National Tie One On Day - November 27, 2013

National Tie One On Day™ – November 27, 2013

National TIE ONE ON DAY™ is the opportunity to put the “give” in Thanksgiving by sharing our good fortune with someone in need of a thoughtful gesture. Annually recognized by Chase’s Calendar of Events and celebrated the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov 27th, 2013.

“Women clad in aprons have traditionally prepared the Thanksgiving meal, and it is within our historical linkage to share our bounty.” EllynAnne Geisel

Participation in National Tie One on Day™ is simple. Wrap a loaf of bread or other homemade treat in an apron and tuck in a sweet note. Then tie one on…an apron, of course! and deliver the wrapped bundle to someone…a neighbor, friend or charity…without your bounty and in need of physical or spiritual sustenance, a bit of recognition or just a kind word.

National Tie One On Day™ is a win-win, for the participant and the receiver. And by embracing NTOOD, you will make someone else’s day brighter.

For Info: EllynAnne Geisel
605 W. 17th St.
Pueblo, CO 81003
Phone: (719) 545-5704
E-mail: ellynanne@apronmemories.com
Web: www.apronmemories.com

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TOM DODGE PHOTOGRAPHER

Tom Dodge is a veteran photographer, writer and editor whose work appears in agricultural and corporate media. His freelance photography and writing operation is based out of his family's farm near Truman, MN.

“For more than 30 years I have travelled the back roads of America, camera in hand, looking for images that will stand the test of time.”
Contact:
Telephone: 507-776-7713
Email: tdfilm1@yahoo.com
www.grovelandfarmphotography.com
Harlequin is the global leader in series romance and one of the world’s leading publishers of books for women, from romance to thrillers, fantasy and memoir.

Making Piece, a memoir of love, loss and pie by Beth M. Howard, is about the nourishment of the heart and soul that comes from the simple act of giving to others, like baking a homemade pie and sharing it with someone whose pain is even greater than your own. And it tells of the role of fate, second chances and the strength found in community.
Contact:
Lathea Williams, Publicist - Harlequin Nonfiction
Email: Lathea_Williams@harlequin.ca
Telephone: (212) 553-4206
www.harlequin.com
Country Woman magazine
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Contact:
Lori Lau Grzybowski
Editor, Country Woman magazine
Telephone(414) 423-3725
Email: Lori_Grzybowski@rd.com
Website: CountryWomanMagazine.com
Country Woman magazine is a bimonthly publication with more than one million subscribers that reads like a chat with a good friend over a cup of coffee. Published since 1970 for women who love the country way, Country Woman magazine celebrates their diversity, strength and spirit.

Each issue features a large food section filled with mouth-watering, down-home recipes for today’s cooks, including winning recipes for the issue’s contest. There are also ideas for easy and frugal country decorating, casual entertaining, fun and appealing crafts, garden tips, lifestyle stories, health advice, puzzles, and nostalgia, as well as profiles of women doing amazing things.
Bernina
Contact:
Alice D. Voss, Marketing Manager
BERNINA of America
Phone: (630) 978-2500 ext:517
Email: avoss@berninausa.com
Website: www.berninausa.com
BERNINA is a fourth generation family-owned company. Swiss precision is at the heart of every product they make. Their products are known for Quality, Innovation and Design. With innovative features that make sewing easier, BERNINA emphasizes ergonomic design that lets you focus on your project and not the machine.

BERNINA’s nationwide network of fully trained independent dealerships provides the highest standard of service, beginning with free guide classes after purchase. Find a BERNINA store near you at www.berninausa.com/dealer.

BERNINA of America introduced the WeAllSew.com blog for sewing enthusiasts of all ages who share their love of sewing through ideas, projects, patterns and tips. The WeAllSew blog offers a place for sewers, embroiderers and quilters to connect with fellow enthusiasts and sewing experts. Readers will also find tutorials, easy step-by-step instructions, new product information and inspirational ideas, including ways to help sewers step up to the next level. Find your next sewing idea on WeAllSew.com. With topics running the gamut on all things sewing, quilting, embroidery and crafting, you are sure to find something to spark your creativity.
Stampington and Company
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With 30 diverse art and crafting titles, Stampington & Company is your source for creative inspiration! From paper-crafting and mixed-media art to doll-making and art-to-wear, our family of publications explores a broad range of artistic media. Stampington is also the creator and publisher of apron•ology, the first magazine dedicated to the art and artistry of the apron.
Contact:
Sarah Meehan
Phone: 877.782.6737
Email: smeehan@stampington.com
Website: www.stampington.com
MODERN JUNE
Cool Stuff for the Hip Housewife

Modern June is the creative outlet for semi-desperate housewife, Kelly McCants. Specializing in retro-inspired aprons and other handmade housewares for the hip home, Modern June is sold in over a dozen brick and mortar shops across America and Canada. Kelly is the author of SEWING WITH OILCLOTH (Wiley, 2011), a one-of-a-kind book which covers sewing with the family of specialty fabrics collectively known as oilcloth. From home goods to accessories, baby gear to outdoor décor and so much more, Kelly offers oilcloth sewing projects that unlock the potential of both traditional choices and new designer prints.
Contact:
Kelly McCants
Email: kelly@modernjune.com
Website: http://modernjune.com
American Sewing Guild
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With a mission of Advancing Sewing as an Art and Life Skill, the American Sewing Guild has over 20,000 enthusiastic members in 138 chapters and over a 1,000 neighborhood groups throughout the country. ASG members are among the most passionate sewers you will meet. If you'd like to learn the basics of sewing, take your sewing to the next level or learn new sewing skills within a nurturing environment, join ASG! To learn more about ASG, become a member or start a group in your community, visit www.asg.org.

Read our blog and follow us on Twitter @SewingGuild Contact:
Samina Mirza, Membership Administration
(713) 729-3000 xt 111
Email: samina@asg.org
Website: www.asg.org
Andrews McMeel
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Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (AMP), a division of Andrews McMeel Universal, is a leading publisher of general nonfiction trade, cookbook, gift, and humor books, publishing as many as 200 new titles annually. AMP is also the premier calendar publisher in the country.

Andrews McMeel is the proud publisher of EllynAnne’s best-selling The Apron Book, Apronisms and The Kitchen Linens Book, as well as the Pie Contest, Chili Cook-Off Contest and Christmas Cookie Contest "in a box" series by Gina Hyam.
Contact:
Emily Farris, Publicist AMP
Email: efarris@amuniversal.com
Telephone: (800) 851-8923
Website: www.andrewsmcmeel.com
Nancy Zieman
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Nancy Zieman is host and executive producer of Sewing With Nancy, a popular PBS production for 20 years in partnership with Wisconsin Public Television. Founder of Nancy’s Notions, a direct mail business, Nancy is an author and a designer for The McCall Pattern Company and Clover Needlecraft. Nancy is a frequent guest and presenter at sewing and quilting events nationwide, where she shares her knowledge, skill and love of sewing.
Contact:
Deanna Springer
Telephone: 920.356.9506
Email: springer@ziemanproductions.com
Website: http://www.nancyzieman.com
Mary's Productions
Since 1983, Mary Mulari Productions has provided inspiration to the home sewer through a creative line of stylized, hand-drawn patterns from vintage-inspired aprons to zipper bags and home accessories, machine embroidery appliqués, books and CDs.

Mary is a popular lecturer and guest on the PBS series, Sewing with Nancy.
Contact:
Mary Mulari
Phone: 218.229.2804
Email: marym@marymulari.com
Website: http://www.marymulari.com/

National Association of Baby Boomer Women &    
Boomer Women Speak

National Association of Baby Boomer Women
www.facebook.com/National-Association-of-Baby-Boomer-Women
 The National Association of Baby Boomer Women is the only association devoted to addressing issues concerning 38 million of the healthiest, wealthiest, and best educated generation of women to ever hit midlife, baby boomer women.
Contact:
Anne L. Holmes, APR – “Boomer in Chief”
Email: Anne@NABBW.com or Anne@BoomerCo.com
Telephone: 563-823-8429 or 877-BOOMERZ
Websites: www.NABBW.com, www.BoomerWomenSpeak.com, www.BoomerLifestyle.com , www.BoomerCo.com
Sew,Mama,Sew!
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Sew,Mama,Sew! is the entrepreneurial venture of Kristin Link, a former educator who loved teaching and training, but now feels incredibly lucky to be buying and selling fabric for a living. Browse our shop for modern cotton fabric and hip new sewing patterns from indie designers. Visit our blog for sewing tutorials from the pros, project ideas and giveaways. Join the supportive sewing community in our forum to share your skills and learn something new.

Sew,Mama,Sew! serves customers worldwide through www.sewmamasew.com.
Contact:
Kristin Link
Email: Kristin@sewmamasew.com
Telephone: 1-503-380-3584
Website: www.sewmamasew.com
Simplicity
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Simplicity began selling patterns in 1927 and continues to sell patterns today to consumers looking for the most current looks to sew. Simplicity Creative Group is dedicated to encouraging and supporting your creativity with high quality, fun to use products, projects and services. Our family of well known craft, sewing, knitting, hobby and home decorating brands includes: Simplicity®, Pattern Company, Wrights®, Conso®, Boye® Needle, E-Z Quilting®, and British Trimmings.
Contact:
Deborah Kreiling
Phone: 212.372.0696
Email: dkreiling@simplicity.com
Website: www.simplicity.com
Forshee's Design
» www.facebook.com/forsheedesigns
April Forshee began sewing when she was nine years old and honing her design and stitching skills off and on for twenty years. Forshee Designs is April’s outlet of creative expression, where everything is handmade, practical and pretty. All items are sewn of bright and beautiful designer fabric in her home studio in Marietta, GA.
Contact:
April Forshee
Email: april@forsheedesigns.com
Website: www.forsheedesigns.com
Creative Machine Embroidery
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Creative Machine Embroidery imparts machine embroidery enthusiasts of every age and skill level with the tools they need and the inspiration they crave to further their craft. Visit our site for free downloadable designs! And sign up for our newsletter full of tips from the experts at CME.
Contact:
Ellen March, Editor
Phone: 303.215.5636
Email: emarch@ckmedia.com
Website: www.ckmedia.com
Sew News
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SewNews is published six times a year by CK Media. For almost 30 years, SewNews has specialized in presenting sewing ideas, inspirations and techniques to our readers. We're devoted to filling each issue of our magazine with fun features--from garment construction to quick-to-make gifts--and now you'll find home dec how-tos and step-by-step instructions on current creative trends. SewNews is Sew Real. Sew Informative. Sew Inspiring.
IceMilk Aprons
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Ashley Leckey Schoenith is a seventh-generation Floridian with a deep love and appreciation for her Southern roots. In 2007, Ashley founded IceMilk Aprons, a gourmet line of heirloom aprons, as a creative collaboration with her Grandmother, Cecile Marcoux, a masterful seamstress and delightful hostess.

Each IceMilk apron comes with its very own heirloom kit – a heritage tag, an apron story, and three blank recipe cards – perfectly preserved within a jam jar. IceMilk Aprons was selected as a "Top Holiday Gift of 2010" by Martha Stewart.
Contact:
Ashley Leckey Schoenith, heirloom designer
Email: ashley@icemilkaprons.com
Telephone: 866.486.3622
Website: icemilkaprons.com
Rebecca Ruth Designs
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Rebecca Ruth Designs™ produces a popular range of retro-style apron patterns, as well as table runner, soft doll, and quilt patterns. Designer Rebecca Anderson believes a good pattern should be fun, easy to understand, and result in something you can be proud of. That's what is behind her line of more than 35 patterns.
Contact:
Dave Toht
Phone: 360.456.5171
Email: davegreenleaf@comcast.net
Website: http://www.rebeccaruthdesigns.com
Twenty years ago, Marie Schneider wanted to decorate the tiles in her kitchen with vintage style vinyl decals. Unable to find what she was looking for, she used the machinery of her sign business to design the decals for her DIY project. Utilizing a graphic design background and love of vintage, Marie created a niche product line of colorful decals. Available world-wide to crafters and decorators, Vintage Style Decals are easy to use and can be applied to any surface. Decorating has never been so easy and affordable!
Contact:
Marie Ellingson Schneider
Telephone: 209-529-5910
Email: marie@schneidersigns.com
Website: www.vintagetiledecals.com
Colonial Patterns Inc
For over 70 years, Aunt Martha's has provided America's craft lovers with the widest selection of transfer patterns for use in needlework, fabric painting, wearable art, quilting, woodworking and leather crafts. Visit Aunt Martha's website for beloved vintage transfers, along with new designs, reproduction vintage dishcloths, aprons and much more!
Contact:
Chris Price
Phone: 816-471-3313
Email: chrisprice@colonialpatterns.com
Website: www.colonialpatterns.com
Polka Dot Poundcakes
» www.facebook.com/polkadotpoundcake
After owning a dance studio for 12 years, Lisa hung up her tutu and turned her attention full-time to raising her family. Ten years later, Lisa turned baking – her favorite afternoon activity with her daughters – into a business, Polka Dot Pound Cakes.

Lisa’s passion for baking is inspired by her childhood memories of the heavenly aromas of her Norwegian mother's daily baking. Polka Dot Pound Cakes are lovingly baked to order using farm fresh products, no added preservatives, and no ingredient that you cannot pronounce. Available in three sizes, our delicious varieties change seasonally.
Contact:
Lisa Gundersen ~ Umansky
Phone: 516.641.2586
Email: lisa@polkadotpoundcake.com
Website: http://polkadotpoundcake.com
Eleanor’s NYC

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At last! Stylish bicycle accessories for ladies that says “chic French girl” – not “Tour de France.”

Allison Lucien launched Eleanor’s NYC in April 2012, following her quest for high-quality, fashionable accessories to add style to her ride. Lost in a sea of unflattering spandex bike shorts, tired of heavy metal racks and baskets, she was inspired to create Eleanor’s NYC as a central shopping experience for the fashion-savvy biker. Online, you’ll find helmets that are cute, not clunky, clothes you can bike to a party in and still be the best-dressed person there, classic and inventive basketry, skirt guards and all the more.
Contact:
Alison Lucien
Email: hello@eleanorsnyc.com
Telephone: (347) 762-4535
Website: http://www.eleanorsnyc.com
Craftsy
www.facebook.com/craftsy
 
Craftsy.com is the leading online social crafting platform, offering over 95 HD-quality classes in quilting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, food, jewelry and more. Since its launch in June 2011, hundreds of thousands of students from more than 200 countries have enrolled in Craftsy classes, connected with fellow crafters, learned from award-wining experts and received great deals on supplies.

Craftsy.com allows you to watch your classes from anywhere, at any time, from any device with an internet connection and to easily interact with instructors and classmates. Access to your classes never expires. Pick one, learn it, make it. What will YOU learn today?
Contact:
Hailey Poehlman
Email: hailey@sympoz.com
Telephone: 303.997.0345 x820
Website: www.sympoz.com | www.craftsy.com
Heavenly Hostess
» www.facebook.com/Heavenly-Hostess
Contact:
Cynthia Wadell
Email: info@heavenlyhostess.com
Telephone: 714.538.8735
Website: www.heavenlyhostess.com
After 27 years in corporate America, Cynthia Wadell followed her dream to establish her own business that she has named Heavenly Hostess, a line dedicated to upscale aprons and kitchen linens. All Heavenly Hostess products, including beautiful vintage inspired hostess aprons, retro inspired cocktail aprons and vintage inspired halter aprons, are designed and manufactured in Sunny California. Many Heavenly Hostess halter aprons are available small/medium up to Plus sizes, including the popular Mommy & Me aprons.

"Although the apron may have once symbolized a woman's lack of choices in life, it is now an empowering icon for the abundance of choices in a woman's life," says Cynthia. "An apron doesn't define you; an apron celebrates what you do for the people you love."

Heavenly Hostess's sponsorship of National Tie One On Day™ is in addition to Cynthia's commitment to contributing and supporting charitable organizations that are addressing the world’s Global Giants: Extreme Poverty, Pandemic Disease, Crippling Illiteracy and Spiritual Emptiness.
Welcome to Chaps, first conceived when I was a little cowgirl in Montana, where I was nurtured, encouraged and championed by my two loving grandparents. They remain very much alive today within the decor, the food and the warmth I remember so vividly.

I designed, built and furnished the cafe with materials, art and objects from my family's homestead in order to evoke special meaning and memories. I am proud to serve you in the same aprons my grandmother wore while caring for her own family. Chaps proudly sponsors National Tie One On Day™ and its mission of putting the "give" back into Thanksgiving.
Contact:
Celeste Shaw, owner
4237 South Cheney Spokane Road
Spokane, Washington 99224
Telephone: 509-624-4182
Email: mychaps@msn.com
Website: www.chapsgirl.com
Taylor Made Culture
» www.facebook.com/BeautyShopCulture
Artist and photojournalist Candacy Taylor began collecting images of waitresses in 2000. Drawn to the idea of telling these women's stories, her five years of research led to her book, Counter Culture : The American Coffee Shop Waitress (Cornell University Press), which has now been optioned by ABC as the basis for a television series. Candacy’s current focus is the Beauty Shop Project. The interviews will be archived at the Library of Congress and the project will be made into a book.
Contact:
Candacy Taylor
Email: candacy@taylormadeculture.com
Website: www.taylormadeculture.com
Paperdoll Review
Paperdoll Review is the place for paper dolls! From kids to collectors, there's something for everyone, including classic movie star paper dolls, fashion paper dolls, paper dolls of families, children, historic figures, celebrities, ethnic costumes, reproductions of vintage paper dolls and so much more. Most are in the style of the old fashioned cut-outs, so they can be enjoyed as a beautiful collector's item or cut out and played with. Some are die-cut or punch-out, and we have a few paper play sets and coloring books. Plus we offer two specialty magazines about the nostalgia, art and fashion of paper dolls.
Contact:
Jenny Taliadoros
Telephone: 207-265-2500
Telephone: 800-290-2928
Email: info@paperdollreview.com
Website: http://paperdollreview.com
Pamela Redmond Satran
» facebook.com/Pamela-Redmond/
Pamela Redmond Satran is the New York Times bestselling author of a new novel, The Possibility of You; a new nonfiction book, Glamour's 30 Things Every Woman Should Have & Should Know By The Time She's 30; and a the newly released humor book, Rabid: Are You Crazy About Your Dog or Just Crazy? She is also the co-creator of the million-visitor website Nameberry.com and the coauthor of ten bestselling books about names. A columnist for Glamour and frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, and More Magazine, Pamela and her husband journalist Richard Satran are the parents of three children.
Contact:
Pam Satran
http://pamelaredmondsatran.com/
twitter: @prsatran
MikWright is a nationally known greeting card company founded in 1991 by friends Phyllis Wright-Herman and Tim Mikkelsen, better known as the "Wright" and "Mik" of MikWright. In addition to 2000 independent retailers nationwide, the MikWright brand can be found on licensed products with High Cotton, TF Publishing, Design Design and Andrews McMeel Publishing. MikWright's feature credits include Donny Deutsch's "The Big Idea", CNBC Power Lunch, Seattle PM Magazine and numerous national and regional publications.

When MikWright "ties one on," it usually involves vodka and olives. Accordingly, MikWright is a proud sponsor and supporter of "National Tie One on Day™" and EllynAnne Geisel, author of The Apron Book.
Contact:
Phyllis Wright-Herman
Telephone: 704-335-0695
Email: phyllis@mikwright.com
Website: www.mikwright.com
Lots of Buttons

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LotsOfButtons.com is the world’s largest online button store, with a mission to put every button in the world online, and to make them available at the lowest prices available. The selection includes buttons from every continent, and currently numbers over 15,000 buttons in stock. 100 buttons are added to the selection every week.

Come visit often to see the newest finds. Lots of Buttons will always bring you great service and the best price for every button you buy. That's our promise!

We hope you have a fun and memorable time making beautiful creations with our favorite thing in the world -- buttons!
Contact:
Ken and Boaz
Email: lob@lotsofbuttons.com
Website: www.lotsofbuttons.com
My Memories has a quickly growing collection of fresh and unique digital scrapbooking kits, as well as My Memories Suite, the #1 rated digital scrapbook software out there and so much more. Not only is it affordable and fun, it’s also extremely easy to create the perfect scrapbooking page or a customized printable or even a facebook timeline header. Whether you’re new to digital scrapbooking or a seasoned pro, My Memories Suite is the perfect digital scrapbooking software to use.

We have weekly giveaways and challenges on our blog www.mymemoriesblog.com and an active facebook page http://www.facebook.com/MyMemoriesFans . Please stop by and say hello, share your projects, ask questions and get inspired!
Contact:
Amee Gonzales - Marketing Manager
Email: agonzales@mymemories.com
Telephone: 1-877-463-6924
Website: www.mymemories.com
Emily Ellyn is the Home Economics teacher you always wanted! She takes the retro, remixes it and makes it rad. She encourages everyone to dig through their mom's recipe boxes, dust off their pressure cookers and crock pots, and take the old and make it new through retro recipe re-dos! Emily Ellyn currently divides her time between finishing her Ph.D. in Food Service Education, teaching food and beverage classes, doing consulting work, and developing her Retro Rad culinary TV career after competing on The Food Network’s “Next Food Network Star.”
Contact:
Emily Ellyn
Retro Rad Television Personality
Telephone: (330) 958-2516
Website: www.emilyellyn.com
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National Tie One On Day™ Sharing
"More often, I should sit down and write a note of thanks to others who make me feel so blessed by their love and friendship. Thank you for putting into action what became a more wonderful day because I shared a loaf of bread." Amy Bissell
"We have Christmas traditions that have developed over the years but hadn’t really found any for Thanksgiving Eve until now. Thank you! We love your National Tie One On Day." Becky Smart
"I just got finished with my apron yesterday and I have to bake the bread today and tonight I will take them (along with a gift certificate at a grocery store) to a family whose dad has been out of work." Bonnie Ellis
"I've gotten my husband involved and we decided National Tie One On Day is something we will do every year with our son as a way to give back and teach him the joy of giving." Jennie Schaeffer
"I raided the local second hand store for old jeans and tattered old linens to make darling jean ruffle aprons I have 6 loaves and aprons to deliver and I feel so honored to a part of such a great give-a-thon." René Groom
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