I may or may not spend hours upon hours looking at pictures and videos of baby animals, especially kittens. And I just might have an entire Pin-board dedicated to baby animals.... I'm obsessed. Enjoy.
BABY BUNNIES IN SWEATERS. WHAT?
Kitten friends.
And then there's this little munckin...
Are you crying yet because it's just so cute. I am. You're welcome.
Unlike myself, Nick is not a huge sweet-tooth. He doesn't really like cake (I know, right??? What is that?) and pie is more up his alley. However, there is one type of cake that he does love quite a bit..... cheesecake.
Since it's finally fall and it is more appropriate to be baking pumpkin goodies now (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist making that cake!), I decided I would make the pumpkin cheesecake he has been requesting. I would have done it sooner, but I still didn't have a spring-form pan. Seriously, what kind of baker am I that I just now got a spring-form pan? Anywho, I used Paula Deen's recipe for pumpkin cheesecake that we made while I was visiting him in Texas over Thanksgiving. We were looking a recipe up and chose Paula Deen because, well, everything she makes is delicious and über fattening, duh.
And it is good. It was ready right when Nick got home from work the other night so I didn't really take the time to take any pictures of the finished product before we tore into it. I did take this picture this morning, however, to give you an idea of how good it is:
Yeah, that is more than half a cheesecake. Gone. I made this cheesecake Monday evening. It is now Thursday morning. Buncha fatties ova here!!! I finally got around to making homemade whipped cream last night with the rest of the heavy whipping cream I had in the fridge from a previous recipe, but now we have a little too much considering how much of the cheesecake is left... oh well, just an excuse to make another treat, right? (I had to bake this pie, I needed to use my whipped cream!)
I think once this cake is gone, I've gotta stop for a bit... except we have friends coming next week, and I need to make some kind of fall goodies! But at least then Nick and I won't be the only ones eating said goodies ;) OK, time for a run now...
One more thing. If you want the recipe for homemade whipped cream it is probably the easiest thing you'll ever make. Ever. Just grab a pint of heavy whipping cream, put it in a bowl (if the bowl is chilled it will go faster), add a teaspoon of vanilla, and a few Tablespoons of powdered sugar. I just guessed and tasted it to my preferred sweetness. All that's left is turning on your mixer or hand-mixer to high and whipping it til it starts to get clumpy! Voila! A bowl of fattiness to put on ice cream, cake, pie, cheesecake, hot chocolate, your coffee, maybe a sandwich for lunch.... haha just kidding. But it's that good and homemade you'll want any excuse to use it. Just warning you.
Yeah, this is one of those boring, no-pictures, emotional dump kind of posts. Sorry about that. However, you have been warned, so if you continue reading, it's your own fault... :)
The past few days have been.... interesting. I blame it on being a girl mostly, and we all know what that means, but I can't help but feel like something else is going on. Basically this whole funk started on Friday when my sister was texting me about how she and our mom were talking about what to do over Christmas and then they realized how Nick and I wouldn't be there.
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Side note: Nick and I have already decided that going home for Christmas would be too much of a hassle. Of course we want to see family, but we realize that taking a week off of work would cost us a lot of money that we could use towards our wedding and Nick's grad-school auditions. Plus, the fact that I work in retail means I pretty much need to be around til Christmas Eve and even after Christmas is busy. We are also going home in May to be around til the wedding in July, so we'll get a lot of time at home even if we aren't home for the holidays.
Back to my sister texting me. Like I said, Nick and I had already decided that we weren't going home and I had accepted this fact, but of course I decided to do something really smart and look online at plane tickets. I searched flights leaving the 23rd and the 24th and coming back around the 30th, and I found really decent prices.... woops!
So I get the thought in my mind that maybe we could make this work! And of course my mom offers to pay for one, so now Nick and I would only have to pay half of a ticket each. Easy! Doesn't Nick have PTO??? Yes! Except I find that he actually already used it for our trip in the summer.... dang. I'm a little put out.. and of course I have a melt-down that night. I really haven't been home sick since we came back from our trip in July, and I really still feel fine, but I'm hating this whole idea of being far away from family. Growing up kinda sucks sometimes. I'm really fine with being far away for the most part, but that's also because for the past few years I've had a trip home every few months with summers and Christmas breaks. Last Christmas was my last actual break. Now if I want to go home, it means getting time off of work and staying for a week instead of a month or more. I also just hate the fact that I have to miss Christmas with my family. I haven't been home for a Thanksgiving in a few years now, but I've always made it for Christmas. It's my absolute favorite time of year, and it's the one time our whole entire family, cousins and all, are together again. We all grew up together so we've always been pretty close, and I love seeing them and their now spouses. Family is so important, and no matter how crazy they can be, they're family.
So the rest of the weekend goes by, and now I just feel exhausted. I'm exhausted physically from working a double with both jobs on Saturday and then a full day on Sunday, trying to catch up on sleep from only getting 4 hours Friday night, so I don't think that helps anything, but I'm emotionally exhausted from thinking about missing my family and trying to figure out what's best. Honestly, I know what's best, but now it seems there's a way to make it work, and yes, Nick and I would both miss out on work (and money), but somehow that's worth it to me. I even offered to pay for the whole ticket for Nick and I, but Nick is still thinking it's not a good idea. Why do men have to have so much common sense? I mean, seriously? He tells me he doesn't care if I go home by myself, but there is no way in hell I'm leaving him here by himself for Christmas. I really could do Christmas with him anywhere, and I know we can have a great first Christmas together, but I just can't let this go. And once again, Nick had the entire weekend off while I work, and I have today off while he works tonight. I have a day off tomorrow from one place, but of course I'm scheduled at my other job, and so I won't see Nick til 9:30. The next 4 days we also work opposite work schedules, and it really sucks. It's times like these where I wish we had just moved home. I feel like things would have been a little easier. All of this gets a little overwhelming at times, and I'm so grateful for where we live and the jobs we have (I couldn't ask for a better job or better people to work with), and I really am OK with where we are in life at the moment, but for some reason, I'm wishing we could just say, "screw it" and go back to Oregon until we move for grad school.
Being in Oregon really may not make me that much happier, and I know that. If we lived in Oregon, we wouldn't be able to see all of our friends, and living in Decatur allows us that. This stage in life is so weird, though. We're both graduated and have the world at our feet, but it's hard not to feel a little stuck. We have plans of course, and getting married is one of the most important ones to me right now and I am focusing on that, but it's hard to know what's next, even though the not knowing thing is part of what I love so much. It's the feeling that anything is possible. If you know me, though, you know that I'm a worrier and can get anxiety about the tiniest thing, and not having control over something is a big one for me. This whole thing feels like that. I'm here and I can't change that, and I can't change the fact that I don't know where we'll be next year. Somehow I feel like if I knew where we would be next year (possibly closer to family if in San Francisco!) I would feel better about all of this not-going-home-for-Christmas stuff.
So there ya have it, my over-emotional self in all its glory. I'll feel better as the week goes on, but right now, I'm still a little out of sorts. Doesn't help that Nick had to go into work for a few hours. Thankfully, I have my pumpkin cheesecake setting in the fridge to look forward to, and it will be done in perfect time for him to be home :)
In honor of the first official day, I'm posting a Fall-color-inspired eye makeup look!
First, I prepped my eyelids with an eyelid primer. If you don't have one, your regular concealer will work the same way.
I then used a fluffy brush (mine is a MAC brush... seriously the best one!) to shade the crease of my eyes with a sparkly green olive color. All of my colors are from a special edition palette I bought a few years ago, but this one called "Sumptuous Olive" is very similar. You want to buff it in to the crease in a sort of windshield wiper motion back and forth as you go along the crease.
Next, take a tawny gold shadow and use a flat brush to pat it on to your eyelid. Mine is one of my favorite MAC colors, and they always carry it! It's called "Woodwinked" and it's a gold that looks good with any skin-tone. Just so you fellow blue- and blue-gray-eyed ladies know, gold will bring out the blue!
Take your same fluffy brush and go back over your crease, blending the two together.
Next you can take either a flat brush or your fluffy brush and blend a dark, almost reddish brown, into just the outer corner of your eyes. Don't forget to blend it with the rest of the colors, though! My color is "Embark". This color is also a standard MAC color, and is a good color to have in your makeup drawer along with "Woodwinked". They are basics that you can use a lot!
After your lids are blended, line eyes with a deep brown eyeliner. Mine is from Mary Kay. This specific eyeliner is soft and easy to blend or smudge, and you never have to sharpen it either!
I finished off my eyes with two coats of the plumping wand of MAC's "Haute and Naughty Lash", a great 2-in-1 mascara, with two different wands: one for lengthening lashes and one for volumizing lashes!
I hope you like the look, now go forth and play with some makeup today! :)
Can we just talk about how obsessed I am with these new jeggings???? Because I am seriously obsessed. Can you tell by the look on my face? Yeah, I look pretty overyjoyed. These jeggings are one of the new arrivals that debut today at The Limited! They also come in a fab silver sheen as well, but this black-based, chocolatey copper won my heart. It looks great paired with black OR brown and especially great with all of the rich Fall colors out now :) I wore this jacket with it to work since we have to wear a suiting jacket with jeans (part of our style code) but thought this cardigan (my other obsession.. I wear it all the time) would pair nicely with the jeans. I wore the shimmer shirt because, well, sparkle and shimmer are the best things. I bought the necklace at work yesterday to finish off my outfit... yeah, that's the problem with working there: if you're not happy with your outfit, you just buy something. Woops!
Shop the rest of the new arrivals on The Limited's site. The main part of the collection is Outback Red's Cambridge inspired wool minis and collegiate jackets. So so cute! We also have fun new tights out and great chunky sweaters. Enjoy taking 40% off all jackets, pants, and skirts as part of the suiting event! :)
Obviously there are still things I need to add. We haven't registered yet, nor have we figured out what time our ceremony is going to be, but I will be updating as regularly as possible and as more plans are finalized!
Yesterday, I finally went hunting for a few more little Fall decorations. I found some cute things and could honestly go crazy and overboard and buy a whole bunch of crap but then I don't really know where I would store it later. Also, I think Nick would be like, "What in the world are you doing?" haha.
Anywho, here's what I found!
Pumpkin candle holder.
Glitter pumpkins from Target.
Little tea light lantern.
Mini cornucopia!
Candy dish.
Annnnnd my favorite find.....
My little owl friend! He was my $4 find from TJ Maxx, and I love it because he will stay out all year, not just for the Fall :)
[Shirt, necklace, and ring: The Limited // Skirt and earrings: Target // Heels: Steve Madden // Bag: Kate Spade // Revlon's "Wine With Everything"]
I hadn't posted an outfit pic in awhile so.... there ya go!
I don't have much for you today, just the fact that I'm an old person and passed out at 10 last night and that I'm so happy I got to sleep with our windows open again last night! It feels deliciously fall-like outside right now :)
There is something to be said about classic looks. My personal style has always been very classic, with a little bit of an edge thrown in every once in awhile to mix it up. I gravitate towards timeless pieces that I know will stand the test of time. I love trends, but nothing can ever replace your trench coat, or those perfect, tall leather riding boots, or those pearl earrings. Those things, even if they may get switched out for the next big thing from time to time, will be around forever.
That being said, I'm so happy that this Fall's make-up trends actually include classics. Red lips and a winged cat-eye. The "new" red is either an orangey-red for a bright pop against dark Fall colors, or, like my version, a delicious wine red, much like the burgundy/wine color trend for clothing. The color I am wearing is Revlon's "Wine With Everything", and is more of a cranberry colored wine that matches my skin tone better. Of course, you could do any range if you want. Next on my list is an even darker, more rich bordeaux-like wine color for major impact in the evening. Or hey, why not for day?
The cat-eye is also a favorite of mine. It gives you that instant eye-lift and also adds a little sass to your look, I think. You can use a gel-based eyeliner (I love MAC's fluid line in "Blitz and Glitz" and "Blacktrack") or a liquid version, like the one I used from Forever 21. There are also marker-tips that really help with precision. I started with a base of pencil liner to help me with my liquid line and also to help the liquid stay put a little better.
Both of these make-up looks have been around for quite some time, and there's a reason they have staying power. A red lip can be so alluring and sexy, and the same goes for the cat-eye. It's as if you wear these looks and become someone else for a day! They are so fun and both very easy ways to try some trends without breaking the bank. Even more cost-effective is the fact that, with either, look, you don't need much else on your face! If you're doing one or the other, keep the focus on that feature. If you're doing a cat-eye, use a pale, shimmery shadow to really brighten, or go all-out with a smokey eye or a wash of one bright or rich color, keeping everything else on your face more neutral (a light pink cheek and lip stain). If you're doing just the lips, maybe try the more bolder, darker hue of wine and, again, keep everything else simple. Just some smudged black eyeliner and a couple coats of mascara will do the trick. If you want to do eye-shadow, do something that's maybe one shade darker than your skin tone in a shimmery or satiny finish, just to brighten the eyes a bit.
I paired them both together, so I kept everything else very simple and pared down since these are both bolder looks. Nothing but concealer, a pink flush on the cheeks, a little highlight on my brow bones, and filled-in eyebrows to frame my face. Keep the look from being too retro with updated accessories, clothing, and hairstyle. You can't see the rest of my outfit, but I was just wearing skinny jeans, a simple tee, a long burgundy cardigan, and leopard flats.
So go forth and have fun with this look! It's perfect for day OR night, so try it tomorrow for work or this weekend for a night out!
Seriously. This cake gives my other favorite, Italian cream cake, a run for its money! I found this recipe for chocolate pumpkin cake with salted buttercream frosting and a chocolate glaze on Pinterest, and it did not disappoint. I didn't make the little decorative pumpkins obviously, but next time, I plan on it! The recipe was a little involved just because there was the cake, the buttercream, the caramel sauce to mix in to the frosting, AND the chocolate glaze, but it's totally worth it. The cream cheese buttercream is the same recipe I always use for other cakes I make, but I hadn't really made caramel sauce before. It really doesn't take many ingredients, but it took a little longer for my sugar to melt into my corn syrup and for it all to melt together than the recipe says, so don't worry if that happens to you! I think what would have helped me is if I had put the corn syrup in the pan first, then the sugar on top instead of the other way around.
Basically, the result is a super moist cake and an amazing combination of flavors with the salted caramel frosting and rich, semi-sweet chocolate glaze on top. Nick isn't a big cake person, but he thought this was delicious! I like to think it's also because I made it :)
Today is a strange day. I don't mean this day as in Tuesday, but this day as in September 11th.
I feel a little ashamed, but I almost forgot until I saw the statuses posted on Facebook. Never forget. I remember. Etcetera.
Of course, I don't actually forget that 9/11 in general happened, but as a native of Oregon and thus, the West Coast, I felt very far removed from it all. Of course I remember what happened that day. How my dad came home from dropping my sister off at the high school and immediately turned on the television, and I watched in awe as a building I hadn't even known about until that day was burning, and they kept replaying the first plane fly into the tower. I remember waiting at the bus stop with my fellow 7th grade friends, discussing what was going on, even though we couldn't quite comprehend. "My parents said it could be the start of World War III," said one of my friends. It hit me a little more then.
All day long we watched footage on the news and all of our teachers tried to make sense of it with us. It took a few years for me to realize the magnitude of that infamous event, and each year, I find myself still trying to understand it.
I am from the West Coast and I don't have any close friends or family who have been in Iraq since the war began, and at the time, I knew absolutely no one from the East Coast. Since I've been in college and moved around and traveled a bit more, I have met people who are from the East Coast, and New York specifically. I have become friends with people who's family members have been to Iraq. Obviously it isn't the same for me as it is for them, because it hits closer to home for them, but I now can see the affects through their eyes, and in turn, I feel as if I have a little more understanding.
But who will ever be able to understand it, really? How can we wrap our minds around such hate? How can we wrap our minds around how terrible that day really was? I think part of why I never felt really affected is because the whole thing seemed surreal. Kind of like, "Wait, did that really happen? Seriously? Is this some kind of sick joke?"
Of course it happened, and that is what sucks. The fact is, the US has ticked off some people, and other countries have ticked us off as well. No country deserves to go through what we went through, but hasn't our country put people through the same kind of thing? I mean, remember when we bombed Japan? Yikes. I'm not saying anyone is more to blame than the other, because we could go in circles with that, but I'm merely commenting on the fact that there is a lot of terrible shit that happens in the world, and I wish there wasn't. Call me an idealist, because I am, but I really think the world just needs more love. I'm not stupid, and I know that a perfect world will never exist because that would be boring, but if people just took a little more time out of each day to think about their actions and words and to put others first, things could be a whole lot better. It starts small, in the one kind word you say to someone, and it can grow and spread to so many others and really change things.
But as I said, a perfect world won't exist, and we need things to rock our life as we know it and to make us realize what really matters. Don't just think about those things on days like today, when we were affected. We should remember the days that we did some pretty crappy things as a country to others, because, I hate to break it to you but, we've done a lot. So every day, think about 9/11 and what that means if you need to, but think about the suffering that other parts of the world have gone through. I'm not trying to downplay the hurt from this day or disrespect it, because this day and all of the families hurting from the loss of loved ones who were and are fighting to protect our country definitely deserve a hell of a lot of respect, but we shouldn't focus on ourselves the whole time.
And hey, I know I especially need to work on that, but if we make the conscious decision to think this way, things really could get better. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one....
This song, "African Benediction", takes words from the prayer of St. Francis. I sang it in University Choir last year for the 10th Anniversary. It was the same song they sang when they were called on to sing something at the candlelight vigil that Millikin held 11 years ago today. This song is beautiful, and if I pray one prayer for the rest of my life, it would be this one.
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury,pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen
[Fall nails: Essie's "Skirting the Issue" and "Penny Talk"]
[Jessica Simpson flats on sale at Von Maur]
[New Fall garland]
The onset of some chilly weather this weekend (finally!) made me a pretty happy camper. I was able to wear boots and a cozy cardi during my errands on Saturday, and we actually turned our air off and opened up our windows. Seriously, the best thing ever. I'm sure it will get a little warmer again this week, but I took advantage of this weather by lighting my new delicious candles, starting to decorate (more will come later, of course), and baking my first Fall goodie! It's from Pinterest, and I am finishing it up tonight. From the smell of my apartment yesterday, it's going to be pretty bomb! And yes, I will post it later :) Happy Monday!
Yesterday I went to Champaign to visit my friend/bridesmaid Michelle (as well as to try on the bridesmaid dress for her wedding) AND to see my lovely Big from Tri-Delta, Brynn.
This was seriously what I needed.
Let me tell you a little about this lady called Brynn.
She is one of those people that I will forever and always look up to and will never feel on quite the same level with, but in a good way. She is seriously like wonder-woman. I joined Tri-Delta as a junior, so there weren't a lot of girls my age or older that didn't already have Littles. Brynn was one of the seniors that stepped up to the plate and signed up to take on another one (I was one of a couple juniors in my pledge class). I knew who she was just from recruitment, because she was VPM at the time and ran the recruitment events and always greeted us at the front door and saw us on our way out. I thought she was pretty cool, but really didn't know her well. I remember getting her as my Big like it was yesterday.... they announced she was mine and she ran up to me and gave me a HUGE hug and I was welcomed with screams into the "Mafia Family" by her other little, Alyssa. The fam grew by two that night because Danica, another member of my pledge class, became Alyssa's Little. It didn't take long for me to realize that I was in the perfect family with the perfect girls and that I had the perfect Big for me. I realized how much Brynn and I had in common and how fun she was and how crazy our whole family could be together. We got along so well and still do, even though our family has grown! Brynn was a senior at the time, but I believe she was busier than most. She worked while going to school, kept up her serious relationship with her now husband, Chad, was involved heavily in Delta, and still managed to make me feel special and loved. If that's not enough, she started right into a fast-track grad school program a few weeks after graduating from Millikin, all while planning her wedding!
She is the sweetest person, and I think everyone can attest that she was and is always sincere when she talks to you and, even with everything going on with her, will still take the time to listen and talk with you if you need it. Seriously. She's awesome.
So I hadn't seen this wonderful lady since her wedding. Last June. Yikes! Thankfully, Brynn and I have an understanding that, no, we aren't going to talk every week or even every month, but we still care about each other and things will be the same no matter how much time has passed. That is exactly what happened last night. We all went out to dinner in downtown Champaign and got right down to business catching up with each other and updating one another with what's going on with our jobs, wedding planning for Michelle and I, and everything in between. We stopped by her new house to get a tour and to meet her dog, Cooper, and made a decision that, now that things are a little less crazy with everyone, this kind of evening is going to happen again, and much much sooner!! There really is nothing like good quality girl time, and I am so blessed to have the people I have in my life, especially the people like my Delta sisters. So many of them are the most hardworking, talented, and wonderful people ever, and both Brynn and Michelle are no exception. I love them both dearly!
Thanks, ladies, for a wonderful evening, and yes, this IS going to happen again soon! :)
[Revlon lipstick in "Wine With Everything" and Essie nail polish in "Skirting the Issue"]
and this:
[It's perfectly acceptable to eat this as my breakfast right? They just taste so good with coffee...]
I definitely went out with less than I wanted. The fall candy is out now, so you can imagine all of the other fall goodies and decorations (and Halloween jewelry!) that I had to resist. Don't get me wrong, I will be buying fall decorations, but I'm trying to be good and wait til pay-day. Good thing it's tomorrow. And I have time Saturday and Sunday to go back to Target (I have a feeling their dollar section is gonna be great and full of cheap fall wonders soon...) and then Hobby Lobby, the land of all things crafty and creative. So excited :)
It really just makes me so happy that everything fall is coming. Unfortunately, the weather here doesn't match quite yet (Pumpkin spice lattes don't taste the same when it's about 80 degrees out) but it was rainy all day yesterday and it's supposed to get cooler this weekend! My fingers are crossed that that continues.... I'm ready for my hot caramel apple ciders and boots and jeans and crisp fall air. My favorite time of year is so close to being officially here I can taste it!
In other news, Fashion's Night Out is tonight, and oh, how I wish I could be in the midst of it and Fall Fashion Week in New York right now!! This is why I'm pushing for Nick to get into school on the East Coast... there's just this little dream that I could somehow make it to a show or two at some point in life. Not to mention just be close enough to NY to go on a semi-regular basis. That city is amazing and there is so much left for me to explore! 3 days there was not enough.
In honor of fashion week and fashion's night out, check out The Limited's new collection The Luxe Look of Leather, which debuts today. Leather accents are huge right now, and The Limited came up with a few great pieces so you can be on trend and lookin' fierce whether you're at work or just out for a night :) My favorites are the coated black skinny jeans, the black lace tee with faux leather accent on the collar, and the black dress with faux leather shoulder detail and pockets! And right now with the suiting event, jackets, pants, and skirts are buy 1 get 1 FREE! Go forth and shop.
In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy this first day off in 7 days by relaxing, finally getting time to fold my laundry, and heading to Champaign to do a little shopping, try on a bridesmaid dress for Michelle's wedding, and have dinner with Michelle and my big, whom I haven't seen since last summer! You could say I'm excited :)
.... and the arrival of Fall can only mean one thing....
BOOTS.
Fall and boots (or booties) go hand in hand. They are the perfect complement to skinny jeans and chunky sweaters or tights/leggings and sweater dresses. What I love about a great pair of boots is that, if you invest just a little more of a pricier pair, they will last you forever and you'll wear them through season after season with the right care. Not only that, but they make any outfit look more put-together (Why yes, I did put so much thought into my leggings, boots and oversized sweater today....not).
It's finally the first day of September, and even though the weather is still warm and pushing 90 here in Central Illinois, I've started looking for my next pair of boots. I already have a few, but I'm missing a really great black tall boot and a cute, easy, low-heeled bootie. Naturally, I browsed my favorite site to look at shoes, nordstrom.com, and picked a few of my favorites. Enjoy the eye candy :)
Just for fun & fancies:
[Vera Wang "Royce" bootie]
[Jeffrey Campbell "Night-Tick" boot]
[Manolo Blahnik Gold Heel bootie]
[Ariat "La Hacienda" boot]
Everyday boots:
[Michael Kors "Fulton" Harness boot]
[Michael Kors "Fulton" rain boot]
[Vince Camuto "Beralta" boot]
[Vince Camuto "Bollo" Over-the-knee boot]
[Sam Edelman "Stevie" boot]
aaaaaand a pair that I am particularly obsessed with:
[Vince Camuto "Hariza" boot]
I mean, I think I need those glitter booties. I already have 4 pairs of tall boots, so I think they need to join the collection.... just saying. Who wants to give me $150 to buy them???
