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.

Vivian’s Fave Hats: Letter P

Hello there. Our journey through the alphabet continues. Welcome to the Letter “P”.

Vivian has selected two vintage hats this time around. Let’s go!

Classic Hat

Our first offering is a smart black and tan hat created in Hattingdon’s distinctive classic silhouette. Vivian named the design Paige.

The Paige hat features alternating stripes of black and tan and white, that partially extends to the crown, which is adorned with a coordinating button.

Paige Hattingdon.

A very smart look. She can go just about anywhere in this hat.

Fashion Hat

This is one of Vivian’s earliest designs and an all-time favourite of hers and Hattingdon followers — a colorful mod cap she named Peggy.

Peggy Hattingdon.

The hat is made up of sections of lime green, bright orange and raspberry pink, patterned with white floral inspired shapes and rings. It has a lime green brim and capped off with a bright orange button.

Vivian adds, “I so love the shape of the hat, the design and the colorful decoration. It is bright and fun and cheery, and makes me feel happy. I had the Peggy design on a tote bag for many years, and it was absolutely amazing the attention it got.”


H&Co in Hattingdon brown.

“A Hatful of Smiles”

On Target with Robin

by HATTINGDON STAFF

Hello there! We are staying with the classic hat silhouette for a bit since the classic hat countdown brought such a lot of new interest.

Who remembers this classic hat?

Robin 2017

Robin Hattingdon 2017
Robin 2017.

Robin 2018

Here is Robin 2018 in blue and red.

Robin 2018 in Blue.
Robin 2018 in Red.

Can’t you just see some of these designs on merchandise and sold at Target? How cool would that be? Alas, it’s all just a bit of fun. We thought you might get a kick out of seeing it, though. Which one(s) would you pick?


Hattingdon H Logo in her signature brown.

© Vivian J. Grant.

Cleo

Cleo featured image for blog with black bat and purple waves.

Hope you had a fun Halloween. Here is what Hattingdon chose to wear. It’s brand new! Named Cleo.

Cleo.

As you can see the hat — or headpiece — is modeled on Egyptian headwear, adorned with a big, black bat with extended wings and dangling charms of gold. What a combination, what a look . . . . and deliciously fun!

See you again here soon.

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Hattingdon H Logo in her signature brown.

By © Vivian J. Grant