coffee n shoes

snapped this during a quick trip to london for a second interview. hao and i were walking around london. the ad really doesn't seem to make a whole lotta sense, but i guess the shoes mean it'll catch a lady's eye? well, it did mine.

edible gaultier

when my mom and i were in paris for a long weekend (we hit the first weekend of the summer sales, yessss!), our gallery hopping took us to 2 memorable exhibits. the first of which was the villa museum where a wealthy couple amassed art from around the world and decorated the house themselves with beautiful and unusual architectural elements - the audio guide made it into story of art and a great romance:

The Jacquemart-André Museum 158 Boulevard Haussmann - 75008 Paris Tel: 01-42-89-04-91 Metro: Miromesnil

the second was Gaultier haute couture at the cartier exhibition hall, which was really bizarre since Gaultier created the pieces out of bread and there was a bakery downstairs where visitors could watch the exhibits actually being made to replace the displays upstairs as the bread got stale.

something old, something new

even though these aren't my shoes, i couldn't resist posting them - these are maggie's wedding shoes!! i travelled to mexico with my classmates to attend armando & maggie's wedding. we spent 2 beautiful weeks in cancun and merida - beach and food paradise mmm. apparently a new trend in mexico, platform wedding sneakers add height and comfort so you can dance the whole night long. smart girl.

qool @ 111 minna

Check out my cool F shoes by John Fluevog!! I got these at the SF Fluevog store on Haight Street a few years ago. A friend once said they look like bumper cars...they're fun to wear with really baggy pants. Chad snapped this at Qool party at 111 Minna, hence Chad's handiwork with the Qool logo in the corner.

dutch el dantes

I found these shoes in Holland last November while visiting my friend Vera. Vera lives in the south of Holland about 3 hours from Amsterdam and 10 minutes from the German border near Aachen. The day after I arrived, we went shopping in Heerlen, a small university city about 15 minutes away. These El Dantes were the first pair I spotted in the first shop we went into and it was only my first full day in Holland...which means I was in trouble already - Holland has LOTS of shoes, especially the funky crazy types. But I loved them so I bought them anyway. And it turned out to be a good decision because I didn't buy any other shoes for the rest of the trip. Good restraint, Lynn. *self pat on the back* People have asked me where they can get a pair locally. Well, I haven't seen this pair in the US but I do know that Shoe Biz in SF carries occasionally the El Dantes brand.

shoe shopping spree!

Whoa! I bought 6 pairs of shoes all in 1 day while staying in Angeles in the Philippines. Angeles is just a couple hours north of Manila. We were staying with Jo's boyfriend's (Tim's) family. Each pair was under $25. I couldn't resist. I later bought 3 more pairs on our last day in Manila. Thank goodness we bought boxes to throw all our stuff into for the plane ride home. Manila was our last stop before returning to SF.

flippies!!

These are my 15cent flip-flops that I bought the first day we spent in Bangkok at the weekend market. Jo bought some too and wore hers all the time, all around town. I wore mine mostly to the beach, so here they are in Phuket, a large touristy island off the western coast of southern Thailand! Boy, do I miss being able to just slip on the flippies and head for the beach...

full moon party

Jo and I made it to the Full Moon Party on Feb 8th on the small island of Phangan in Thailand, after a harrowing overnight bus ride from Bangkok to Surat Thani. Every month on the full moon, there's a party on the entire Haad Rin beach on Phangan. It's mostly tourists, around 25,000 people, with DJs and discos and lots of dancing.

oxs sneakers

These are the most comfortable shoes I've ever bought! They're from a small hip shop in St. Germaine de Pres on the Paris left back. They're also the only pair of shoes I bought in Paris during a whole week stay there last October. I was really looking forward to shoe shopping in Paris, but I found that most of the shoes there were really pointy and strappy and generally girly. Not exactly my style. I'll have to look harder next time...

shirley manson christmas card

dennis gave me this christmas card, which he won at a christmas charity auction on ebay. i love shoes, i love shirley manson - angelfish & garbage lead singer, who i first saw perform before live at the jersey shore with ranjit. then in college, jo won tickets on the radio to see garbage in rochester - we got close to the stage and when she came toward us, we screamed 'shirley, you're king of our world'!