Spotless

I've read quite a few times that your trusty cast iron pan should never hit  soap and water....

Instead,

You wipe most of the fat and then you use cornmeal to soak up the balance and then take a cloth to get rid of the cormeal....Just like Paula Deen does!

 

Now if I'm not mistaking, I've also read that if you fried bacon, the cornmeal you use to soak up the fat you keep to make cornbread. Never done this but it sounds tasty!

 

HECK, ANYTHING WITH BACON IS DELICIOUS!  

 

Yum bacon! If I have my say I will have bacon soon!

 

Be well and I will have thrifty pics tomorrow :)

One project down!

When Dan was on vacation a couple of weeks ago...the hall went from deep orange terra cotta (yes we had a Mexican decor period!)to a cool color called Mocaccino and all the trim white. Of course everything needs to be fixed or changed to match.

So my umbrella stand was very tired... Granted it's an antique circa 1890 in cast iron, it was all pale green and chippy and someone had written numbers on it with a marker. My dad bought it at an antique shop many,many years ago.

So I called him up and asked if I could paint it...And he said yes being the amazing dad that he is!

 I know, I know some purist would want to kick my butt for painting  this but I figured that I wouldn't want to use it all green and rusty and chippy and it would look fab in satin black!

BEFORE

AFTER

I can't wait to put umbrellas in it!

Have a great week everyone! :)