Sexy AND Comfortable Shoes! Mission Accomplished.

Your research has been done for you: shoes that are both sexy AND comfortable... (it is far, far past time for a shoe post from Chocolate Shoes and Coffee ;) Black tie event possibly? I am loving the squiggles design and stylish heel!

Nanette Lepore, Great job! The "Courtesan" is fun...great detail....

Has anyone tried out Taryn Rose? I like these because they aren't the heel yet they give you height...oh I love wedges... Taryn's shoes are supposed to be amazing.

Stuart Weitzman impresses me with many of their designs at the moment; I have a thing for buckles and peep-toes.... mabye not the most practical but certainly appeals to my aesthetics for shoes... and they are flats...

Here they are in purple....I am really loving these! How cute would they be with denim? I love dressing up jeans with a stylish shoe....

Jeffrey Campbell flat... ruffles and pearls and a vintage appeal... so dressy and don't tell anyone, even comfortable...


Keen offers you an eco-friendly ballerina slipper with a rugged edge...I like the thought that they would not get trashed quickly on the journeys of errands...



And finally, ending with an energizing red note: Keen's Madrid ballerina. I am delighted that these shoes with a durable, tough edge are also called "ballerinas."


Rock on, readers, in some make-you-smile shoes!
Which ones do you choose?




sources: Bluefly.com and zappos.com for the last two.

Views from South Beach...

Ocean Drive, Miami Beach

Happy Saturday!

Have a Blissful one...this view is over South Beach from The Strand Hotel roof.

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find -and seize- your bliss!

“The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.” -Joseph Campbell

What is your bliss?

Today when I was teaching, I totally lost track of time -poor students-... I looked up and saw the clock hand on the 9, thinking I still had thirty minutes of class to direct. It was actually time to finish... I did not know what time it was, and I was totally enjoying what I was doing... how is that for bliss at work? Being completely unaware of time and thinking you still have a half hour when actually you are done for the day???

I think it was the wild water-ocean swim I took last night that made the work so blissful today... just a thought ;)

When was the last time you followed your bliss...?

Decorating with... Love Poems

Who can resist a love poem every once in a while?

Tonight I hand-wrote out a few (edit: previously published ones...) to hang in our beach apartment

in order to surprise Mr. Wonderful, especially with one of our faves.

Here you go:


Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
-with brightness of peace-
all places

yes a world
& in this world of
yes live
-skilfully curled-
all worlds.

-e.e. cummings


Do you have a favorite love song or love poem?

Have a lovely day...

image from: here

Eye Candy for Beachy Design Lovers

Well, hello there!

Hope you are having a fabulous day, lovelies. Enjoy these beachy interiors!

I love the art, the muted colors, and the chair covers!

Could you hang out in this kitchen for a while?

Aren't the white dresser and bedding and blue chair fabulous with this view?

With this bedroom, the design would be easy...

I love the hardwood combination with the soft fabrics... especially loving the vanity right now ;)

Another cute kitchen... love the height on this sink... the right height on sinks does wonders.

Before digital life, I had the hard copy of this cover ripped out and saved since I loved it so much. Everything is perfect!

What is your favorite? I'm leaning toward the blissful bedroom.

Hope you enjoyed the vanity score I just posted about :)

Here in Miami Beach we've had record highs and it is now finally cooling off to the 80s today.

I can't get enough beach, blue, green, and great design... hope you enjoyed these lovelies.

xoxo- Miss Bliss

all photos: from here

Every Girl Needs a Vanity! Craigslist to the Rescue

After searching high and low, I can finally say,
here it is: my new vanity!

The chair is so unique...at least in my South Beach neck of the woods ;)

It has a curved, leather-covered top.

It would be cute facing either way, the other side is perfect.

The drawers on the right are actually two; the left is one tall drawer.

I love it! Could be because I had a French Provincial set growing up... this is my favorite shot, thanks to my photographer, Mr. Wonderful! This view reminds me of Annechovie...I love her artwork...so fanciful and lovely!

Did I say I love it? It was a mere $60 for both pieces on Miami's Craigslist.

This one is listed on Miami Craigslist for $300. I was loving it, but not the price. I could not believe how similar they are and that I found the second one!

The scary 80's vanity...I saw other scary ones in oak, too scary to post, maybe on Halloween. ;)

The $499 Pottery Barn model with "smart plug system"

Ikea Edland 199

How did I survive until now without one? I've been looking around for a while now, checking out Ikea's vanity, West Elm's vanity, various other ones online, various Craigslist postings, and, finally...

...after feeling like Goldilocks and her three beds: one vanity was too plain, one too big, one too ornate, one too expensive...the cutie at the top is what I finally found.

I had plans to paint it and change out the knobs with some of the cute ones like Anthropologie's, but when I got it home, it just seemed fine in its present state. I may change it up eventually, but for now, my inner amateur interior designer is very excited! I love all the old Hollywood-era glamour it inspires!

Finally, a central place for jewelry, makeup, OPI nail polish bottle collection, and all the other girlie items...a place to do makeup, fix hair, and just be girlie!

Do you think I should keep it as is or mix it up?

xxoo, newly girl-ified Miss Bliss

Bliss-full deals!

My all time favorite Bliss product---Vanilla and Bergamot--great scrub texture, just absolutely vanilla scrub-blissful!
Just picked up for 12.99, thank you TJ Maxx!
Blood Orange--how gourmet-spa-licious of you, Bliss!

Also 9.99, thank you TJ Maxx... love the warming part of this product...
High Thigh Scrub...with circulation stimulation :)


9.99 again, thank you, TJ Maxx... love this super minty therapy!

What products do you just love? Any deal-scoring strategies???

Do tell! Off to some spa time...;)



P.S. TJ Maxx, I love you. Please open some corporate offices in a warmer location than New England and I am so on board...

Pumpkin-liciousness and loving fall...

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Yesterday Mr. Wonderful and I went off to Boca Raton to pick up a Craigslist purchase I had been eyeing: an adorable vanity.
Will post soon, promise. ;)

On our way back, we stopped in Ft. Lauderdale at a Farmer's Market, Brother's, on Stirling Road and 7. Almost missed it because it is a bit hard to spot, attached to some other place that is closed, but I am soo glad we stopped and found it. Our refrigerator looks a lot like a farmer's market now. Profusion of pears, abundance of apples, melee of mushrooms, chock-full of cilantro and cucumbers, well, you get the idea.

The pumpkins outside were enormous!

For now, I am happily done with a day of teaching, and Mr. Wonderful is done with class and on to the UM Atmospheric Club! I am soooo excited for him; this is his second club meeting.

To come from where we started in Miami this time last fall to this year and its events is nothing short of exhilarating!

Did I say I was excited that he has an"Atmo" Club to enjoy??? Have I mentioned that the love of my life was so worth the wait?

cheers,
Miss Bliss

Chocolate Goldfish

I did not know Pepperidge Farm added chocolate to the goldfish line!!!!

these chocolate sea shells and fish are not on my beach :(

...which chocolate fish would you most prefer?--Miss Bliss

Driving through Tropical Skies

The clouds felt like being poetic that day...is there a heart there???

Join us on a drive from Miami Beach over to Miami...we love this bridge,

and on this day the skies were full of tropical billowing clouds.

Tropical clouds engulfing a very high high rise...

like driving toward celestial spaces...

brings new meaning to "over the top" ;)

a huge blanket of clouds filling the skies



These clouds made cars and billboards look like toys :)

The clouds held center stage over the Miami skyline...

blanketing the backdrop... you can hardly
see our skyscrapers, or were they cloudscrapers that day??? ;)

Tropical clouds...what a great day for the beach!

Palms, clouds, blue skies, what a wonderful commute!

Don't worry, Mr. Wonderful was driving and I was taking the pictures.

We have a good system.

:) -Miss Bliss.

When are you coming to visit???