Fantasy Birthday List

So my birthday is coming up very soon and I COULD make a realistic list of things I really really want like shoes, and dresses, and jewelry, and bejeweled iphones (ahem mom), but instead, I thought it would be more fun to make my ridiculous fantasy list of birthday presents... So here we go:

1. A top hat and/or birdcage veil and/or some combination of the two

(and not a sh*tty 2 dollar glitter party city top hat... I have one of those and it sucks)2. A dream house and/or dream castle for my redheaded Barbie and her Ken3. And while we are on the subject, a real life pink Barbie convertible 4. A lemon beagle puppy (light brown instead of tri color)

5. A fabulous tutu

6. Vintage pink rotary phone (doesn't need to work, for decor purposes only)

7. These gloves8. These glasses9. This bathing suit (Jem and the Holograms anyone???)

10. A pink guitar (again, doesn't need to be in working order. For decor purposes only) 11. aaaaaaaand Dior's '09 couture line. I mean... I said impractical...

Internal Dialogue: ScarJo's Loubees

Here's just an excerpt from my thoughts when I saw ScarJo in these Louboutins. You will soon see that my brain is a bit scattered sometimes:

Ack, does the front of the shoe match the back? I mean gold sparkles, yes please. but victorian lace and strappies with gold sparkles? Is this a collaboration with Elton John? This is what Queen Victoria would have worn if she decided to throw her queenship away and become a showgirl.

I hope the rumors about SJ and RR aren't true. They are cute. Although, Ryan is in my list of top five celebs I could cheat with if married. And if he's with SJ, probably less likely to help me cheat... Hmmm. Pacey too. I love Pacey.

O and see? scarjo is pale and she's cute. She really pulled off the red lipstick in the Dolce campaign. I should buy red lipstick. But then it's like do you buy red with a blue undertone or a yellow undertone. Maybe I should get my colors done at the mall. I think I might be a winter? But then remember the time I was Peggy Bundy for Halloween and wore red lipstick and it like got on my teeth and I kept on having to fix it. Plus lipstick is annoying. It's on for like .02 seconds before you eat it off. Didn't I read somewhere that women eat like 32 pounds of lipstick in their lifetimes? And like 100 spiders. Ew.

Um ya. Scarlett. Decent. I'll allow it...

Christian's Savior! (Not Jesus this time)

How happy!
Italy's Borletti Group, an investment company that owns a financial stake in Europe's La Rinascente and Le Printemps department stores, has submitted what has been called a serious bid for the legendary fashion house.
As we all know, Lacroix filed for bankruptcy protection in May.

Paper cut map

How gorgeous are these maps from Famille Summerbelle?Paris

London

These would be so pretty framed and on the wall.

Texture Tuesday: July 28, 2009

Oscar de la Renta Taffeta embroidered dress

Oscar de la Renta Fuchsia satin peep-toe

Ever have to wait in a parking lot for 45 minutes until your friends show up?

I had to...

After a while, you look anywhere for entertainment.

I usually like my MK and Ashley in Full House reruns alone...

But the Elizabeth and James shoe collection at Saks has a few pieces that aren't too shabby.

O ya, I can bargain hunt.

This post goes out to all the haters (ahem, you know who you are) that constantly tell me I'm snobby and spoiled and that I only buy brand names.

True, I do quiver in excitement at certain keywords like Louboutin or McQueen, BUT I am capable of shopping for deals. So here is some proof of an epic deal I scored.

I paid 406 for these. O excuse me, what I meant to say is, I paid $4.06 for these. That's four dollars and six cents. Be proud little shoppers!

I never really go for pointy toes but how could I resist for a deal like that? Steffy and I have been known to call $200 "practically free," so I guess this would be "paying me to take them."

Ha.

Arry Pott-ah

It had to be said...

So I hate to admit. Eluxury.com's new format is shitty. I'm sorry. It is. What happened to this fabulous site that used to sell me fabulous shoes at fabulous prices? They shut down their metaphorical retail doors and decided to keep operating the site to comment on social trends and morays?
Whoever is running the site is trying WAY too hard and it depresses me. This is like if Bluefly decided to stop selling fashion and stayed online to send me a daily horoscope. It's so random. Here are Steffy and my thoughts on the matter:

Me: im contemplating a blog post about how much i hate eluxury now
Steffy: oooh yes please
Steffy: it offffffffffffffends me
Steffy: someone needs to do it
Steffy: and then tweet it to them and say bring back the clotheeeeeeeeeees
Me: "ELUXURY Question of the day: Iced tea or Ice T?"
Me: "ELUXURY Question of the day: Industrial chic or French opulence?"
Me: stfu
Me: sell me Dior totes and stfu
Steffy: yeah at 50%+ off
Steffy: i deleted them from my bookmarks last night
Me: i dont know why im still following on twitter
Steffy: i know i dont have the heart to unfollow
Steffy: i keep on expecting them to tweet "50% off one day only sale"
Me: but instead they are like
Me: "ELUXURY Question of the day: Improving your back hand or reducing your foot print?"
Steffy: im going to show you my back hand, elux
Steffy: straight across your face, snoop dog style
Me: o nice, this convo will def have to be part of my elux post
Me: any other witty things to say?
Steffy: hmm let me think about it
Steffy: now i feel i need to be especially witty and im folding under pressure
Me: folding like their consumer database is
Steffy: oh snap
Steffy: seriously though, their question of the day makes me question if i want to live any longer
Steffy: they are awful

O no, I may have inspired steffy to start a tweet fight with Elux... Details to follow.

hey prada you so fine, you so fine you blow my mind

Hey Prada, hey hey, Hey Prada.
Loves the new Prada bags at SaksI could SO be a faboo Mary Poppins with this carpet bag. Maybe I just love it because it's my sorority's colors? Nah, I'll go with Mary Poppins.Nothing incredibly special about this but for some reason I've always had a thing for grey leather.O Bravo! This is ridiculous. (In a great way.) I would just like to mention though, not only is this bag $3,695.00, Saks felt the need to say:

"DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, A CUSTOMER MAY ORDER NO MORE THAN THREE UNITS OF THIS ITEM EVERY THIRTY DAYS."

O well that sucks. Because I had $14,780 just laying around waiting to be spent on four identical sequined Prada bags. I guess I'll just wait 30 days to purchase the fourth one...

P.S. Thought you might want to know, Prada is not in spellcheck. Whom do I need to speak to about this? In addition, neither is "faboo." That one might be a harder sell to Merriam and Webster though.