Teal Serendipity...

Well hello!

Today's post is all about dyeing your own doilies... no wait!  This is no time to yawn and click away... oh no, this is the time to be amazed at how a bunch of regular brown and cream doilies became purple and teal beauties!!  Plus there are a couple of nice (in theme) postcards at the end.

First up, I got hold of two packets of dye...

 and my pile of chosen doilies...

I wanted purple and blue dye, but alas the shop was out of "blue", so I settled for "teal", not really knowing what that would turn out like.  Oh how happy I was with the teal results!!!  A lovely instance of serendipity.

This is the process which I followed - I do recommend rubber gloves as my fingers turned purple, then I put on the gloves (obviously not the correct order!)...

Plus I would use metal tongs because now I have a pink wooden fork and a blue wooden spoon...

Then on to the drying rack (and this is only a portion of them).  I went a bit nutso with the dye and went back and did another batch of teal...

Here they are finished...

  So many different shades in one batch!

That's probably enough doily photos for one day (although I could go a couple more).  Expect a whole lot of teal and purple goodies arriving on the shelves of my little store soon!

Carrying on with the teal and purple theme, here are a couple of postcards from my collection.  Dr Seuss knew a thing or two...

I like Indian postcards the best - they are always so colourful and the deities are just wonderful.  The back of this one reads "Krishna with his eternal consort, Radha".  How lovely!

I'm off out now to buy myself a new wooden spoon - chances are if I use the blue one for food I will either poison us, or have a case of Bridget Jones blue soup.  I can see now how that would happen...

Until next time

Tara