How to Keep Moths Away

Notes from The Strategist
- moth cannot eat through cotton. store in cotton zipper bags/boxes or hanging garment bags

- mothballs smell, cedar can stain. lavender is best: use sachets, hand wash garments with drops of lavender oil, and use it to refresh sachets, or spray with lavender linen water

if already present

- wash in detergent forumlated for protein fibers to remove the larvae

- place one trap (more than one confuses the moths) to prevent them for spreading

- place in -4 C for 2 weeks to kill them

Aspirations

正確的講價方法

I dream of insignificant things

Oranges

One side of a paper box containing oranges. I'm particularly fond of this sort of design.

Elegance Personified

It's something to keep in mind as a comparison when looking at modern paragons of beauty.

minor obsession

making jello from my old jello moulds is a minor obsession...

but seriously, how cool are they eh? EH?!?!

Flashback

This reminds me of

this.

Perhaps in 2011 I'll wear a bigger dress to Keble Ball.

[via Mademoiselle Robot & my Flickr]

The kind of person I am...

Yesterday I pulled out a vintage bed-sheet that I had shipped back from the UK. I'm the kind of person, apparently, who likes to sleep on vintage sheets and does not mind shipping them from one continent to another. It cos 2.99 pds, with the Oxfam price tag still on it - so I never used it while I was there. It's very thick. I made my bed with precise folded corners, held together on the underside of the mattress with two safety pins in each corner. Then I pulled out some some pillow cases - also vintage. I put my IKEA pillow into a linen pillow protector (just an extra pillowcase that is unadorned) and then into a white cotton Oxford pillowcase with a trim.

As I was doing all this I wondered if others also take their bed linen across oceans. I'm particular about the quality of bed linen, and find vintage ones better value for money and usually more aesthetically pleasant. In Taiwan I still have a very large queen-sized linen top sheet embroidered with pale pink cherry blossoms across the the top edge (from Paddy's shop). One day when I have a queen-sized bed (and hopefully someone to share it with), I will enjoy it to a disproportionate degree. I'll probably even blog about it.

Dream Come True

I am now a shop owner! Thanks to hours and hours of hard work mainly done by Topher (who kindly photographed every item in my shop), and a pile of unfinished course stuff, my etsy shop is now up and running.

Please come and buy something at Show & Tell Vintage!