Pockets!

Every apron I make has ample pockets.  For women, this is a must, because so few women's clothes apart from jeans HAVE pockets! An apron pocket gives a place to put phone, pencil, odds-and-ends, or anything else that comes to my hand during the course of the day.    This becomes one of the more practical adaptations for dressing in a feminine way.


   The men's aprons have pockets, too, but they aren't quite as necessary.  Someone asked me last summer just why a guy's apron needed a pocket, and we had a laugh about it, but I suppose in the end I just think it looks more complete. 

Christmas aprons

  Just a few more days to wear my Christmas aprons.  But alas, none of my several aprons is of my own making!  All are vintage or vintage-inspired aprons.  Two are solid red with ENORMOUS pockets.  One has candles on the pockets and the other has angels on the pockets.    
   The other two are that wonderful printed style of 1950s Christmas linen, poinsettias and candles and such all over.  I'm sure my grandmother is a bit baffled by my tastes in Christmas decorations, reflecting what she picked out between 60 and 50 years ago.   
   (Yes, note the present tense about my grandmother- she's a very vibrant 90!)

What I Made - Williamsburg Gingerbread

     I've tended lately, through no particular design, to make many of the same Christmas cookies my paternal grandmother made.  My own mother makes a very wide assortment, so it's hard to choose from among the ones with which I grew up, which ones to make.   Last night I made the dough for one of Nan's favorites, gingerbread cookies according to the recipe from Colonial Williamsburg.
    When you buy the cookies ready-made at Williamsburg, they come in large rounds, so I plan to bake them the same way.  The dough is a soft one until refrigerated.  It's without egg, which should be useful to those dealing with egg allergies.  (And of course that means that you have no danger in nibbling the dough!)
   This is the first time I've made this recipe, so the jury will remain out until we've baked it up, closer to Christmas!


http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/food/ginger.cfm

Halloween Aprons

https://www.etsy.com/listing/203717524/halloween-apron-skeletons?


In 1929, Disney made a "Silly Symphony" cartoon called "Skeleton Dance".  Black-and-white cartoons, can you imagine?  The skeletons on this apron call to mind those dancing for Disney. 
Rattling bones!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q

The recipes we always come back to

If the only recipe I ever used from the Cottey College cookbook was the banana bread recipe, that would make it alone worth the cost.  Every time for the past two years that bananas have gotten to the bread stage of ripeness, I've gone to that very simple but  good recipe!


We're also celebrating Puppy's 3rd birthday today, and again, I have recipes to go back to.  Except they aren't really recipes! Our children love chicken salad.  Love it.  So this time, I used the whole chicken for chicken salad.  There's a method my cousin taught me a few years ago, but not a recipe.  Mayonnaise, curry powder, salt, lemon juice, cut-up grapes, and a little pickle relish are added to taste.  That's about it.    Every time we buy grapes, the children hope for this stuff!

Say hi!

Since blogging at all is new, I'd like to know who's here, how they got here, and where you are!  Please comment just to say hi!

Why the name ClassiKAprons?

    When I started making aprons to sell, I put out the question to my friends and family as to what I should call it.  I am not a very frilly sort of woman.  Feminine, yes, frilly, no.   AND, I sell men's aprons . Ergo, I didn't want something that called to mind flowered teapots or ruffled curtains.  
    After some brainstorming, a high school classmate suggested the winning name, ClassiKAprons.  The capital K is of course for my own name and to make it stand out a bit.  "Classic" or "ClassiK" alludes to my love of vintage everything and of classic cars in particular. 

Hello, world!

   Welcome to ClassiKAprons!


         I'm Katie Gillet, and I have a wide variety of aprons for sale.   I developed patterns of my own for several styles of aprons over years of giving them as gifts, often for bridal showers.  However, I also have men's and children's aprons.  Making these, with artistic touches, is one of my favorite forms of artwork. 
   Watch this blog for pictures of the aprons I have available via my Etsy shop   https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassiKAprons?ref=hdr_shop_menu
 
Thanks and hi again!