I'm sure that all you crafty people know what tea staining is.
Boil some tea, and dunk your whites, then BOOM. You just added a billion years to that newly crocheted
doily.
Enter poufy, bright white and frilly flower girl basket...
My sister-in-law had these in her wedding. And me, being the penny-pincher I am, decided to use them in my country-fied wedding.
We're talking: weeds in the ground-cow patty-by the lake-middle of summer-cowboy boot- out in the boondocks wedding.
Obviously, these little baskets would not make the cut 'as is'.
Not that they weren't cute, they just weren't the perfect fit.
So, Mama D and I got to work.
We ripped off the black bow, and took a look at the naked basket and thought: "This thing is too dern white."
Mama D soaked it in tea and let in hang in the shower all night. Still, it didn't turn out to be as ivory as we had hoped, but hey, it wasn't in your face white anymore.
We ignored it. Glued the jute along with a turquoise bow and a lace trim. Instead of dyeing the super white trim in tea(that would have waisted a whole pot), Mama just whipped out a little bowl and some cheap vanilla flavoring and dunked the whole shebang in there.
And it worked! Plus, it smelled like freakin' heaven. Whoever we showed the basket off to was more focused on keeping their nose buried in it than marveling at the cuteness of it.
We even died some white petals blue with water and food coloring.
ta-da!
