This summer I shoes flats!

I love shoes - I mean, seriously who doesn't?! Even Him Indoors has a collection that takes more space than mine, and it's not because he's got bigger feet...! When it comes to shoes I am definitely a high heel girl and the higher the heel, the more of an amazon I feel and I since I'm only 5'4 tall, I need all the heel help I can get. But in the summer, something strange happens and I'm not quite sure if it's because of the heat, or the different style of clothes I choose to wear, but I swap my towering heels for flats. Ballet pumps, gladiators, peep toes, espadrilles - almost any style will do but if they happen to have some sort of embellishment to satisfy the magpie in me, then even better. This year we're very lucky to see an amazing selection of flats on the high street in varying styles, colors and prices and here's a few of my favorites at the moment that shoes (see what I did there...) that you can find flats for any occasion or outfit - be it casual, elegant, beach, city chic or vintage at an affordable price.

From left to right:

River Island Diamante Embellished Sandals in coral (£40) // H&M Ballet Pumps in navy blue stripes and whites (£7.99) // Dune Steve Madden Ceaserr SM Dark Gladiators in dark brown (£65) // Kurt Geiger Miss KG Debbie Embellished Sandals (£49) in tan // Topshop Koala Espadrille Shoes (£45) in True Leopard // New Look Chunky Gold Chain Sandals (£22.99) in white // Dorothy Perkins Bling Toe Post Foot Bed (£25) in black // H&M Ballet Peep Toe Pumps (£9.99) in red // Dune Ladies Jaffy Metal T-bar Sandal (£65) in mint

Even though I'm sure I'll pick up a few more flats before this summer is over, I know I have already found my absolute favourites - you can have a look at them here on my Instagram, for me it just doesn't get much better than these! To all of a sudden being 5-6 inches shorter does have it's disadvantages that takes a little bit of getting used to, but with so many lovely flats to shoes from I don't really care that I now barely reach the pedals when I drive my car, that I need to ask for help in Waitrose to reach the top shelf or that Him Indoors keeps calling me Shorty - at least I'm a shorty in fabulous shoes!

Before I finish today, I'm very happy to announce the winner of the £30 ASOS voucher giveaway to celebrate that I've reached more than 2000 followers on Bloglovin'. Thank you SO SO much to everyone who entered and for all your lovely congratulation messages, but since there could be only one winner the lucky person this time around is Laura Ngiam. Congratulations and have lots of fun spending it at amazing ASOS!

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It feels as if it was only yesterday that I started this blog, but as we all know time flies when you're having fun and it's actually just over 10 months ago. Blogging has been an amazing adventure; I've learned so much in a short amount of time, got to know some wonderful supportive people and had the privilege of seeing the blog grow little by little thanks to all of you. You have helped me to reach another incredible milestone - 2000 followers on Bloglovin', which means.... drumroll: GIVEAWAY TIME! The giveaway is open internationally, and this time the prize is a £30 gift voucher from ASOS who as we all know has a fantastic selection of clothes, jewellery, shoes, bags and of course beauty products and so much more, in short ASOS is a treasure trove to explore. All you need to do to Open Sesame is to enter the Rafflecopter below. The giveaway is open until May 20, and the winner will be contacted via e-mail shortly thereafter as well as announced in the post on May 23. Although the words feel completely inadequate, all I can say from the bottom of my heart is THANK YOU SO MUCH for your support and encouragement!!! As you know all feedback and comments are very important to me and since I really want to make sure that the posts are relevant to you, I'd be very interested in hearing if there's a particular type of post or content that you would like me to do more/less of etc, so please let me know your thoughts in the comments section. Best of luck to everyone who enters and I'll be back with another post tomorrow! Xx

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