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"......the kiss of your neck is a breath of flowers."  What a lovely, poetic reminder of how sensuous and feminine a modest decolette can be. Indeed, there is nothing more flattering than a beautiful neckline!  At Simple Pleasures we have endless options for lovely lace embellishments to make your sleepwear extra-special.  Shown below are only a few of the many options available upon request.....bed jackets can be done with matching lace to make an exquisite ensemble or peignoir set.  Call me for more details!  615.895.5553.  

It is so very exciting to see the flowers bursting forth, the birds singing happily, and the blue skies hanging gloriously overhead!  Emily Dickinson, ‘A Light Exists in Spring‘. A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period –When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroadOn Solitary FieldsThat Science cannot overtakeBut Human Nature feels… Written in around 1864 but not published until 1896 (as with many of Dickinson’s poems), ‘A Light Exists in Spring’ beautifully captures the way that spring slowly appears in our consciousness, like a light in the distance. The final stanza of Dickinson’s...

   Oh how I adore the sleepwear and loungewear styles of the twentieth century, especially the fifties and early sixties as I can remember what the ladies in my family wore.  Nipped waists on the robes, housecoats to wear when cooking and cleaning, pretty bits of lace on the nighttime lingerie and peignoir sets......when the woman's role as homemaker and mother were an honored profession as they should be.  Women liked dressing like women, and that meant looking and feeling feminine all hours of the day and night.        

  I have always loved reading the Song of Solomon.  It is such a lovely expression of what godly love is, illustrating God's description of perfect love between a man and woman as it is mirrored in God's relationship with each of us....the purest form of devotion, adoration, and trust. A lovely Christian commentary of Song of Solomon can be found here: https://www.easyenglish.bible/bible-commentary/songsolomon-lbw.htm What I strive to represent as a company is the sweet expression of what God intends for us as women.....to be feminine, soft, and sweet yet strong in our love of Christ....to be women as God intended...

She Walks in Beauty BY LORD BYRON  She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that...