Now, the sad thing is, you can find beautiful vintage aprons, maybe a little spot here or there, for only $3.00 each (that's what they are at the antique store a block from my house in Grove City, Ohio) and really super nice ones for $5, and overpriced ones at the antique malls in Springfield Ohio for $8-$15. I have a whole bunch of them, but frankly, if I'm only going to get $3 I'll keep them, thank you. Then at an antique store in Delaware, Ohio, I saw where they pinned a row of aprons around a short table, making it so they could store boxes underneath, and BINGO I decided to make my aprons into curtains. However, first you gotta go to seven stores. The item you are seeking is called CAFE HOOKS. Now you won't have as much trouble finding yours as I did mine, because you'll know what on earth to ask for and the clerks won't give you such funny looks as they did me.
Note: four or five hooks do better than three.
Note #2: you may have to engage the assistance of husband, these hooks are strong enough to hold up large chimps at the zoo or dangle a side of beef, so squeezing them onto your apron band is a physical challenge and-a-half.
Note #3: You can avoid all that malarkey and just use diaper pins or giant safety pins and put them on your regular rods or your tension rods, that way.
Note #4: they look like crap unless you carefully iron and starch them first. Seriously. You have to.
Today, took a neighbor who's looking for a church, to see this tiny little country "I made a church in my back yard and we worship together" church. The man showed us his donated R.V., behind the shed, and they let homeless people stay there until they can get on their feet again. He had a tiny room half the size of my office, but it had a sign that said "food bank" on the door and you couldn't have put another box of pancake mix or can of soup in there, it was full of love. He showed us the sanctuary, and I think I counted fourteen musical instruments in there, they must have a great deal of music when the meet! Everything was worn but clean. It smelled fresh and nice. Someone had dusted the trim down on the floor and the picture frames were dustfree and fingerprint free.
I told my friend as we left, "That man, he doens't have hardly anything, but he's using every stick of it." And isn't that what God wants us to do with his resources he grants us? Use it all, carefully, practice good stewardship, share it with others, spread it around to neighbor, friend, and stranger? I hope my friend goes there and has the courage to give it a try. As a chaplain, when someone tells me they are looking for something, I consider it a task to help them find it.
Love the window curtains and sure wish I could vintage aprons in Upstate New York for $3.00!
Keep up the good works!
Dawn
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