OOTD 1.25.10 {+ I bought one more pair of pink shoes today}

How many pairs of pink Tory Burch shoes does one girl need?

Just one more, apparently.

But first, today's OOTD... since it was pouring -- pouring -- last night (and in the middle of the night I woke up to rain pounding the skylights) I thought it would be a good day for the kate spade Randis. Wouldn't you know, by mid-morning it's all sunny. I'm keeping them on anyway -- the ground is still wet.

Petit Bateau dress in black, black leggings, Target marl wrap sweater, kate spade Randi rainboots

Now for the shoes. I decided to go to Nordstrom Rack this morning for a quick scan of the goods. That place is so hit or miss for me and I don't go regularly but I have found some really nice scores there.

I've been in Spring/Summer shoe mode lately so I went to the little "designer" shoe area -- they will have kate spade, Burberry, Coach, Tory Burch, Taryn Rose, etc here... once I even found a pair of orange Jimmy Choo flats... should have bought those. No must-haves there for me today so I walked down the overwhelmingly stocked regular shoe section and wouldn't you know it...

...on a low shelf sat one little Tory Burch Kelsey Wedge Sandal in Arabian Pink in just my size, marked to $94.90 less 35% ($61.68) which is a very nice markdown from the original $250.00 last summer. And I did have my eye on these last summer.

So, I went to the shoe counter and the sales associate retrieved the match for me and I happily brought home my little score. I am pretty sure I can now keep myself from buying any more pink shoes this year. This is quite a different pink from my Millers and the flops anyway... these lean just a smidge toward coral, while those are more fruit punch and hot pink.

Tory Burch Kelsey Wedge Sandal in Arabian Pink croc print - no box but that's OK for $188.32 off

Hope everyone is having a great start to the week.

xoxo

Petit Bateau {at the Arc de Triomphe & atop the Eiffel Tower}

Petit Bateau = Little Boat.

It reminds me of the phrase "the sea is so wide and my boat is so small", which I believe is taken from an Irish fisherman's prayer.

Ahhh... love, love, love this brand. Thank you so much to Ema for recommending this shop while in Paris. I visited the little store on Champs Elysees three times, finding loads of goodies every time. I mostly bought things for my children - and when I took them on one of the trips they found many, many things themselves that they liked - but I did manage to buy some fabulous tees for myself and also a black double layer dress that I wore on the flight home with black leggings and a pewter Jackie... sooo comfy!

Here are some snaps of my finds from the first two shopping trips (on the third I just bought a few little things for the kids and the black dress... sorry did not get a pic of that). OH! And I didn't mention most of the things I bought were between 20% to 50% off! This was a perfectly timed trip and much of Paris was on sale! My Hubby got some great things at Faconnable, including the most gorgeous pale blue cashmere sweater, and most of that store was 50% off. I also bought my girls some things at Zara & H&M with similar deals.

Shopping Trip #1

Shopping Trip #2

(The light blue striped tee is adorable - it is almost tissue weight but double-layered and reverses to a picture of a mermaid with a French phrase)

xoxo