linen lover

Like many of you, I have a love of linens. From old tattered quilts and dainty doilies, to nubby textured dishtowels and washcloths. I will often purchase these things just so they can sit stacked all pretty in a pile. I have secretly dreamed of filling an old armoire just with pretty linens with each stack arranged neatly by color, and drawers overfilling with girly white hankies. I so love when I come across these photos in magazines; the doors slightly opened on a warm cottage inspired dresser revealing the beautifully worn and neatly stacked fabrics inside.  The quilt I have from my great great grandma will get the place of honor. (I can’t bring myself to buy quilts at the flea market I always wonder what gross habits the people who owned it before me had, and if they were icky, sweaty people who picked their noses and wiped it on their quilts….lol… that’s weird isn’t it? I guess that is why they make old linen soaks, so we can rid ourselves of the icky people germs.)

Here are a few of the linens in my collection. I don’t quite have enough for my someday display, but it gives me the perfect excuse to keep on collecting. For now, I just tuck these pretties away and make sure Josh knows which dishtowels are “just for show”. (I have a whole drawer of kitchen items that Josh is not supposed to touch… Why do boys think that dishtowels are for soaking up messes? Don’t they know that they are only for drying clean hands and dishes?)

I have been looking for the perfect display piece to showcase some of my favorite dishtowels in the kitchen, but so far I haven’t found it. I want something very primitive looking made of old gray barn wood and various size mismatched hooks. (I actually want two of them, because the other I want to use in my bathroom to hang all of my favorite necklaces). I may just have to make them myself, because I’m not having any luck in my search. (But that is a last resort, since I always do better at visualizing than I do creating!) Maybe I can commission one of my creative friends to make them for me! :)

Have you seen the newest Romantic Homes Magazine? Elizabeth Maxon redid a kitchen and shared the results, and I just love it! (I adore most everything Elizabeth touches). It has bits and pieces of the kind of kitchen I would love to someday have. Don’t you just love day dreaming about all the ways you want your home to look? Now if only we all had the money to make those dreams come to fruition!!! Someday my friends, someday….