RETRO APRONS and KIDS dresses are my passion!! I love the vintage aprons and clothes from the 50's. I love to interpret vintage aprons into my styles.
I taught myself to sew by the age of five. After high school I earned my degree in Fashion Design. I worked in the Fashion Industry for ten years before creating Lover Dovers. and opening my shop on Etsy.
Lover Dovers was created when I found out that I was expecting my 2nd child. After the shock had gone away that I was expecting, I got the most intense urge to sew little girl dresses. I had no idea if I was having a boy or a girl, but I sewed stacks of sweet bibs, blankets and dresses. I just could not sew enough sweet stuff!!
It ended up that I did have a new little girl named Lola to design new dresses for. I remembered that when my older daughter Adeline was little, I had sewed her practical cotton princess dresses so she could be comfortable and dress up like a princess all the time. I decided at that time to realize my life long dream of having my own children's line. So I started Lover Dovers in 2006 and I started selling on Etsy in 2008.
It has been quite and adventure since then. I think that I need to write a book one day. Etsy has been an amazing way to meet such wonderful people from around the world. So many unexpected things have happened since I quit my day job and went full time into Lover Dovers.
These are a few highlights:
2013- Lover Dovers practical Rapunzel Princess dress is featured on the Tide Laundry Soap commercial during the Super Bowl ! The commercial is called: The Princess Dress

2014- Kate Winslet was presented a Lover Dovers apron by Kathy Bates when she was getting her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2015- Two of Lover Dovers Snow White apron photos were hung in a German Museum. The Kunstverein Gottingen, the artist Viktoria Binschtok randomly pick photos online to put in the museum as a collection.

THANK YOU for reading my story and God Bless!