26 November 11

Boy, was I glad to see the end of Movember.

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Today was a super exciting whirlwind of activity! We launched the line with a pretty great reception, and had our cocktail party to celebrate. (Photos to come!!)

Thanks to the amazing Jennine from super blog The Coveted for stopping by to show her support. <3

Speaking of support, your comments on my last post have been overwhelming and SO effing sweet and kind. Thank you all for being so amazing. I gave you guys a shout out in my Footwear Plus article that came out today and I will be posting tomorrow. I LOVE YOU!

On to the ads!

The actual ads have our logo on them but these are the ad shots that made it into last week's Footwear News. I am SO in love with these images! Thanks again to the amazing Quang <3

Here's how they look in the spread... pretty cool huh?
(sorry for the glare I'm pretty low-budge)

Pretty cool huh?



XOX,

Valentines Schmalentines

Ben was gone on a business trip this Valentines Day so I was feeling pretty anti... hence the 3 day late post.

Instead of lighting some candles and staying home alone in the dark with my favorite dudes, Ben and Jerry, I got my ass up and put on some Valentine inspired footwear (adding a black heart necklace to match my mood) and headed out with some friends to the comedy club to see Harland Williams. 

I heart these shoes! Unfortunately there half a size too small but they were the last pair on sale a while ago and I just had to get them. Some things are worth a little pain...

(blazer- Bebe, top- Villains&Vagabonds, leggings- Charley 5.0, scarf and shoes- Alexander McQueen) 

Happy Holidays!

I love love LOVE my Lanvin ♥ H&M dress so much and knew it would be a perfect Holiday dress! I adore the poofyness of it. It's so girly and happy and the perfect shade of red. I wore it with my nude patent Christian Louboutins. Perfect.

Here are some crappy quality photos from our company Christmas party. I'm 5 tequila shots deep at this point...

 One of our very favorite couples, Marc and Jess. Jess is the Badgley Mischka and Charles Jourdan shoe designer. She's so talented and just as sweet as can be.

 Sascha kicks ass and takes names over at our wholesale company!  She was one of my beautiful bridesmaids too ;)

 The most amazing man alive. No big deal. There's the second most amazing dude back there... My dad :) Haha

 My amazing sister Katie. Hi sissy!

♥ ♥ ♥

To all my AMAZING readers, I hope you have a wonderful holiday and a happy healthy New Year! I love you guys and and so happy to feel so connected to so many of you. 

Here's to 2011!! I can't wait to see what adventures it brings for all of us.

XOXO

Your Shoe Girl,

Celine

Big Hearts and Wedding Bells

I'm back!! Ah, it's so good to be home. 

I got back Thursday and then hit the ground running. This weekend was crazy busy. I went to a wedding Friday night where my childhood best friend Mark married a really lovely girl named Carlie. Hi Carlie!! :) 

Then yesterday I hosted a baby shower for my best friend Christie. I'm so excited to be an auntie to their beebee.

I broke in my Alexander McQueen red heart shaped peep toes... finally! I mean, what better reason to wear them than to celebrate love.

(dress- LaRok, necklace- Van Cleef, bow- Urban Renewal, shoes- McQueen)

I wore them with these adorable tights I found in a shop in London.

Wearing tights to help you break in a new pair of pumps (especially when you buy them a half size too small because they were the last ones and you know you won't find them in your size anywhere... eh HEM) is really great. It makes it a lot less painful. Just a little tip ;)

Also, please excuse the roots. I know they look terrible. I'm in the process of this look-

(images via http://christiewalkerhair.wordpress.com/)

Long roots, light ends. I think my appointment is tomorrow so we'll see how it all turns out. ;)

Third Year's A Charm!

Today is my 3 year wedding anniversary. Time FLIES by... it's crazy.

I am so lucky to be married to my best friend and the best guy I've ever met. I can't even believe how in love I am and how happy we are together. :)

Here are some photos from our wedding that took place exactly 3 years ago. Our ceremony was at 5:30pm

YUM!!

Check out my cell phone... I bejeweled it myself. haha The bridesmaids shoes were Betsey Johnson and mine were Badgley Mischka. I wish I would have made the time to design my own shoes but I just felt really overwhelmed by the idea and felt like there was too much pressure. That's my only regret from my wedding though. But I do love the shoes that I wore!

A close up of the shoes...

I wish I had more photos of them to show you. Maybe I'll look through all the photos and post a clearer shot.

What an amazing day. And every day since has been so much fun. I love you Benjamin. 

(all photos: Triplecord Photography)

Date Night

Sometimes it's nice to get dressed up just for fun and go on a date with my wonderful hubby :)
It's a great excuse to wear ridiculously high shoes too!

(dress- 12th Street by Cynthia Vincent, Clutch- L.A.M.B., Shoes- Christian Louboutin)

These shoes are my 3 hour shoes. I can't do much standing/walking in them so I don't like to wear them to anything lasting longer than 3 hours. haha

*I   L O V E   T H E S E   S H O E S *

I would like to sing them a love song.  ♪ ♫ La la la laaaaaa ♫ ♪ 

And now: The money shot for all you perverts out there. I love you. Hahahaha ♥

I've Got a Crush on You...

First off... THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!

Your comments are seriously the most amazing awesome inspiring things EVER. You really are my friends and I'm so lucky to have you! You seriously freaking rule! Way to turn my frown upside down. I love you guys :) Sorry for the drama queen moment. I'm making myself be over it.

I decided a hair change would help to make me feel better and I was right. I feel sassier already. Christie Walker at Desa Salon does my hair and she's amazing. I went in and sat down and she could tell I was in a funk so she brightened me up (literally) and gave me my bangs back. Yay Christie!

On to shoes! And oh what glorious shoes!!! How can I feel sorry for myself with these babies on my feet, right?

Amazing amazing amazing amazing!

I fell for these shoes the moment I saw them on the runway. Miu Miu hit the nail on the head with these babies! They're perfect.

They were impossible to find and I was getting super frustrated about not getting my hands on them. I became obsessed and hounded my sales guy/friend to do whatever he had to do to get them for me.

Well, he obviously came through! The funny thing is that these are the actual editorial samples! So if you've seen them pictured in magazines they were these actual shoes! These shoes have travelled all over the world! How many exclamations can I use in a row?! haha.

Here's another version from their campaign...

Look at them. They're flirting with me...

(top and sweater- F21, shorts- Urban Outfitters)

XOXO

YAY!

This is a little sneak preview of the cartoon my husband has been working on for the past year. He's the art director on this project and has been working so hard. I am so proud!! It comes out in February so keep an eye out all you moms and dads :)

xox

Pretty cool, huh??

Have You Met My Husband??

I just want to take a minute to talk about my husband, Mr. Benjamin Soto.

I'm almost 2 years into this blog and I still think of it as just a conversation between my friends and I. I often forget that there are countless strangers passing by, and though I truly consider my readers my friends- I realize that many of you don't know me in "real life".

That being said, you don't know much about my husband and I often just assume that you do.

Those of you who DO know me, feel free to skip this post because I'm sure you're tired of my gushing about Ben by now. ;)

Ben is a ridiculously talented ______. I don't want to say graphic designer or artist or t-shirt designer or inventor or painter... he's all of those things and more. He's currently working at Disney as the art director of a new cartoon show.

ANYWAY-

My Benjamin does things like this, just for fun:

He is so silly! I was in NY when he sent this little doodle over and it just made me so happy!

Then- he does things like this:

Yep. He takes pictures of his outfits every day. (hopefully he forgives me for showing this!)

He doesn't do it for blogging purposes, he just does it. I had no idea he was doing it until I heard the timer beeping on the camera one morning (he leaves the house super early while I'm sleeping) and went to investigate. BUSTED! He has tons of them too. Amazing.

Check out his website! www.benjaminsoto.com You'll probably be surprised at how much he's done that you'll recognize.

Just wanted to give a little shout out to my baby. Here are some of my favorite pictures of us...