This is a good time of year to put my linen cupboards straight. I love good bed linen, I adore slipping between well-pressed sheets. I have to iron my bed linen, or else my dreams get wrinkled. No seriously, I have to iron my sheets, full stop. My particular weakness is for antique french sheets, monogrammed or not. They are heavy, smooth, cool in the summer and warm in winter. Nothing can compare.
Luckily for me, not many people have the patience or the equipment to deal with ironing these monster sheets, and I often find them in our local brocante and antique fairs. I have such fun ferreting around these places, bargaining, chatting to the vendors.
Luckily for me, not many people have the patience or the equipment to deal with ironing these monster sheets, and I often find them in our local brocante and antique fairs. I have such fun ferreting around these places, bargaining, chatting to the vendors.
I'm really pretty lazy, but using beautiful linen sort of makes me a better person. I know that, with just two minutes effort, it could look like this.
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Sharon you are amazing - ironing your sheets, wow! I may have done the occasional pillowsham, but that's where it stops for me. The beautiful images you've featured are superb, the linen is so crisp & inviting & those monograms just lovely.
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Oh...I didn't know ironing the sheets was a strange thing,that's new to me!I do iron my sheets and I am lucky enough to have many ancient sheets made of old, heavy hemp and monogrammed by my great grandmother... they're so precious to me!Have a good week end my dear Sharon. Fra
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