Christian Louboutin Opens in Sydney.

 

 Get your credit cards ready ladies,  next weekend, Christian Louboutin opens his 32nd store in the world - in Westfield Sydney.

The boutique will feature ruby-red carpet and rotating shoe displays filled the the trademark red soled shoes.

I'm feeling extremely sad that Sydney is no longer a short trip away (as it was when I lived in Newcastle), so if any of you lovely Sydney gals (or guys) happen to find yourself paying a visit to the store, please share all the juicy details and perhaps even a photo or two for me to pine over.

Happy Friday,

The Girl in Red Heels. Xo

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Back!

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I'm back after three days of intensive shopping. We shopped until 3 AM on Saturday (we ended up in Wallmart), so our feet were literally crying by the time we got back to the airplane. Everything was absolutely lovely, from all those polite, easy-going Americans, fabulous stores, and to the amazing food. I'd probably be four times my size if I lived in America! We ate breakfast twice at the Ihop - the first day (Saturday) we ate there at eight o'clock (four strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, hash brown, two pancakes, and a huge glass of orange juice), and we weren't hungry for the rest of the day. I think we ate again around 10 PM or so, some yucky food at Wallmart that I sort of just nibbled at. 

So yeah, we started out in the outlets, which may have been a mistake. The day after, we went to Target where the clothes were soooo cheap (I bought, like, 12 pajamas for my sons, each on $5 (pajamas here never go below $25)), and there were these cute little jogging pants for $7 and such. I'd bought some for $10 at the outlets, but that didn't stop me from buying more at Target! I know that the quality is better from Carters and such, but my boys grow so fast that it's pointless to buy expensive clothes for them. 

I did shop for myself as well. I bought three Levi's for $100! You can get one pair here in Iceland for no less than $160. So you see how the price difference is and why I literally lost it over there. I also bought four pairs of shoes, two purses, a wallet, loads of shirts and sweaters, belts, underwear, and anything I could get my hands on that's seriously overpriced in Iceland (Mascara for $5! It never goes below $20 in Iceland). 

We went to bookshops on the final morning. I didn't get a chance to go to Barnes & Noble (pout), but I did go to Boarders and some half-price bookshop. I bought these at Boarders: The First Five Pages, Writing Dialogue, and The Copyeditor's Handbook, which I'm really excited about. I bought these at the Half-Price Books: Building Believable Characters and Comma Sense (for a dollar). I know that these books are a lot cheaper on Amazon, but since I was only staying for 3 days, I didn't want to chance having them sent to the hotel in case I'd miss them. They're also cheaper the way I bought them, because the tax in Iceland is very high (not to mention the shipping).

Anyway! When I got home, I learned that the my PC had died for no apparent reason! I turn it on and it stays on for like five seconds and then just dies. I took it to the shop that sold it to me and they're having a look. I'm so dead if the data is ruined! All my Creative Writing assignments, and a years worth of pictures of my boys! ...I should call them and make sure they don't swipe the memory clean...

Anyway, I'll blog less until I've gotten my computer back.

Shop & Tell

I’m putting this out there for all the Shopaholics who may have been a bit busy this week and missed the news.

Westfield is going to pay one very lucky lady ( or lad ) to shop their little heart out for twelve months, track down trends, travel, and report everything back to the online/offline/facebook/twitter/videoblog communities. Oh and one more thing ? They’re giving that lucky someone a whole $100 000 salary ( as well as benefits ) to do it.

Honestly, it’s a dream job.

All you have to do is pop online, fill out an ‘application form’ ( name, contact details, answer a few questions and upload a photo and/or video of yourself ) and you could become the ‘Westfield Insider’. Seriously, what are you waiting for ?

Now I’d be a lousy blogger if I didn’t leave you with a few links – you don’t want to be googling details when you should be on the path to your dream job ! So,  to read more about the job click here, fill your application form in here and don’t forget to read those pesky old terms and conditions here.

If you do apply, I would love to hear about it. And if you do, I honestly wish you the best of luck.
Have a lovely weekend Dolls. I’m turning the big two – one on Sunday and my Mister has a whole day of suprises planned ( I have to admitt, I’m kind of scared ! ). Would love to hear what you’ll be up to do.

The Girl in Red Heels. Xo