Citrina Fashion

Citrina Fashion Hat featured image, Hattingdon Horses blog.

The upcoming design illustrates that our Hattingdon can pull off just about any kind of fashion hat.

In this instance, she wears a custom headpiece made up of fruit slices frim oranges, blood oranges and limes. We named the headpiece Citrina.

Citrina fashion hat made with slices of citrus fruit. By Hattingdon Horses.
Citrina Fashion.

She looks fresh and bright and cheerful and darling . . . in our humble opinion of course.

Now . . . how about some punch inspired by Hattingdon’s darling headwear?

This weekend, two of our staff made the recipe for the punch pictured below. They report it was a huge win with family, friends and their guests. They also report they will be serving it again and again, especially at holiday time.

Blood Orange Holiday Punch, from Southern Living magazine.
Blood Orange Holiday Punch, by Southern Living.

Here are three recipes for you — Lime Sherbet Punch, Orange Sherbet Punch and the Blood Orange Holiday Punch seen above. Let’s go!

Lime Sherbet Punch

Ingredients
2 quarts lime sherbet
2 (2 liter) bottles ginger ale
1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice
(4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained
1 lemon, sliced
1 lime, sliced

Directions
Scoop lime sherbet into a punch bowl; pour in ginger ale and pineapple juice. Stir well. Stir in maraschino cherries and float lemon and lime slices in the punch.

Source: All Recipes »

Orange Sherbet Punch

Ingredients
Orange Sherbet – the scoops of sherbet are the star ingredient to add the creaminess and orange flavor to this party punch.
Ginger Ale – is a classic choice to make the perfect party punch and transforming it into a fizzy drink.
Orange Slices – completely optional, but I love to add a few slices on top of the punch to make it look pretty and offer fresh wedges for garnish on the punch glasses.

Directions
To prepare the punch, use an ice cream scoop and add scoops of orange sherbet to the bottom of a large punch bowl. Next, pour half of the ginger ale over the sherbet (it will look really foamy and that’s okay) then cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator. Allow the punch to chill until half an hour before you plan to serve it.

Source: Julia’s Simply Southern »

Blood Orange Holiday Punch

As promised above, here is the recipe for Blood Orange Holiday Punch — it is from Southern Living magazine. The recipe contains liquor, and is traditionally served at holiday time. Don’t let that stop you!

Ingredients
1 ½ cups vodka
¾ cup Maraschino liquor, such as Luxardo
3 cups blood orange juice (from about 12 blood oranges)
1 cup freshly-squeezed lime juice (from about 12 limes)
1 750-ml bottle prosecco (or other dry, sparkling wine), chilled

Directions
Combine the vodka, Maraschino liquor, blood orange juice, and lime juice in a large pitcher, and refrigerate for about an hour. When ready to serve, pour the mixture into a punch bowl. Add the prosecco, and garnish with an assortment of citrus wheels, thyme sprigs, and star anise.

Enjoy!

P.S. We have a brand new classic hat inspired by the above fruit colours. It is so very pretty and bright. Tune in Tuesday. Love, Hattingdon.


Hattingdon H Logo in white encircled in Hattingdon brown.

World Chocolate Day

Featured image of lots of chocolate. It's World Chocolate Day. Hooray!

Today, the 7th of July, is World Chocolate Day!

The National Today website tells us:

“Established in 2009, World Chocolate Day marks the supposed anniversary of the day that this iconic dessert made its first entrance into Europe in 1550. All around the world on this date, candy stores, and local suppliers place their best-loved merchandise on sale so that everyone, both young and old, can enjoy a nibble of the stuff.”

Hattingdon does not have a chocolate hat, but she does have a chocolate brown hat. Here she is. It is from the mod cap series. Isn’t she cute?

Cee Cee Hattingdon in chocolate brown.

National Day continues with:

“Chocolate comes from the seed of the Theobroma Cacao tree. Cacao grows in Mexico, Central America, and Northern South America, where it has been cultivated for at least three millennia. However, Africa holds 70% of the growing cacao trees in the world today. The earliest known observation of using cacao seeds is from around 1100 BC.”

If there is anything more deluxe than chocolate, we do not know what it is!

More

Be sure to check this out from Eat This, Not That! The link is to an article on their website entitled, “13 Chocolate Brands That Use the Highest Quality of Ingredients.” In it they also tell you whose chocolate products to stay away from.

TheHealthSite.com has a cool article entitled, ‘Feel-Good’ Hormones: How Chocolate Positively Impact Mood And Brain Function?

Last but not least, we highly recommend this recipe for “The Best Vegan Chocolate Cake,” by Nora Cooks. It is truly moist and delicious. Magic!

Thank you, hat (and chocolate) lovers, for stopping by. Love, Hattingdon.


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Happy 4th 2023!

Red, white and blue fireworks featured image.

Today America celebrates her birthday, and we have a hat for it . . . . naturally!

It is based on the original American flag, featuring 13 stars and 13 stripes, in honor of the 13 original colonies — and considered essential to the American Revolution.

Betsy Ross is credited with sewing the first United States flag, so we have named Hattingdon’s stars and stripes hat Betsy in Ross’s honour.

Betsy Hattingdon.

Betsy Ross

Ross has quite a story.

Betsy Ross, née Elizabeth Griscom, born January 1, 1752, Gloucester City, New Jersey, was an American seamstress who, according to family stories, fashioned and helped design the first flag of the United States.

The eighth of 17 children, she was brought up as a member of the Society of Friends, educated in Quaker schools, and became an apprentice to a Philadelphia upholsterer. However, she married another upholsterer’s apprentice, John Ross, in 1773.

By 1775 the Rosses had opened a small shop in the commercial district of Philadelphia where they lived. John was killed in January 1776 soon after he joined a local militia company to fight in the American Revolution.

Betsy continued to work as a seamstress and upholsterer. In June 1777 she married Joseph Ashburn, who would die in prison in England in 1782 after the merchant marine brigantine on which he was serving was captured during the war.

In 1783 Betsy married again, this time to John Claypoole, who had been imprisoned with Ashburn and brought the news of his death and with whom Betsy joined the newly formed Free Quakers.

Betsy ran her upholstery business with Claypoole and then for years afterward with her daughters, granddaughters, and nieces, producing flags among other objects.

Birth of the Stars and Stripes

A Henry Mosler painting titled “The Birth of the Flag” depicting Betsy Ross and her assistants sewing an American flag in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1777.
Lambert/Getty Images.

The story that Betsy Ross made and helped design the American flag began when her grandson, William Canby, presented his paper “The History of the Flag of the United States” to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870.

According to Canby’s account, his grandmother not only made the first Stars and Stripes — at George Washington’s behest — but also helped design it.

Canby based his paper on stories that he had heard from family members, along with his own memories of his grandmother’s tales of her involvement in making flags.

The Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag of the United States on June 14, 1777.

Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica » Wikipedia » Newsweek »


Born on the 4th of July

John Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872, in Plymouth Notch, Vermont — the only U.S. President to be born on America’s Independence Day.


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World Social Media Day

Social media clipart featuring colorful signposts.

Greetings!

June 30th is World Social Media Day — where people celebrate social media around the world. Can you imagine life without it? You might never have met Hattingdon without it. Imagine that? Wink!

Hattingdon has something special to wear for the occasion — naturally. Remember these?

Hattingdon does not have a social media hat (that we know about), so we decided on her social media head scarf collection. How fun are these? Vivian named the design Skylar.

Skylar Hattingdon wearing her social media scarf with large, dark sunglasses.
Skylar in Turquoise.

By definition

Social media is a digital technology that facilitates the sharing of text and multimedia through virtual networks and communities.

Skylar scarf in orange with social media inspired print.
Skylar in Orange.

What are the benefits?

What are the benefits of using social media? Billions of people around the world use social media to share information and make connections. On a personal level, social media allows you to communicate with friends and family, learn new things, develop your interests, and be entertained.

Skylar social media scarf, Hattingdon Horses, created by Vivian J Grant.
Skylar in Black.

How important is it?

How important is social media? Very important . . . to most folks. How important is it to us today? See Top 7 Impacts of Social Media.

Or, grab a look at this.

Top Social Media Sites to Consider for Your Brand in 2023 at buffer.com. They report that Facebook is still the largest social networking site, with nearly 3 billion people using it monthly. 3 billion . . . !

Thank you for visiting with us. See you again soon. Love, Hattingdon.


Heart in Hattingdon brown with her logo letter H in white.