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daily musings of a vintage addict * I am totally obsessed with all things vintage * trying to keep up with my past...and sometimes ordinary everyday life

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here I am in a little cottage that evokes the energies of my ancestral lands - a cottage on the moors of Cornwall, or on the cliff tops of Ireland or Scotland. It has a hearth. I am a hedge witch {of sorts}. I wear upcycled clothes, patchouli oil and Redback boots. I am a gypsy; an eccentric and a mystic [I often live with a foot in two worlds]. I serve my guests, tea from an old silver teapot. I love Vervain, yarrow, chamomile & mint. Star watcher and Moon gazer. story cloth weaver. keeper of family dreams and wishes. good friend and creator of life. herbal tea drinker and potion maker.

Plan ahead and dream of all the beautiful things that life has to offer

April 27, 2005

*wash day 1916*

years ago, a friend gave me this ~ it was torn out of an old magazine...please forgive the spelling mistakes ~ this is exactly what it says :

1. bild a fire in the backyard to heat kettle of rain water
2. set tub so smoke wont blow in eyes if wind is pert
3. shave one cake lie soap in billin water
4. sort things, making 3 piles, 1 pile white, 1 pile coloured, 1 pile work
britches and rags
5. stir flour in cold water to smooth, then thin down with bilin
water
6. rub dirty spots on board, scrub hard then bile. rub the coloured, don't
bile, just rinch in starch
7. take white things out of kettle with broomstick handle, then rinch and
starch
8. hang old rags on fince
9. spread tee towels on grass
10. pore rinch water on flower bed
11. scrub porch with hot soapy water
12. turn tubs upside down
13. go put on a fresh dress, smooth hair with side combs, brew cup of tea,
sit and rest and rock a spell and count blessings

dont you just love it !!

posted by Miss Robyn | 9:36 am

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh Robyn, I love that!
How very BrocanteHome, to finish with a cup of tea...

5:53 pm  
Blogger Alice said...

Spreading rags on the fence reminded me of when I was a child (one of 7) we lived on a farm in Gippsland. We rarely had proper hankies, just old torn up sheets, etc. Mum washed every day (copper, no washing machine) and there were so many hankies and socks that it took too long to peg them on the line, so my job was to poke them through the wire netting fence around the garden. They dried just as well as they would have on the line and saved time and pegs.

8:25 pm  

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