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- Go to My Inner Martha Stewart; For Vogue
First about the knitting...
Send your son off to yard sales and thrift shops to find old alpaca sweaters. They unravel beautifully, being not a kinky yarn like sheep's wool, and one big sweater makes a lot of big yarn-balls!
Second, who wants crisp sheets? Who wants visitors that require crisp sheets?
It's a nice touch, though, to leave, with the neatly folded towel and washcloth, a bar of some interesting kind of soap. Personally, I like the glycerine soaps that are made to look like rocks and minerals--to be found in the gift shops of many museums. Probably would not offer old hotel soaps I've scrounged, however...
posted by
Ciel
on January 31, 2009 at 3:42 PM
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Sounds like a cozy home style place to visit . Enjoy!
with vogue!
posted by
merkie
on January 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM
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gap
Great post, well, partly! The cooking channel is the only channel I watch during my workouts, either on the elliptical or on the bike! I'd be hard pressed to decide who my favourite chef is at the moment - possibly Michael Smith...
Unfortunatley, once you got into knitting and bed sheets, I felt my eyes glazing over...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM
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Oh bet you two will have a great time!!
posted by
Ariala
on January 29, 2009 at 7:25 AM
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Thank you, thank you. Can't wait to visit. I did ok with my guests, I think! AND my dear, Jacob is getting his jacket and that's a promise. As soon as I hit Turkey I go hunting for it. Fortunately that activity doesn't require any culinary skills so I'm sure it will be put into your hands in one piece.
posted by
vogue
on January 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM
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Amen Sistah!
"I strip the bed when the guest(s) leave; be it after one day or three months." Exactly! Unless the happy hooker (showing my age?), is sleeping, errrr - yeah, sleeping on them, they aren't about to get changed every other day. My ex MIL used to change her sheets and wash her towels every single day - hell, you should be clean when you use both, right? lol Nice to read you again ;)
posted by
VictoriaP
on January 28, 2009 at 7:24 AM
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I'd be afraid to even sleep on Martha's sheets!
posted by
shelly_b
on January 28, 2009 at 6:54 AM
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Emulating Martha
Gap,
Martha Stewart has probably led to a huge number of nervous breakdowns by women who believe that like Martha, they too can become Super-Woman. They cannot and she IS NOT, either! She employs many, many staff to do what she claims credit for. Don't like her at all.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on January 28, 2009 at 5:47 AM
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A great read and I would feel much more comfy visiting you than MS.
we have a guest room and their own bathroom but no view.
posted by
Kabu
on January 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM
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Great post. Loved it all, but the best part is your knitting son.
When my hubby was 15, he had the mumps that "went down on him" and he had to remain in bed for quite a while. Because my MIL believed that "idle hands are the devil's workshop", she taught him to crochet and set him on a project of crocheting colorful afghan-type knee warmers for the County Old Folks Home. He enjoyed that so much that during our marriage years, he reverted to crocheting now and then around Christmas for gifts.
posted by
TAPS.
on January 27, 2009 at 8:44 AM
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How cool your son loves to knit! I need a new scarf! lol Martha, Martha, Martha, what about us commoners! Wow! She does live the good life! Great post Mal! sammy
posted by
sam444
on January 26, 2009 at 4:03 PM
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