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Happy Friday!! Yesterday I spent the day in New Jersey with my best friend Tess and let me tell you that Milburn Deli lives up to all the hype that everyone was telling me. I am still full from my lunch yesterday. For the past few years I have eyed the Stella McCartney faux leather oxford platforms in every store I have been to. They are so cute and classy because they look like a classic oxford shoe, but they have the height like those shoes the Spice Girls used to wear back in the day. We all know we wanted a pair of those for our own. I have looked on every discount site for these shoes in any color way and the lowest that I have seen them even during the holiday time was $600 and I couldn’t bring myself to buy them because I know that I won’t wear them every single day. Luckily I found another option! This year on Thanksgiving I did a little retail therapy on Jildor.com and I thought because I didn’t shop cyber Monday that I wasn’t going to get any rewards, but I was wrong. Just from shopping during Thanksgiving in general on their site I received $50 in credits! I had to use them by this week and I scoured the site for a pair of shoes and stumbled upon these amazing Steve Madden pair. They almost look identical to the Stella McCartney’s the only difference is the toe area is rounded and the heel part is a cork heel vs a wooden heel in the Stella’s. These amazing shoes are only $99 and with my $50 coupon I only spent $49 before taxes. They are so comfortable and I am so glad I found a pair that gives me the same look at the Stella McCartney pair that I have been eyeing, but at a fraction of the cost. Check out their website now for amazing other shoes that are heavily discounted right now! They are honestly one of my favorite sites to shop on for great shoe deals and their customer service is amazing! I hope everyone enjoyed today’s Steals & Deals. For all of you in New York City stay warm with all this snow. <3

Check out Jildor Shoes here for the Steve Madden Shoes

Happy Thursday everyone! Recently I have been attending / invited to my fair share of weddings and one of the major things that can make or break your outfit is your shoes. Not only are you going to be standing around sometimes even on grass, but also you will be dancing the night away with all of your friends. Something that my mother said to me when I was looking for shoes recently was to find one with a little bit of a platform. Why a platform? When a heel like these black patent leather Jimmy Choos, a platform allows your foot to be so arched. As my mom likes to tell me it also is to not make you feel like you are walking on stilts. A lot of the platform patent shoes that I saw in stores I wasn’t a fan of for the fact that I felt that the platform was too noticeable to the naked eye. I like these shoes because the platform is seamlessly hidden at a quick glance. Again with these shoes I did my little trick to break them in. One day I wore socks and walked around with them for a few hours and sat with them as well and then the next day without socks. This way my feet got used to not only standing in heels but walking around in them comfortably. When buying wedding shoes my other suggestion is to not just buy shoes that match the color of your dress. Buy shoes that you can wear with multiple dresses so you A. don’t have more shoes in your close than you need and B. hopefully by the end of wedding season as some people like to call it your shoes will be so broken in that you can keep them on for an entire evening without any blisters or anything! Hope you all have a great Thursday and don’t forget tomorrow is my BIRTHDAY!!! <3

Here is a link to these same shoes that are now carried in suede 🙂 Jimmy Choo

Steals & Deals – Steve Madden

The Best Wedding Date – Your Choos <3