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Natasha O - Airing Grandma's Laundry and other Hush Hush Secrets

W hat happened to Country Red at the county line? W here did Uncle E. B etween the covers of this book, each of the sheets will reveal some of the secrets. See the Book Trailer. Please vote for the Airing Grandma's Laundry book trailer video. Please also visit the publishers website: Published by Penfire Publishing, Inc. Times are tight for publishers, and the marketing support usually goes to established brands—the James Pattersons and the J. Rowlings of the world. Rather than feeling overwhelmed, Owens implemented a dynamic marketing plan, taking advantage of any and all media to lure readers.

The video captures perfectly the late ss, the time period for her book. Owens recounted how she came by that video: Once I spoke to my writing instructor who also does screenplays, he connected me with a camera man, Mr. I have 3 washboards in our laundry room and would love to find more great treasures like those. Ok I definitely won't be complaining about laundry this week. Your things are amazing and such a great history. Thanks for linking to Share the Love Wednesday Mary. I can't believe I complain about having to do laundry in the basement and I hardly iron either What a spoiled girl I am!

If you didn't see that, try to find a way to. It really amazed me to see what women went through. I love those memories, my grandmother used to wash her laundry in the garden and used a wringer. She would let me turn the handle and I loved to be with her, thank you for sharing your precious pictures and taking me down memory lane. What a great post! I am tired just reading about the old process!!

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This brings back so many wonderful memories of when I spent the summers with my grandmother on her farm and every Monday was wash day and we did the wash exactly as you have described!! I never liked the smell of her homemade lye soap but it really got clothes clean! Thanks so much for this post! I love remembering and thinking of my wonderful grandmother! You both have a wonderful collection of laundry related items. I've never seen such a wringer before. This is so amazing and such an eye catcher. Goodness, glad I didn't live back then.

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Thank you for sharing such beauty! What a lovely idea for a post. So original - and so full of lovely information. Now I feel like the luckiest girl having a washing machine!!! Thank you so much for linking up to my Fall In Love party. Your blog is lovely! Darling post, I can remember when I first married I had a wringer washing machine girl I was in heaven. I'm not that old, lol..

Isn't it amazing how times have changed. Love all of your photos. I still put my clothes outside on the clothes line when it is nice. There is nothing more wonderful than getting into a bed with sheets that were dried in the fresh air: Patti and Paula, what a wonderfully fun post this was! I also collect vintage laundry items. They hang or are on shelves in my laundry room. But it's a chore I still don't like! Thank you for visiting my blog today. I'd like to add yours to my list of faves.

That is such a wonderful post! It's just perfect sitting on your sink top! The graphics on it are awesome! Loved all your information as well as the lovely pictures! Thanks so much for joining me again this week for Pearls and Lace Thursday! Have an awesome week, Doni. Paula, I love the post and the wringer is fabulous!

Thank you so much for linking to the Open House party this week. What a wonderful post! I actually like doing laundry and especially love to hang up the laundry on the clothes line. I am glad I don't have to do it all by hand though.

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Yes, I've got a basket full of inspiration - definitely starting off with a bang for my favorite time of the year. Your post brings back wonderful memories of way back when, the times I used my grandmothers' rub boards, hung the clothes out to dry. I'm delighted to have you as my new follower - and I'm following you now, too! Thanks for joining Reality Shot Thursday! You are so right - laundry wasn't for sissies!

I Love all your pretty treasures. Now I'm having guilt because I've gotten annoyed that I have to fold my laundry. Thanks for reminding me how good I have it. I still can't believe women were thought of as the weaker sex. That is funny that you mention this because I do think about how it used to be back in the days when they did the laundry, and I always have that in the back of my mind when I do my own laundry. Those wash boards are so crafty. I watch Little House on the Prairie, and I just love how the prairie women lived.

I have so much admiration for them. I just loved your post today. OMG, I remember some of the things you show in this post.

My Grandma got a new Auto washing machine in the mid 60;s when I was little, but i remember her wringer washer. I just found your blog.. I hope you can stop by my blog soon. Hey gals what a great post. I have a filigree tissue holder just like yours, aha! The good ole days! What a cute and fun post today! Thanks for sharing airing your laundry!

Natasha O - Airing Grandma's Laundry and other Hush Hush Secrets

I'm delighted you linked to Potpourri Friday and appreciate your participation! OMG that is sooo cute, thank you for sharing. I love vintage linen and go through the old fashioned rituals to clean it, boil water, hang out to dry, starch and iron, I think it is fun Once in a while! I'm old enough to remember my grandmother boiling clothes in an iron pot outside and then hanging them on the line. My mom had a ringer washer before the 'automatic' one. I also have my grandmother's old clothes iron cast iron which I use for a bookend for my cook books in the kitchen.

Thanks for a fun post. It's amazing how washing clothes has come a long ways. I kind of feel sorry for the way women had to do the laundry, but I guess they didn't know any other way. I can remember my mom hanging the clothes out on the line and doing all the ironing. I remember her even ironing the pillow cases. I kind of feel lazy now. Patti and Paula, reading your post takes me back to my childhood. I remember the wringer washer my mom used to wash my clothes.

Also I remember her ironing way into the night and the sprinkle bottle. She use to have a clothespin holder that looked like a child's dress that hung on the cloths line. I'm lovin' your blog! I've looked a little ways back and saw those gorgeous embellished bottles I'm going to follow you and come back later to see what else Ivy and Elephants has been up to.

What an awesome and interesting post, my friends! I loved looking through all of your olden laundry paraphanalia! I really can't imagine all the time and effort that it must have taken to wash a few pieces of clothing.

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Thank you so much for sharing your neat collection with us! I just love coming to your place! I love doing laundry but I wouldn't have done well back in the olden days! Love all of the neat things and the history though! I promise to stop whining about doing laundry. Okay, okay I will keep whining but I promise to add, "Whew, am I ever glad I didn't have to do this in the olden days!

This post was so interesting, and the vintage treasures with it were just wonderful.

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I recently returned from a trip to rural Romania where a lot of the village women still wash the clothes in the stream. They build little dams to make a deeper section and they squat in the river and get the laundry done! Patti and Paula, I love your post! Thanks for reminding me that my 2 to 3 load a day job is far from a chore! Thanks- Diane in Phoenixville. Thank-you for the sweet comment on my blog! By you finding me, I found you and am your newest follower. Your vignettes are always lovely and you have so many beautiful and interesting things.

Your post is so interesting and I love your last thought, if only they could fold themselves Have a fabulous weekend. Now I don't feel so bad doing laundry!

We are blessed with technology! Boy, things sure are easier now, aren't they? I absolutely loved this post!! It is so amazing how doing laundry has changed over the years. I still love hand laundering my vintage linens, it is such a relaxing process. Hope you both have a lovely weekend. What an amazing post. Quite entertaining as I blog in between loads of laundry,not sure if I am enjoying this new fangled life or feel blessed that I have this new fangled life LOL as I sign off to go switch the laundry I will have a smile on my face as I walk the hallway to retrieve my warm towels from the dryer.

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