Category: Featured Design

Buy Nothing Day

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Just in case you missed it. Have you seen this? —Hattingdon.

Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November.

Created by artist Ted Dave and promoted by magazine and nonprofit Adbusters, Buy Nothing Day encourages people not to shop for one day.

Participants may participate in a variety of anti-consumerist and philanthropic activities, such as donating winter coats or marching through stores. Some activists have also extended Buy Nothing Day to cover the entire Christmas shopping season.

As of 2001, Buy Nothing Day was observed in over 35 countries. In the late 1990s, Adbusters created a TV commercial to promote Buy Nothing Day in the US, but most television stations refused to air it. Some commentators, particularly business groups, have criticized the event, claiming that it is economically destructive.

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Pippa

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Hello and welcome. We hope your visit with Hattingdon brings you a “hatful of smiles.

Today Hattingdon is wearing her lovely Pippa hat created in pure red. She looks marvelous, doesn’t she? Sigh.

Pippa Hattingdon red fashion hat.
Pippa.

The Pippa hat features a round dome with a large tilted circular upturned brim. Matching red nosebobs complete the look. Pip pip hooray!

Pippa

What’s in a name? How about this? We had no idea until we looked it up.

Nameberry informs us:-

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The name Pippa is a girl’s name of English, Italian origin meaning “lover of horses”.

Pippa, a peppy condensation of Philippa that turns it from serious to sprightly, has come into the public eye in a big way, being Prince William’s sister-in-law.

Lover of horses. Perfect! Thank you for visiting with us. See you again soon.

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On target with Artemis Classics

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Greetings! Hattingdon is right on target with the fashionable and classy Artemis classic hat. Vivian created the hat in three colors. Black, blue and red.

We also have information on the hat’s namesake, the Goddess Artemis, following the images.

Artemis classic hat in black.
Artemis in Black.
Hattingdon Target hat in blue.
Artemis in Blue.
Artemis classic hat in red.
Artemis in Red.

The Goddess Artemis

Britannica.com tells us:

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Artemis, in Greek religion, is the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth; she was identified by the Romans with Diana. Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. Among the rural populace, Artemis was the favorite goddess.

Her character and function varied greatly from place to place, but, apparently, behind all forms lay the goddess of wild nature, who danced, usually accompanied by nymphs, in mountains, forests, and marshes. 

Artemis embodied the sportsman’s ideal, so besides killing game she also protected it, especially the young; this was the Homeric significance of the title Mistress of Animals.

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Happy Halloween 2024

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Greetings and welcome. It’s almost Halloween time.

Batrice Halloween Bat hat.
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The design is especially colorful this year and better than ever. We hope you love love love it.

Vivian created something very special for Hattingdon to wear this All Hallow’s Eve. Meet our updated Batrice design. Isn’t she fab? We love her. We have a poem too. But first, the hat.

How about a poem by © Jacey Vantimmeren. Yes!

Spooky Halloween Night

It’s very spooky on Halloween night.
The ghosts and goblins will give you a fright.

Watch your back, do not be blind.
If you’re not careful, who knows what you’ll find?

You might see things like little black bats,
Or you might see things like scary black cats.

On every porch there’s a pumpkin or two,
With their creepy grins smiling at you.

It’s very spooky on Halloween night.
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SOURCE: Poem by Jacey Vantimmeren. “Spooky Halloween Night.” Family Friend Poems, December 5, 2014.

Love to all.

Hattingdon

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