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Lyndas Characters of Now and Then
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lynschar ( 7465 )   
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A Texas based family run business specializing in Pottery & Vintage Linen for over 20 years. We sell vintage linen, new & vintage pottery, including advertisement items, Cookie Jars, Banks, Salt & Pepper Shakers, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Brush, McCoy, Beatles, and Sherwin Williams, Quilt,
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Yes, I am a linen addict!! Yes, I can admit it!!! "I am a linen addict."..................
Okay-here my story goes and bear with me as I will get "Off track" at times and then try to find my way back-------My mother passed away in the early l980's. My sister was considerably older than me (as when I was a sophomore, she married my beloved high school basketball coach---me and all the other girls could not stand it at the time) Now, back to my story--My sister said, "How do you want to divide Mother's things?" I told her, "That I do not care, what do you think?" She replied, "Well, you like old things, Right? I said, "Yes, I do!!" So, my sister suggested that I take everything old and she would take everything new. You cannot even begin to imagine the grin that came across my face---(and they say that Texas is wide!!) So, that is how I inherited all of my Grandmother's and Mother's old linens and a great love affair was begun. I just loved them and a lot of them date back to the 1800's. Now, my husband and I were collecting cookie jars at that time as well, so I decided that I would also collect old linens to sell someday, as was the plan for our cookie jars. I bought linens for over 22 years while pulling 10 hour shifts at St. Paul Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, Cancer Center/Oncology Unit, Department of Radiation Oncology. My medical career had begun in 1968 at Childress, Texas, Childress General Hospital, where I filled the role of Director of the Medical Records Department. At this point, I had been in the medical field now for 35 years, but 22+ of those were in Oncology. When my career began in the Cancer Center in the early 1980, and as I loved old linens, I hired three women who went all over Texas and Louisiana buying linens for me. I worked with one of the ladies' daughter at the hospital and that is how I met the three of them and got started. I bought everything that they brought me for those 22+ years and stored them. I had four huge storage buildings totally full, and I do mean full. My husband refused to let me rent another storage building, telling me that no one needed five storage buildings, and he was not going to pay for another one; needless to say, I had been in a severe car wreck requiring 7 hours of plastic surgery on my face, so my husband actually had been trying to get me to retire and quit making that 50 mile trip to the hospital through downtown Dallas every day. Sooooo, when UT Southwestern purchased St. Paul, I lost everything--22 years seniority, all the sick leave, and one and one-half months vacation that I received every year. It was going to be like starting over----Oh My--What to Do??? But as I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself, I thought--------"OKAY, my husband has been trying to get me to retire for some time now!!" LYNDA-you do not have to think about this one-as it is a "No Brainer"!!! YOU WILL RETIRE AND SELL YOUR LINENS!! Sooo, I retired three years ago from the hospital to, yes, sell my linens. I have worked in the medical field for so long that this is all I know. My knowledge of my linens is still very limited, even though I have approximately 1,000,000 of the little beauties. But I am having a ball learning. So, if you have followed my auctions at all, then you know that I am terrible about dating fabrics and naming patterns or colors, or flowers, or birds, and anything in-between those items. If it hits me in the face and is very obvious, then sometimes, I can identify it, but it is only an educated guess---Also, I do not know the pattern names either, unless I can find them in one of my books.
Yes, you can definitely tell that I really do love the vintage linens!!! I never got to know my Grandmother because my Mother was a "menopause" baby and her oldest brother was 30 when she was born. Needless, to say, I never got to know either set of grandparents. I have their marriage license and it is dated 1880, I think, Caddo Indian Territory, so it was Oklahoma, before Oklahoma became a state. I feel that I really missed a bunch by not having that part of a normal person's life. But, then what is normal these days??? I could have been an orphan and then not have parents at all.
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