A Proposal & A Giveaway

My friends Martella & Joseph are getting married!!! Their engagement story is so beautiful and amazing that it has been chosen as one of the finalists for Allure Bridal’s “How Did He Propose?” Sweepstakes. In an effort to help them win their dream wedding, I am doing my own giveaway!

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photo courtesy of Martella & Joseph

To enter my giveaway, all you have to do is vote for the lovely couple. You can come back and vote daily (really every 24 hours) until March 15, 2013 to gain more entries. Read about their story here, vote for them here (they are the photo in bottom left corner), and follow the steps in the RaffleCopter widget below to enter my giveaway. For my giveaway, 3 winners will be drawn at random on March 16, 2013. I’ve chosen 3 prizes from some of my favorite stores. Prize #1 is a $25 gift card to DSW (to be emailed to the recipient), prize #2 is a “Shoe Survival” kit curated by me, it’ll be filled with some of my “absolutely-cannot-live-without” shoe products that help make my shoes more comfortable, durable, and all-around lovable. Prize #3 is your choice of 3 Zoya polishes (including their new line of PixieDust polishes!), which is my all-time favorite natural nail polish brand. Preeeety good prizes, eh? So get voting! And share share share!

♥ C

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Prabal Gurung for Target Inspired Nails

I missed you shoe lovers!  But I'm baaack!  And I plan to be up and running regularly again.  What have I been up to?  Well, for one I have been collecting nail polish like nobody's business!  Luckily that came in real handy for the Prabal Gurung for Target launch.  I just LOVE the prints from the collection.  I love them so much that I painted my nails as a homage to the floral crush print and the nolita print.  Check it out!

How many colors did I use?  If you guessed 12 then you're right!  I have a huge arsenal of Julep and Zoya polishes, so I picked from my collection.  These are the colors I used:  Julep colors are Eva, Leah, Claire, and Alicia, and Zoya colors are Jancyn, Raven, Purity, Carly, Tart, America, Mitzi, and Pippa.

To start, I painted my nails white. For the nolita print, I used a thin long brush and just layered on stripes until it looked 'right.' For the floral crush, I tried to incorporate the 'scaley' print part by using a paper towel. I brushed a bit of polish (green Julep Leah) on the paper towel then used that to lightly stamp my nails, and then I just used a regular short brush to pain the flowers. Finally I finished with my dotter to add some black outlines (green for the yellow 'flower'). I am no nail art expert, so if I can do this, so can you! I'm so proud of myself for finally using my MASH nail art brushes that I bought on a whim almost a year ago. I made a MASSIVE mess though, especially with the nolita print so please excuse the residue white polish, it'll come off after a hot shower.

Have you been inspired by the Prabal Gurung for Target collection?  Do share!

♥ C

Sole Society Shoes, June 2012

I list the shoes and the fit of shoes that I know about :-)  Enjoy!

New to Sole Society?  Use code SYDNE15 for $15 off your 1st purchase!  Join Sole Society here.

 Anneka, asymmetrical pump (brown fabric, pink fabric)

Ash, toe cap slingback (chocolate brown, natural)

Shoe Research: JS Dany is baaaaack!!!

Yours truly has jumped on the bandwagon of Jessica Simpson Dany bloggers.  Yes, I am a follower.  Shoes pretty.  Me weak.  Oh well, at least my feet are well dressed!  If you want to join me (you know you want to!), head on over to Endless and grab Dany for yourself.  If you buy her by 5/17, you can use code 'FRIENDS2' for 20% off orders of $100+.  Darn, Dany is $98 so you may have to snag another pair of shoes or some accessory to take advantage of the discount.  (I went for these funky sunglasses.)

Dany is available in the somewhat over-the-top creatively named colors, 'coffee summer haze,' 'oatmeal vintage floral,' 'brown leopard linen,' and 'brown petes shirt.'  (Who's Pete?)  If it were me, I would have gone with taupe, floral, leopard print, and stripe.  That's why I study science.  If $98 is too steep for your budget, check out the Dollhouse Curia platform sandal, same type of shoe-flavor for only $37.

Will you take a ride on the Dany bandwagon?

♥ C.

Friday's 5 under $50: Flower Power

Here are 5 fabulous shoes that I am drooling over, all of them are priced $50 and under:
*after all current discounts and promotions*

(1)  'Sunlit Garden Flat,' $29.99, Modcloth
(2)  G by Guess 'Crimson' floral pump, $49.95, DSW
(3)  Fergalicious 'Tammy' thong sandals, $27.99 - $29.37, Amazon
(4)  Report Shoes 'Ray' platform sandals, $49.50, Macys

(5)  Asos 'Lille' ballet flats, $43.49, Asos.com

♥ C.

Friday Footwear

These are the 'Rita' by Moda Spana, $49.95 from DSW (get them here).

What stylish footwear are you wearing today?

pssst!  '5 under $50' is going to make a comeback next Friday!!!  Keep an eye out ;-)

♥ C.