Where you at girl!!?

So once again I am on the road and not keeping up with the blog! So slack! *actually Im gutted I missed Shoesday - GUTTED*
But never fear! In place of a real post look at these pictures!!
BTW Im publishing this post on my mobile... hopefully it doesnt all go terribly arye >:(
Pic 1: Cadbury world.
Pic 2: 3 storied mall in Birmingham.
Pic 3: seamstress in Leicester.
Pic 4: sun setting over the canals in Birmingham.
Have a great weekend!

Adventures in Southampton

Southampton = where all the Cruise Liners Depart.  I've taken you there before here where I  picked up a few awesome things in the West Quay shopping center - including my beloved white Zara Blazer.

*The only Sunny day this year - kidding, it happens once a month - LARF*

 The Norwegian Breakaway: the largest cruise liner to make its sailing début in Southampton.  It was moored just outside our hotel.  It looks like a building it's so HUGE

 We had dinner at TGIFridays - I had the wild-boar burger, was AMAZE - but anyway, look at the wall decor!  A cabbage patch kid!  Buzz Lightyear!  A Rubiks Cube!  They sing Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs so everyone in the restaurant can hear ;-) embarrassing!

 And while in the Westquay Shopping center (awesomely HUGE mall right in the middle of the city) I stopped in at my local #claire's.

 A set of Pastel mini nail polishes #Musthave. A bit thin, but a few coats and your'e away laughing.

Seriously - I should get Claire's to sponsor my shopping addiction and blog!!

Their stuff is just so cheap and cheerful!  Look at the orange caviar manicure!!

 You guys know I like a good gratuitous FOOD shot - et voila

This stand is in the middle of the mall - how could you resist?

I had to snap all these Dudes and Dudettes playing their card games: Magic the Gathering, Yugiyo, Pokemon among others.  In the Marlands Shopping centre.

Idyllic pic of the sea - such a nice warm day :-)

Southampton also has a beautifully preserved medieval city - their wall dates back to the 12th century and the Medieval merchants house is considered the best kept building of it's era in the whole of the UK.  Yall should check it out!

♥ Paula Shoe Fiend.

High tea at Athenaeum Hotel Park Lane

Has anybody here played Monopoly?  The more I hang out in London the more I recall the names of the properties - but I digress... #parklane
Angela my WONDERFUL Siss (greasing) took me to high tea at a 4.5 star hotel on Park Lane (posh or wot) The Athenaeum Hotel...

> The Hotel is Covered in foliage - this is out the window from our table.
< Our Table setting - they make it all so NICE

< Our Tea selection












Angela's Mocktail >

Above: Selection of Sandwiches (nom nom) and a glass of Honey Fizz Champagne
* Smoked Salmon, Cucumber and Cream Cheese, Egg Mayonnaise with Mustard Cress, Ham with Red Onion Marmalade, Honey Roasted Ham and Caramelized Golden Cross Goats Cheese.

And for desert *dribbles*
Profiterole, white chocolate mousse, Vanilla cheesecake, Lemon tart, Chocolate iced sponge, Honey cake and macaroon, champagne Jelly - the drool goes on.
I had to go meet the BF at the pub after this - I wanted to lie down and go to sleep - but such is the frenetic pace of London - there is NO SLEEP!  We went by the Hard-rock gift shop and I took a few snaps - and bought nothing >:D

 Guitar necks!

 White: Bruce Kulick - Kiss
Red: Steve Jones - Sex Pistols
Black: Richie Sambora - Bon Jovi.

 Soo many drum sticks!!!

And this is Madam Muck herself - aka ME!!!

YUMMY PINK CHAMPAGNE!

♥ Paula Shoe Fiend.

Shoesday 7.05.13

For Shoesday today I thought I would do a glory piece in reverence to my ever growing sisterhood of shoes!
Feast your eyes!

The photo quality is crappy - but I'm having issues with Blogger and almost decided to throw it in the too hard basket! *I've swapped from mozilla to Chrome :-/

Sorry about the photo quality - the following pics are ones I took before I left NZ ;-)

 I bought these brown sandals to do a Jimmy Choo inspired DIY - I still may #watchthisspace

These shoes are total Louis Vuitton rip offs - but ther were beautiful...

so I HAD to have them.

All my shoes are trapped in this antique china cabinet :-(

back in NZ, Poor babies!  Mummy misses you ;-)

Aren't these girls DIVINE?  I didn't bring them due to their leather-suede properties

- not so good in the rainy UK!

Hope you enjoyed Shoesday

feel free to send me a pic of your collection or a link to your blog :-D

♥ Paula Shoe Fiend

You can email me: robertpaulsen84@gmail.com

Shopping - it's up to you

I found this ever so quaint meme while trolling Facebook today and thought it might tickle you...

OK - it's silly.

Just wanted to update yall on my wearabouts - I've been doing a bit of the south West coast of England so have been away from the blog.  I do LOVE all your comments though and I'm always keen to meet new bloggers so please feel free to leave comments and links to your blogs.
Now I'm off to do the Bristol 10K run *wish me luck*

But not in these shoes - via The Heroin Addict

<3 Paula Shoe Fiend

Shopping in East London.

So London is such a shopping MECCA - I've decided to break it up into zones.  Today's, Eeest Lahndahn #phonetically spelt (East London)

Vintage stores are INSANE in East London - and to be exact Brick Lane and surrounding Streets.

OMG the shoes - these are all just size 6!

 












<< Handbags FOREVER

Blitz is apparently London's BIGGEST vintage store!  It's on two levels and a total must have for any vintage fashion lover.  Quite expensive if you ask me, a pair of 90's era Ferregamo Flats will set you back 60 pound - which might seem a bargain if you factor in a new pair could set you back 400 pound but not so great if you think of all the people that might have pounded the pavement in those shoes - starting to look like not such a bargain.  I think vintage stores are savvy now to all the designer labels so I don't think you will find any Chanel or Hermes bargains around, but if you're after the perfect denim jacket or some divinely soft vintage leather you will definitely find a few candidates here.  With all the high street chain stores seemingly selling all the same stuff it's quite nice to find something a little different, you definitely get that with vintage plus your stuff has a great lived in feel and interesting smell >: D And people can't steal your style - cause chances are it's a one off, this is why we love DIY too.

On my way through the streets I came across a temporary store set up selling Designer samples and end of season pieces at ridiculously slashed prices.  It was a pound to get in and you had to check your jacket and bag at the door so I couldn't take any pictures - but it was Immense!  There was clothing by Matthew Williamson, Marc Jacobs, See by Chloe, Splendid, Equipment... Shoes by Miu Miu, Ferregamo, Fendi, Rupert Sanderson - I didn't even go near the bags so afraid was I that I would drop my last dime on a Bayswater or something else on my Lust-list.  The changing room was just a big room with clothing racks and big mirrors - anything you wanted to try on your had to do in front of everyone else in there - to deter shoplifting I guess.
But what did you buy Paula?

TheSWEETEST pink Ombre shirt - Both Goldie London - And a black Sheer embellished shirt

I've been looking for AGES for the perfect black sheer shirt - and now I HAVE ONE!

 I took this in Scotland for my Instagram

Brick Lane is also well known for its 5 Million curry restaurants.  We went for a meal in one but were none too impressed, I think it's a bit too much of a tourist thing now so it's over priced and there's better curry to be found elsewhere >:(

Here I go talking about food again - I took this photo of the window of one Indian food Supermarket.  Look at all the Samosas #drools.

As I was taking this picture a dude walked right in front of the shot - he's probably not used to people instagraming everything they see - I try to keep my eyes open and just take the odd snap - but when you go back later and look through all your snaps Instagram really illustrates perfectly the scene you captured in that moment - even more so than a regular digital snapshot.

Street art down Brick Lane way, you can see the faintest hint of snow in this picture. Snow is mega hard to capture, it doesn't show up in pictures unless there's a buttload of it and it was snowing quite a bit that day!

♥ Paula Shoe Fiend.