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I've had such good luck with The Laundress products, I tend to try those first. I have a lot of white background scarves, so my experience is mostly with those for stain removal. I locate the stain, submerge the whole scarf into soapy water, then apply some of the delicates wash directly to the stain, and work it a bit with my hands. If that doesn't remove it, I try the stain solution in the same way. But I'd proceed with caution on darker scarves, and very pigmented parts of patterns. My concern is removing dye, along with the stain! There's a "hand washing scarves" thread (that I can't locate) where there was a recent discussion about dye run with dip dyes. Some have had luck washing them, and some haven't, so I haven't found the courage to hand wash mine. Would be a bit crushed if I ruined my dip dyes! Mine don't need to be cleaned yet, but hopefully I'll find a safe method at some point!
Dear Ppup,
We are having a warm week here in California. It's around 86 yesterday. It cools down pretty quickly after sunset. I do prefer cooler weather myself while DH likes Texas weather in the summer!!
We have good harvest for our lemons and figs. I must have gotten like fifty figs off the tree this week. There are still more to ripe soon.
I am having a hard time at work. Three meetings yesterday including two interviews for new candidates, and today two meetings in the afternoon. I took the week off before Labor Day and came back yesterday, loads of work. Today I need to deliver some project and host one of the meetings. It's hard to come back to work after ten days off then start with heavy work right away. Cannot wait for the weekend so I could start thinking about the gigantic project in the house - remodel all four bathrooms. We will go live in a rented house for 1.5 months during the remodeling. It's very costly for both remodeling and renting an entire house. But hopefully the new bathrooms would make me feel refreshed...
Moma agree with you on the wash. I bought two Minnie Mouse t shirt on eBay because my son uses it as his "dou dou" where he carries everywhere. It's sold out everywhere except eBay. The t shirts are brand new but they don't smell new. I had to wash them twice then put a light scent on them. Now they are my sons favorite dou dou. No more eBay smell. Yay!
It was the same here in Milan last nightduring the day it's still hot, but yesterday the wind came back and I had to use a jacket while I was out with a friend of mine
Anyway, I really love to read all your comments during the small bits of time I have, I don't write so much here because I'm a young mum and I live very far from my parents (they're in Rome), I take care of my daughter during the day and I start working in the afternoon until I come home at 9-10 pm.. and you know what? I really understand your point of view, living and choosing to not have any babies..
Growing up here in Italy (in my small village near Rome) you would have seen all your friends having 2-3 kids at the age of 25, I'm not joking! Just a small group of them go to the university, but then they're under a terrible pressure to hurry and have husband, wife and babies.
I had a bad moment in my life when I was 25 and I felt so "old" because I didn't have a family or a university diploma yet, because I found my actual job at 23 with a life long term contract (and you know here in Italy it's a miracle to have a job when you are young) but still I felt so empty, and I knew my boyfriend since 2003, so we felt it could bring us joy...
No one told us how hard it is to grow a daughter by ourselves in another city! How it is hard to be judged in a town (milano) where all women start having children at 35-40 years old, and I feel so alone being the only 28 aged mum in my zone!! All my mum friends are 45-50 now! Same age as my mum!
My precious daughter (Leyla) is so similar to me, so she's not a problem being with her, she's now 2 years old and things are going so well because we have a special connection, but I realize that she's different from other kids! I hate (and she too) other kids when they scream, they touch my daughters toys and make her cry, cause she's the one that prefers to play alone and at a certain point involve someone to play with her, but the thing I can't bear is the screamers parents... they don't care about what their kids are doing, thinking just about their own business.
My boyfriend and me are maybe martians?
We can't wait to our daughter to grow up and enjoy all the vacations and beautiful things we like to do, I took Leyla with me in Paris a lot of times at Hermès boutiques too and she enjoys to search for "the horses"I can't wait to pass her all my scarves and little treasures (not my Kelly wallet ahah! Or my future Birkin bag!)
I think that living as a parent and enjoy freedom and shopping can cohexist, but requires a lot of patience, and after my last (and first alone!) trip to Paris, where I discovered how relaxing it can be even to travel alone and enjoy a flight, a private room in the heart of a city, it can be heaven!
So, enjoy every single bit of that freedom! In the while, I'll continuing arguing with the old ladies in my condo telling me "it's time for baby number 2" and "why are you always going around alone! Take your daughter to the park!!" And other things said from strangers [emoji23]
Hi Serena88, So sweet to hear of your connection with your daughter.
I felt the same with my mother, as we were so alike. You sound like a wonderful mother! So sorry you are getting unsolicited advice, it seems no one can escape it!
Sorry, that last post was jarringly out of context. Referring to the smell of vintage and eBay garments. 
Ugh, I received a gorgeous mousseline a while back that arrived smelling of old face powder. Almost gone after washing several times, but it was tenacious, and embedded!
I got some tights on ebay and also Amazon, they were new and packaged as such, and they had a musty odor which meant I definitely had to wash them before use. Even after one machine wash (on delicate, w/lingerie bag), the odor was reduced but not totally eliminated. This happened in various colors of the tights which are branded with the first national brand name that probably comes to mind. What does the original company do, store the excess supply in a crummy warehouse?
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This sounds similar to the baby powder trick that my decorator taught me. Cover an oily stain with baby powder and let sit for several hours. When you shake off the powder it lifts the stain. It has worked quite well for me.
One last photo of my garden for the year. Just like the Jardin Anglais scarf.
One last photo of my garden for the year. Just like the Jardin Anglais scarf.
I got some perfumed HS from ebay. Old stale perfume. Sellers did not disclose this and I really liked the pattern. This is why I never wear perfume most of the time. In my experience this odor does not get eliminated with hand washing. Anyhow, tried putting each scarf in a big plastic bag with 2-3 boxes of baking soda. Let the sealed bag sit for a week or 10 days. Scent was reduced a bit but not eliminated -- although this method did work very well for a Jones NY silk scarf, maybe b/c the scarf was smaller and a thinner silk. So tried burying the HS in a lasagna casserole dish filled with cat litter. (We do not have a cat, I learned of this method from the web). Took another week or 10 days but the scarves were basically scent-free. Then DH tossed the cat litter without telling me!!!!! Wish he hadn't done that. I am positive there are more perfumed HS in my destiny.
It does. I bought a scarf with a disclosed stain. It looked like clear oil. No idea how long it was there. If you are patient enough to wait over night it's best. I waited a few hours. I could actually see the outline of the stain on the powder as it lifted it. It was almost gone so I did it once more and it was completely gone after the second try. It's a good way to get it out without lifting the color.
Another scarf I bought had brown set in stains of unknown type. (Not disclosed by the seller. Grrrrrr) It didn't work on this.
The decorator suggested this for use on table linens or the silk chairs in my bedroom. I was able to get a lotion stain out of the bedroom chair with the powder. It's very gentle.
Someone discussed woolite earlier. Be very careful with it. It's not as gentle as they say. I had problems with color run. Be very careful of contrast hems running. I only use the laundress now.
When I hand wash my HS, I sprinkle a bunch of salt into the basin I use. I sprinkle salt into the rinse water, too. Somebody who had chemistry classes told me this would prevent dye runs.. I don't measure the salt but it's enough that if someone next to you sprinkled it on a chicken (I have seen this IRL), you're pretty sure that that person has or will have have sky high blood pressure. (Real scientific standard being applied here.
).I used to have problems with the ones from the 80's having dye runs when hand washed. That's probably why a card from H was enclosed with the scarf in those days saying to keep the scarf out of the rain. Red dye is brutal.
The other problem with 80's scarves is that it's possible that a reseller or the original owner put them in a dry cleaning machine. Those scarves tend to look stripped of color, not totally of course, but it's noticeable as a faded look.
Earlier scarves in my experience tend to have been drycleaned by a professional.
Yes that it what I was referring to in my post. I have used it on a grease spot on scarves. I don't spray directly onto the silk. I like to dab it on with a Q-tip. I spray it onto a paper towel and them pick it up on the Q-tip to dab it.