Iron *this*, Jane-Ray!

Posted: April 23, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Craft, Home and Garden, Laundry, Vintage tablecloths | Tags: , , , , , | 4 Comments
NOT my actual iron. If I had a cloth-covered cord, I could plug in this 4-setting GE Wolverine Hi-Speed Calrod, mist all my linens with a shaker bottle, roll them up, wait half a day till they're evenly damp . . . forget it.

NOT my actual iron. If I had a cloth-covered cord, I could plug in this 6-pound, dry-heat GE Wolverine Hi-Speed Calrod iron, mist all my linens with a shaker bottle, roll them up, wait half a day till they’re evenly damp . . . oh, forget it.

Well, Janeray, I can’t compete with the sheer amazing number of vintage tablecloths you’ve got. I started collecting them years later than you did, after all.

And I can’t compete with your brand-spankin’-new super-steamo iron, either.

But the ironing board?

Oh yeah. I got you beat on that one!

When I got married, I had a rickety 1980s ironing board and Bluesray had a super sturdy 1960s ironing board. We kept his and took mine to the thrift shop.

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My poor 1960s aqua ironing board, relegated to the basement where the walls aren’t even painted!

His board was aqua!

Twenty-some years later, a couple of the welds on that ancient aqua board finally failed. I couldn’t bear to trash it, though, so it’s down in the basement now, patiently waiting to be repurposed as a display piece for shows.

And then I went out and found the ironing board of my vintage tablecloth dreams: the Reliable Longboard.

Sounds like a surfboard, right? It isn’t!

Month of Makeovers: The Aftermath with Kitchen Update

Posted: November 2, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Home and Garden, This Old Row House | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Month of Makeovers: The Aftermath with Kitchen Update

The last few days in This Old Row House have been more eventful than I ever wanted.

Verizon shipped out a new modem yesterday–yea!–but the DSL is still bad and keeps dropping the connection. It gets an “F” at speedtest.net.  90% of the planet’s inhabitants have a better internet connection. It must be time to upgrade to FIOS.

A new, huge Samsung fridge is now overfilling its space in the kitchen. We had to rip out the cabinet over the old fridge to make room for its extra dimensions. Read the rest of this entry »