Last Call for Fall Aprons

My Thanksgiving and fall-inspired aprons are selling out as quickly as the last of the leaves are falling from the trees!

 

I have just a couple of my 1950's vintage tablecloth ones left, like this one:

 

 

And a few I made with retro-inspired, new fabrics:

 

 

Wearing one of these will surely ease your toiling in the kitchen!  Or if you're heading to someone else's home for Thanksgiving, they make the perfect hostess gift!

Fall & Thanksgiving Aprons

Fall seems to be flying by just about as quickly as the leaves are changing color here in the DC area.

 

 

And my Retro Revival apron orders are piling up as high as the raked leaves!

 

 

I think everyone is looking forward to Thanksgiving celebrations.

 

 

I know we are!

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you all the most wonderful Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving my friends!

Hoping all of your culinary adventures turn out delicious!

Pie Confession

As you probably already know, I love pie.  Love to eat them and bake them, and have posted about it quite a few times.  But, I haven't made a homemade crust in years ~ probably 25+.

Since meeting Beth Howard, you know, the sweet lady I blogged about here, I've been thinking I should really give the pie crust thing another chance.  So in preparation of Thanksgiving, I tried a practice pie using Beth's recipe.

(If you look closely, you'll see the yellow bits of butter that Beth says are so important to flakiness.)

I carefully followed Beth's directions about not overworking the dough.

It's really flaky.

And delicious.

As of this morning, only one piece remains so I think it was definitely a success!  I finally feel like I'm a genuine pie baker now.  No more Pillsbury for me.

Is It OK to Eat Pie for Breakfast?

Boy am I feeling lazy this morning, despite the fact that I have lots of orders to fill.  Word-of-mouth, Facebooking and this feature in IndieSpotting really paid off for my business!

I've received lots of Retro Revival apron and shower cap orders ~ yay!

So though I really should be sewing, all I really wanna do is have another piece of pie and daydream about our wonderful Thanksgiving, spent with our son and daughter-in-law.  A few highlights...

(Captain Project deep frying the turkey)

(Yujin with the cherry-cranberry pie)

(Veggie sautee for stuffing and green beans)

(Seriously?!  Every dern year!)

(The feast)

Such a great Thanksgiving, especially since it was Yujin's first!  She got quite a kick out of all of our American traditions, and loved the turkey!

After Thanksgiving, we ate more pie, then visited our local winery, took a tour of the processing plant, strolled the grounds and snapped these pix of the newlyweds:

Oh!  And Yujin asked me to teach her how to make red sauce and lasagna.  Turned out beautiful and delish!

Must.get.to.sewing!

Wait, is it OK to have pie for breakfast?

I have an upcoming show to prepare for, need to clean the house and put up our Christmas decorations.  The holidays have me so distracted ~ is it reasonable to expect that I actually get anything accomplished this week?!  Terrible, isn't it?  It's the pie, I tell ya!

This is my last November blog post, and your last chance to leave a comment so that you're entered to win this month's giveaway!

I'm drawing the winner tomorrow ~ good luck!

 

Thanksgiving

I'm a happy gal this morning.  Our wonderful son and lovely daughter-in-law (married in January) are here from Fort Stewart to celebrate Thanksgiving with us!

Everyone's still asleep, except Twyla:

She's my sous chef.  Can you see the plea on her face?  I just know she's thinking, "Please drop something already!"

The pie is in the oven (cherry cranberry this year), veggies are chopped and ready for the stuffing, taters are cleaned and cut (Idaho and sweet) and the turkey's seasoned and ready for deep frying.

I'm trying out a new green bean recipe this year; got some raised eyebrows when I announced no casserole this year;)  And who knows, maybe this will be the first year I don't burn the marshmallows on the yams!

The wild turkeys are doing their morning strut across our property.

Pretty cocky on Thanksgiving morning, right?!

Ahhh, enjoying the peace and quiet before the festivities begin.  Thinking about all I have to be grateful this year ~ so many blessings, including YOU, my loyal blog readers!  I wish you all a bountiful day, surrounded by the ones you love and pie, lots and lots of pie!

I am also grateful for our brave and fierce military.  Praying for their safety and hoping they'll reunite soon with their families.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Catching Up Now That I'm Back Online

So happy to be back in Blogville!  Now...I'm overdue announcing the winner of my Retro Revival November blog giveaway...

Congratulations to Treeville Mary - yay!  Please send me your address so that I can ship you the Christmas goodies.

I hope all of my American followers had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  It was a very mellow and quiet Thanksgiving for us on the farm this year.  Paul smoked an ah-mazing turkey:

And I cooked all the sides:

Poor Twyla sniffed crazily all day, trying to discover a dropped morsel!  Caught her "helping" with the dishes:

Please come back on Tuesday, December 7th, when I'll resume my normal blog schedule (new posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays) and when I'll announce my December blog giveaway!

Banana Bread & a Handmade Apron for National Tie One On Day

About five years ago, EllynAnne Geisel, Apron Expert, collector, speaker and author, launched National Tie One On Day as a way to put the "give" back into Thanksgiving.  The tradition suggests wrapping a baked goodie in an apron with a note of encouragement and gifting it to a neighbor experiencing a rough patch.

A little birdie told me about a woman in my community who's really struggling with her wayward son so I baked this banana bread (yeah, it's from a box but it's GOOD):

...Wrapped it in this apron I made:

...And tucked in a personal note.  I'm excited about delivering it to her next Tuesday.

National Tie One On Day is really spreading.  I've caught it and hope you will too!

November 30th is right around the corner so hurry and leave a comment on this blog or any of my November blogs for a chance to win this month's giveaway.  The more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win - yay!