Trouble was, even though I love red, as a dress on my generous frame there was a lot of red. Maybe even *gasp* too much. So I decided to dye it a darker colour. I bought some machine dye in blue, figuring the dress (100% cotton) would come out purple and everybody would be happy.
Then I opened the washing machine and put the machine dye in it, and turned around to grab the dress...whereupon the bagel, which I had forgotten was toasting in the machine underneath the dress, popped.
Yes, I burned the back of my dress out. On a frigging toaster.
And worse still, since I had already put all the machine dye in there and had nothing else to dye, I had to run the cycle with my now-ruined dress and got to see the awesome purple colour it went, knowing that it is destined for the rag bag.
I have been trying to come up with a plan for fixing this mess all morning, but I have drawn a blank. I know I could wear it in the winter with a cardigan over the top...but it's hardly the same.
It's lucky I bought two new dresses yesterday.
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