These are my favorite NEW things…

Sneakers

THEY are called Nike Free 5.0’s and THEY are THE most comfortably ugly shoes I’ve ever worn!  How I came by them is a bit of a story.  My dad who is a fire investigator recently did a fire in a shoe store and the owner was giving him shoes (not burned ones) so he calls us and asks what shoe size we all wear.  He comes home and gives me these things along with 2 pairs of inserts that have different numbers on them and of course I turned my nose up at them…they were ugly and they well….smelled a little like a campfire. 

So I threw them in the washing machine and let them sit and air out for a couple of days and decided that yesterday I would give them a spin.  I wasn’t even sure if I was supposed to be wearing socks with them cuz they were hard to get on at first but I wore socks anyway.  I decided to look them up online and see for sure and come to find out these are $100 pair of shoes…they come with inserts that are supposed to "train" your foot to become stronger and they’re made to make you feel like you’re walking barefoot in the grass….well I have to say Nike has accomplished that with these gems!  The back of the shoe where your heel is is mesh so  your foot is not constricted at all and there are air holes all around so your feet are always breathing. 

So if you’re like me and you’ve tried every single kind of shoe out there only to be disappointed…give these a spin, they may be a little expensive and even though I got mine for free I would pay the money for my next pair!  They are well worth it.  Oh and you can even go online at Nike.com and design your own…which I will definitely do next time, maybe I’ll get pink! 

Oh and one more thing…this is how I feel about all this right now!  In the words of my good friend Jenny….SHOOOOOOOOOT!

Notsmiling

There will be no more mag subscriptions to CK or any of their affiliates from me, no purchasing of any of their products, books, etc. and I will NEVER submit another thing to them EVER again and I’ve pulled all of my work out of CK’s gallery.  I just really feel badly for all those who worked really hard on their HOF entries and followed the rules to a tee only to have CK break the rules for someone they REALLY wanted as HOF.  And in my humble opinion…there are WAY better scrapbookers out there than Kristina Contes…if you haven’t seen her work…see for yourself!  I can honestly say….seen that before….it’s called Ali Edwards….how is that Hall of Fame Worthy when we’ve all been force fed the same shit over and over again from CK year after year?  Apparently she has a complex for using other colors besides kraft paper, lime green, light blue, black and white and sometimes the occasional pink hue? I don’t get it… 

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Ok, I’m off my soapbox…tomorrow will bring…Halloween Decorating!!!!! FUN!

 

9 thoughts on “These are my favorite NEW things…

  1. oh my i love those shoes…i tried on a pair and absolutely loved how they felt…then i saw the price…i got nervous and put them back… he hehe….awesome for you…..
    and love the photo of you and CK check.. he hehee….

  2. I love your altered check photo- you funny gal! CK is really shooting itself in the foot. They’d better get some of those comfy ugly shoes πŸ™‚

  3. I SO RESPECT WHAT YOU ARE DOING CONCERNING CK!- AND I DON’T PLAN TO RENEW MY SUB OR PURCHASE THEIR PRODUCTS EITHER
    AND, SO HAPPY TO LEARN ABOUT THESE SHOES- I AM JSUT ABOUT READY FOR A NEW PAIR πŸ™‚

  4. oh that totally sucks re CK and I wouldn’t have anything to do with them either. I checked out that gallery and nothing special there, your work is heaps better.

  5. I have GOT to check out those sneaks! Thanks for the tip!! I have to admit I have been wearing New Balance ones from either Value City or TJ’s lately…24.99!! Love that photo of you and the check…keep me updated on the story..I wonder if there will be a lot of readers like you….will CK even be affected by it???

  6. Keep in mind that ART of any sort is subjective. And since it’s their Ball Park, as they say, their bat and ball, they can chose who they play with. I dont agree with a LOT of what’s going on in the scrapbooking industry – in the way magazines kow-tow to the products of the same few manufacturers constantly featured, the same handful of designers whose styles becomes stale before their year of fame is up, the vague way in which reader questions are answered … and more on these same lines irks me. But without the existing (albeit week)periodicals, we would be left totally in the dark. Some content and information is better than none.

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