In My Mailbox #19 - King Arthur and Christian Louboutin

I can't even explain how awesome this week has been. I only received one book, but oh what a book it was!

I came home from an extended trip to my boyfriend's the find the heaviest (yet smallest) Amazon parcel you have ever seen in your entire life. Confused, because I hadn't ordered anything, I ripped it open and found...

This was sent to me as a surprise Christmas present by The Lit Addicted Brit who, naturally, I now love more than life itself. This book is beautiful. It's hardback leather with an embossed cover, gold-edged pages and apparently it has illustrations but I haven't quite brought myself to take off the plastic wrapping yet!

It was such a wonderful surprise and it still makes me happy everytime I look at it. I have sent her a proper e-mail thank-you (well, I haven't yet, but it's typed and ready to be sent!) but this will serve as a public one because hey, she deserves it!

Like I said, that was the only book I got this week, but (and I apologise for this but we are Booking In Heels, after all!) just look at these!

  These are Christian Louboutin heels that I found in my advent calendar yesterday. I know, I know - most people get chocolate pieces in theirs. I do too - Disney Princess shaped ones, in fact. But ever since I was little, my Dad has made advent 'buckets' for me and my Mum - a bucket full of little wrapped presents, one for each day of advent, consisting of 23 little presents and one big one. 

Obviously this was my big one. Huge one, in fact. These shoes are expensive and to be honest, I'm surprised my Dad even knew what they were. I opened a parcel marked 'Fragile' and found a stick-on mirror for the visor in my car (I've pulled it down expecting there to be a mirror every day for the last three years, despite there Never Ever being one) and a post-it not telling me to look in the cupboard under the wash-stand.

Doesn't everybody want to open a cupboard and find a surprise pair of Louboutins?
 

It's an awful photo, but these are the shoes on my feet. Perhaps French designer heels shouldn't be paired with a skeleton dress and a spaniel, but hey, that's what Sundays are for!


Have a great week everyone!

The Sunday Sum-Up #5

The shoes in question

The funniest thing of my week was a little girl in ASDA this morning. She was about four, I think, and was stood behind me in the queue.

So I'm staring absently into space, as you do, when I hear this little voice pipe up - "Mummy! Look, that lady has pink hair! *pause* And pink nails! *pause* And look at her shoes! Mummy, I want to be that lady!"

Aaaawww. That's still making me smile now :)

Book-wise, this is what's been going on here this week:

• Congratulations are in order, as I've most likely managed to write The Least Objective Review In The Entire World (what can I say, Law degrees warp people). My review of Cinderella Ate My Daughter (which I did actually like!) by Peggy Orenstein is here.

• I finally finished off The Hunger Games trilogy, only a year or so after everybody else! My review of Mockingjay is here.

•  Two Bibliomaniacs kicked off their Books to Movie Challenge this month and I've finished my first complete entry - The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. My film review is here and the book version is here.

• My wishlist for this week is here and you can find the rest of it by clicking here.

Thinking about it, I should probably also win the award for the most uses of the word 'here' in one blog post...