Seeing spots

Remember how I said I was in to leopard print now?

Maybe I should have said obsessed. Yes.  Obsessed is more like it.

I'm beginning to believe I don't have the capability to just like something.

No.  I love the oxygen out of it until it can't stand the sight of me and gets a restraining order against me.

That is how I love.

(This hasn't actually happened with any real people. Yet.)

Anyhoo....since my last post of all things leopard, I have hunted down and acquired both a leopard print scarf AND some shoes.

It is the shoes I'm so proud of for the moment.

I'm not proud because they are the most adorable and trendy shoes I could find.

As they say where I live: "that ain't gonna happen."

Despite the fact that these shoes are pretty plain, what's so great about them is how much they cost

AND

how much they look like a similar pair I spotted (get it?!) in the J.Crew catalog.

Apparently, if purchased they will prove to be life-altering.  After all, J. Crew boasts that they are "crafted in luxurious Italian calf hair, this just might be the most spectacular pair of the season."

Did I mention they are also only $250?

Only?

Does the fact that they are crafted out of calf hair creep anyone else out as well?  No?

Well I'm a little disturbed and I sure don't have $250 to purchase shoes I'll probably grow tired of quickly.

Guess I'll have to buy "life-altering" elsewhere.

How about McDonalds?

However, despite the matter of hair and cost of J.Crew's lovelies, I still think they are pretty cute.  So imagine my delight when I found similar shoes for only $8 (on sale from $25) at Payless shoes.

I know, I know....Whoa, big spender!!

Now they didn't promise to improve my life, but they did improve my mood, at least temporarily.

As you see, originally they had a gaudy, red, fake velvet bow stitched to them, but I could see beneath the bow and knew that the flashy facade could be changed with a snip here and a rip there.

So I took the leap and took a seam ripper to the bows.

Here is how they turned out (pretty similar to J. Crew's hairy flats)

Meow.