Thursday, April 13, 2017

dusty rose

a loooong time ago i found a wreath with little red silk roses on it
 i love red roses, but i LURVE pink roses
 so i changed out the little red roses with little pink roses and hung the wreath in my bathroom...

a month or three went by 
and i realized that the little pink roses had changed from rose pink to dusty rose...

literally...

bathroom dust is different from other dust ... damp air makes dust stick with a vengeance
so i vacuumed the roses
and they lost a few petals...

i tried putting the wreath outside to see if the breeze would blow off the dust 
and it did
along with a few more petals...

then i tried a blow dryer
and those little pink roses looked so sad that i replaced them...

and was rewarded with more dusty roses...

i tried shaking them in a bag with kosher salt...
lost petals

spraying them with canned air...
lost petals

spraying them in the shower...
 wet lost petals

swishing them in a sink filled with soapy water...
soggy lost petals

and just about every brand of silk flower cleaner on the market
ugh - that stuff is just nasty

so i gave up trying to clean my silk roses
and decided that i would just have to keep putting up a new wreath when they started looking sad...
and i was okay with that
till wreaths became so doggone expensive
even when they are 50 or 60 per cent off

anywho...

look what i made...
la vie en rose ... pieced and bound by me
quilted by Liz Bowman
a pink rose wreath!!!
and when it gets dusty
i can take it down and WASH IT!!!

now Melissa wants one for HER bathroom
but she wants RED roses...

i can do that...

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
Pablo Picasso

4 comments:

  1. Brilliant!! Love that new wreath!

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  2. Haha -- now THAT's thinking! Very Pretty - I'll bet it looks beautiful in your bathrom!

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  3. "In me the tiger sniffs the rose." Siegfried Sassoon

    By jove, you solved this musty problem! Looking forward to seeing the red one.

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  4. A perfect quilty solution to a thorny problem! And I love your Picasso quote....

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