New Year brings a new contest for Rosies! Get ready to pose for the camera and bring out those maps, to win lots of Rosies gear in 2012!
Here is how you play:
1. Have someone take a picture of you in your favorite Rosies gear in front of a fun location (ex. a popular landmark)
HINT: we are looking for backgrounds that provide good clues without giving the location away! So, don’t stand in front of a sign telling what the location is! Also, the location should be something other Rosies can figure out, so a picture in front of your personal farm would not be as good of a choice as a picture in front of a hometown landmark.
2. Email the photo to us at info@rosiesworkwear.com Each month we will select one picture to post on our webpage. If your photo is selected you will WIN A PRIZE!!
3. Go to our webpage to try and guess the location of the selected photo. The first one to correctly respond will WIN A PRIZE!!
This past weekend Rosies Workwear headed down to the Rosebowl flea market in Pasadena to be a part of the 2,500 vendors featured every month. Celebrating over 40 years of business, this was like no other flea market we had ever been to.
After checking in around 6am (flea markets open early!) we set up our booth and patiently waited for the gates to open to buyers at 9am. We had the opportunity to talk to many different people and promote the Rosies overalls and coveralls – we had such a great time (and even did a little shopping ourselves!)
It was wonderful to hear how many women appreciate workwear designed to specifically fit them. We were also able to inform women how convenient overalls and coveralls can be for many activities some normally wouldn’t think of. Workwear doesn’t just have to be “at work”. Gardening, home repairs, and do-it-yourself projects are all great times to wear your Rosies.
If you find yourself in the Pasadena area on the second Sunday of each month, this is definitely a flea market you should check out. For more information on the Rosebowl flea market, visit their website at http://rgcshows.com/RoseBowl.aspx.
Halloween is fast approaching and we have some great ideas for easy decorations at your home! Have you been wondering what to do with your old overalls and coveralls? You know the ones we’re talking about, those paint stained, dirt covered, lovingly worn overalls that you have since traded in for your new, clean (temporarily) ones. We have taken our old overalls and converted them in to Scarecrows! Using an old pillowcase, we painted our scarecrows face on to it and then used the old overalls as his clothes, stuffing them with straw. You can use any old boots for his shoes and then set him up wherever he will serve you best! We like placing ours on the porch where he can greet our visitors.
Here are some other “how to” ideas for fall decorations from http://www.hgtv.com/topics/halloween/index.html
1. How to make a Halloween pillow
2. How to make a table runner
3. How to make spooky lanterns
4. How to make a life-sized Halloween ghost
5. Creepy carnival tents for an outdoor Halloween theme
by Elizabeth Layton, Rosies Intern
Last Friday we left rainy California and made our way to hot and sunny Puyallup, Washington for the Mother Earth News Fair! (We thought the weather was strange, too!) Expecting to head over to the show and set up our booth on Friday, we were surprised and disappointed (to say the least) when we received an email telling us that the truck our shipment should have been arriving in was involved in a hazmat spill. The truck wouldn’t be able to get to the show until Saturday evening, leaving us Rosie-less for one full day at the fair. Not letting this new information get us down, we followed our own “Rosies can do it” advice, put on our overalls and acted as our own booth on Saturday. We met many amazing women and wound up almost selling out of our overalls on Sunday alone! We really enjoyed getting to meet some of our Rosies girls in person and hearing all of the wonderful stories they all have to share! Seeing the great turnout at this Mother Earth Fair got us excited for the one in Marin, California in September. Anyone who couldn’t make it to the one in Washington – we hope to see you in Marin!
While getting dirty is fun, getting the stains out of your Rosies isn’t. We have had many of you ask us what’s the best way to clean your workwear so we decided to give you some tips and tricks we have learned:
Sherri Gamble, winner of the Dirtiest Rosies Contest, shows off her paint stains.
- For all stains: We have found that using good old Spray n’ Wash and Oxyclean work well. You can use stain removers as well, but you should test it on your Rosies first before applying.
- For grass stains: We blogged about this a while back, but this remedy is an easy homemade solution from Mrs. Clean. “Pre-treat the grass stain with warm water and vinegar (no fruit vinegar) or water and rubbing alcohol. You can then rub the mixture directly into the stain and then wash it as you normally would. This mixture is known to get out the stain. Another option is to take some ammonia and mix it with one teaspoon of vinegar and then repeat the above steps. All of these methods work great at removing stains.”
- For grease and oil stains: Rubbing lard/shortening on the spots, then washing them as you would normally. This may take a few tries, but it should eventually start to work its way out. Or, spray some WD-40 on the stain and let it sit for about 20 minutes. Then rub some dish detergent onto the stain. Rinse the area, apply more dish detergent onto the stain and wash as usual.
These Rosies have been used for three years and still look like new.
- For paint stains: Pour warm water and rubbing alcohol (generous amount) onto stain and work stain out with toothbrush. Or, spray the stain with some hairspray and rub with toothbrush. Wash as you would regularly. To remove oil-based paint, apply paint thinner onto spot with sponge, rubbing as much of the paint off as you can. Then rub liquid detergent and wash in hot water.
*Remember to test any cleaning solution you use before using it.
If stains don’t come out, wear your Rosies with pride! Stained workwear shows that you like getting dirty, plus they give your Rosies a little personality.
