This article by Patricia Volk, published in “O” magazine is the epitomy of the “Irish Attic” values.
Lumps Are Treasures
By Patricia Volk
On the corner of Tchoupitoulas at 401 Poydras Street in New Orleans, you will find Mother’s, home of the Ferdi, a sandwich served with “debris.” In Louisiana, debris is crusty scraps that drift to the bottom of the pan when you roast meat. In New York we call that “dirt.” Read More
No need to purchase those green plastic vegetable storage bags to extend the life of your produce. All you need to do is an old pillowcase. There are several ways to make the pillowcase into produce storage bags. You could simply cut the pillowcase in half horizontally so that the bottom of the bag is now one storage bag, then sew along one edge of the top of the pillowcase to create a second bag. Or you could cut the pillowcase into quarters and sew each quarter into a produce bag. No need to bother with a drawstring, just use a twist tie or clothespin to close the bag.
These produce bags work just as well as the green storage bags sold on television and in the produce section of most grocery stores.
Next time you get an ink, marker or other similar stain on your clothing there’s a fun way to save your clothing from the trash heap. If you can draw freehand, great, but if you can’t, use a stencil. Using the same pen or marker that created the stain draw or stencil a design onto your clothing.
When you get a food stain on a fave piece of clothing you can toss it out, buy an applique to cover the stain or just stain the clothing with the same thing that orignally ruined it.
“Huh?”, you say. Let’s say you dropped a marinara-coated meatball onto your white dress. At the restaurant you tie your sweater around your waist to cover the stain but when you get home you wrap rubber-bands around sections of the dress and dip the dress in a pan filled with marinera. If the fabric allows it you could even heat the marinara pan on the stove to really saturate the dress. Remember tie-dying? Essentially that’s what you’re doing. If the dress was stained with grape juice, you would use grape juice to dye it and so on.