Vintage Fabric Valentine Aprons

Looking for a Valentine's Day gift that'll last longer than a box of chocolates?

And longer than a dozen roses?

I made these aprons from vintage fabrics that have stood the test of time!  Most of the fabrics are from the 1950's and they're still in excellent shape and very vivid with color.

I've also stitched up several made with new, retro fabrics:

They're all available in my Etsy shop if you want to take a closer look.

Christmas Aprons Order

 

Hoping you all had a wonderful Christmas!  We sure did.  And so did Retro Revival!

 

 

So grateful to have had such a great selling season this year.  And to top it off...

 

 

...an order on Christmas day for 13 of my vintage Christmas tablecloth aprons!

 

 

Perfect way to end the year!

Elsa Apron Update

Remember the Elsa apron I made for my niece's 5th birthday (prior post here)?

 

 

She loves it!

 

 

Almost as much as I love her!

 

Audrey Hepburn Apron

"Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?" ~ Holly Golightly

 

This line from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" immediately came to mind when I found this fabric!

 

 

Of course I had to use it to make a Retro Revival apron.

 

Tres distinque!

Raggedy Ann Apron

Every so often I have a customer who asks me to make them an apron from fabric they own.  Tammie's mother had made her and her sister dresses out of this Raggedy Ann fabric when they were little girls.  She's been holding on to the extra fabric for years, waiting to have something special made from it.

 

 

Isn't it darling?!

 

 

Here she is modeling it.  So sweet!  Standing next to the homemade apple butter and jellies she canned.

 

 

If you ever need a custom Retro Revival apron please just shoot me a message.

Elsa Apron

 

My little niece is obsessed with Elsa from the Disney movie, "Frozen."

 

 

Her 5th birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks so I made her a very special apron!

 

 

I can hardly wait to see her slip it on!  I'll be sure to snap some pictures to share with you.

 

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!

Homemade Apple Pie & Pie Aprons

My BFF Melanie does so many things so wonderfully.  In fact, I think she's perfectly wonderful, the truest of all friends!

Our mutual love of pie goes way back.  This was us eating chocolate pie for breakfast in Vegas almost 20 years ago!

Despite her perfection, she struggles with making pie crusts and recently asked me to help her.

I'd never used a mechanical peeler before so this was fun.

 

 

We used Beth Howard's recipe and followed her proven techniques.  Click here for one of my prior posts about Beth (she's the true expert on pie making!).

I think where Melanie had been going wrong may have been that she'd been handling the crust too much, trying to make it perfect.

The quicker you can throw the ingredients in the bowl and fluff them together with your hands, the better.  I've found that my most flaky, buttery crusts have come from handling the pastry for less than 4 minutes ~ that's from the time I toss the ingredients together, roll the crust, and place it in the pie dish.  Fast.  Gotta be really fast!

Walah!  Melanie made a beautiful pie!

The crust was deliciously buttery and very flaky!

 

If you're looking for more pie baking inspiration, check out my Retro Revival pie aprons:

 

 

They're available in my Etsy shop...

 

 

...or message me for details.  I ship for free to my friends and family!