January 10, 2007 4:54 PM
Apron Power! 11 New Entries
Hi Barbara!I am a SAHM of 6 and I grew up in a family of wonderful Southern cooks (and seamstresses!) This Christmas my sister made aprons for me and my middle daughter as we work together in the kitchen. I can't put it on without thinking of my wonderful grandmothers who always wore aprons! I'm proud and grateful to be training a new generation of domestic-minded women! A runner has his shoes; a painter has his brush; this mommy has her apron!
Kim
Reformed Grits
Dear Barbara,I have other aprons, but this one is The Favorite. It's quilted and has English roses on it. My daughter took this of me while I was preparing the last little something before Christmas Dinner was to be served. I'm hard-at-it.
~Jody Courtney
Montana Prairie Savage
Barbara,Yesterday I decided to enter your apron contest after I received an awesome surprise from my husband. Of course there's a story to go with it, there is always a story. I'm also linking to a post I did for Tie One On last summer. I only entered once because the theme was right up
my alley. I'm pretty fond of the outcome.Best wishes to you,
Spring
Hi Barbara, I wanted to be sure to send you this picture of my mother-in-law getting the hard sauce ready for the Christmas cake. She is wearing an apron she made for her mother many years ago. Her mom has since passed away and now the apron has a home with my sister-in-law. I asked MIL to put it on for the picture as she is the important family link in the life of that apron. Thanks! Kelly
Hi Barbara,My sister made my daughter and I these sweet matching aprons as a Christmas gift. My daughter (3yr. old) loves to help me in the kitchen. Anytime she sees me working at the counter she runs to get her stool and asks to help. In this photo my daughter is showing off
the tiny cookies she made in her new "Easy Bake oven". I have such fond memories of baking goodies with my sisters when I was a child using our old "Easy bake oven", so I bought this one for my daughter this year for Christmas.Thanks for all the encouragement and wisdom you share with us younger mothers. You are such a beautiful inspiration to me and my growing family... we are expecting our 3rd baby in Feburary.
Love,
sarah
Dear Barbara,I am a homeschooling mommy of four blessings and recently found your site.
I was doing a search for "aprons" which sent me to your blog!Here' a photo taken by my 5yo of me wearing my "girly" apron. This is my newest (and favorite) apron! It says, "Born to shop. Forced to cook!" My dad gave me the apron for Christmas. I use it every time I'm in the kitchen (which sometimes seems like half my waking hours!). I feel more feminine and more serious about cooking when I wear an apron.
I have enjoyed looking at the photos that have been entered in the contest!
Blessings,
Mrs. C
Riverbend Ramblings
Hi Barbara:This is one of two aprons that belonged to my husband's great-grandmother, Nunny: an italian matriarch in the best sense of the word. My mother-in-law gave them to me as a newlywed. I had fairly recently started wearing it again whenever I was in the kitchen because my growing belly was swabbing up whatever it could find on the counters when I cooked or baked! Very soon after I began wearing it again, your apron contest was announced. A philosophy behind wearing an apron? Great! I loved the new importance given to my little apron as I now felt like I was putting on my vocational battle gear to do my work in the kitchen or around the house for our family. It has made a surprising, positive difference in my outlook on what had been mere
drudgery before. Thank you!Sincerely,
Melissa Schools
This is my version of Amy Butler's pattern, "Cafe Apron." The bright fabric mix is great because 1) it hides a lot of spaghetti sauce spills, and 2) my boys won't wear it.TC of Fish In My Hair, where she wrote:
I've worn an apron for years, not to show how domestic I am or how feminine I feel, but because, well, I'm a mess. For me, it's more an adult bib than an apron. And, if you've been reading this blog for a while, you know that I have a history of exciting things happening to me in the kitchen - exploding dishes, appliances with falling parts, that kind of thing. Now that I think about it, I probably ought to be wearing steel-toed boots, safety glasses, and a hard hat while I'm cooking.
Here is my entry for your apron power contest. Here I am, with 2 of my girls in my chili pepper apron. It's a little big, but it will do.Ali
My God given mission. Ali and her husband are scheduled for a vasectomy reversal January 19th. Way to go!
Thanks to my new "Texas Cajun Blogger Apron", I actually am wearing an apron again. (Previously, the only apron I owned was a 20-year-old rust colored polka-dot teddy bear apron-- far too embarrassing for me to don even in the privacy of my own kitchen, although my 8-yr-old loves to wear it.) I won this apron from another blogger in November, just a few days after I started my blog! What fun! Wouldn't you know, it is a perfect fit. I love it!PS- I heard about your contest from this same blogger.
Hi,This is a picture of me and my daughter, Faith, in our aprons. My apron was a wedding gift several years ago. I made Faith's apron out of a matching table cloth that I had also received. I struggle to connect with Faith because she is very feminine while I've always been a tom boy. I decided to make her this apron as a way to help bridge the gap between her and I and to help build in her ideas of the character of Godly woman.
Thanks,
Rose
Micah 6:8
Barbara, Here is my apron. This was my grandmother's. She handmade it. She was an Italian immigrant. She died in 1980 and my dad took possession of the apron. I always wanted it for myself. In 2004 when my dad passed away, I took possession of the coveted apron. It's funny how the crucifix in the background was also passed on to me from my grandma to my dad to me! Michelle
Go here to see all contestants in the Apron Power! Contest
Entries due January 12. I will post them as I receive them, but also in a batch on January 13 for voting. Final day of voting January 19. Winners announced January 20.
You can read more in Contest Archives - you might want to start at the beginning to understand the philosophy behind Apron Power!
And be sure to spread the word!
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Comments
Just wanted to drop a comment here and tell you that I like the current picture. You look wonderful! I also thoroughly enjoy your blog, and check it regularly.
Posted by: Kathy F. | January 10, 2007 6:17 PM
I just wanted to say I love the new photo, Barbara! You look so friendly, happy, inviting, and relaxed.
I also wanted to say that I just looooove all of those pregnant bellies under the aprons!
Posted by: vida | January 10, 2007 9:04 PM
