Tell Your Shoe Story at Selfridges

Do you have a Shoe Story?

I believe in Shoe Luck.  Sometimes it's serendipitous and sometimes you have to make the luck happen.  I love a good shoe story.

Well, Selfridges is giving you the chance to tell your shoe story and win a year's worth of shoes from the famous store.

Selfridges is on the verge of launching the world's single biggest destination for shoes: The Shoe Galleries. (I need to shop there!) To kick it off they are inviting customers, bloggers, journalists, and celebrities to tell their shoe stories via the website, with the chance to win a year’s supply of shoes.

I went on and told my Shoe Luck story about finding my most fabulous pair of boots ever - those sparkly Dolce & Gabbana boots up there.  Check it out and let me know if you add a story.  I want to go read them all.

We Have A Winner!

I just wanted to say big thank you to everyone who submitted their hilarious, warm and witty stories during the anniversary celebration. It was very hard to choose from all of the great entries!

Miss Katie was our winner with her story:

My least favorite pair of shoes is also my favorite pair.

When I agreed to be a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding, I don't think I realized what I was really signing up for. They were stripper shoes. Four inch clear platforms with a stiletto heel that looked like an ice pick. There was a single line of colored crystals running down the back to match the awful pink-purple, thick satin sheath dresses- the color was called 'wild orchid'.

I hated them. The other bridesmaids and I schemed incessantly about how to get out of wearing the shoes (Picture these shoes, add a handful of purple/pink crystals up the heels, and double the price- bad, right?). We nearly petitioned the bride to go shoeless- anything to not don the Lusty Leopard standard issues! In the end, we wore the wild orchid dresses, the stripper shoes, and french twists with a fake daisy perched on apex. We looked ridiculous, but all it took was one look from my best friend, the smiling bride, to make it all worth it.

The bridesmaid stripper shoes still sit in my closet, a testament to friendship. Every time I see the offensive plastic pair, I'm reminded that the occasional (horrible) sacrifice of personal style is a small trade-off for a lifetime of friendship. I hope my bridesmaids remember that!

-Katie

Sweetie, all I have to say is that you are a heck of a friend! For wearing those shoes to a wedding (and recognizing how bad they are) you deserve the Zappos certificate. Thanks for sharing your story!

And thank you to everyone who helped me celebrate my first year here!

Luv
Poochie

Updates and Reminders

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to send you some updates on how Mr. Napoleon is doing. Thank you so much for all of your thoughts and good wishes. Here's how he normally looks. As I mentioned, he lost almost all the feathers on his back and tail. Frankly, he's a bit of a mess right now. If you want to see how he's doing, you can click here.



But, he's still alive and that's what matters to us. Were working out a system to keep him calm and for giving him his shots and the meds. We decided to give him his pain shot in the morning so it calms him down during the day.

Yesterday, we had our webcam on him and I was able to peek at him throughout the day. He spent a lot of his time looking out from the porch over to the coop. When I got home I saw that the two girls were up next to the coop yard fence looking over at him. Sweeties! I know they miss each other but we have to keep him safe and clean right now. So they must be apart of a while more.

I also wanted to send a quick reminder that I'm still looking for your shoe story! The anniversary celebration is on through Sunday! So drop in a comment or send me an email at princesspoochie (at) shoedaydreams (dot) com.

Shoe Daydreams 1 Year Anniversary Celebration

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Today is a very special day around here because today is the 500th post and the 1 year anniversary of Shoe Daydreams!!!

I can't believe that a year has already flown by since I did my first post. Back then I had been reading several blogs and was inspired to try my own. Little did I know how much I would enjoy it.

Part of writing this blog came out of my sheer love and enjoyment of shoes and fashion. North Carolina is a great place to live but, where I am, is not a high fashion capital. And, frankly, I think some of my office mates were getting bored with all the shoe talk!

Online I found some amazing friends who are great writers, hilariously funny and amazingly inspirational all around, not just in the fashion department. Just a few to mention are:

Manolo was very supportive and added me to his blog roll right away. I was so excited.

Miss WendyB has made me laugh my ass off and taught me a thing or two about crazy monarchs, something I already loved but now know lots more about.

Winona has also been so funny it's almost wrong. I've embraced by shiny addiction with Martin's support and learned to fear what five guys could be thinking about some of my crazier choices.

Style Spy is too ready of an enabler and entices me to get more red patent leather in my life... as if I needed more!

Susie Bubble - Her layered masterpieces and overseas selections help me keep my eyes and mind open.

The Queens' style has made me want to add more toughness to my selections. And more adorable jewelry choices.

Lady Coveted's vintage selections make me wish we lived closer so I we could share closets.

And Miss Gala - it was great to meet her in person and I'm glad she's online so I can get my fix each day. I'm sure there are tons of loyal nonpareils who feel the same.

Of course these are just a few of the people who keep the blogosphere running for me. I can't say how obsessively I check back to all of my favorite sites (and Tweets and Flickr) because it might be a little scary. Only their analytics programs know for sure.

I also love love love that you all come by to read my ramblings and listen to me babbling about new shoes or a designer I just found. I love the comments I get on here and via email. It totally makes my day like you would not believe.

To celebrate and to show my love and appreciation for you all, I'd like to give a little a little present back to YOU!

Since I love to hear your stories, send me a story (or a photo or a collage or anything) about your favorite/funniest/most mortifying/happiest shoe or fashion-related moment. You can send it to me either in the comments here or to my email (see up there to the right). I'm on Flickr, Polyvore, and Twitter - so any contact method is cool.

And what sort of a prize will we be having for this Celebration??? Well, you have two choices -

Option A: $50 Zappos Gift Certificate

Option B: Two amazing books - Manolo Blahnik's Drawings and Blahniks by Bowman book of photos.

The Shoe Daydreams Share Your Shoe Story Celebration contest will run through July 20th. I'm looking forward to some fun stories for everyone. I'll have this button up on the left so it will be easy to check back.

If you want to share the contest with anyone, please feel free to do so. You can grab the image here or I can even send you the html code - just drop me an email.

Thank you all again for being here and for making this so much fun. I was asked when I started this if there was really that much to say about shoes and all, I would have to say, resoundingly, YES! And I can't wait to keep going into the next year.

Luv,

Poochie