Washing Dishes by Hand, Memories of My Grandma Kingery and Aunt Erma, and Two More Cell Phone Cases

Some of you may already know this about me; but I still do my dishes by hand. My friend Susie and I were talking about this the other day and I was wondering if there is anybody else out there that still does their dishes by hand? I was also wondering if you like washing dishes by hand? Susie and I came to the conclusion that we like doing dishes by hand because it seems to be kind of therapeutic for us. I know some of you may think doing dishes is very boring and not a lot of fun. I don’t remember always liking to do the dishes, especially when I was younger and seemed to always get stuck with doing the dishes with my brother Terry. Terry was a meticulous dish washer and always had to have every speck of food off of the dishes before he moved on to the next one. At that time of my life I just wanted to get the dishes over with and go outside to play or do something other than stand there and wait for him to finish cleaning every piece of dirty dishes. Just watching him try and try to scrub that iron skillet shiny again seemed to almost hit my last nerve and it seemed like he loved watching me squirm as I tried so hard not to say anything because if I did he would just take longer. 🙂 But I do have some sweet memories of doing dishes after having very large gatherings at my Mom’s house as a young lady. It wasn’t unusual to have at least 15 or 20 people at her table; from our family of 7, to our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and

cousins. (sorry Jill, I don’t have any photos with you in them) So you can imagine how many dishes that entails. Jackie and I would line up at the sinks, along side of our Grandma Kingery and Aunt Erma. One of us washed for a while, the other one rinsed, and two people dried the dishes. Then when the person washing the dishes got tired we would just rotate.

My Grandma and Aunt were 2 of 12 children so I can just imagine how many dishes they had done in their lifetime. (Grandma is on the left and Aunt Erma is second from the right) They are both gone now but I just hope that I have as many years to stand and wash dishes as they did.

I made 2 more cell phone cases and I do love this brightly colored turquoise, hot pink, and green number with the cute little fabric covered button along with those pretty bright pony beads on the side.

I really like the way this cell phone case of sapphire blue and speckled tan turned out too. I love the silver and gold button and the silver pony beads to add just the right hippie-fication. I’m just an old hippie at heart. 😉 So what’s been going on in your part of the world?