Please please please go on sale! I implore the Universe to heed my call!!!

I’ve searched high and low for winter boots and these are the best ones I’ve seen so far! These Loeffler Randall boots will go with just about anything and can be dressed up or down! I also like the fact the the toe is shaped in a classic way, not too rounded, not at all square nor pointy - which makes it a classic in my book!

The brains behind the shoe company that makes the sort of shoes I really want to wear are husband and wife Jessie Loeffler Randall and Brian Murphy. They started only in 2004 and look at where they are now! With the simple philosophy of designing shoes they want to wear but couldn’t find (we have the same taste in shoes apparently heehee!) the label has become a fast favorite among fashionistas and Hollywood stars alike!

(Photo from Rokandlola.com)

A trip to New York will not be complete without doing a bit of shopping, so should you have the chance to go out of the city, I suggest that you go to Central Valley, New York and visit Woodbury Common Premium Outlets to do some more shopping!

Woodbury Common is the largest OUTLET destination in the United States! With 220 stores, from premium brands like Gucci, Tods, Bottega Veneta, Christian Dior, Chanel, YSL, Loro Piana, Burberry and Judith Leiber to labels like True Religion, Betsey Johnson, UGG, Lacoste, Kate Spade and Tory Burch you’ll surely get excited right? Of course, outlet staples like Nine West, Le Sportsac, GAP, Banana Republic and Ralph Lauren are there as always. From clothing to home goods, kitchen supplies, sporting goods, luggages and furniture, there’s enough to keep the whole family happy! Note, you’d need a whole day to make the most of your visit there!

If you don’t have friends or relatives who can drive you there, there are shopping excursions to Woodbury Common from Port Authority, New York City (42nd Street & Eighth Avenue). Bus fare is approximately $30, round trip. So go ahead, and shop till you drop!

….Made for a Spanish peasant who wants to dance the Crazy Chicken during the baile. It’s their town’s fiesta, if you care to know! Hehehe!

I wonder what Mr. Jacobs was thinking when he designed this shoe? I mean come one, yeah his name was once Mark Silver, before he changed it to Jacobs…but this is just so…GOLD! I wouldn’t buy it, even if retailed for $5.

Would you?

Hello there Sanriotownmates!If there’s one thing we have in common, its the fact that we all grew up loving Hello Kitty and the gang! Maybe not just loving it, maybe even more than that. Because back in the day, I was OBSESSED with anything if not everything Sanrio.

In grade school, I had to have the Hello Kitty watch, the metal lunch box, the pencil case, all the stationery and stickers I could get my hands on. By the time high school rolled by it was the Kerokerokeroppi compact mirror, the plastic fan, the notebooks, pens and mechanical pencils that meant the world to me.

Not long after that, I found a new obsession. Fashion! Anything and everything about clothes! And shoes! And bags! But that never dampened my fascination with Sanrio. It always brings back fun memories of my childhood, when life was simpler, when all it would take was a trip to Gift Gate (the only store selling Sanrio merchandise in the Philippines) to make me happy. Because sadly for my pockets, these days the equivalent of that would be a trip to some swanky shop on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan!

But well, sometimes luck smiles down upon me and I stumble upon a treasure trove of luxury goodies! Just check out the department store outlet stores! On an ideal day, you might even call it some kind of shoe heaven! Where all the good shoes go after they last their season!

Here’s what I found at the Neiman Marcus outlet store in Jersey Garden Mall - rows and rows of Manolo Blahniks. Not to mention, Christian Louboutin, Dior, Prada, and Marc Jacobs shoe-sies!!!

Sigh!!!