Shoe Drool... Not So Random

It's a quiet night here in BHC... I'm too lazy to change the foot on the sewing machine to tackle the zipper I decided I had to have a couple of hours ago... The new little addition is sleeping quietly at my feet and Big Furry Dog is snoozing in the entrance to the office. I'm not sure there's anything on the boob tube I need to watch right now, and thus, am reduced to surfing the Internets.

Invariably the Internet surfing turns to two things, shoes and patterns. Occasionally underwear. Tonight it was shoes and more shoes...

First there are these, by cute quirky company Penny Loves Kenny. I think they are on sale at Mod Cloth. The only thing i like on that site are the shoes.. Seriously... And boy do I like these. So cute.

So I bopped over to Zappos to see if I could find the PLK shoes there, maybe a little cheaper or in another color (read: black).. No such luck, and I found that while Zappo's brand list is now even HUGE-R then it was, they don't have some of the brands they used to.. Poop..



These were cute though, and made by STEVEN. The grown-up Steve Madden line. I have a pair of STEVEN shoes I bought for $30 on Amazon a few years ago. I love them. They are my favorite pin-up shoes.. As a result, I almost never wear them, for fear they will crumble off my feet and disappear the minute I look away.

Then it was over to old stand by, Forever 21.. I actually ventured into the one here in the mall the other night. The store was a disheveled mess. Seriously, it looked like a pack of teenagers had gone buck wild in the place. They pretty much had and the staff looked a little run over and run down as well. Some time, when it's not 30 minutes until they close, and I have money, I'll go back. In the mean time, I'll keep staring at the website.

These were cute. I found them in another store, but with a lower heel and more of an 80s look. These are higher and look hot in person...
And these:

MEOW! I Oh so hot! And yes, I will go back and get them, because they are so cute. And them come in solid black. I don't care that I never make it out of the house. I will wear them to wash the dishes in.

And last but not least...

By Remix Vintage shoes.. Available at their site and at Anthropologie stores. Dear after Christmas sale, where is the 75% mark down that I need.. That would make them... about $60.00... And yes, they are yellow... And I want them any way..

The Noir Goddess or the School Marm...

It's a tough call.. 

Once I got my new patterns in my grubby little paws, I could think of little else and so I immediately started working on the 1937 Simplicity Pattern... 

This one: 

So of course I made up a test version: 

With a zipper closure on the right side and four fabric covered buttons on the front. 

It's not perfect... The welts on the pockets made me a little crazy, 

From a distance they look okay, but up close, meh... 

Face on it's not so bad: 

But it's not really me.. the first thing I thought when I saw it on the dress maker's dummy was "Victorian school marm"... It's not what I was going for. I haven't finished the hem on it, I did put the zipper in and now it's back on the pile of "needs hand stitching". 

I did manage to get a zipper in one high waisted skirt and then button holes in the other one.  I'm not really sure that I like either one of them. The pattern is cheap and wonky and really requires a lot more drafting to make it fit well. I don't feel like putting that much work into it. I think I'd rather just go back to cranking out pencil skirts. 

I'm in the process of moving and re-organizing all of my Retro-Fitted photos from the PC to the laptop. I've lost a ton of images and the organization of a lot more and i'm reduced to trying to reorganize them via mouse sized thumbnails. ARGG. 

On top of that, the new laptop has NO PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE... I had gotten so spoiled by Photoscape. They don't make a MAC friendly version, so it's GONE! I looked at iPhoto but it's not downloaded to this one and tells me I need a new version of quick time before it can download. Maybe I'll do that today... I really need a better way to view and store stuff, not to mention crop and edit photos. 

Narf!