Thank You, Natasha! (And Screw You, Angie)

You guys ever notice how I'm always, "Blah blah blah, I don't accept ads, I don't take anything from vendors or PR firms, I don't go on junkets, etc"? 

Because I have integrity.  And I can't be bought.

Turns out that's just because no one ever offered me anything I wanted before.  So, when my favorite company in the world said they'd like to send me a couple of things (as my last book was basically a love letter to them), I said yes.

Honestly, I was hoping for maybe a mousepad and a coffee cup, which I kind of needed because all my favorite pit bull mugs have broken lately.  (Gravity problems.)  But they had something different in mind.

Behold my magnificent booty:

Yes, all these shoes are by Crocs.  Even the ones you cannot deny are ridiculously cute.

Here's a close-up on the Mary Janes:

(It's not a good close up, but that's my fault, not the shoes.) 

These are from the YOU by Crocs line and also come in black, green, and hot pink.  They're leather-lined and have an extra squashy foot bed and they're the most comfortable 3.5 inch heels you'll ever own.  Get them for yourself here.  And you can see the silver strappy ones here.

This should neatly prove once and for all I do not have terrible taste in shoes, ANGIE.

Although, I recently got these:

Perhaps I shouldn't be quite so smug about my scorching sense of style.  When I was telling friends at dinner last night about these, someone posed the question, "Where the fuck are you going to wear mouse shoes?" to which Manic Mommy quickly replied, "Disneyland?"

Anyway, I'm going to be away from my computer for the weekend and there won't be any new posts before Tuesday.  'Til then, discuss for whom you'd sell out, given the chance.

(And now I need to take my Crocs shrine down before the contractor comes and thinks I'm hosting a tea party for my shoes.)

Comments

[Jackie]

Wow. I didn't think it would be so hard to decide who to sellout for! I fear that by deciding I'm insulting all the rest of my favorite designers! But, alas, free stuff is free stuff! I would sell out for Lacoste and Shoshanna. Sporty and sweet. Oh, and Cheryl & Co. cookies. The. Best. Cookies. Ever. Mmmmm...lifetime supply of buttercream frosting....

[Jennifer]

i don't think 'selling out' for shoes counts...that's just practical ;)

[Deanna]

I'm still trying to get over the shock...but... my friends made me try on the silver mouse shoes at DSW! All this because i said that that Kit Kittredge movie may be cute!!

That means I need to wear mouse shoes?

Did you really buy those?!?!

[pcmommy]

I would most definitely sell out for Michael Kors, Francesco Biasia...and Brad Pitt (sorry, DH, but I just can't resist him). = )

[sarah]

mmmkay, those MaryJanes made me drool just a little bit. Must. Have. Now.

[Suzanne]

I would wear those mouse shoes in a heartbeat, I absolutely love them!

[Shari B.]

How I spent my day.
1. Finished reading SAPF
2. Found this blog
3. Read blog entries all the way back to November.
4. Spent dinner regaling family with favorite stories from blog.
5. Went on Amazon to purchase other JL books.

Very happy to have discovered Jen Lancaster!

[Val]

I've always thought of Crocs as being made of the same substance that they use to make fake vomit (sorry) but the little Mary Janes show promise. Well done Croc!

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[Cory]

Wow...usually hate Crocs but those Mary Janes are adorable! Just finished reading "Such A Pretty Fat" over the weekend and LOVED IT!

[Devon]

When your Crocs are worn out (or just "need" replacing) you can take them to a Journey’s store and they’ll recycle them and use the material to create new Crocs which will then be donated to Africa.

[KayKay]

Im sorry but those mouse shoes are the hotness......LOL they are too funny. Love them.

[Jennifer]

My friend and I thought you might like this

[Kodi]

i would definitely sell out for hollister. As silly as it seems, i would much rather be given their polos then have to spend insane amounts of money on them.

[Gina]

I would see out to porsche in a heartbeat! Oh please, I could never accept that 911 turbo...well not in yellow, please send it in black! Not only would I sell out, I would be demanding as well! I'm great, why shouldn't I have the best given to me? Oh right, reality...I have to earn that status! Just because I know I am great and wonderful, everyone else doesn't yet!

I would also sell out to anything Doctor Who...yep, that is the geek in me!

[Ally HAll]

OMG, I'm in deep love with the crock Mary Jane's... which is horrible because i'm a 20 year old poor college girl who can't possible spend $150 on shoes..but the temptation is blinding... AHHHH.

(fyi, i've read all your books, and now pretty much every moment of my life i think "damn i wonder what Jen Lancaster would say or do... trust me you DON'T want to hear my story about being called a fat ass haha, it ends in target trash talk.) hehe oops.

[Kim]

I'm a poor nursing student I'd sell out for just about anything right now!

[Miss Cavendish]

I'd shill for Liberty of London's signature embossed leather line.

And Elaine Irwin is my favorite too. When I was in grad school I'd see her out jogging with her hubby--she with the long blonde ponytail flying behind her; he dressed all in black (including Ray Bans), pushing the Baby Jogger.

[Carrie]

I would sell out to Dave Matthews. And I know you're probably shreiking right about now at that - but since I read your books out of order, I had NO IDEA that you disliked the #1 on my laminated list so much. Just as I was settling in for the night in our travel trailer to read more of your brilliant words (seriously, finish that 4th book pronto, I am sad when I get to the end of one of your books and I know there isn't another waiting on the shelf). But anyway, there I was, on vacation, and I read about Court and Brett and how they both had a predilection to liking DM and then, then . . .you totally hated on him.

It was all I could do not to throw that book across the trailer (which is exactly 18 feet, but who's counting?).

I'll overlook this major flaw though, only for you Jen. :)

[Rebekah]

Oh no! $150 Crocs? I was so stoked to click on that link and see the Mary Janes in green and buy them to love forever and now I want to cry.

I'll be sure to mention Crocs in my next book. Or my first book. The one I haven't written yet.

[Lynn Bering]

Heck, I'd sell out for Bell Plantation's powdered peanut butter! Yeah, I'm cheap that way.

The bag they sent seems a bit out of place. Shouldn't there be a croc on it and not some girl with flowing hair?

[Tonya]

I love your books and now addicted to your blog. It is the only blog not blocked at work.(I think someone with lots of power loves your blog because everything is blocked) Anyway I am a nurse and I would so sell out to CROCS... I really took a sign from a scrub shop that said "Nurses love Crocs" needless to say my husband did not enjoy the new wall decoration..

[jenlyn482]

Christian Louboutin, hands down. I would sell out for some Louboutins so fast it would make your head spin. Currently, I would also sell out for those fabulous new patent bags in the MICHAEL by Michael Kors line...love them!

Also Jen, I just want to say that I just read "Bitter is the New Black" and I LOVED it! As someone who recently did a presentation in her grad school class about her shoe collection, I completely relate with you on many levels. I can't wait to read your other books! (And I'm totally jealous that you got the Marc Jacobs mouse shoes...I'd sell out for those too.)

[Kiki]

I would sell out to Pottery Barn cause that's the ONLY way I'm going to get the $2,000 couch.

[bdevil]

I would sell out to...

Orbitz (free travel - yeah!), Travelocity (same), Pump (boutique on Division Street whose shoes I admire daily), Target (no need to explain this one), Trader Joes, Lush, Ikea, Borders, Barnes and Noble, Coach, H&M, New York and Co., Container Store, Gap, Sephora... the list really could continue on forever.

My ultimate dream would be to be sponsored by a vineyard or wine store.

[Kasey]

1. Chanel
2. Alberta Ferretti
3. Cole Haan (I own a pair of the Nike Air shoes and they are fabulous!)
4. Sephora
5. Guinness
6. Chevrolet (Corvettes!)
7. Olive Garden =0)

That didn't take long to think of a list. I wonder what that says about my integrity? Oh well...

[Amy]

I would sell out to Ikea, Target and Starbucks. I can totally be bought.

[Katie]

kate spade without a doubt!

[Jessica]

I'd sell out for Aveda, Apple, and Clark's.

[Anndi]

The maryjanes are sweet.

It takes a strong (or seriously disturbed) woman to put her foot in a mouse.

[Marie]

Sweet. I'm with the person who said they'd sell out for Coach. I do a book blog so I already sell out for free books! :-)

[katlady]

But I LOVE those mouse shoes!

I'd sell out to Dove chocolate...

[Momma03]

OMG I am.....was SOOO anti Crocs till I saw those fantabulous Mary-Janes!!! Please Oh Please let them be available in Canada!! More food for the shoe addicted self!!

[MizFit]

I laugh that I feel like the insecure newbie blogger still even with my 100 plus commenters.

yours seem just... COOLER

*wink*

[Niki]

Love the mouse shoes, I cannot judge, I have cat shoes.

[erin]

PPS-i just looked at the time of posting, and lest you think I am some sort of early riser who is obsessed with the www; where I live it's not 6 AM, it's 1 in the afternoon and I'm supposed to be cleaning my room because my husband is apparently getting tired of the stacks of back issues of "People".....so I am procrastinating...THANK YOU!!!!

[erin]

PS-
The Marc Jacobs' mouse shoes? TOTALLY AWSOME! They are super cute and you should wear them with capris (maybe dark denim) and a super cute black twin set.....

[Erin]

OK
I think you're fantastic....but you just can't wear the Crocs. There, I've said it. Please don't be offended! At least do not the rubber clogg-ish kind. Seriously. I beg of you. Here is who should wear those: 1. Nobody
2.Nurses in the OR
3-Um, nobody

OK I admit it I am a croc-hater. But the other ones are pretty cute I will admit...

[MsMickey]

Love this topic, as I certainly can be bought.
Would sell out and kick surly teen down a flight of stairs for M & M's with peanuts, Bling-Blingy big hoop earrings,black leather band power watch,good red leather bag (and many other designer bags which I cannot go on without), complete free remodel on both disgusting bathrooms in my cute cottage style home, head to toe lipo and boob job and tummy tuck, after successful gastric bypass, and the really good fake hair. I am a very simple woman.

[Karen]

After reading Bright Lights, Big Ass, I wanted to complain about having to traipse up 21 stairs in order to change my underwear because I laughed so hard I wet myself. Is that any way to treat a potentially devoted reader?

I would definitely sell out for dog inedible shoes...or even ones that are only slightly gnawed instead of hanging together by threads.

[AuntieEm]

Sorry, but Crocs are uncomfortable, I never understood the craze. The only thing I found them useful for is running out in the wet yard to move the sprinkler because they are waterproof! And I feel bad saying this but - no one looks attractive wearing them, they make feet look like boats.

[Stephanie]

I'd sell out to Exon, Mobil, BP ... any oil company that would take me. If I no longer had to pay $4.29 a gallon for gas, I could have more money left for purses and shoes!

[Ariella]

I would sell out for Crocs, Vera Bradley (if they asked to tattoo my entire back in Mod Pink Floral, I would do it.), Five Guys, Target..... The list would go on and on, i am such a consumer whore.

[AtlantaDebbie]

Hermes Birkin.

[Cafe De Venus]

I'd sell out for whoever comes up a pill that allows you to have the metabolism of a cheetah whilst having no annoying side effects like explosive diarrhea and/or alopecia. :)

Beyond that, I might sell out to Born shoes, whose comfort level has yet to be surpassed (even by - gasp! - Crocs).

[Karina in T.O]

I'm all about selling out for Bath & Body Works. Now that they're finally coming to Canada, and I'll have two stores in the city to shop at, my product addiction will finally be fulfilled! So excited! Oh, and lest I forget my Sephora binges.....yeah, I'm all about shimmery, powdery stuff that smells nice. Clothes? Fagetaboutit!

P.s, because the comments to the last post are closed. If anybody wants to have an amazing time and relive those 80's and then some, YOU MUST CATCH THE GEORGE MICHAEL TOUR! Saw the Concert last night and totally loved it!

Cheers!
K

[Caryn]

Two Words: KATE. SPADE. 'Nuff said.

[Kristen]

I would sell out for all things Coach, Apple, and BMW - just to name a few.

Why not look cute sporting a beautifully crafted cranberry leather purse, a weekend bag for your banging computer while rollin in a graphite black 330i that is blaring to your tunes (from your ipod no less)? There is no crime in looking good.

I expect Coach, Steve Jobs, and some stern looking Germans to call right now and ask me to be their spokesperson.

Rock your crocs! Do your thing and if Target comes knockin' don't forget the rest of us.

[Heather in Texas]

OH, and by the way, I'd sell out for 10 bucks and a free drink coupon; who am I kidding? I'm selling shit and getting out of debt, so let's be honest, $5 and I am yours!

[Heather in Texas]

Thank you for the much needed giggles today! Freedom?? Rox! I am almost 40 too!

OK, everyone, close your eyes and give your big and furries ginormous hugs today, my 15 year old big, beautiful, black baby girl is going into the long goodnight today.

So, Jen, you gave me what I needed. Thank you.

[Nicole]

So I kind of love/hate you right now. I have wanted those darn mouse shoes for ages! Silly husband with silly old house says we need repairs to the house and not repairs to my wardrobe.

Also, please keep us updated on the comfort of those cute crocks. I have been trying to win a pair of the Cole Haan nike air heels on Ebay for months now because they are supposed to be comfortable(fat girl + high heel= uncomfortable)and I would love to find something cute that I could actually afford to buy from a store and not online bidding!