All over the web you can read dire warnings about starching your linens. The primary concern is really that you will yellow the fabric if you store your textiles starched. And you will weaken the fabric by ironing creases into the starched fabric. I agree with all this. However, everything you do to the fabric [...]
Archive for August, 2007
About that Starch
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Ironing Progresses and Starch is your Friend
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on August 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The ironing is being done slowly, but surely. I’ve actually been ironing in the shop. As an antiquer I don’t think that I have ever seen that. OOPs ..look at the time…later about the starch.
Dogs and Tomatoes
Posted in cottage garden on August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Even though Lila is a large dog at close to one hundred pounds, I am so used to her being right at my feet that I sometimes don’t even notice what she is doing. The other day after she was sick to her stomach I was trying to recall what could have caused it. Then [...]
Tomato Preserve Conserve Confiture
Posted in cottage garden on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What would you guess this is? All there is in this pot are tomatoes, sugar and a split vanilla bean. The first recipe that I saw for this was in a Williams-Sonoma Taste Magazine with a little article by Chuck Williams about his first visit to Paris. That sealed the deal on my trying tomato confiture. [...]
Pink Princess
Posted in The Shop on August 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Painting a large piece of furniture in a color made me a little nervous. After some thought I decided a Princess Dresser would be the perfect choice to paint pink. “Princess Dresser” is a real term. I didn’t make it up. It is a dresser that is slightly smaller than your average sized dresser. No reason [...]
Fabulous Vintage Fabric
Posted in At Preserve Cottage on August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a blog you must see today. Kimberly at http://www.nieszvintagefabric.blogspot.com/ has put up a slide show of some of her fabric floral bouquets. Gorgeous! How does she part with them?
In the cottage my family thinks the linens are growing as fast as the veggies. I told someone that I have eight feet of ironing for [...]
Green Peppers Galore
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We’ve now moved into the green pepper phase of the summer. Six huge ones were stuffed yesterday. For a little Mediterranean flavor I threw in some raisins, used a puttanesca sauce and sprinkled on some feta before baking them. Oh, and I grated some zucchini into the stuffing mixture too.
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