Bluing the Hard Business of Domestic Urgency
Life is a pastel wash of moving boxes, paint chips, freeze pops, and rug doctors. Last night I ate sushi on white plastic patio furniture that I had set up in the living room for a fine dining experience. Today I’m going to start painting what will eventually turn into a home office. I’ve chosen the color ‘wooden spoon’ after two long nights of staring at way too many paint chips. I’ve discovered that the new pad is just blocks away from an amazing Ace Hardware store. They got it all. Todays’ purchases will include masks, full body painters overalls, a painters hat, knee pads, and a bottle of turpentine that I’ll take occasional “Love Liza’ huffs from. Later after the turpentine goes to my head I’ll have the Twins game going on the 6 inch portable AM radio I found in the garage.

These two images are just a sampling of the old products and lost treasures that I have discovered around the house. I had never heard of Mrs Stewart’s Liquid Bluing, I guess it’s used as a laundry whitener. Which begs the question, how does ‘bluing’ make things white and not blue?

Stay tuned for images of some of the most hideous looking wallpaper you have ever seen. . . it’s enough to make you huff turpentine.