For this evening's office baby shower (pictures to come!) Amanda gave me this very heartfelt hostess gift. These linens belonged to her grandmother. Two crochet-trimmed hankies, a runner and a card table tablecloth in baby pink with embroidery and white crocheted trim. Her husband lovingly ironed everything. How sweet it all is.
"Our house was not unsentient matter — it had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benedictions. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out in eloquent welcome — and we could not enter it unmoved."- Samuel Clemens
I am probably the most content person you'd ever want to meet. I have a decent job working with people I like, a loving family including a swell Old English Sheepdog, a home where nesting and curling up on slipcovered sofas is required, and a life rich in creative crafting and daydreaming. I someday want a cottage at the beach where my grandchildren can bring sandy feet into the house, wet bathing suits can dry on the front porch and everything we need to get to is a bicycle ride away.
3 comments:
What beautiful gift! The pink is so soft.
XXDenise
A gift of LOVE!
What a beautiful presentation.
And to think her husband ironed it all!
Amanda knew just who to give her loving gift to.
Those are beautiful1 What a wonderful gift!
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