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Yesterday, I went to a charity sale, proceeds to the Avon Breast Cancer Foundation. This sale happens every year, and they are very smart. Nothing is priced. Just "give what you think is appropriate and remember it's going to fight breast cancer". I bought a bunch of books, and these:
New shoes

Normally, I wouldn't buy shoes at a yard sale, but one look at the soles told me that these had never been worn. The store tag on the bottom wasn't even faded.

I was able to get to two of the local farmers' markets this week. It was my week for coaching at the intensive trial advocacy program at the U of C Law School (many wry chuckles were had over Scalia's recent fulminations that the school has become "liberal"), so I went to the larger Thursday market that I usually miss. And yesterday I went to the smaller one. I was going to a friend's for dinner and said I'd bring dessert, so I wanted to check out the fruit. I bought peaches and raspberries, about as fresh as you can get without picking them yourself. Yummers.

The local Italian-American Chamber of Commerce sponsored an Italian Style Expo at Navy Pier this weekend. I went and met up with some of the folks from Casa Italiana. Lots of food and wine to taste, jewellery and fashion to drool over, and literature to pick up. Not to mention various modes of transportation, from the sublime:
Lamborghinis
to the practical:
Boy on a red Vespa

I must say that if I didn't have such a long commute, and if we didn't have winter, I'd be very tempted by a Vespa!

Date: 2008-09-22 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] avanta7.livejournal.com
Seriously. Love. Those. Shoes.

Date: 2008-09-22 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atenea-nike.livejournal.com
Cute shoes! The detail at the heel is what takes them out of the realm of nice into that of really cute.

Date: 2008-09-22 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mojosmom.livejournal.com
Exactly! If they'd just been plain, I likely wouldn't have bought them, despite the cool color. But I loved the detai.

Date: 2008-09-22 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whimzykat.livejournal.com
I'm with you on the Vespa...I love them, but it's too far for me. The festival looks like so much fun!

Date: 2008-09-22 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] appleshoelace.livejournal.com
Ooh - they are nice shoes, and I don't normally like such shoes. But they are nice and simple and non-shiny, and elegant. I wish I understood how people's feet stay in such shoes - if I were to wear them, my feet would just slip straight out of them!

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