First of all, a little business. :) The lovely Novelista Barista featured one of my posts on her blog today! It has been a long, long time since anything like this has happened, so I’m pretty excited about it. Go check it out if you get a second.  Click HERE. Also, Neely of A Complete Waste of Makeup is hosting a FABULOUS giveaway! To celebrate the milestone of reaching 300 followers, she’s giving away a $50 gift card to your choice of one of the following places: Target, Starbucks, Sephora, Anthropologie, LuluLemon, or Banana Republic. How amazing is that?! It’s super easy to enter, just click HERE. ———- I’ve been…

I had such a lovely (albeit cold) day. I think there was a problem with our heat last night. The Hubster and I always joke that we live in a “sauna house”. Our apartment building is heat-controlled, so the building manager sets it for us and it’s usually a balmy 25 – 28°C in here. (I think there is an older lady upstairs that complains whenever it’s too cold.) We love our little tropical paradise and spend our time lounging in bare feet and t-shirts, and open windows for a breath of cold air from time to time. Last night I actually felt cold. I knew something was wrong when…

Have you entered Steph’s contest to win a $25 gift certificate yet? Tonight was book club night. Sometimes I’m still a little floored that my mad plan actually worked. That I have this amazing group of girls that love getting together once a week to eat bad food and rant about our lives and good books. There are seven or eight of us that meet regularly, with a few other ladies that sometimes make appearances. Most of the girls didn’t know each other when they started coming, but we’ve really started forming some wonderful friendships. This month we read Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosenay, and it was amazing. I…

After a wonderful week with my family, I’m finally home. My house is a disaster, the laundry’s not done and I’m not entirely unpacked–but I’m home. I loved every minute of my holidays and am so glad we had an extended stay with my mom and dad. I haven’t been home for that long since I got married, and it was great just to “hang out” with the fam. Dad introduced us to new John Wayne movies, Mom made wonderful dinners and looked after us, and I destroyed rearranged their basement. Even though I love our little apartment, it was great to spend the time with them… and I’m glad…

Just a bit of housekeeping first–I’ve been making the rounds through many of your lovely blogs. I’m going to be MUCH better at leaving comments and love now that I have two weeks off to enjoy a bit of relaxation and I can’t wait to catch up on all your news. I’ve just noticed something… when I switched my blog to WordPress in March the Hubster rigged it so that technically my blog address stayed the same (http://blog.iheartmyshoes.com). However I noticed that in some of your blog rolls it appears that I haven’t updated in 5 months and it shows that my last entry was the last entry I wrote…