Aprons...yes, Aprons!

I am not so much into cooking. I love to bake, but lately it gets harder and harder. I keep making mistakes and my cookies don't turn out or I just do dumb things. Even today I made a simple recipe for my Dad, Zucchini Bran Muffins to take to him in the hospital. I can't even admit to what I did, but luckily it didn't effect the final product! It just makes more work for me and causes me total humiliation.

That is where aprons come in handy! I still love aprons! I only have one that is really "mine". It was a gift at one of my bridal showers 26 years ago! A friend of mine that I worked with at Disneyland made it for me. It has jungle animals on it, I guess because we both worked in Adventureland. I thought I had a photo of me in it with a chefs hat on, at our first apartment back when we were newlyweds! (just had the memory) but when I searched the photo albums, it is Louie in the apron and hat!!! I will scan it and add it here when I get a chance.

I am a messy baker, so aprons are great. However, I don't know how the June Cleavers of the world did it back in the day. They wore those stiff, neatly pressed dresses, panty hose, which I am sure weren't "panty" hose then, they were probably the kind with the garter belt (yuck). Plus, they wore the high heels. Then of course the apron, so they didn't mess up their pretty dresses.

When my Nanny passed away no one wanted her aprons, but I did! I even got one of my Mom's apron's from when she was little and it has her name stitched in embroidery thread on it. I LOVE these aprons!!! I also have a few from when my girls were little. I bought them at yard sales for them to play dress-up. They really got more than 50 cents use out of those aprons too!

One thing I have noticed is the different types of aprons. Some are very matronly. Some people would argue that they all are. Some are more the BBQ type. Well, I have a few that I am wondering why they are aprons and not lingerie! They are made out of the same fabric and they are see through! My thinking is that perhaps housewives back in the day wore those over there dresses AFTER the meal was cooked only while they served the meal when they had company or a dinner party? If anyone knows why they would have those kinds of aprons, please reply! Maybe they weren't made for the kitchen at all? hehe.

On the Sandra Lee cooking show the other day (food network), she had on a crossword puzzle apron! I am sure someone on her staff made it because she had a window valance that matched it. She is not usually an apron wearer. That is one reason I like her show, she does "theme" shows. Like in this one her whole set was black and white, then she used crossword puzzles on her table scape. She also makes things semi-homemade, that is what I am into these days. No time or energy to cook from scratch.

Here is the photo I use for myself on Facebook.

That is me...yeah, right ;)