{The little post below is written by my friend Camille.  We went to graduate school together and enjoyed lots of shopping and nesting while we should have been in the library researching thesis topics. Camille is a English major so you will be treated today to better grammar, less exclamation points and an absence of my signature run on “…” BUT I will be adding some comments in brackets and caps because I just can’t stand it…more on Camille in coming days…}

Let me start by saying that I am, and will always be, precisely one decade behind my dear friend Holly. You see, ten years ago she pulled together the most sumptuous master bedroom.  Layer upon layer of texture, subtle color, and one of my all time favorite fabrics, Ralph Lauren’s Guinevere. Even the name of the pattern appeals to my nerdy English major side. 

{image via ebay because ”the Guinevere” is no longer available via Dillards, one of our main sources for homegoods ca. 1998 long before TJMaxx}

I will be the first to say that ten years of the same bed linens is quite a feat. {and let me just say we have bought new sheets and quilts along the way}

As one who likes to change the décor in her home like some change their lighbulbs, I am duly impressed. Kudos, Holly. You’ve gotten your money’s worth out of those soft, sateen, yummy linens. But it appears all good things must come to an end. Like Camelot, it is time for Guinevere to go. Holly has cooked up some fabulous, fresh new ideas. And lucky for us, we get to see it all unfold here.  

So why am I ten years behind Holly, even though she is WAY younger than me? Even as I write this I am ensconced in the loveliness that is Guinevere. {so I felt like an idiot when she told me this when we were emailing last night after I said “I am so over the guinevere, can’t wait to redo my bedroom” oops..sorry!}

And I don’t see her leaving any time soon.  Maybe in ten years. And then I’ll want whatever it is that Holly is now cooking up for her new bedroom.

-Camille

[Camille lives and works in the epicenter of Texas style & culture, Abilene. A former intern at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, she now teaches ESL to African refugees and mothers her two brilliant and gorgeous children, Colin and Chloe.  Her husband, Dr. Dickson, teaches English at Abilene Christian University and does other technical stuff she doesn't understand.]