So, since I got done around lunchtime, I decided I had enough time to hang the new linen curtains I got @ the Restoration Hardware outlet over spring break. I should have know better...spring break was only two weeks ago...I can't possibly start and complete a project in just 2 short weeks, it hasn't had time to marinate yet. Anyway, I started opening the packages. There are four 96" panels, mismatched because that's how I am. Two panels were Belgian linen with variegated stripes, the other two were handkerchief linen...all four in white. I had also bought a panel in the flax color because I liked it and it was cheap and you can never have too much linen, right? So, I'm opening packages and getting ready to iron when I notice that one panel seems different than the others. Come to find out, it is 84" long and all the others are 96". Blurg. Now I'm picturing myself cutting off and hemming the other 3 panels, but when I measure the door and window I KNOW that I want the 96"s. I don't like my curtains to be right at the top of the window, but up near the ceiling. Now I spend about 30 minutes on ebay and other sites looking for another panel...no luck (which is why I got them cheap at the outlet and mismatched). But then I remember that I have 1 flax colored panel left...please, please, please let it be 96" long! AND IT IS! I'm saved! I stuck it in a bucket of bleach water overnight and when I woke up...It was white! My mother says you can't trust how linen will act when you put water on it, but I'm fearless that way...I just plopped it in there and ran the water on it full blast! My husband says I'm naturally a rebel. I laugh in the face of warning labels and fabric care instructions. Dry Clean Only...whatever.
This is my life. I'm pretty used to things not working out quite the way you planned them. But I think I really do enjoy figuring out HOW to make it work out when the plan falls through.
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