Dr Martens Getta Grip 14-eye steel toe & Johari 12-eye zip boot

My wife likes the second ones better because they're shiny, and the extra eyelets are clever, and Adam Lambert might wear them someday. Whereas I prefer the first ones' styling, though I would never wear steel toes for everyday - too heavy and, let's face it, I'm a 45-kg-soaking-wet weakling! But Getta Grip has a slightly different styling from ordinary Docs (I think it's a vintage style, though the site didn't mention which year it was from I don't think), and I definitely prefer it to the modern shape.

no, sky blue pottery is totally our bag!

Wax's favorite aunt visited for coffee (by which I mean Darjeeling brewed with leaves in a pot, which is the only time we don't use teabags, but obviously, we are a tea-household only and don't serve coffee, although we keep some around for morningfine; she has to make her own, though, we don't even know how). She brought a wedding present with her, two gorgeous pieces of sky-blue pottery. She bought them because she's seen pictures of Wax's blue crackle-glaze teacup on Facebook, but they accidentally are our main kitchen/dining color, and they are beautiful, really and truly beautiful. They are so beautiful they could easily have come from my mom's house!

Obviously, I'd prefer to have photographed them in natural light, but believe it or not, this was taken around noon in full light from the knee-to-6-feet-high livingroom-wide window: if I wanted to wait for the sun to come out again, I'd be waiting till probably March.