Excitement

You know when you are super excited for something, so you can't sleep the night before? Or when you wake up 900 times because you want to make sure that you don't miss your alarm? Or that every one of your dreams has to do with the exciting event that you are trying to patiently await?

Well....that is about how my night went last night!! You may think I am a little crazy, but I was really really excited for today. Why, you ask? Because today at NORDSTROM there was a Style Your Sole party! We had heard about this several weeks ago, and were really looking forward to it.

It was put on by TOMS shoes, and this is how it went down: you buy a new pair of TOMS and then local artists come and decorate them however you want them to! NO LIE~ It was really hard trying to come up with something to put on your shoes. You could just let your imagination run wild!

We google searched some ideas, and threw around some others. Trio #1 and I probably discussed 200 different options. I even asked the girls at work...they were no help! LOL

We went to NORDSTROM early this morning to guarantee that we could get the sizes that we wanted. Usually for this type of event, you purchase white TOMS and that way the design shows up perfectly. Well, some of my nightmares came true today....they only had dark colored TOMS in my size. So Trio #1 convinced me to get the black ones, and just do a negative design of my original plan. Trio #1 was lucky enough to have white ones in her size. Trio #3 got white ones as well, and Trio #3 got Mom a pair of natural ones.

Because we showed up so early, we were 2nd in line for the artists. After that, it was a 2.5 hour wait for everyone else. There were about 5 artists working on the shoes. Three of them were out on the sales floor so that everyone walking past could watch.

Now the EXCITING part! THE PICTURES!!

Trio #2's Artist

My Artist

Trio #3's Artist

Trio #1's SHOES

Trio #3's SHOES

Inspiration for RIGHT shoe

Actual Design!

Inside of RIGHT shoe

Inspiration for LEFT shoe!

Working on LEFT shoe

Actual LEFT shoe!!

Inside of LEFT shoe!

Mom's shoes!!

Thank you TOMS for making amazing shoes and thank you NORDSTROM for hosting the Style Your Sole party!! I am one happy gal!

For more information about how amazing TOMS shoes are, as well as their philosophy, check out the following websites:
www.toms.com
www.toms.com/style-your-sole
www.toms.com/our-movement/movement-one-for-one