My AWARD for Best Party SHOE Centerpieces & other crazy shoes

What is it about shoes....and especially HIGH HEEL SHOES....
that are just so much darn fun?

 There's lots of analysis on the internet about why

people are so in love with shoes so I won't rehash that information.

What I am going to do is give you my opinion of 

BEST SHOES!

I'll start with 

BEST PARTY CENTERPIECE SHOES 

and give that award to Stacey and I. 

I can do that because this 

is my Blog and I made the rules about an hour ago 

for this awards ceremony. 

But if someone comes along and shows me something

cuter, well.....I may re-consider. But until then...Tah DAH!

Not only are they so dang cute, they were

 fun to make.

These shoes were made from foamcore and

totally unwearable because they are one 

dimensional. But nobody plans on wearing them 

because they were to sit on a dinner table at 

an event with the theme Dancing in the Street.

Now...it could have been for a fashion themed party

or a Sweet 16 or a girly Bat Mitzvah instead. 

One time....years ago....

we did a party called "A.J.'s got sole" and it had

shoes as a theme. Not quite the same as these though and

my pictures of it aren't very good because it was so long

ago that I didn't have a digital camera and didn't know

my pictures weren't so good until they got developed.

But I digress.

Here's some other award winners:

BEST FUNNY SHOE

BEST TOY SHOE

BEST "I COULD MAKE THAT" SHOE

BEST SELF DEFENSE SHOE

BEST DOG SHOE

BEST HALF-A-SHOE

 

BEST JUST TOO HIGH  SHOE

BEST TOILET BOWL SHOE

BEST LONG SHOE

BEST BAREFOOT SHOE

BEST SHOE MOSTLY LIKELY TO FALL ON YOUR FACE IN

BEST SHOE TO NEVER BUY EVER

BEST ROLLING STONES SHOE

BEST SHOE FOR TARANTULA LOVERS

BEST SHOE AS ART FOR THE WALL

BEST SHOE TO MAKE YOU ENJOY SNAKES

BEST TATTOO SHOE....OUCH!!

BEST SHOE TO MAKE ME FEEL NOSTALGIC

Again...I give myself another award.

Yes...my bronzed baby shoe.  Ahhhhh.

I keep it in my fairy themed powder room and

inside it I plunked a hand painted rock with

a baby chicken on it. Don't ask me why. I'm weird like that.

I'm my own room service

A fantasy of mine is to check in a hotel for a week or so and have room service bring me all my meals and take the time to take loads of tutorials on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Uninterrupted.

On a full belly.

Hidden away and just focusing.

And learning.

Well...it isn't happening.

But I can make it almost happen. I can make the food myself and bring it up to my computer and set up my ipad next to my computer.

I received 6 months of tutorials to "Lynda.com" for my birthday from my family. I love that site. I'm soaking up the information whenever I can grab a moment.

I'm making my own room service. Nothing too fancy. After all...that's not where I want to spend my time. Not like what I might order from REAL room service.

But, hey, it's food. It will fill me up.

All I have to do afterwards is shake the crumbs out of my keyboard or wipe the spaghetti sauce or jelly off the keys.

Marlyss I Am

You might think with a name like "Marlyss" I am the only one.

Not so.

There's plenty of us. Enough to have a "Marlys Club" that anyone with a variation of the name can join for $5. I haven't joined. They are in Minnesota and I'd never make a meeting.  In fact, I find it hard to believe myself that there are enough Marlyss's in Minnesota to have more than a couple people meet for coffee at Starbucks. But it looks like they had a crowd. Maybe it's because they posted this following notice on their website and they got a good response. No...I'm not kidding 'ya.

Maybe you won't believe this next piece of information either.

There is a ROCK BAND named MARLYSS. 

Oh yes....really.

They own the domain name "marlyss.com" which should be mine if you'd asked me.

But no....they own it and have a very poor one page website on it.

They play songs like "Termite" and "All the Weeds". 

Don't ask me what I think of their music. Please don't.

But here's something I like.

There's a book and comic strips written about a red haired and freckled little girl named Marlys. It's written by Lynda Barry. You can even buy her book on Amazon and it seems to have wonderful ratings.

Ok....I have red hair and freckles. Well...sorta. Not as red as it used to be and not nearly as many freckles as this Marlys in the book has. Thank goodness for small things!

I'm sure you'll find this "How to Draw Marlys" information very helpful.

Something everyone needs to know. Or not.

This is probably more information than you ever wanted to read about the name "Marlyss". But one last piece of information. My Dad found the name for me. He saw someone with that name and she was very pretty and he thought if he had a daughter that would be a good name for her. Thanks Dad.