The tea bra.

Do you know those manky old greyish bras you have stuffed at the back of your drawer?  The ones which may have seen better days but are still perfectly functional albeit ugly as sin?  Well I had a few of those which I decided I needed to fix!  (Notice the past tense there.  I HAD a few of those)

So off I went to buy some of that net curtain whitener stuff which is so highly regarded by my elders from the supermarket... Then I did the well known Yorkshire battle cry... "HOW MUCH!?!" With an average of £1.26 in my purse, I'd need to sell a kidney or something to be able to purchase my chosen chemicals!

Needless to say I decided to try something else so I sat down and got googling.  It almost seemed to be a waste of time because everyone suggested the same old chemical therapy in the form of net curtain whitener or some lingerie lightener until i then stumbled across a question on yahoo for how to get your bra white again and someone had suggested staining your grey-whites with tea to make them nude instead of grey! 

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! 

(It wasn't voted the best answer either)

So here goes Dawn's grey-bra experiment #1

Apparatus

Bowl

Tea bags

A stirring thing

A manky grey-bra

Salt (I read somewhere that salt helps with dying or something?  Basically I haven't a clue whether this is needed or not)

Oh and some boiling water... The kind you get from a kettle :-/

Method

Put about 3-4 tablespoons of salt in a bowl with about 6-8 tea bags depending on the severity of shade you want to achieve.  6 for mild tan, 8 for deep tan.

Pour over boiling water (about 4" or enough to just submerge the offending grey-bra)

Bung your bra in the mix and poke until covered.  You can leave tea bags in or take them out, I left them in because I couldn't be bothered to find something to put them on.  (If you are that way inclined, I wouldn't recommend saving the bags for a sneaky re-cycled bag  brew because of the salt!)

Leave to stand but poking and turning occasionally until you achieve your desired shade.  I did 2 bras, one I made a deep tan (for my holidays). The other I did a lighter day to day shade (for everyday use).  

Rinse thoroughly.

Leave to dry somewhere where the tea isn't going to drip and ruin something like carpets, paintwork, small dogs or other clothes. 

Once pretty much dry (I have no patience) wash using normal detergent in your usual method.

Dry, wear, enjoy. 

Conclusion

 I can't  believe this hair rained idea worked! That's nuts! 

NAILED IT!

However due to how ancient my bras were they did look a bit patchy in places and the metal bits remained white.  I think this is because they are cheapy fabric to start with maybe?  I wouldn't recommend you do thus with anything decent, but to get a few months out of something you haven't worn for a few months due to sheer embarrassment, it's worth a bash! 

Unsettled

So its 67 days to the wedding from today.  Over the last few weeks I have become a crafting machine, powering my way through the projects like a woman possessed   There was no stopping me and I was taking no prisoners.  Why?  Because I had it in my little brain there was too much to do and not enough time.  I also had the grim realisation that I had a million other non-wedding related things that needed my attention too.  The list of stuff to do for both home and wedding is frankly overwhelming I think I will probably do one of two things.  1- Go nuts and sit in a corner gently rocking or 2- come up with an in depth plan of action involving timelines and lists.  

Neither of which is particularly appealing at present so I have come up with a 3rd option.  Do nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  Nada.  Diddly squat.  Nowt.  Im going to sit on my bum and lead a normal life for the next 2 weeks, purely because I want to.  I may decide to have a bash at making some of the stuff Ive been pinning on Pinterest purely for entertainment purposes.  I might decide to watch a box set.  I may even go wild and start playing Assasins Creed which has been sat gathering dust for a few years.  Either way Im not doing anything weddingy. 

I'm not you know!

No, I'm not....

Yea!  Did you see that?  I didnt do anything weddingy!  ultimate self control!  All I have to do is keep doing nothing until February.

Do I think anyone will even notice?  

No.

*sigh*

At lease my sanity might come back from where its been hiding!