The Boots have landed!

I ordered a pair of Peter Fox boots on eBay and they arrived yesterday! I got such a killer deal! For anyone familiar with these shoes, they are Victorian style lace up boots, have hardly been worn (once for a fashion show), and I paid $100. Yay! They are most similar to this style but have more elaborate tooling and a pointier toe. I'll post pictures soon. Love these boots. They are beautiful, comfortable, perfect sexy boots that I will cherish for a long time to come. I could carry on about the boots and wonderful shoes in general for days, but this article pretty wells summs it up. To quote:

If you try out a spectacular pair of shoes and show them to a man, you'll likely receive a heavy sigh that means "Now I have to find parking right in front," when what you really want to hear is, "My God, I will die of pride to be seen with you in those magnificent shoes." Try introducing the same pair of shoes to a female friend: She will spot them in a crowded convention centre, which she will fly across to clutch your arm and gasp, each word given its own full stop, "Look.at.those.SHOES!"

And they will look fantastic with my 1909-ish dress, if I ever get off my duff and make it!

Which brings me to the weekend! Hurray! It's Friday! And I have a whole day and a half to sew sew sew! It should be enough to get the latest Rainbow stuff knocked out, and hopefully at least start looking at making the 1909 dress. I've decided to cannibalize the old teens corset, so I don't have to go spend half the day traipsing over to the East Bay on BART to get a busk. I think I may eventually alter the black and gray silk gown, but I don't know. We'll see how that ends up going.

In non-sewing plans, I'm taking M. on a picnic in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, and am going to try to get up to the the Sutro Baths to watch the sun set. We've have some lovely sunsets this last week, as long as the weather holds it will be beautiful. Saturday, A and S (her new boyfriend! yay!) and I are going to a wine club party in Napa. I'm terribly excited. It's my favorite wine from my favorite winery, and should be a nice event. I wish M. was coming with us, but he's not that in to wine so it's ok.

I'm feeling a whole bunch better today too. It's amazing how fast antibiotics will work. It turns out I felt crappy because I had a UTI, so I looked pathetic and talked to the doctor at work, and she gave me a prescription for cipro. Scary stuff, cipro, but it gets the job done. After one dose my fever was mostly gone. I'm still tired and feel kind of weak, but that's ok. It'll get better.