More inspiration

The spring Marfy Catalog came!

Although spring is not usually my favorite season, there are still a couple of things I am interested in ordering.  Unfortuntely I am not particularly interested in the free patterns this time, but that is always the chance one takes. 

I never order as much in spring as fall, I think I am just more oriented toward fall clothes, perhaps part of why the thought of moving south has never appealed to me too much. I don’t like being cold, and too much winter is a pain, but I can’t imagine life without warm snuggly sweaters and coats and lovely warm woolen things.

I suppose for every sun dress goddess in the world there needs to be some polar bear who loves to snuggle up like me .

It was pattern inspiration weekend, because not only did the Marfy catalog come, but I got the December Patrones that I ordered from eBay:

There are definitely some interesting patterns here, so I need to get to work tracing and working on muslins so that I can have NEW CLOTHES!.

But Marfy first.  I still need to do that Marfy muslin and I may not be ordering many spring patterns but there are still several from the fall catalog that I need to order so I need to get a move on now.

In the meantime however the weekend was successful in that one new closet is completed.  I finished the shoe closet and I am very happy.  All of my shoes are in one place, and I can see them all and reach them all — well the evening shoes are up pretty high and I need a step stool for those, but it is not like I wear them every day. 

It is strange because I am using the same shelving system I used before, but in a different closet, which fits better, and I got more shoes on the same shelves than I had before?  I have no idea how to explain that, except perhaps that I am not reaching around dark corners into hard to reach places.

And I am thrilled that I painted the closet.  Opening up the closet in the bedroom and seeing all my shoes lined up against the soft taupe background I painted the walls is such a joy.  The taupe goes perfectly well with the wallpaper in the bedroom and sets off the white shelves nicely.   

I am afraid I can’t get far enough from the door to give you a full view so I a pretty one with the more extravagant shoe colors will have to do instead.  Most of my shoes really boring old black and brown.

It will be a bit before the other closet is finished because I can’t devote as much time to it all at once, and besides, I have not even ordered the new shelving unit yet.  But it will be nice, and I will have more room than I had before, and some storage issues that had been hanging around my neck like lead weights have been solved.   But more about that later.