hideous shoes of the day: irregular choice and their amazing range of wtf

I thought we'd take a break from shoe recs for shoe pointing and laughing. I enjoy seeing whatever new shit Irregular Choice comes up with via my favorite shoe store, schuhstore.co.uk, because about 1 time in 60 I like them, and the other times I like laughing at them. They were responsible for the Ugliest Shoe of the Year at some shoe blog or other that I found last year, too, with these bizarre hooketeer-kitten-heel boots with a huge cuff made of turquoise jersey printed with... was it little astronauts or something? on a horrifyingly ugly last, with this huge pointed toe. Anyway! So, these are expensive novelty shoes for eccentric, like, Lady Gaga-type avante gardes. Most people should not try wearing these at home. I hear they are comfortable and well made, however.




I didn't actually save the names of most of these when I saved them, and I believe all of them are now sold out at Schuh, but on the other hand, they probably have a cult following, if there are any Gaga-ites reading this who, Enya forbid, actually want these. In absence of real names, I have amused myself by dubbing them (L-R, top first) "Flower Vomit", "Attack of the Metallic Gold Fungus", "Help They're Sprouting", and "Never Watch Ben Hur on PCP Again". On the other hand, I'm kind of disappointed that I've never seen Lady Gaga in the last pair.

ETA It should probably be noted, for the record, that Louboutin made a limited-edition style of Marie Antoinette-"inspired" heels a year or so ago which were probably the inspiration for Flower Vomit, and were pretty much uglier in every way you can possibly imagine. Basically, the uglier it is, the more high fashion and more expensive, usually.

plebefic headers: Warnings: MUSICALS ARE PRESENT! WHEE!

1. Warnings: MUSICALS ARE PRESENT! WHEE!



2. [Author's Notes] Sooo this is tlly not real...well I hope it’s not real.



3. Rating: Rating Will Change
   Disclaimer: I Sadly Own None Of This
   Summary: And So It Began [It's like a beautiful poem!]



4. Summary: MPREG+BBY!FIC Spencer has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. But meeting Brendon seems to have cured him of his illness. Until Spencer and Brendon are forced to grow up a lot earlier than they thought.



5. Author's note: Um. This wrote itself. Hopefully prettily.

getting into glögg & pepparkakor season!

It's not the beginning of the season when every café sells a special of glögg (traditional Scandinavian mulled wine, glögi in Finnish) with a pepparkaka (Scandinavian gingerbread cookie - pipari in Finnish), but I'm just getting into it. I love that about wintertime!



Last week I was talking with the director of our school assistants' course and she said the best thing about glögg season was all the different flavors of it! And, I mean, I knew there were such - I've noticed them occasionally, taking shelfspace beside the traditional red glögg - but the only time I had them was that time when morningfine and I went to the Old Apothecary Museum on St Lucia's Day (13 December) and drank their special recipe, which is several hundred years old and spice-intensive, most notably with rosemary, and a powerful medicinal scent. I wasn't crazy about the rosemary glögg, but I still felt inspired to try another flavor, so I bought a box of light vanilla glögg the other day! And that totally needs to be in sparkle text, because it was so delightful: