Friday, December 27, 2013

Milk and Honey and Spoonflower and Me

A few months ago I was one of 4 winners for a design contest sponsored by Spoonflower in tandem with Milk and Honey Shoes.  Entrants were to design a textile print to use on the Milk and Honey website for shoes.  Winners got a free pair of shoes with their design on them.  The design will also be available for the public to use on shoes they design! Is that not the COOLEST thing ever?

Milk and Honey Shoes are fabulous...you can design your own shoes there using a ton of different materials and shoe styles.  You choose the body, the heel shape and height, the materials, pretty much everything so your shoe will be pretty unique.

I chose a boot. I'm a boot kind of girl.  I chose a stiletto heel with an internal .5 inch platform.  They are simply put...bad ass.  Lookie here.

Photo by Nathan Hanlon. Legs and feet by me.

Are they not gorgeous?  I love, love, love them.  I want to wear them every day...I do have to go buy an outfit or two to go with them tho.  I want a linen dress to wear with these and some fabulous linen pants too.  I'm pushing it wearing these kinds of boots since I'm a mature (ahem) woman but hey, with the right outfit I won't look like a hoochie mama wearing her 22 year old daughters clothes.

It's a hard to see that my design has a linen background but you can see it here if you want to look at it more closely. Here are a few more photos of the shoes (and just my legs).

Photo by Nathan Hanlon. Legs and feet by me.
Photo by Nathan Hanlon. Legs and feet by me.

Photo by Nathan Hanlon. Legs and feet by me.

This bird one is my fave because we came upon these abstract birds in an alley doorway. Since there are little birds in my design I thought it was Kismet.

Milk and Honey also asked each of us to send photos of ourselves wearing the shoes. OOOh, do I hate seeing photos of myself.   There is an art to photographing mature women...and luckily my daughter has learned some of the finer points of the art.  I didn't have to Photoshop any of the photos I used (hahaha, I also tossed out a whole boatload of photos tho).  Here I am casually posing in my boots.

Photo by Zoë Odien.
Photo by Zoë Odien.
Photo by Zoë Odien. 
Photo by Zoë Odien.
I sent all of those photos to M&H and I have no idea how many of them they'll use or if they'll do some Photoshop work on them. LOL, If they can take off 20 years I'd be estastic.

I have to thank my daughter and her boyfriend for taking the photos.  They were good sports as I looked at photos and said things like: "No, too close...OMG, do you see my double chins?" Or "Look at those rolls!  No rolls!." Or "...maybe you need to step back 20 feet and shoot from way up there looking down at me."  I'm lucky because they're both taller than me so they didn't really have to climb on ladders.

I'm still waiting for the blog post (probably delayed because it took me a few days to get my photos to M&H) and will post the link to it when it goes up.  I believe the design will be available for the public to use on their shoes at that time.  I'll keep you posted!


6 comments:

  1. I LOVE these! You are a fabulous model, too!
    Sue Bain

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  2. And you Sue are a great commenter! Thank you on many levels! xo

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  3. Awesome boots! Awesome pics! Sexy mama!

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  4. The boots are awesome. You look great in all the pics; and you have that "red carpet" pose, with the crossed ankles, perfected. The boots really show off your design.

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  5. Hahaha, it's because I have a hip injury and can't actually stand (for very long) with 2 straight legs. My left leg always has to be slightly bent to accommodate the injury. Thanks for the comments and yep, I do think the boots are awesome!

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