Shopping: Chocolat Blu

So excited, darlings!!!

After months and months of looking at Rue La La and finding things I liked that were always either a) sold out or b) not available in my preferred size and/or color or c) way too frakking expensive, I finally managed to make a purchase!



I adore them. I hope they fit. Bring on summer!!!

Window shopping: the art of medicine

For ages now I have wanted to decorate my dining room with vintage public health posters (mostly VD but with TB and other stuff thrown in, too). Thus far the primary limiting factor has been that I don't have a dining room. Why do this in a dining room? I don't know, exactly. Your average person probably does not find venereal disease an appetizing topic. It pretty much comes down to process of elimination. The bedroom? Even more inappropriate. The kitchen? Usually not enough wall space to do what I'd really like to do. The bathroom? Ditto. The living room? Perhaps, but I've got a bit of a different idea for that. And so on.

The secondary limiting factor has been finding high-quality, large reproductions of them. I've had seriously varying degrees of success buying prints online, so I'm a bit hesitant. I don't have the funds right now to frame them anyway, so I'm going to hold off for a bit. But that doesn't mean I can't look and imagine!!!

Take a tour through the wonderful world of public health after the jump.

Window shopping: Hispanitas

So as I was walking past the shoe store, I noticed that they were having a weekend sale. I stopped in to see if the pair of Hispanitas shoes I'd been lusting after for the last few months were on sale. (The image above is sadly not of the ones I wanted, but I couldn't find a pic of them online after ages and ages of searching. They're fabulous, though, and I want them, too!)

The good news is that they were. The bad news is that they were still too expensive for me to buy.

More pics of gorgeous shoes that I want very badly, after the cut.