Right now I am craving a new pair of shoes, and, of course, some money to buy them with! I haven’t bought a new pair of heels in maybe eight months. Eight months is a long, long time and I keep torturing myself by viewing shoe of the hot variety online!

If money was no object, here are my three picks:

1)It may be August but Autumn is not far off, so I need a sturdy pair of boots for traipsing through leaf-ridden pavements – The pair from Topshop will do the job nicely!

AGNES lace-up casual boot

2) Please get out the proverbial violins and weep for me… I haven’t bought any really nice new clothes in the UK since last year, yes that’s right – 2008!!!! So I need to find other ways to spruce up outfits, and I think that’s where the statement shoe comes in.

Kurt Geiger Hope Black Courts Platform-Shoe

3) Over-the-knee boots. Oh yes, I have always wanted to look like Catgirl while walking around the local supermarket!

Suede thigh boots, seen on Preen Thornton Bregazzi Runway Fall 09

And, as if I wanted to torture myself even more, I spotted a picture from Fashion Toast of her shoe rack…. What red-blooded girl wouldn’t want to own at least 90% of these (my eyes are on the leopard print booties from Aldo).

Fashion Toast's Shoe Rack

+ Some great tutorials to make your own designer-style footwear!

+ Alyssa Zukas has a great tutorial on how to make your own notorious Ariella studded boots.

She also shows us how to make the GORGEOUS Chloe studded boots as well!

+ Meagan has created a recession-friendly tutorial for the Christian Louboutin petal sandal as well. I am going to head to the craft shop asap to try it out!



If you find any other examples of DIY tutorials please let me know!