There's a couple of words in the English language that I like a lot.
SHOES
SALE
So imagine my joy when we hit the post Christmas period, and the glorious words Shoe and Sale combine together to make possibly my favourite phrase in the entire world... SHOE SALE!! And this year the sales were tremendous value!
Now I like shoes, I like buying shoes, and upon counting my collection recently it was discovered that I have over 55 pairs if you include everything from heels to flats to sandals to flip flops to trainers. But there comes a time in a girls life when she has to part with a few pairs of shoes from her much loved collection... but only to make room so I can buy new pairs of course!!
And the bargains to be had this year in the sales were great, I could have bought another 50 pairs with all the shoes that I saw and liked.
I went to popular and trendy shoe store tReds while I was away over Christmas, and managed to not only get me one pair of shoes, but two pairs of shoes. A lovely pair of purple peep toes with a 4" heel, and a pair of black patent leather 5" heels with an ankle strap. And how much did I pay I hear you all ask... £14.99 each!!
I also found some great deals in budget retailer Primark. I'm not the biggest fan of Primark and I've never bought shoes from there before, but I am a bargain hunter, so I do get the occasional few things from there, such as underwear, jeans, and just general casual wear. So whilst looking around I found a fabulous pair of bright pink high heel shoes that I knew I must have. And again, I spent under £20!
And then we had good old TK Maxx (or TJ Maxx as my American friends may know it as), who I always find great for shoe bargains. Seriously, the amount of pairs of shoes I've purchased from there for around £10-£20 over the years would amaze you. I can assure you, while I'm still buying shoes, TK Maxx will stay in business!! So if any TK Maxx employees are reading, your job is safe, the recession won't hit you!! lol. You just have to catch the right store on the right day and you can find something you love for a price you'll love even more, which is what I did earlier this month, finding two pairs of shoes for the combined price of £35. One was a very cheap pair of green tartan print high heels, probably still there and so low priced because nobody else would wear them, but I like them, they are kind of cute, so I bought them, and for just £7.99, why wouldn't I? The other pair was a more expensive pair of grey high heels.
I bought another two pairs of shoes from other stores in the sales as well, so I ended up with a whole 7 new pairs of shoes, but I spent less than £140 on them all... that's less than £20 per pair... am I a great bargain hunter or what!! Well I am considering that amount of money wouldn't even buy half the left shoe of a few of my better more expensive pairs of shoes!! lol
Sorry to bore you with my sale shopping - what can I say, I just love shoes!! lol
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
The 2009 Blog Initiative
Hi everybody,
This is my first blog of 2009, and it’s a very boring one I’m afraid, as I’m just here to tell you about some changes and improvements for my blog that I have put in place and will continue to put in place over the next month or so.
Both J and myself have set a target upon me for 2009 to improve my blog, with the main focuses being on:-
1) Improving traffic to the blog, and more importantly, improving immediate traffic to the blog. So basically getting more people to read it within the first few weeks of it being posted.
2) Improving feedback from the blog, as this has been a bit sparse for the most part this past year.
3) And finally, improving blog interactivity, which goes hand in hand with point 2 to some degree.
It’s been a bit more complicated than I initially hoped, as I had a series of plans to counter these issues, but due to html embedding issues on my blog-sites, I’ve had to create a mini web-site of my own purely to host these new features at. This isn’t an additional blog-site, my blog won’t be posted here, it is just supporting my current blog-sites, but I have put in a decent “About Me” section, and I may include an FAQ section, and other things may pop up here in the future just to help you get to know me better and feel a bit more involved. The site can be viewed here:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/
So just to cover what I am doing for the above points:-
Point 1 – Improving Blog Traffic
I have set up a mailing list that everybody is welcome to join, and every time I post a blog, I will send an e-mail out via this mailing list to say that I’ve posted a new blog. This way, you’ll know straight away as I presume you check your e-mails more often than you check my blog-sites! Then you can come along and check out my latest blog straight away. This avoids you logging on every few days just to see if I’ve posted, when I haven’t, or you not logging on for a month and then to come back to find 5 new blogs you have to catch up on. Hopefully it’s just a fairly simple thing that will just improve it for all of you regular readers out there. So join my mailing list by clicking on this link and typing in your e-mail address:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/blog.html
Point 2 – Improving feedback
I understand that a lot of people don’t want to leave feedback for everybody to see on the blog, and also that it’s a bit of a pain to note down my e-mail address, then log into your e-mail in order to send me a private e-mail. So one thing I’m trying to do here is put an “e-mail form” on my blog, so you can just type your message and send it directly and privately to my e-mail address in a much simpler manner. I’m having trouble getting the html code to work to actually embed this form into my blog-sites, so I’m just going to have to put a link at the bottom of each blog I post that links you to my mini-site, and you can just read my blog, click on the link to my mini-site, type your message, and we’re away. I hope this will make it easier for you to contact me for whatever reason, as I love to hear your thoughts and comments, and I also love just generally chatting to like-minded people. To see this form and to e-mail me this way, go to this link:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/emailme.html
Point 3 – Improving interactivity
This one is a bit of a work in progress, but I’m working on numerous things for this. One click polls is one thing I’m doing (or planning on doing), simple poll questions to get quick opinion from a larger number of people without any effort whatsoever. This might be just to gage opinion on how good a certain blog topic is, whether you want to see more of something in particular, and it may even evolve into you helping me select an outfit or help setting me a fun task. I’m not sure how this one is going to pan out yet, but it offers some good fun opportunities. There isn’t one posted as I type this, but when a poll is up and running, it will be posted here:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/blogpoll.html
There will be other things happening for the interactivity issue as well, maybe a guestbook on my mini-site, or a message board where readers can exchange thoughts, opinions and questions with other readers as well as myself. We’ll see where these thoughts lead, and just see what you want to see, as I do this all for you after all!
That’s about it for this blog, going forwards the aim is for me to blog 2-3 times every month, and I do have a few blog topic ideas in my head that I’ll be working on for the next few weeks, so stay tuned, and sign up to my mailing list so you can be the first to read them!!
All necessary links to polls, e-mail forms or whatever else will be posted as and when required in future blogs, so there’s no need to remember them all now!! And hopefully you'll find these new features a positive benefit to my blog.
Take care everybody, and I hope your 2009 has started off good for you all!
Til next time, lot’s of love and sluttiness,
Your faithful interactive blog servant, Blogslut xx (lol)
This is my first blog of 2009, and it’s a very boring one I’m afraid, as I’m just here to tell you about some changes and improvements for my blog that I have put in place and will continue to put in place over the next month or so.
Both J and myself have set a target upon me for 2009 to improve my blog, with the main focuses being on:-
1) Improving traffic to the blog, and more importantly, improving immediate traffic to the blog. So basically getting more people to read it within the first few weeks of it being posted.
2) Improving feedback from the blog, as this has been a bit sparse for the most part this past year.
3) And finally, improving blog interactivity, which goes hand in hand with point 2 to some degree.
It’s been a bit more complicated than I initially hoped, as I had a series of plans to counter these issues, but due to html embedding issues on my blog-sites, I’ve had to create a mini web-site of my own purely to host these new features at. This isn’t an additional blog-site, my blog won’t be posted here, it is just supporting my current blog-sites, but I have put in a decent “About Me” section, and I may include an FAQ section, and other things may pop up here in the future just to help you get to know me better and feel a bit more involved. The site can be viewed here:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/
So just to cover what I am doing for the above points:-
Point 1 – Improving Blog Traffic
I have set up a mailing list that everybody is welcome to join, and every time I post a blog, I will send an e-mail out via this mailing list to say that I’ve posted a new blog. This way, you’ll know straight away as I presume you check your e-mails more often than you check my blog-sites! Then you can come along and check out my latest blog straight away. This avoids you logging on every few days just to see if I’ve posted, when I haven’t, or you not logging on for a month and then to come back to find 5 new blogs you have to catch up on. Hopefully it’s just a fairly simple thing that will just improve it for all of you regular readers out there. So join my mailing list by clicking on this link and typing in your e-mail address:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/blog.html
Point 2 – Improving feedback
I understand that a lot of people don’t want to leave feedback for everybody to see on the blog, and also that it’s a bit of a pain to note down my e-mail address, then log into your e-mail in order to send me a private e-mail. So one thing I’m trying to do here is put an “e-mail form” on my blog, so you can just type your message and send it directly and privately to my e-mail address in a much simpler manner. I’m having trouble getting the html code to work to actually embed this form into my blog-sites, so I’m just going to have to put a link at the bottom of each blog I post that links you to my mini-site, and you can just read my blog, click on the link to my mini-site, type your message, and we’re away. I hope this will make it easier for you to contact me for whatever reason, as I love to hear your thoughts and comments, and I also love just generally chatting to like-minded people. To see this form and to e-mail me this way, go to this link:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/emailme.html
Point 3 – Improving interactivity
This one is a bit of a work in progress, but I’m working on numerous things for this. One click polls is one thing I’m doing (or planning on doing), simple poll questions to get quick opinion from a larger number of people without any effort whatsoever. This might be just to gage opinion on how good a certain blog topic is, whether you want to see more of something in particular, and it may even evolve into you helping me select an outfit or help setting me a fun task. I’m not sure how this one is going to pan out yet, but it offers some good fun opportunities. There isn’t one posted as I type this, but when a poll is up and running, it will be posted here:-
http://blogslut.bravehost.com/blogpoll.html
There will be other things happening for the interactivity issue as well, maybe a guestbook on my mini-site, or a message board where readers can exchange thoughts, opinions and questions with other readers as well as myself. We’ll see where these thoughts lead, and just see what you want to see, as I do this all for you after all!
That’s about it for this blog, going forwards the aim is for me to blog 2-3 times every month, and I do have a few blog topic ideas in my head that I’ll be working on for the next few weeks, so stay tuned, and sign up to my mailing list so you can be the first to read them!!
All necessary links to polls, e-mail forms or whatever else will be posted as and when required in future blogs, so there’s no need to remember them all now!! And hopefully you'll find these new features a positive benefit to my blog.
Take care everybody, and I hope your 2009 has started off good for you all!
Til next time, lot’s of love and sluttiness,
Your faithful interactive blog servant, Blogslut xx (lol)
Friday, 2 January 2009
Subscribe to my Mailing List
Hi all,
To make my blog traffic more efficient, I am setting up a mailing list that will send an e-mail out to all subscribers every time I post a new blog, just to let you know I've posted, and to give you a direct link to the blog page. (The whole blog will not be published in the e-mail at this time).
This will help you keep current and up to date with my blogs, to avoid you having to log on to my blog pages randomly to see if I've posted something new or not.
Is anybody interested in subscribing to this? If so, type your e-mail address into the mailing list subscription box on this blog home page (top right of the page). The name box is optional.
Your e-mail address will not be disclosed to anybody, and I won't send you any other e-mails other than those specified above.
If you are struggling to use the subscription box on this site for whatever reason (some internet browsers won't display it), then you can also subscribe by sending me an e-mail and I'll manually add you to the list.
If sending me an e-mail, keep the information brief as below:-
Subject: Blog Subscribe
Body Text: your e-mail address
My e-mail address is: blogslut13@yahoo.co.uk
Happy reading, and I hope this new mailing list service I'm providing can increase your enjoyment of my blog.
Love
Blogslut
xx
To make my blog traffic more efficient, I am setting up a mailing list that will send an e-mail out to all subscribers every time I post a new blog, just to let you know I've posted, and to give you a direct link to the blog page. (The whole blog will not be published in the e-mail at this time).
This will help you keep current and up to date with my blogs, to avoid you having to log on to my blog pages randomly to see if I've posted something new or not.
Is anybody interested in subscribing to this? If so, type your e-mail address into the mailing list subscription box on this blog home page (top right of the page). The name box is optional.
Your e-mail address will not be disclosed to anybody, and I won't send you any other e-mails other than those specified above.
If you are struggling to use the subscription box on this site for whatever reason (some internet browsers won't display it), then you can also subscribe by sending me an e-mail and I'll manually add you to the list.
If sending me an e-mail, keep the information brief as below:-
Subject: Blog Subscribe
Body Text: your e-mail address
My e-mail address is: blogslut13@yahoo.co.uk
Happy reading, and I hope this new mailing list service I'm providing can increase your enjoyment of my blog.
Love
Blogslut
xx
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