A New Year's Day sale on Etsy reminded me of my poor neglected shop and I realised that there's barely anything in there at the moment. I keep buying fabric, but I never get round to pulling the sewing machine out of its nest in the bottom of the wardrobe unless someone's commissioned me to make something. So if you want something, do get in touch...
I'm intending to make more things this year. I was going to start this weekend, but I got a 5 season boxset of Dexter for Christmas, which means I've spent the weekend getting to know a loveable serial killer instead. But soon. I promise!
The good thing about not having blogged since September is that I've got a lot of things saved up to tell you about. But don't worry, I'm intending to break it down into a series of several shorter posts.
I'll start with my not-so-new shoes. While I was at the Berlin Salsa Congress taking a few awesome classes with Victor and Burju (amongst others), I got a marketing email telling me where there were some Burju shoes on sale, so I bit the bullet and ordered my first pair (Black Pearl), which happen to be the ones on the business card:
Apart from being the most comfy things I've had on my dancing feet, since my jazz shoes, they also draw a fair few compliments from strangers, my favourite of which was "Cracking shoes luv." I was so wowed by my first pair, that I got straight back online and ordered a second, this time the Anyas:
Being a more luxury range than I usually buy, they come with a higher quality, branded shoe bag:
As you can see - it's windowed!
The obvious advantage of this is that you can see which pair of shoes you're picking up as you leave the house so there's less chance of turning up to that party with shoes that clash with your outfit. Also, it makes it easier for you to stare at your pretty, pretty shoes.
However, once you've finished dancing the night away in a warm venue, and you carefully put your shoes in their bag, the window does tend to steam up, which suggests it's not quite as breathable as your sweaty shoes probably need.
The solution? Ask me to make a shoe bag to match your shoes - then you won't need a window to see what's inside!
