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