Two sisters are getting some cute towel sets for Easter and they are part of today’s embroidery projects.  Hailey is getting a seafoam green towel set with our darling luvbug dragonfly embroidery design.  Ava is getting blue towels with the coordinating Luvbug embroidery design.  What a nice alternative or addition to the normal eggs and candy.  I bet they

Today I work on some of those cute aprons embroidered with children’s faces and names - such an appropriate Mother’s Day gift for grandmom.

After that, I turn my attention to a group of wedding gown labels for the upcoming June weddings.  When I started those labels, I had no idea how huge they would be.  Brides Magazine even saw fit to suggest them as the something blue” in one their articles.

Dear Santa,
I know you’re busier than ever this year and may have a hard time getting all your shopping done. To make my website easier for you, I’ve compiled a list of the top-ten most popular items at Initial Impressions. You’re our Number One customer, we’ll do whatever we can to keep you happy.

1. Lovie Stuffed Animal Blankets
2. Patchwork Quilts for Babies
3. Children’s Chef Aprons
4. Children’s Towel Sets
5. Children’s Bathrobes
6. Waffleweave Kitchen Towels
7. Adult Shower Wraps
8. Cotton Stadium Blankets
9. Cotton Sheet Sets
10. Adult Aprons

We are in uncertain times, there is no denying it.  Now more than ever it makes sense to indulge in comfort gifts.  We have all heard of comfort foods - the foods that make us happy on a particularly cold night or during times of stress.  A comfort gift is much the same - it brings a smile that only a personalized gift that says “I am thinking of you, individually, personally” can bring.  Some may be big, some may be small, but all will convey the message “I was really thinking about you when I chose this for you.”  That is a comfort gift.

A repeat collaborator asked me to embroider another of her wedding gift Christmas tree skirts.

This one was a particularly nice wedding gift because the bride was very attached to her maiden name, but was taking his. Both their names are so distinctive and polysyllabic that hyphenating was not an option.

The bride was thrilled to have both names on the skirt for Christmas and sent this photo of their very first Christmas tree.

Isn’t young love beautiful?

Holiday traditions - the special days we look forward to each year.

There are creative ways to support them and it is never too late to start a new one.

The Robinson family has a yearly Bake-a-thon this time of year. Nine members of this family will have special personalized flour sack towels for this year’s festivities.

If you have a special holiday tradition, we would love to hear the details - even if it has nothing to do with embroidery!

I’m going to say that a custom embroidered towel set is among the very best gift one can give, be it for Christmas, Hannukah, a wedding, or a housewarming. Taking something so useful and ordinary as a simple towel, and making it a personal, will always be welcomed on both levels. Add the luxury of a complete towel set, and the fact that custom personalized towels are an indulgence people rarely splurge on for themselves, and you have a perennially winning gift.

We’ve seen lots of “His and Hers” towels recently, and they’re cute. We can certainly do that, but why stop there? You could have custom personalized towels which say “Pookie” and “Studmuffin” if you want (not recommended for use in the guest bathroom!). But really, with custom embroidered towels the sky’s the limit in terms of how personal you want to make it.
Some people think that personalized towels are formal and old-fashioned. They certainly can be, and we have made towels with mongrams and crests fit for Buckinham Palace. For people who think that personalization is nice, but haven’t seen anything they like, we’d like to direct your attention to this lighthearted example of a bar towel.