Besides the irresistible Shabby Chic Couture white linen napkins with the silver crowns....................
..............I also purchased the soft natural linen ones with a small French blue fleur-de-lis embroidered on the corner.
..............I also purchased the soft natural linen ones with a small French blue fleur-de-lis embroidered on the corner.
For now they are piled on the hutch along with my vintage French dish towels purchased at La Madone in Provence.............but they will be used, definitely not hidden away in a drawer. I do love cloth napkins for the evening meal but usually resort to paper for breakfast and lunch. But, if YOU come join me for lunch or afternoon tea some day, we'll use these and I promise you'll get to choose ~ a crown or a fleur-de-lis.
Talking of napkins/serviettes..............what do you use to dab your mouth or wipe your sticky fingers, paper or cloth?
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Always cloth! I have many and am always washing, but it's worth it. If I come for tea, I would choose the fleur-de-lis! They are both beautiful though. --Delores
ReplyDeleteThese are just beautiful for me.
ReplyDeleteWe definitely use cloth napkins. In fact, I just sorted through two drawers full to try to eliminate some I rarely use.
We always use cloth, even for snacks. I just enjoy the feel of fabric rather than paper.
ReplyDeleteIf I ever do join you for tea, one afternoon, I would choose a blue fleur de lys napkin.
Maggie
I love your new napkins Mary. We use paper napkins, the bigger softer ones, for breakfast and lunch. We use cloth ones for dinner. I buy white banquet napkins by the dozen, because I can bleach them.
ReplyDeleteAre you staying warm?
Hugs,
Penny
Mary, I think both are wonderful, but I would definitely choose the crown!
ReplyDeleteWe mainly used paper, except for company. Then, when it occured to me that my beautiful cloth napkins almost never saw the light of day, we began using them more, usually at supper. I have an idea to make some smaller, more casual "lunch" napkins, and save a few more trees. Besides, even p.butter & jelly seems more a grand meal with cloth napkins, doesn't it? Maybe I'll embroider them with a monogram or some vintage design!
I have a basket of cloth napkins that we use most of the time. Then for special parties I have some embroidered vintage napkins. For large parties paper napkins are used. We changed to the cloth napkins a few years ago when I was trying to think how we could be more "green".
ReplyDeleteLove the fleur-de-lis napkins.
since there's just two of us, i use cloth napkins all the time :)
ReplyDeletelove the feel of them.
I judge restaurants by their serviettes, but philistine that I am I use paper ones most of the time.
ReplyDeleteThat French Blue gets me every time .... and I love crowns!
ReplyDeleteIt's always been cloth, even when the children were wee ones.
ReplyDeleteThe only exception is we're having BBQ ribs or something equally rustic and messy. Then it's a roll of paper towels on the table.
Only cloth here!
ReplyDeleteCloth 99% of the time. I love the feel of the oft washed cotton ( no poly and no blends, please) against my mouth.
ReplyDeleteJanet
Cloth! I have collected lots of vintage linens. I do love the ones with the Fleur de Lis.
ReplyDeleteI use cloth most of the time. I am always on the lookout for more too, and as hubby says it must be because I love to wash!! Even when company comes I have the cloth ones out although I think that most people have gotten so use to using paper. Paper does work in a snap when needed though, so I do have some around.
ReplyDeleteTake Care!
Ulrike
My jeans!!! hehehe!! No, we use paper now, but have been talking about going to cloth for "green" sake!!
ReplyDeleteAlways cloth, my husband wouldn't trade it for paper!
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