a good weekend. We are sad this St. Patty's Day, this time last year we were in Dublin, Ireland. But still will try to make it a good one. Since we are going to

host a Beerbbq, yes I call them that. Wonder why??=)

Old and True Ugg's. Not new by any means, but figured get them in the shot. Especially with the new article, about how since these are so flat, and soft. Your arch is getting flattened and your foot just slides around in them. Hmmmm...?? Dangerously Comfy is taking on a whole new meaning here.

These are a funky printed pair of Steve Madden's, my dog Jax wanted to get in on the shot.=)

Cheerful Betseyvilles. I love the lil cherry pin attacked to the bow. These make me smile.

These comfy and cute fall type flats are from Aldo's

A pair of Steve Madden Boots, that have patchwork of the different type of butterscotch type leather on them.

I have Sinned

So I follow this amazin lady called Sal, over at Already Pretty.

Yep click that link to go read her. She always has posts that get the readers to comment and has this spunky little personaility that seems to just flow from her outfit posts to her posts about random things. So she recently posted an entry called " Fashion Confessionals", I loved the idea and remember reading her first one last year.

But over 70 comments on hers and as I got to reading around 30 something, I thought, how does she read all of it? But she reads each comment and mine would probally just blend in. So I thought I am going to just quickly tell her I loved her idea and I wanted to post one myself. If she minds I will delete it.

So here I am, admitting to..my dirty, dark...fashion faux paux or annoying little habits.

Hoping that I can get some comments on back about YOUR dirty lil ones too..

Okay

Here goes nothing...

1. I will sit in the mirror and nick pick all my lil flaws, and the lil scars that my hubby says no one can see and hate it. Then I will turn around and search for any teeny tiny lil black head or zit. I have to pick it. I use q-tips to be gentle sometimes, BUT I HAVE TO. I mean it is a horrible thing. I need help.=)

2. I have to use about 20 q-tips a day, I clean my ears spotless, my deep innie belly button and ready for it...my nose. I refuse to stick a finger up there and yet I hate the feeling of anything in there, so after each shower, each day...nose cleaning. I know number 2 and you are already grossed out.

3. I like my expensive shoes cheap and never have paid full price for any pair I have bought.

4. I have numerous pairs of high heels I can not walk in, not because I can't because in Europe cobblestone is everywhere, I cant wear those spikey heels, but do I still buy them?

Damn straight

5. I have to shave my pits everyday, or else I feel weird. Even if I do not shower, I need a quick sponge bath in that area and a shave with a quick application of Deodorant.

6. I always am worried about my smell, do I stink? Smell too nice?

Sigh.

7. I buy belts and scarfs because I love the look on other ladies, but I do not know how to wear them right or should say I feel I dont, so they sit there. useless.

8. I love to buy new beauty products, who needs 4 different types of cuticle cream?

Um, apparently me, right along with 5 different types of dry heel lotions and cream. I need to stop.

9. I hate to pluck my eyebrows, I have gotten them waxed for the last 5yrs and even let friends pluck them. If they get too bad, I hide behind my glasses and quit wearing contacts. I sneeze constantly while doing it and feel I over pluck. So would rrather be a bit out of control that too thin.

10. On that note, I love to be pampered and have girly things, waxes, pedicures, manicures etc..but hate taking the time to do it to myself. I get lazy and stop half way.=(

Well sadly I could go on, but I will leave this at 10 for now. I best be off to go and get ready for work. You lovely ladies have a good day..and if you read this, never read my blog before...COMMENT, tell me I am not the only one with problems. hehehe

~Hugs~

Bridgette