"The Laundry" from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the At Home with Martin & Sylvia collection.
It's called "The Laundry."
Martin and Sylvia help around the house in many ways. They put their dishes in the sink, they dust windowsills, and they help with the vacuuming. Their least favorite task is the laundry — that is, until the dryer breaks and suddenly they need to hang laundry around the house. White sheets become ice cliffs, and dark blue towels become trees. And who is that sleeping under a sunset of red tablecloths and yellow pants?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. |
| 0:15.0 | And we are starting this new year with so much enthusiasm and excitement. We are going to feature all of our stories that inspire |
| 0:26.0 | connection and play and creativity and wonder this year. So I'm starting out with a story that we've |
| 0:35.5 | never featured here on the podcast. It's of course |
| 0:38.8 | a Martin and Sylvia story from the collection called At Home with Martin and Sylvia, |
| 0:43.5 | and it's called The Laundry. Yes, it's called the laundry, because Martin and Sylvia can make |
| 0:51.1 | magic and fun out of just about anything. |
| 0:55.8 | So this is a day in which Martin and Sylvia are helping around the house. |
| 0:59.6 | Don't you love to help around the house too? |
| 1:02.9 | And today, they make laundry into an absolute delightful ball. |
| 1:10.4 | So listen in and find out how their creativity turns laundry |
| 1:16.3 | into so much fun. Before I share the story, I want to encourage you to subscribe. If you're a family |
| 1:25.2 | that is screen free or wants to go screen free or is hungry for more creativity or connection or play in your home, Sparkle Stories can help. |
| 1:37.0 | We have over 1,500 original stories and when you subscribe, you get to enjoy all of them. |
| 1:43.8 | As much as you like, anytime you like. |
| 1:46.6 | All you have to do is go to the SparkleStories website, SparklStories.com, |
| 1:52.2 | and click the button in the top rate that says start free trial. |
| 1:58.2 | Okay, now here is the story, The Laundry, from the At Home with Martin and Sylvia |
| 2:05.1 | collection. Enjoy. |
| 2:22.3 | Music. The laundry. |
| 2:28.9 | Martin and Sylvia live in a tall house with lots of windows. |
| 2:39.3 | From their second-story loft bedroom, they can see their living room, their kitchen, and the stone hearth that keeps their house warm. |
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