Clogs aren't for just the Danish

Monday is Skyprincess's birthday, and I've had a hard time finding her something.

I hate thinking up ideas for presents. I suck at it. I always want to buy something they will like, and is a bit unusual. Something that they never would expect me to buy, and that I get it right.

The getting it right part is the difficult thing. And for some reason I've been lucky with Skyprincess. She's very picky about what she likes. And although we do tend to like the same things, there are vast differences in tastes here.

For example, this past weekend we flew to L.A. for the final wedding planners meeting. It was also her friend's Curt's 36th birthday. They had decided for Curt to host a "White Trash" party. Dress in your trailer park best and come enjoy "White Trash" food.

Oh! I made the invitation for the party. Here's the image on one side of the postcard.



They spent a long time thinking up the menu for the party. Beenie Weenies, small cans of pork and beans, cheeze wiz on crackers, fried spam sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly, boones farm coolers, milwaukee’s best beer, big bowl of blue jello with fruit, tuna casserole, pigs in a blanket, and other stuff I don’t remember.

All food I could eat everyday. Skyprincess turns her nose up to some of my downhome foods. Its not like I eat hog maws or anything like that (my friend in high school loved those things). But I have been known to order a fried bologna plate when we go out.

And our taste in decoration is different. Although she loves most of my furniture, she has vetoed others. She has said no to me buying more tribal type art. I love masks, though I do tend to refrain from buying them. I think good quality mask prices are way too pricey for me. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like it.

But she’s told me there are 2 things I should not even try buying for her. That is any clothing and shoes. After asking her opinions while shopping, I’ve had to personally expand that list to jewelry, purses, hats, and sunglasses. Basically, anything she wears is off-limits when it comes to buying a present. It just means I’ll fail.

So I started thinking of what to buy her.

At first I thought about buying her just officer furniture. She needs to set up an office, but that’s not very romantic.

Maybe something like this?



But then I thought about this bicycle we saw in L.A. this past weekend. It was very cute, but I’ve been unable to find it’s exact match. Here is one that looks a little like it, although the one we saw was much nicer.




But I couldn’t find the exact one I wanted and I didn’t want to wait for shipping. So yesterday I found someone wearing these really cute shoes. I asked where they got them and went at lunch and picked them up.

These are close to the ones I got, although the picture doesn’t show how cute they really are. They are clogs by a company called Dansko. And I lucked out and she loves them! I picked up the Professional ones in Cordovan Cabrio brown. On their website they have red patent leather, which is also very cool.