Saturday, June 16, 2018

Wasteful Hippy Throwback... or what was old is new again, and again...

Not bad first attempt of tie-dying? Yup, my first, maiden voyage, and I am old enough to remember when it was a new fangled thing in my teen years! Agh, did I just write that out loud?
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Okay guess I am not that old, since the Asian art cloth effect has actually been around for a mere 6000 years!

Reasoning explained below...
What happened was an old T-shirt styled blouse of cotton that I like in a beautiful turquoise colored, one of my favorite shades of blue had stains that hadn't come out in the laundry. And so I figured what the heck, nothing to lose... so I gave it a shot, in my bathroom sink, tying five pretty purple colored from the vegetable/produce department rubber bands, recycled too, scrunching up the fabric in five sections and I then added hot water and chlorine bleach into that small shallow sink and sloshed it around, and in just a very few minutes it started to change colors, so I let the water out and gave it a rinse with cold water, and to be sure the process had stopped I got the Woolite out and added that into the cold water and sloshed that around some more with the shirt, and rinsed again with cold water and here's the wasteful part finally was when I threw it into the dryer all by its lonesome, one blouse! For shame, but we do have a very small RV sized Kenmore washer and dryer in our laundry room. Anywho, that made it dress ready for my after shower clothes with my dark navy blue 3/4 length jeans and sandals to match for the day and Voila!

I think I would have preferred more turquoise coloring to be left, but it was a good experiment, and now very wearable since I do believe as in everything in fashion it is in its seventh year of another comeback? Bud dump bum! Who cares!

Moving on...

Activity, on the tiki hut is a slow go, without rain, but heat and dry thunder and lightning, it made it difficult for Hubby to do much of anything except clean up the extra thatch and tools etc. The table and chairs were on his mental note list for today, but the weather interfered with that!
 
Update: delay on my colorful kitchen handles project, Hubby is talking me out of it, as are some of the HGTV shows too. Oh well...now I will have to think of another indoor project in this heat.

On that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!


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