Lovely fabrics, sweet designs and hand crafted quality, Sasha Sews Etsy shop offers aprons, bags, purses and more. Sasha sent me a Mandy J Reversible Hostess apron to try out. Imagine my delight as I opened the package to see this gorgeous hostess apron. (Mark had to suffer through my oohing and aahing and trying it on immediately, but he’s a good sport.) 
It is beautiful, pretty enough even to wear with guests in the home. Made of a nice quality, designer fabric and flattering to all body types, yes, I will be wearing this on Thanksgiving Day.
Sasha does a nice job with the construction and the fabric is scrumptious. Just check out the detail of the pocket on the reverse side and the wide reversible ties that are long enough to tie in front or back.
Sasha has a variety of aprons, baby bibs, hand bags, purses, totes, even coffee and card cozies currently in her Etsy Shop. What girl wouldn’t love a pretty handmade apron or handbag for Christmas?
Sasha is giving one Raising Olives reader a Mandy J Reversible Hostess Apron in the fabric of your choice.
How to enter:
- Click over to Sasha’s shop and look around then come back here and leave a comment telling me which fabric you would choose for your apron AND tell me your favorite Thanksgiving food.
Extra entries:
- Blog about this giveaway with a link back to this post, then come leave a comment telling me you did so.
- Tweet about this giveaway, leaving an additional comment for that entry.
Comments will close Wednesday, November 18 at midnight EST.
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I like the gorgeous Paradise Garden, and not just because it reminds me of my favorite Thanksgiving food- homemade cranberry sauce! Mind-bogglingly, there are still people in my extended family who actually PREFER the stuff that slides out of a can in one piece. Gobsmacked is what I am by that! Thankfully I have trained my own children to like the real thing best
Seriously, these aprons are lovely! I am almost tempted to go make myself a new apron just from looking at them.
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I love the Mandy J or Erica fabric. What a super cute apron with that bow on the side. My favorite at Thanksgiving is the turkey. Love it during and after for leftovers.
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I love the Paradise Garden fabric!
My favorite Thanksgiving food is the fresh bread or rolls with butter. Mmmmm. Gravy and mashed potatoes comes in second, with apple pie being third. Okay, now I’m hungry so I’m going to plan our Thanksgiving food!
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All of the fabrics look lovely. I love anything that really looks feminine. I love all the gingerbread recipes this time of year… ginger bread, ginger bread men cookies, ginger snaps, etc. I would make ginger bread every morning this time of year if we wouldn’t possibly get tired of it. If that was possible….
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Paradise Garden! It’s cold in the house this morning (the fire didn’t last the night) and that fabric looks so warm and summery! (Only four and a half more months ’til SPRING!!)
I’m with Lindsey in AL on the homemade cranberry sauce. My children are horrified that some poor families have to eat the canned stuff. (“Have to” is their assumption; they have never even considered that some people might actually CHOOSE to! lol) Lindsey, have you ever served the still warm cranberry sauce over vanilla ice cream? Oh, wow! It looks so pretty, and it tastes amazing! My grandfather used to love that, so every time I serve that it comes with a dollop of old family stories for good measure.
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Hi! OK, the whole cranberry thing is great – that is EXACTLY what I was going to put as my favorite dish. I make a simple, yet delicious cranberry/apple/orange relish. I crave it!
I love the “Dance with Me” and “Paradise Garden” fabrics.
Oh, voted for you in all categories. It only let me vote once!
Love – K
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I would take any of the fantastic fabrics, but I like the Amy Butler Bali Gate fabric that you recieved best! I love the green bean casserole at Thanksgiving
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I liked the Trailing Cherry one! And my favorite food is sweet potatoes! I could eat them all day!
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I love all of the fabrics! My favorite one for that apron however is the one you received, the Bali Gate fabric.
I love all of the wonderful foods during the holidays, but since “Thanksgiving dinner” is my husband’s favorite (turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, rolls), I actually make it all through the year. Its the “extras” (and the friends/family we share the day with) that makes it so special. So, I’s have to say for my favorite its a toss up between the Yams (dessert in veggie camo!) and the egg nog. I can make my favorite yams any time though, the egg nog I can only get for two months!
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I really like the Amy Butler Bali Gate fabric. And at Thanksgiving I love stuffing with gravy.
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I like all the fabrics but like the one you have the best:) (Amy Butler Bali Green)
I love all Thanksgiving foods, but I am always excited for stuffing.
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I really like the one you have best but I also like the paradise garden fabric. I love candied yams at Thanksgiving dinner…yummy!
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I like the Bali Gate (green) on the best. Pretty!
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I love the Paradise Garden fabric. For Thanksgiving, my favorite thing is ROLLS! I love all the other stuff, too, but rolls are what I really look forward to. My mom used to make dozens and dozens, so we’d have them for a few days. (They’d have lasted longer if my family was smaller.) She makes so many different kinds that it’s a real feast for the eyes and the taste buds.
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I blogged about this!
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I love the Garden Maze fabric by Amy Butler! Favorite food would have to be my husbands famous homemade mashed taters! He truly makes the best smoothest and very well seasoned mashed taters! Drooling just thinking about it! lol
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Oh my… this is difficult. I believe my favorite would be something rather un-traditional to some. We only have broccoli,cheese, rice casserole on Thanksgiving and Christmas and so that is probably my favorite, because it is just something we all look forward to. No, it isn’t made in a healthy way, so that is why we only have it on special days.
My favorite fabric is the Paradise Garden, just gorgeous.
I would LOVE to win!
Thanks,
Chas
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Thank you so much for a great giveaway! I love the Paradise Garden fabric – simply because Red is my favorite color. No surprise then, that my favorite Thanksgiving food is Cranberry Relish – my grandmother has a simple, but absolutely delicious recipe that my Dad always takes charge of. It will be fun to see him make it this year with his grandkids. Blessings,
Michelle
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I love the Bali Gate fabric.
My favorite thanksgiving food is … um … either the turkey or my Mom/Sister’s home made dressing/stuffing to go with it. LOL!!
April
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Add me to the list of those that really like the Paradise Garden print. My favorite Thanksgiving food would have to be the sweet potato muffins that I started making a few years ago.
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I like the fabric and apron Sweet floral yo yo hostess. Love the way the flowers are on there. Too cute.
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I love the exact fabric of yours – Bali Gate. Its really hard to pinpoint my favorite Thanksgiving food – I like almost all of it – except Cranberry Sauce! So I’m the odd one out. Stuffing and gravy are my top faves!
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Amy Butler Paradise Garden in deep red wine is my fav fabric choice, and Stuffing is my favorite thanksgiving food.
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Paradise Garden would be my favorite of the choices However, I really need a full body apron!! I have too many favorites!! Love dressing with a side of a cranberry/apple/outmeal dish. Love the blueberry/cream cheese pie that is a perennial as well.
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I like the Garden Maze fabric, but I’m not sure if I like it because of the beauty of the fabric or because it is made up into the cutest apron I have ever seen! Amazing items Sasha!
I like the chocolate pudding pie that my grandma always used to make (all from scratch of course). The all you can eat pie is the best part of Thanksgiving food.
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I like the hot pink fabric in the sweet candy basket…so happy! Well I would have to say raisin pie…or dressing with chestnuts…or pumpkin pudding. Ohh this is too hard!
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The paradise garden fabric is beautiful! For Thanksgiving, I like my mom’s dumplings.
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That is too funny – just yesterday I wrote down that I needed to get an apron because I keep getting my shirts all dirty when I cook!If I won, I would choose the Mandy J. style.
My favorite Thanksgiving food??? Too many to choose from. I like sweet candied yams, cranberry relish (homemade not from a can) and the turkey itself! Oh, ya, the stuffing is awesome too!
If I blog about this, how do I link to this specific blog?
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Mandy J Apron. So my style. And I love the turkey the most…now that we brine it…because the sandwiches the next day are amazing!
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I like the trailing cherry material, and my favorite Thanksgiving food is green bean casserole! It’s the only time all year I get to enjoy it!
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I blogged about this!
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I like the paradise garden fabric. And as for favorite Thanksgiving food… I’d have to go with Rutabaga! I know it’s unusual, but my Mom always made this with our turkey dinners. Now I do the same! They are hard to find sometimes though!
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I like the Paradise Garden fabric and my favorite Thanksgiving food is mashed veggies with lots of gravy!
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I like the Amy Butler Cherry or Purple Paisley. I don’t use an apron and I am constantly stain fighting – I really should have one. I’ve been looking recently, but money is so tight and I have no place for a sewing machine in our small house (even the dining room table is in use right now – and not for eating.) I would happily put an apron to good use!
My favorite Thanksgiving food is TURKEY! Oh, and pie. And mashed potatoes. Uhm, stuffing with apples, raisins, and cranberries is good too. Did I mention apple crisp? I guess I don’t have a “favorite” – I like it all. But really, it’s all the reasons to be thankful that make the day!
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WOO she’s Australian!! I’m not the only one lol
It seems the paradise garden material is popular, I love it too
As for thanksgiving, I’m Aussie so I get to be exempt right?
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 1:52 am
I suppose I’ll allow you to be exempt just this one time.
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My favorite fabric is the Amy Butler Garden Maze fabric. How nice this color combination would be to wear on a dreary winter day and still be perfect in the summer. Favorite Thanksgiving food is sweet potatoes,
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Garden Maze is my favorite fabric. These are such beautiful aprons!
All Thanksgiving food would be my fav, but my family makes a pineapple casserole that I really like.
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I would choose Mandy J and my favorite Thanksgiving food is sweet potato casserole. And pumpkin pie. Oh, I can’t choose!
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I pretty much like ALL the fabrics on her site…Garden Maze stuck out to me though!
I LOVE, LOVE Mr.Bird 
Yum-o!
Gobble, gobble!
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since i love green i’ll pick Bali Gate by Amy Butler. i love turkey, mashed potatos and stuffing all in one bite!!
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i tweeted http://twitter.com/agodlyhomemaker/status/5701035715
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i blogged! http://agodlyhomemaker.blogspot.com/2009/11/shout-out-for-raising-olives.html
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Oh, these aprons are lovely. My favorite is the trailing cherry fabric. It reminds me of the most lovely flowers I saw in China at a very special time in my life.
Thanksgiving – my favorite dish is a cranberry dish I prepare each year. It’s my favorite because it was a tradition my mom started by teaching me, that I am now passing on to my girls. I have many many years of fun memories of grinding cranberries and apples using a hand grinder, first grinding them with my mom and now grinding them with my girls.
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I love the Amy Butler Bali Gate fabric. The mint green is amazing. My favorite Thanksgiving food is sweet potato casserole! Can’t wait.
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What a talent for sewing, I loved the Amy Butler Trailing Chery fabric, from the color to the fabric design, it is beautiful. I am not an apron person at all, because I have never owned one, but I would be with that apron!! My favorite Thanksgiving food is mashed potatoes and gravy along with cranberries. Thanks for the entry. :O)
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Cute shop she has! I really like the rosie posie print and also the fall floral colours. My Thanksgiving favorite is plain old stuffing…peppers & celery & onion with sage and onion bread – only I prefer it the next day, cold out of the fridge (utensils optional, sshhhh).
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The purple paisley fabric is soo pretty! My favorite Thanksgiving dish is my mom’s huckleberry cheesecake pie. Yum!
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Lots of pretty things in Sasha’s shop!! I would choose the adorable Bali Gate (green) by Amy Butler!! My favorite Thanksgiving food would be a tie between the smoked turkey and the pumpkin pie
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I love the pink polka dot cupcake fabric. It is so cute!
And my favorite Thanksgiving food is Apple Pie.
Thanks for the chance.
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I blogged:
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/lindseyinal/148570/
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Oooh – I also love the Paradise Garden fabric, and my favorite dish has to be our homemade cranberry sauce. We always make a LOT because it keeps and keeps. It’s delicious actually ON the turkey, not just on the side…
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I actually really like the one in your picture. I would love to wear that all the time!! I am praying I win that one!!
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I’d love the paradise garden apron!! So classy!
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The aprons are beautiful, I would be afraid to spill on it. Paradise Garden is my favorite and Pecan Pie is also a favorite. MY motto is dessert first.
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Oh I love the Garden Maze by Amy Butler, beautiful! My favorite thanksgiving food? Definitely the stuffing!!
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This is a gorgeous apron. I love baking and love having an apron to wear! I’ve searched around for cute aprons and they are not easy to find! Sasha has definitely made some adorable stuff!
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I LOVE the Amy Butler Paradise Garden in deep red wine colours. Goes great with the accent colors of my kitchen and dining room. OHHHH!! So pretty!!! My favorite Thanksgiving food is the TURKEY!!! Hosting at my house this year after living 3 years in an RV! YIPPEE!! The apron would be PERFECT!:)
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I absolutely love sweet potatoes topped with brown sugar and marshmallows! Num!
I like the – Amy Butler Trailing Cherry fabric!
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Tweet! http://twitter.com/ktkatherine/status/5715755254
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The Paradise Garden is so beautiful- that would be my choice! My favorite Thanksgiving dish is either my Nana’s mashed potatoes or my mom’s stuffing with oysters ( I know it sounds weird, but it is sooooo yummy!)
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I like the trailing Cherry fabric. My fave Thanksgiving food is my squash pie!
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Even though it’s the one you’re displaying I’d choose Bali gate (although it was a close call with trailing cherry).
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I like Bali Gate and would LOVE to win this one. After living away from extended family for many years I like to try and make Thanksgiving a special time for our family and can totally see myself wearing this all day as my kids and I prepare our meal. My favorite food is greenbean casserole, I just can’t get enough of it. Thank you for the opportunity to win this awesome apron.
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I love the Ginko Blossom print… And for thanksgiving… squash with applesauce
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Never heard of squash with applesauce. Do you actually mix the two together or do you just like them in combination?
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I love the Paradise Garden fabric by Amy Butler!
I need to catch up on your blog, girly! Sorry I haven’t been around lately.
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 1:54 am
I was wondering, but figured you’ve been busy with that new baby!
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I liked the Sweet Floral YOYO hostess apron best!
and my favorite Thanksgiving food is the Bread Stuffing for sure~
I can hardly wait~
I’m having a small giveaway over at my blog if you’d like to come check it out~
Blessings,
Georgiann from The Garden Gate blog!
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I love the fabric Paradise Garden by Amy Butler apron! Great fabric.
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Oh, those aprons are so beautiful. I would throw more parties if I had tht cute thing to wear. I live the trailing cherry fabric. Thanks for doing the giveaway!
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I like the trailing cherry fabric
. My FAVORITE Thanksgiving food is baked apples. My mom does that instead of applesauce, I don’t know why. It’s just what she does, and they are yummy!!!
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I love the Dance with Me fabric and although we don’t have thanksgiving here, I am still a fan of turkey with cranberry sauce.
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Tweeted about giveaway http://twitter.com/ChallenCharms/statuses/5748556810
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I like the Dance With Me fabric – as to my favourite thanksgiving food, I don’t have one as I m in Australia, a
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 1:59 am
I’m sure you have other holidays, but this is one of my favorites. If you’re ever up here during November be sure you find someone to celebrate with.
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OOPS it commented before I finished – I was interested to find your blog as I’m from a family of 13 children and we homeschool. I’d love to win the giveaway too!!!
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I love the apron in the Paradise Garden fabric:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33457584
Absolutely gorgeous, I just love Sasha’s work!
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Forgot to put my favourite thanksgiving food as I’m an Aussie and it’s not something we celebrate. I do love roast turkey and stuffing though, especially if there’s cranberries and pistachios in the stuffing!
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Raising Olives Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Lots of you Aussie’s.
Thanks for visiting.
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love the mandy j apron fabric & my fav. thanksgiving food is the ham, i can’t have a turkey day without ham!
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Link to blog post below….Favorite food see 11/13/09 comment
http://beachhouseliving.blogspot.com/2009/11/raising-olives-apron-giveaway-by-sasha.html
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My favorite Thanksgiving day food would have to be the turkey bones and skin.. lol.. I LOVE LOVE LOVE picking on the turkey bones and eating the crispy skin… Turkey is just great! Can’t wait until turkey day… I really like sasha sews aprons. I have never had an apron before. I really liked the “Amy Butler Bali Gate in fresh leaf green colour” apron it is very pretty.
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I love the red one! favorite food…. hummmm would have to be my Husband’s potato filling. (both because it is WONDERFUL and because he makes it;)
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I love love love the one you received – so pretty.
And my favorite food at Thanksgiving is my mom’s yummy rolls. I try and try to replicate them, but alas – they are hard, dense rocks.
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I love the aprons! My favorite is the trailing cherry – so pretty
Favorite Thanksgiving food would have to be my moms cranberry salad. Mmmm!
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Paradise Garden by Amy Butler is the fabric I would choose. I really like cranberry relish, this year I am going to try and make it more of a salad, it is very yummy.
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I love the Paradise Garden fabric very lively. I love the wonderful pecan pie cake I have a recipe for. Delish!
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Love the one shown – Bali Gate. AND my favorite TG food would have to be mashed potatoes (with a little cranberry sauce in each bite of course).
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Love love love the trailing Cherry fabric!
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I like the child cupcake apron and my daughter would love it. My favorite Thanksgiving food is sweet potatoes with pecan/brown sugar on top. Makes me hungry just thinking about them!
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I love the Amy Butler Paradise Garden fabric, and my favorite Thanksgiving food is Turkey!
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The Bali Gate, is my all time favorite.
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My favorite pattern is the Bali Gate by Amy Butler. My favorite, well I would be lying if I didn’t say pecan pie, so it is the pecan pie:P
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I love the Bali Gate apron. I love that color green, it is by far my favorite color!! My favorite Thanksgiving food is easily my grandfather’s potato salad… it isn’t a proper family gathering without Papa’s potato salad!!
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I like the paradise garden and sweet potato casserole!
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I would love an apron in the Amy Butler Bali Gate fabric.
My favorite Thanksgiving food is the turkey stuffing. Mmmmm there is nothing like Mom’s stuffing.
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My favorite fabric on the site is Bali Gate by Amy Butler, and my fave Thanksgiving food is candied yams!
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I loveeeee the paradise garden apron. My favorite Thanksgiving food is the amazing turkey and rice soup my dad makes the day after.
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I would have to go with the trailing cherry fabric! So yum! My favorite Thanksgiving food is a tie between Sister Shubert Rolls & my famous macncheese(or at least it’s famous at home!)
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I Love the Mary J pattern. These aprons are perfect for all the food prep and hosting that I do around the holidays. Thanks for an awesome giveaway.
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Sorry, I forgot to add that my favorite Thanksgiving food is probably my mother in law’s cornbread dressing.
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I tweeted this giveaway – http://twitter.com/growingfam/status/5826703892
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I love the Paradise Garden fabric! My fave dish is sweet potato caserole, yummy!
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I would choose the trailing cherry fabric and my favorite thanksgiving food it my grandma’s stuffing. I look forward to dinner over just because of that.
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