Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Kelsi Dagger -Wilma, Grey

Ciao, a tutti!

How many days are left until Spring?

Did you spot the 19 under my elbow?

Are you wondering if you've seen these beauties before? 

Click here to see how fabulous they are in black, or

Click here* to see what the Duke and Juliette have been up to...hmmmm....

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 116: Wednesday February 29th 2012

Designer: Kelsi Dagger

Name: Wilma

Color: Grey

Style: Ankle Bootie

Heel: 4.5 inches (11.3 cm), Platform: 1 inch (2.54 cm), Shaft: 2.5 inches (6.35 cm)

Material: Leather Upper with fold-over cuff

*Disclaimer -What's Her Fantasy link contains R-rated material, explicit language and sexual content... consider yourself warned...enjoy!

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! MIA -Pampa, Tan

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

Are you wondering where you have seen these booties before?

Click here to see in which other decade I wore them!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 115: Tuesday February 28th 2012
Designer: MIA
Name: Pampa
Color: Tan
Style: Desert Wedge Bootie
Heel: 3 inches (7.62 cm),
Material: Suede Upper with menswear detailing and oxford lacing

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! STEVEN by Steve Madden -Gwenn, Black

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

21 days to go until Spring!
I'm gonna miss my cold weather gear by Steve Madden...
I guess I'll just have to buy more Steve Madden sandals

Did you get a chance to see these beauties in the suede-cognac color? 

Click here to see me styling them in the jungle!

Question: How do you make a shoe lover happy?
Answer: Give her free shoes!  Thanx Steve!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 114: Monday February 27th 2012

Designer: STEVEN collection by Steve Madden
Name: Gwenn
Color: Black

Style: Clog Boot

Heel: 4.5 inches (11.3 cm), Platform: 1 inch (2.54 cm), Shaft: 21 inches (61 cm)

Material: Leather Upper with contrast stitching along midsole and cuffed shaft with lacing detail

Coat: Steve Madden Hooded Wool Toggle Jacket

Beautiful in any color; click here to see these beauties in Suede Cognac!

 



Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Newport News Lace -Up Boot

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

Could you spot it?

I couldn't help myself...

Don't worry...it wasn't a 'real' cemetery...
this is actually a marble and granite business we stumbled on and couldn't resist!

 

Baci!

Stella Notte



Day 113: Sunday February 26th 2012
Designer: Newport News

Name: None listed

Color: Black

Style: Tall  Boot

Heel: 4 inches (10.16 cm), Platform: 1 inch (2.54 cm), Shaft: 21 inches (61 cm)

Material: Suede Upper with lacing and grommet detail

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Old Navy Slouch Boot

Ciao a tutti!

Quanti giorni fino a primavera?

Lo vedi?

Qui è ... 23 ... sul manto

Ti piacciono i miei stivali?

Ci vediamo domani!

Baci!


Stella Notte


Day 112: Saturday February 25th 2012
Designer: Old Navy
Name: None listed
Color: Toast
Style: Slouch Boot
Heel: 3 inches (7.62cm),  Shaft: 18 inches (45.72 cm)
Material: Sueded Upper with almond toe

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Tall Camel Boot

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

It was an easy one! 
24 days to go!

 

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 111: Friday February 24th 2012
Designer: I bought these boots at Ross' Dress for Less...I needed a pair of camel colored boots...and they happened to have one left...the size?  I couldn't find it, but I tired it on, and it fit!  Guess it was meant to be!

Name: None listed

Color: Camel

Style: Tall Fold-Over Boot (but I prefer to wear them up!)

Heel: 4 inches (10.6cm), Platform: 1/2 inch (1.27 cm), Shaft: 20 inches (50.8 cm)

Material: Sueded Upper with square toe

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Mojo Moxy -Voodoo, Blue

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

Can you spot it?

Baci!

Stella Notte

 

Day 110: Thursday February 23rd 2012

Designer: Mojo Moxy

Name: Voodoo

Color: Blue Chico Suede

Style: Open-Toe Bootie

Heel: 4 inches (10.16 cm),  Shaft:  6 inches (15.24 cm)

Material: Suede Upper with metal-ringed grommet detail

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful in any color; click here to see these beauties in Camel or here to see these beauties in Grey!

 

 

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Exchange by Charles David -Jovial, Black

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?



Are you wondering if you've seen these beauties before?  You have, in brown!

Click here to see me style them in Roma!

Come back tomorrow to play again! 

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 109: Wednesday February 22nd 2012

Designer: Exchange by Charles David
Name: Jovial
Color: Black
Style: Tall Wedge Boot
Heel: 4 inches (10.16 cm), Shaft: 14 inches (35.56 cm)
Material: Leather Upper; instep strap with contrast stitching and stud detail

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Fioni -Slink

Buongiorno a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

Ha, ha!  you are too good at this game! 
27 Days to go!

See you again tomorrow!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 108: Tuesday February 21st  2012

Designer: Fioni

Name: Slink

Color: Grey

Style: Tall Boot

Heel:  2 inches (5.08 cm), Shaft: 13.5 inches (34.29 cm)

Material: Manmade Upper

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Miss Me -Rhoda, Leopard

Ciao a tutti!

How many days left until Spring?

28 days to go!

Are you thinking you've seen these boots before?  You have! 

Click here to see where the grey pair took me!

Do you like the boots but still not sure whether you want to add them to your Arsenal? 

Click here to read my review of them on Amazon.com!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 107: Monday February 20th 2012

Designer: Miss Me

Name: Rhoda

Color: Leopard

Style: Over-the-Knee Slouch Boot

Heel: 3 inches (7.62 cm),  Shaft: 22.5 inches (57.15 cm)

Material: Sueded Upper with lacing detail

Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Enzo Angiolini -Nate

Ciao a tutti!

How many days until Spring???

Did you spot the 29 in the sign above me?

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 106: Sunday February 19th 2012

Designer: Enzo Angiolini

Name: Nate

Color: Light Natural

Style: Over-the-Knee/Riding Boot

Heel: 3inches (7.62  cm), Shaft: 19 inches (48.26 cm)

Material: Leather Upper with buckled straps and harness detail



Countdown to Spring; Boot Season Finale! Naughty Monkey -Need To, Grey

Buongiorno a tutti!

With Spring about a month away (did you see my Countdown to Spring clock?  Look right!), I am excited that sandal season is quickly approaching, but I am also a little sad.  'Why?' You ask yourself...because I know that when boot season is done, there'll be no more boots to share with you from the Arsenal L...that is unless I happen to come across an End-of-Season-Sale..then all bets are off!

Right now you may experience an ear crushing sound...no NEED TO worry...it is just the collective  sound of hearts breaking around the world.  Yes, I know it's heart wrenching, but we shall persevere as always through these next 30 days; heads held high with dignity, honor and a pretty cool game of Search & Find!

Siamo pronti? (Are we ready?)  Andiamo! (Let's go!)

How many days until Spring?
That's right, 30!

Wondering where you've seen these beauties before?  In Roma!  Click here to see them in Tan, as well as seeing me ensure my trip back to the Eternal City!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 105: Saturday February 18th 2012

Designer: Naughty Monkey

Name: Need To (the suede version of this shoe is sold under the name Want To)

Color: Grey
Style: Ankle Bootie
Heel: 4.75 inches (12.07 cm), Platform: 1 inch (2.54 cm)
Material: Leather Upper with strap and buckle accents

Bentornati! It's Boot Season: MIA Limited Edition -Lacrosse, Tan

Buongiorno a tutti!

While I stand here, and you gaze upon another great pair of boots, I shall -

Hey, what's that???

Boots Up!!!

Oh, my goodness!  There it is again...and again...and yet, again!  
What is it you ask yourself???

Boots down!!!

After two weeks of boot season, I am nowhere close to being done
(I sure do have a lot of boots)! 

Do you love boots as much as I do???

Hold on!  Boot season is just getting started!!!! 

Have you seen these boots before?  Click here to check them out in grey!!!

Would you like to see the boots I've worn in 2011? Click here to see my photo gallery!!!

Baci!!!


Stella Notte



Day 104 : Friday February 17th 2012
Designer: MIA Limited Edition
Name: Lacrosse
Color: Tan
Style: Over-the-Knee Boot
Heel: 1.5 inches (3.81 cm), Shaft: 23 inches (58.42 cm)
Material: Luxe Suede/Leather Upper with lacing detail

Bentornati! It's Boot Season: Black Rooster -Tiana, Taupe

Buongiorno a tutti!


When I have that matchy-matchy thing going on (and yes, I know that it is often...in my younger days, I rarely had two things that matched...and it really sucked to have knitted mittens that were different colors and patterns!), I feel like I am channeling Ann Marie, the role which put Marlo Thomas on the map in the 1960's television series That Girl: from coats to dresses, shoes and bags, everything she wore matched! I pay homage to that fashionable icon and today, that girl is me!

 Diamonds, Daisies, Snowflakes;  That Girl

 Chestnuts, Rainbows, Springtime...Is That Girl

She's tinsel on a tree ...She's everything that every girl should be!  

Sable, Popcorn, White Wine; That Girl

Gingham, Bluebirds, Broadway...Is That Girl

She's mine alone, but luckily for you ... 

If you find a girl to love, Only one girl to love,

Then she'll be That Girl too...That Girl!

Baci!


Stella Notte


Do these beauties look familiar?  Click here to check them out in black

Day 103: Thursday February 16th 2012

Designer: Black Rooster

Name: Tiana

Color: Taupe

Style: Thigh High Boot

Heel: 4 inches (10.16 cm), Platform: 1 inch (2.54 cm), Shaft: 24 inches (61 cm)

Material: Leather Upper with ribs on vamp detail

Bentornati! It's Boot Season: Brown Paisley Bootie

Buongiorno a tutti!

What's in a name?  That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.*

                                

Still over a month away until the first day of Spring, and the lone bud which adorns the rose bushes I inherited, has bloomed; an anachronism** to say the very least, it has me summoning the immortal spirit of perhaps the world's most renown playwright and poet, William Shakespeare.  A rose by any other name would indeed smell as sweet, but I can't help but wonder if the same would apply to these booites, which I have had in my possession for so long but whose name has since escaped me...

…payable…payback…paycheck…payday…payer…paygrade…paying…payload…


…payment…payoff…payola***…payout…payroll…paystub…?

 

 Ah!  Now I remember where I found these boots...Payless! 

Just as fabulous as expensive boots, but at a fraction of the price...Sweet!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Do these beauties look familiar?  Click here to check out a taller version in red.

 

Day 102: Wednesday February 15th 2012

Designer: Payless
Name: None -I've had these for about 6 or seven years and lost track of the name if any

Color: Brown Paisley

Style: Ankle Bootie

Heel: inches (11.3 cm),  Shaft: 10 inches (25.4 cm)

Material: Fabric Upper

*Juliet, from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II, Lines 1-2)

**a·nach·ro·nism

1.      A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, esp. a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
2.      An act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong.

***pay·o·la (it's okay, I didn't know what this one was either!)

1.      Bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service, such that of disc jockeys for the promotion of records.
2.      A bribe or a number of bribes given to an influential person in exchange for a promotion of a product or service

*

Bentornati! It's Boot Season: MIA -Pampa, Black

Buongiorno a tutti!

Taking a look at my outfit, I see that I am caught in a time warp, but of which decade, I am not sure;

Oversized floppy knitted beret from the '70's,

Legwarmers from the '80's of course, 

Crossbody/Messenger bag from the '90's and Jeggings from the new millennium (2000's),

 And the wedge-heeled desert boots with the updated menswear detailing and oxford lacing...

timeless!

Baci!

Stella Notte

Day 101: Tuesday February 14th 2012

Designer: MIA

Name: Pampa

Color: Black

Style: Desert Wedge Bootie

Heel: 3 inches (7.62 cm),

Material: Suede Upper with menswear detailing and oxford lacing

Only two days left to vote in the poll...let your voice be heard:  Which do you prefer to buy, Leather or Manmade?

Bentornati! It's Boot Season: Funtasma by Pleaser -Mountain, Brown

Buongiorno a tutti!

One-hundred shoes out of the Arsenal posted, and it's time to celebrate!  We are going to kick off the festivities with some fun!  Nothing could be more befitting a day of merriment then some Fun Time Math!  Okay fellow shoe-a-holics, it's time to go back to the classroom and get schooled!

    Marvel + Luscious = Marvelous                       Awe-Inspiring + Adventuresome = Awesome

    Amative + Tantalizing = Amazing                               Stupendous + Adorning = Stunning

                     Fun Time + Orgasma = Funtasma (An orgasm in a boot...genius!)

Class dismissed!

Baci!

Stella Notte

P.S.  Only three days left to vote in my poll:  Which do you prefer to buy, Leather or manmade?

Day 100: Monday February 13th 2012

Designer: Funtasma by Pleaser

Name: Mountain (also sold under the name of 120 Viking Boot)

Color: Brown

Style: Lace-Up Tall Boot

Heel: 3 3/4 inches (9.53 cm),  Shaft: 13 3/4 inches (34.93 cm)

Material: Micro Suede Upper with lacing detail along vamp and faux fur collar