Earthies

My local newspaper recently announced that a little shoestore nearby was throwing a party to celebrate these shoes. After checking out the website, I can certainly think of no better reason to party. Aren't these the sweetest, sassiest, summeriest sandals you've seen in a while?Are those red ones for real? Actually, the whole collection is on my not-so-secret wish list. Can anyone vouch?

Feet Candy

These shoes are so pretty and blessedly low. I would wear them with everything.

Photo credits: The Sartorialist

Ruby Slippers

Ever since I stumbled upon a little store that was selling three pairs of these fantastic shoes for the price of one, One Ruby Lane has become my new shoe obsession for Snook. Check out the optional, interchangeable sweater collars on the boots. Have you ever? Make that six pairs for the price of one!

Flip For It

There's something so clean and can't-go-wrong stylish about a pair of black flip flops. With a litlle bit of bling.

Hers and His

Tsukihoshi sneakers are the best shoes I've ever bought for Snook. Period. Narrow feet run in our family, and these shoes just seem to fit her like a glove. Plus they're so lightweight and flexible, I'm sure they're the next best thing to being barefoot. What makes me extra happy is that they look just as good after they've been machine-washed as before. The material also stretches, which makes them last longer. It certainly doesn't hurt either that their styles and colors are so cute and classic. Snook is on her second pair. Bubs is almost fitting into his first. Won't be his last.

Happy Feet

I have been on a lifelong quest to find a reasonably cute shoe to fill that ever-so-elusive niche between tennis shoe and dress shoe. And now, thanks to my fashionable friend Krista (and by extension Jora), I recently discovered these Dansko clogs. I have literally worn them every day (and everywhere) since gifting them to myself last week. You know that huge, hilly San Diego Zoo? Oh, my clogs and I were all over it. And they've been to work, the park, a dog walk . . . My feet have never been so happy. Makes me wonder what I've been wearing on my feet all this time. Nothing this good, that's for sure.

Shoes For My Boy

Snook and Bubs are only 22 1/2 months apart. That's why it never ceases to amaze me how many new baby products came out in the relatively short time between their births. I'm only slightly exaggerating when I say close to half of the baby gear I used with Snook was rendered hopelessly obsolete by the time Bubs came along.


But the new product I'm most excited about these days is this Tredz line of toddler shoes that Robeez recently introduced. Aren't they cute? I was already in love with Robeez' soft-soled shoes for babies. And Snook did her fair share of walking around in those. But this new brand of shoes has a rubber sole, rather than soft leather, so they're even better for active, walking, outdoorsy-type toddlers. And they're supposedly just as flexible and pliable as the baby version. Can anyone vouch?

While Bubs is not walking quite yet, he is fast approaching his first birthday, and he's already taken up to five tentative steps in a row. As soon as he's officially up and walking, I'll be swinging by one of my favorite (and few remaining, boo hoo) baby stores here in town to pick up a pair of these shoes for my boy.

And while I'm on the subject of shoes, stay tuned . . .

Brrrrrrrr

I don't get to break these bad boys out too often, living in San Diego and all. But when it's time, it's time. And now is definitely the time. It's downright freezing up in here. Guess this is what I get for complaining about all those 80-degree Christmases we've had in recent years. Chatter, chatter. Oh well, thanks to these, I can at least feel my toes.