let the bells ring out across the land

let the celebrations begin

raise a toast to....

ma boots!

yes it's true i finally found a fantastic pair of boots! at least they are for me. here they look quite chocolate colored, but they are are more ox blood. 

i'm wearing a dress made from some of the 33 odd yards of fabric

i found them on ebay, last week, in an auction. they are mens but i don't have any problem with that. they started off at .99 cents. i watched them until the last 4 minutes and then placed my bid. and i won! woo hoo. with shipping the grand total was $21.05. shipping was the bulk of the price, $15.00, which means the boots themselves were only $6.05 (grin). i am thrilled i finally found a pair of boots that are leather, can be worn with either blacks or browns, are in great shape, fit my big ol' flapper feet, and were a great price.

cheers!

throughly discouraged

wow! what a day. i'll tell ya (why yes i will)

we have a van that we have had in storage for about a year. the reason? it would suddenly decide that it would be on a break when we would be out and about. there we would be running errands, grocery shopping or what not. we would park the van, take care of business, get back in the van and.....nothing. now one might think oh it was the alternator or the starter. nope had both tested and they were fine. some one might think it would be the battery. well at the time it seemed fine. my mum was very generous to allow us to use her reliable vehicle, the gem. so we placed the fussy van in storage.

last week the engine light in my mum's gem came on. it didn't sound any different or drive any different, but we all were concerned. so today my mum took the gem to the garage to see what they would say. at first examination they said it was just the o2 sensor. ummm ok? then they decided to look closer. well of course they did. and they came back with a laundry list of things that have to be done to the little gem. my poor mum was quietly have heart palpitations while she was at the garage and when she called me i started to have fits of apoplexy. actually i just became really snippy. which, as we all know, is just so not helpful (blush). after she left the garage and came over we all sat down and discussed that we would bring the fussy van out of storage and put the gem in until we could slowly work on getting the laundry list taken care of, bit by bit. of course since fussy van had been sitting in storage so long, we had to get the tabs renewed, something we had been remiss in doing, and get a new battery. for my husband had discovered the the battery that had been in the van was well past it's prime, by this time. of course all of this meant that our monthly grocery shopping excursion to town would totally have to be called off. we just didn't feel confident driving in to town and being stuck. so it meant that we would have to pay higher prices and less selection for the months food supply at the local market. (sigh)

now why would this necessarily make me discouraged? because i think i actually found a pair of boots that i like. but the budget this month is well on it's way to being spent. (sigh) and i really just can't justify spending some $51 on a pair of boots. i might spend a wee bit of change on a pair of new tights, but that would be considerable less than the boots.

maybe the benevolent vintage re-use/re-purpose/re-cycle gods (yes there are such gods. please don't try and convince me otherwise. at least not now and definitely not today) will allow me to find a pair at a garage sale for a song. keep your fingers crossed.

cheers! (even though i don't feel like it right now) 

these boots are made....well you know the rest so i won't bore you with finishing it

i'm so glad some of you decided to drop by. (hi amybel, clare and jody waves)


have you ever found yourself on a hunt for something? no, not like a tiger, lion or bears (oh my!). i have been on the hunt, the search for a pair of boots. now this might seem like a simple thing. boots are boots right? i say to you no! i want to find a pair of boots, first that i can afford. so they must be of the frugal variety. i want leather. can you begin to see how difficult this might be paired with the frugal aspect. i want a tall pair. again the difficulty level increases. they need to be of the whopping size of 10. not necessarily because my feet are so huge, but because my feet are a tiny bit wide and i want them to be comfortable and i won't be able to try them on. so i figure size 10 should do it.  i need them to have a low heel. high heels and i do not get along well. they are constantly trying to prove to me that gravity works. and i think i would like them to be brown. compound  all of those requirements with the fact that i usually only have a small window of buying opportunity each month.


i had, for a while, thought i would like to be partnered with a pair of campus boots, something like these maybe. But the price is prohibitive. it does not fit into the frugal category. mind you it's a good price for these lovelies but i just can't bring myself to spend that much, nor would our finances allow me to. i am currently entertaining the idea of these boots. But to be honest they are still on the high side. i just can't bring myself to spend that much on myself especially for foot apparel. because for as much as i would love to have a pair of stylish charming boots don my tootsies i really don't like wearing shoes. silly little dichotomy, isn't it? 


believe me i have tried to ban the feelings of desire for a pair of tall leather boots at a frugal price, but to no avail.  they haunt me at night when i lay there beginning to drift off to sleep. they call to me when i pick up my good and trusty wee lap top. search for me they call like a sirens song. and so i search hoping to find the pair that i know is out there somewhere just waiting to walk with me on one of my sale-ing adventures, or thrifting journeys. 


so in closing if for some reason you happen upon a  pair of size 10 tall leather boots at a frugal price waiting to be given a  good and loving home, please feel free to point them in my direction.
cheers!