Personalize Your Sheets

“All linens resemble royal bedding when they’re emblazoned with your signature stamp.” I couldn’t agree more with this tip from In Style’s January 2009 “Extra Splash In a Flash.” I ADORE monograms. For my wedding invites, I even one upped the monogram and made my own “crest”. Did I mention I was a British History major and am a reforming Anglophile, who already has her plan set for Prince William’s wedding to Kate Middleton? (I did say that I was reforming. Ha! Says Katie. Ever since that middle of the morning wake up to watch Princess Diana wed Prince Charles, Kelly’s been a goner.)

The only reason I’m admitting this in a public forum is that I think the wedding is going to be around June 4th and I’ll have houseguests, so people are going to find out how pathetic I am anyhow (obviously, the cat’s out of the bag with my husband).

Back to monogramming, I don’t think my mom, an Organic Structure, has anything monogrammed. Nor ever had anything monogrammed. I guess maybe our baby silver was monogrammed? But that was usually a gift from her Classic Structure mother-in-law. I think I had a sweater that had my name across the front when I was eight, which in hindsight was basically just an invitation to have me kidnapped.

Classics like me LOVE monograms and personalization because it’s traditional and so are we. But, I’m betting that other personality types who are also narcissistic probably adore monograms too! (For instance, Smarts, mostly because Katie’s Smart Freedom husband is addicted to them.) I’m thinking the next type down the list to aggressively monogram things might be Funs as it’s a detail but if it didn’t groove with their aesthetic they’d never do it. Then I’d say Smarts might enjoy the occasional monogram and I’d probably say Organics would be last in line to do it themselves but would enjoy it as a gift. (Which Katie did/does enjoy — towels from both her Classic Structure mother-in-law and her Smart Freedom husband, even if he did get the detail of the initials wrong.)

Originally published April 19, 2010