In the depths of winter’s icy reign, January comes, fresh and untamed. A new year begins, a chance to renew, Leaving behind the old for the new.
With hearts warm, we gather near, Welcoming the day with hope and cheer. Through frost and chill, we take the time, To treasure moments and lessons find.
Resolutions form from looking within, Goals to strive for, dreams to begin. With pen in hand, our plans take shape, Fueling our hearts to celebrate.
January’s a time to start anew, A chance to build, a chance to pursue. With hope as our guide, we boldly face, The triumphs ahead, each step embraced.
So, let us cherish this special day, In January’s light, let hope stay. The past is behind, the future is clear, In January, we find strength for the year.
Each morning brings promise, each day a gift, Through trials and triumphs, our spirits lift. With courage and faith, we pave the way, Creating a year of joy each day.
Inspired by Santa’s famous suit, this Christmas design features Hattingdon wearing a fabulous rich red wraparound hat secured with a wide black belt and buckle. How sweet it is! Vivian named the design Kris . . . as in Kris Kringle. Here is the Kris hat in action.
• Invitation
Invitation
• Greeting Card
Greeting Card
• Stickers
Stickers (Sheet of 4)
• Mug
Mug
• Kids Hoodie
Kids’ Hoodie
• Ladies Basic Sweatshirt
Ladies Sweatshirt
• Ladies Hoodie
Ladies Hoodie
Thank You
Thank you for stopping by and shopping with Kris. This design is a true one of a kind. If there is a product you want this design on, we can get it done for you fast and free — all the year ’round.
“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?
“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!
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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.
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.
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