I ironed this morning. I haven’t ironed in years but had a good reason to do so. More than one, actually. I took out my trusty Rowenta I haven’t seen in over three years! Auntie L is a veteran ironer (even does undergarments as did the late Auntie J), and she has a Rowenta I’ve used at her home and it’s done wonders for my summer linens.
Also it was the top of the line on Consumer Reports and I was sick of lackluster results from the under $10 variety of irons.
When my m-i-l visited a couple of weeks ago she brought cotton and linen tea towels she had embroidered years ago. A slew of herbs, some coffee-related, then Auntie L’s finds over the years. None of them can take my husband’s stains or daily washing.
So, I decided to put up a wooden dowel over my personal jetted soaking tub (I say mine because guys are pigs, normally, and also most guys don’t want to sit in their own filth). Gals, on the other hand, welcome a hot bath and emerge renewed to make dinner or take care of husband, kids and pets.
Here they are, some of my favorite herbs and they’ll keep me calm and soothed in perhaps a colloidal oatmeal bath, as soon as I donate the bath towels I’ve been given since I went off to college at age 17. That box is impeding bath time as it’s been sitting in there waiting to go to St. Vincent de Paul for two weeks now! Enjoy the day. Dee
Tea towel display
Cooking with Dee 
I love embroidered tea towels (and anything handmade and cottage-y). I have a couple towel bars in my kitchen at each end of the island just to display them.
I’ve so many linen towels and nearly a place to put them, my mother in law has graced me with linen hand towels with herbs, plus a few other family treats from my aunts. They are rare and appreciated and i have washed and ironed the lot, just need to post a bar above the tub. They’re so beautiful and it will make a great display of things dear to both our families, Dee