Fresh Linen

I've been freshening up some of my stored vintage linens. I try to keep them rotating and make sure they each have their day in the sun. I like the look of them in their changing stacks and piles. Coverlets, quilts, and spreads just need a quick fold. But there's always a bit of ironing that can be done. Always.

But that's the good news! I never feel like I have to iron a thing. It's all for fun and relaxation. If it's not your thing, I just can't explain what a relaxing pleasure it is. Some of you have told me you feel the same way about pressing linens as I do. For some of us it's just what we do, like others paint furniture or bake a cake or garden. Only there's not a single thing to clean up afterwards! I never even put the ironing board away. It's already right where it belongs. . . . 

Old laundry marks are just so beautiful.

It's time for White Wednesday at Faded Charm!

and Feathered Nest Friday @ French Country Cottage!

See you there!

Jacqueline

A Taste For Vintage

One of the things that I enjoy about vintage fabrics, besides their cheery prints, is the ability to entirely change the look and mood of a space. I think of individual pieces that I have in my collection, and I get a sort of craving for them. A bit like you would for, say, chocolate ice cream, or lemon pound cake. Once you get the idea in your head it just won't go away until you indulge the whim.

I get that impulse for this vintage rose runner at least a couple of times a year and go looking for it. It's the sort of item that stands on its own. In fact, it really only blends well for me with a white background. It's as though it wants all the limelight. So once in a while I let it have its own way. . . .

So that's what's on my table top this Tuesday.

I hope your week is starting out sweet!

Jacqueline

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Bride's Dream Roses

I hardly recognize my own blog. This is my garden. And these are my roses. To you it may seem like a small thing. But this is the first spring of my entire life that I have spent so much time working in my own garden. And I am no spring chicken, my dears. Cluck, cluck.

These pink babies are "Bride's Dream" and arrived from the nursery just today along with a couple of foxglove plants. 

These two blooms broke off on the trip home, so they get to be our first cut roses of the season.

"Camelot Lavender" foxglove. My DH tells me these grow along the roadside in Oregon. Imagine!

This nearly spent rose bloomed while we were gone, as did just a few others. Now we can settle in and watch the show!

"Camelot Rose" foxglove.

I did manage to uncover a metal name tag for this rose called "Candy Stripe." Can that be right? I've never seen stripes on the few roses from this bush before.

More coming on. We'll see.

This sweet bush was the first to bloom. I posted the first bud before our graduation trip.

I'm realizing that you have to have tons of bushes to really have a cutting garden, and also bushes that keep blooming throughout the summer. But what a joy just a tiny garden can bring. I never want to go inside!

There are tons of these floribundas coming on.

Thanks so much for all your kind congratulations to our graduating son. We had a wonderful family celebration. After a whole day on our own with a three and a five year old we're a lot more limber than when we left! Haha! Have a wonderful week!

Jacqueline 

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