Gone shoppin'

Tuesday was a day of RETAIL MANIA here at Casa de Tikistitch, aided and abetted by some crafty Euro-buddies. Shall we recap?

We started the day at John Fluevog Shoes. If you ever glance at the LJ rumblings of the Steampunkers, you are no doubt in awe of their strangely retro-future collection of quality footwear. As it happens, our Italian officemate had located an actual retail store only a handful of blocks (and all downhill!!!) from Casa de Tiki. We decided a reconaissance mission was in order.

And the fabled shoes?

They are even cuter in person.

We soon however fixated on...




...which are also even cuter in person.

HOWEVER!

( Here Be Shoe Trauma )

More Shoppin'

...in which we attempt a pale and shoddy imitation of the lovely twotone....

We next scurried to Sephora, a store that specializes in, well, girlie stuffs. We'd heard rumors that they stocked a fragrance line that attempted to reproduce the tempting aroma of espresso coffee. And so, tiki, who never fears being perceived as an escapee from an institution for the commercially insane, asked a bystanding clerk whether they stocked said caffeinated perfumes.

Oddly enough, instead of dialing 911, the clerk readily bought into the madness. "Oh, we used to!" she enthused. "But, take a look at this..."



Oho.

( The baby with the bathwater )

It's Shoppin' Time - the Denouement

And so we returned home, only to find our Resident Frenchman in need of a camera. Thus, it was off to Best Buy, with a mandatory stop, of course, at Tar-jay.

Unlike her younger days, when she was often mistaken for a TRU clerk, tiki doesn't venture much into retail outlets that proffer toys. Which is why THIS rather caught us by surprise:



Great googly moogly! Boba Fett, unrivalled in the Star Wars pantheon as Mr. Maximum Utmost (well, aside from that regrettable girlie scream as he goes twirling off in the the Sarlacc belly), crossed with the world's most loveable 'bots, the Transformers? How can you go wrong?

( LET US COUNT THE WAYS )

tiki's twits

todays twisted twittering:

• 15:53 is getting free shipping on my Fluevogs. Whining to customer service = results! #
• 15:55 just learned about the Democratic nominee VIA TWITTER. Yay for The Future!! #

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