Today is my 51st birthday and it has been a fabulous weekend. It has been sunny and lovely outdoors. We swam, we watched tennis, we watched late night fireworks over the Hudson River, G gave me a few pretty baubles, one of which I am wearing to dinner tonight at my favorite local restaurant.
I have spent the last few weeks cleaning up the sewing room, taking inventory of past projects, plans, and ufo's, and although I don't have everything finished, I believe I have a workable system where I can allow myself to work in my sewing room a little more.
The biggest obstacle now is my closets. I have been basically ignoring them for months now, and only doing rudimentary search and find missions during the entire period where G was battling various health issues. It had come to the point where I was literally wearing the same three pairs of jeans and a small assortment of tops all the time, and these were late-winter/early-spring outfits, and I am absolutely sick of them.
I want to sew. I want to sew clothes I will wear. Since I vowed not to sew orphans, and I need new clothes, it was time to tackle the closets, so I vowed to devote a significant part of this weekend to this task; I am still working on it but here are a few things I have learned.
I have several summer skirts in nice prints. I had pulled out fabric for more cute printed skirts, but I don't need them. However, I have tops to wear with some of the skirts I planned to make and none to wear with the skirts that are in my closet, so perhaps I need those skirts after all. I do have TNT skirt patterns but no TNT patterns for tops.
I have no solid colored skirts for summer, and two black skirts for winter.
I have no dresses, except for winter dressy/business/board/cocktail party type of events.
I have 7 winter jackets. 5 of them are black.
I have several spring/fall types of sweaters and jackets, most of which go with none of my bottoms, and all of which are too warm for true summer weather.
I have no summer weight jackets or cardigans.
Sweaters and tees are still to be sorted through, but I can already see huge gaps, even without yet knowing the extent of the casualties.
I have started the sewing machines and have made a few very basic things for the house, things that needed doing. I will update you as I go along.
Belated Happy Birthday! I *so* need to go through my closet...but I don' wanna.... ;)
Posted by: Lisa Laree | July 07, 2009 at 08:11 PM
Happy Birthday, Mardel!
I am doing the dreaded closet sort as well. It's difficult to face facts, isn't it?
p.s. your astilbes in a recent photo look very happy. They may prefer damp feet and not much sun.
Take care.
Vicky F
Posted by: Vicky F | July 06, 2009 at 06:16 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Els | July 06, 2009 at 03:36 PM
I'm a bit late to the party, but wanted to wish you a happy belated birthday. Hope you had a lovely day.
It's lovely to see you back again. I missed your posts.
Hope your husband is doing better now.
Posted by: jenni | July 06, 2009 at 02:38 PM
Oh you're getting so organized. Now you know what you should do next and if it's a jacket it shouldn't be black, right?
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Mary Beth | July 06, 2009 at 02:24 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Shannon | July 06, 2009 at 09:21 AM
Happy Birthday! I can relate, finally saw the floor of my closet today after, um...years.
Posted by: Dana | July 05, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Nice to see you back! Happy Birthday and Happy Sewing.
Posted by: Beth (BeeBee) | July 05, 2009 at 08:47 PM
Happy Birthday to you!
Posted by: Lisette | July 05, 2009 at 05:43 PM