I delight in the serendipity of thrift store shopping. Those times when I run across something so wonderfully unique, that I take pause to wonder if it was placed there fully intended to be found by me! My latest occurrence was yesterday, while I was looking through the miles and miles of designer fake vinyl… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Clothesline
Happiness Is A Warm Clothesline
I love finding wacky ads in vintage women’s magazines, especially the laundry soap ads. Take for example, this fabulous DUZ ad from the November 1949 Woman’s Day magazine. It has all the attributes that I love in an ad; colorful drawing, bold lettering, exclamation points, and a wildly happy housewife, ecstatic over her DUZ detergent! … Read more »
Winter… Spring? What Season Is This?
For the past week or so here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve have the most spectacularly gorgeous weather! Atypical brilliant sunshine and warm, balmy temperatures. The plants are budding, the lawn is growing, and the pollen is flying! This has created quite a dichotomy in me, and has me a bit befuddled. It’s weird watching… Read more »
Adventures in Cold Water Washing
I am the ever-practical environmentalist; doing all that I can in my daily life to keep the earth a little greener. Most notably in my laundry practices. I’ve been air-drying exclusively now for about four years; ever since my dryer refused to heat. It makes my life easier (really!), my utility bill is down about… Read more »
Autumn Blue
The weather is glorious today, and is supposed to continue throughout the week. My laundry is outside hanging on the line, one of the last weeks I’ll be able to do this I’m sure, before the sunny rays fade and the cool rains set in. Soon it will be back to drying my laundry inside… Read more »
Clotheslines + Vintage Clothing = A Perfect Match
I air-dry all of my laundry, so I’m a bit biased, but I believe that the clothesline is the best way to care for clothing, especially vintage clothing. When you think about it, the dryer is a quite recent invention, coming into wide usage in the 1950s and 60s. Before that time all drying was… Read more »
I'm Marilyn, and I'm obsessed with vintage clothing, thrift stores, clotheslines, and Chanel. Welcome to my down-to-earth world!