My life is now complete. I officially own the gorgeous Vivienne Westwood for Melissa mary-janes. They were released in Australia about two weeks ago and despite giving some serious loving to my local Melissa stockists none of them managed to secure the line at their store so I was reduced to emailing the manager of Melissa Australia and begging her to save me some black size forties. She very kindly gave me a heads-up email the second the shoes were on line so I wouldn’t miss out. I spent a very stressful Wednesday evening refreshing the Melissa store page like a woman possessed while simultaneously making the Ridiculously Out of Proportion Jungle Cake for Mr Smaggle’s birthday. I got Vienna cream icing all over my Macbook. Well I was panicked! I imagined throngs of gorgeous ladies refreshing their pages through out the land, trying to beat me to the dream shoes. I needn’t have bothered. Not because the shoes are not everything I expected (they are exceptional – divinity in footwear) but because clearly no-one cared about the release of the shoes except for me. I thought that I would be up for a serious fight. I figured that a Vivienne Westwood design is the girl equivalent of the release of the Iphone - riots, crazy crowds and people camping for weeks outside the store. No such thing occurred. I paced around the house douche-like trying to secure the object of my footwear fantasies before they sold out and disappointingly they are still available. In my size and colour. And every other size and colour. Excuse me for being bitter but I was looking forward to the challenge. I’ve never lined up for hard-core concert tickets or slept outside a store before a sale. I wanted to show Vivienne and Melissa that I love them by publicly acting like a pleather junkie in need of a fix. Oh well. I guess the constant wearing and worshipping of the dream shoes will have to suffice. Aren’t they beautiful? Mama Smaggle had to confiscate them last night because I tried to wear them to bed…

* Grey wool tights from my school uniform

* Dress from Big W

* Cardigan from Giovanni

* Obi belt thrifted

* Cake necklace from Robin’s Jewellery Box

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx