Snowmen Gathered Front Apron

Snowmen Gathered Front Apron , originally uploaded by Sweet_Things_Design.

Now that Halloween is almost here (just 3 more days) it's time to start thinking about Christmas!

I have a whole bunch of super cute Christmas fabric stashed away that is begging to be made into aprons for your holiday parties or gift giving. I started with this sweet snowman apron, the fabric is by Riely Blake.

I love the colors they are every retro Christmas! It's hard to see from the pictures but the red fabric features snippets from the very famous, much loved poem The Night Before Christmas.

The poem was a great family tradition growing up, my Dad read it to us every Christmas eve and my brother and I looked forward to it each year.

I have since inherited the family book, it is quite lovely, beautifully illustrated and so full of warm memories.

I now look forward to reading it to my son on Christmas eve and hope that he gets the same pleasure from it that we did as children swept up in the magic of the evening.

To check out this sweet Christmas apron for yourself click here.

New Batch of Aprons

I have been busy working away and now you can get the fruits of my labor all uploaded to Sweet Things on Etsy!  

4 new Girlie Girl Aprons: Roosters, Black Dot, Juicy Ruffles and Modern Damask.

And check out the awesome photography style for these photos!  I used rollip.com, they have several styles of free templates to turn your photography into vintage style polaroid pictures.  It was so much fun and so easy to use! 

Bakers Twine Makes Everything Sweet

Red Bakers Twine, originally uploaded by Sweet_Things_Design.

Hey everyone, I hope that you all had a great weekend, we sure did. Yesterday was a perfect fall day here in Michigan.

We had a beautiful sunny day with crisp cool air. Perfect for putting a little color in your cheeks, but not too cold to keep you from standing in line at the cider mill for an hour waiting for hot apple cider and warm fresh donuts!

Next weekend we are planning to take the little one to the orchard to pick out the perfect pumpkin, go on a hayride and hopefully tackle the corn maze, we can't wait!

In other news Sweet Things is now selling supplies, bakers twine specifically! You will get 100 yards of red and white bakers twine on a vintage wooden clothes pin, click here to check it out.

Coming soon, you will also be able to get blue and white twine, green and white twine and brown and white twine.

Halloween Giveaway at The Cheryl Oz Collection

For all you Halloween lovers out there and art lovers as well you need to hop over to my friend Cheryl's blog to sign up for her Halloween giveaway drawing.  She is giving away this super cute halloween card and a 20% off coupon to her Etsy store which is filled with the most gorgeous art and goodies.  But hurry deadline for the drawing is October 16th!

Coming Soon Holiday Gift Tags

Coming soon to an Etsy shop near you, well my Etsy shop!  Check out these super fab holiday gift tags that I designed just this week.  I sent them off to the printer last night and I am super excited to get them in the mail and into the shop for all your holiday gift bags and packages!

The tags will be sold in 2 sets of 4, the first set is the Snowflake Collection and the second set is the Shabby Chic Collection.  I will post a new announcement when they are listed in the shop:) 

This was such a fun and different creative exercise for me, I really enjoyed myself and am now thinking up different projects for the computer.  I can't wait, hope you all like them as much as I do!