If a picture's worth a thousand words...?

There's an old joke based on that old saying, that ends something like this "they say a picture is worth a thousand words...here's two." In this case...seems like 30 pictures should be worth at least 30,000 words, right? ;-) (For those of you playing along at home, there are 31 pictures on this page...but I discovered I used the same Nine West picture twice and I can't just go back to the post with the repeated shoe and delete it so I can have room for a different one. Drat.)

Anyway...so I've been reviewing this blog since adding all these new pictures...and, as much as it pains me, I have to admit that, nice as all these new pictures look, at this point they really make the old pictures...look kinda crappy by comparison. Admittedly, I did what I could when I started this blog but the new pictures really make me want to go back and fix all the old pictures. Especially the fuzzy, out-of-focus ones. Definitely not my favorite anymore.

I know. I should probably just leave well enough alone. And I will...for a moment. But, the thing is, Blogger is offering an opportunity to turn the blog into a book. Which, believe it or not, I've actually been thinking about doing almost since I started the blog anyway.

See, I have been planning to turn this blog into a website. Actually, the truth is, I originally conceived of this blog as a full-blown website in the first place but then decided until I can figure out a way to actually make it make money, it would have to start out as a free blog. Thing is...at this point, I feel like I've gathered so many pictures, this one little blog may not be big enough anymore. In fact...I'm already considering converting or co-opting a couple of my other five blogs into I Love Cool Shoes sub-sites or extra sites. Or at least maybe just additional places for all the pictures.

But, with the possibility of making this blog into a book...that would be the ultimate cool. I've actually already imagined/envisioned turning it into a hard cover glossy page coffee table book. A real conversation starter, full of nothing but pages upon pages of pictures of cool shoes. Well, and maybe a little accompanying commentary from me.

Thing is, I feel like I've only just barely scratched the surface of this cool shoe thing. Just seen merely the tip of the iceberg. I've been to a few stores recently, Nordstrom Rack and TJ Maxx among them, and have seen lots of cool shoes I still would love to get pictures of. There is a store in La Habra called L.A. Imports that is basically only cool shoes (and most of them are really well-priced, too).

I'm starting small with this blog...but ultimately what I would like to see happen is that people will want to start sending me pictures of their cool shoes and then, from that, maybe dare I say it or even dream it...maybe shoe designers will one day seek my blog out to spotlight their cool shoes and maybe some up and coming shoe designers will want to launch their cool shoe lines from this blog (or my website) and will even request to showcase their shoes on the pages of my I Love Cool Shoes book.

Hey. I say: If you're gonna dream? Dream big. (And this may be more than a thousand words at this point.)

a few more cool shoes from zappos.com

just a few cool shoes from zappos.com

more cool shoes from piperlime.com

all these new shoe pictures are from piperlime.com

continuing just pictures of cool shoes for now

the pictures speak for themselves

So Many Cool Shoes Could Mean Fewer Editorial Comments

So, as I indicated in my last post, I've been on a massive cool shoe collecting binge of late, for lack of a better way to say it. As of now, I've got close to 1200 pictures just on my cell phone, most of which are cool shoes. *shrugs* I admit I'm getting completely carried away. I've also been compiling a folder of cool shoes on this computer using a screen capture program called SnagIt, which works pretty well. Took me awhile to get the hang of it. Anyway.

The upshot of all this cool shoe picture collecting is that I have so many, I probably won't be able to include editorial comments with all the pictures. Which might not be such a bad thing.

So...just to see how this goes, I'm going to make my next few posts commentary free. I'll just post pictures of cool shoes and leave the comments to you.

Many new shoe pictures not enough time to add them

I've been collecting pictures of cool shoes and at this point I have probably more than 800 or so. Maybe not that many but it's a lot. Enough that I haven't had time to update my blog to include them all. So...if you've been following or reading, sorry it's taking so long to get the new pictures up. I'll get them here soon.

I have made pilgrimages to many cool shoes websites and I did want to update one of my earliest postings. Great as Christian Louboutin is, after spending much time at Jimmy Choo's website, I believe Jimmy is the true King of Cool Shoes and Christian is the Crown Prince. They're both awesome, don't get me wrong. But...I kinda liked Jimmy's a little better.

Anyway. I've also spent lots of time at Steve Madden's website and he's got a lot of cool shoes, too. But, the last few days I've spent at Zappos.com have been amazing. If you want to find just about all the coolest shoes you could possibly imagine and then some and all at one place, Zappos.com has to be it. Every cool shoe from Jessica Simpson, Fergie, Steve Madden, Jean Paul Gaultier (hope that's spelled right), Nine West and so many others I can't even remember them all. And at prices to satisfy the most budget-savvy and the biggest spenders.