Monogrammed Backpacks and Lunch Totes are IN!

Getting new backpacks and lunch totes is exciting every year. We love adding a personalized touch to a student's brand new backpack and lunch box when new stuff for school is so exciting, new supplies and a new school year.  Our personalized backpack and lunch tote selection has expanded this year with fantastic patterns and colors for boys and girls, so let's get to showing you the new selections! (Oh and just a reminder to order now, patterns and sets will be sold out by the end of July!)

We are super excited about this personalized preschool sized backpack in 3 adorable patterns.  This preschool sized backpack is sized for the littlest tikes through about kindergarten.  The regular sized backpacks are a bit too big for the little ones, so we really like this one.  Hopefully, their homework won't outdo the amount of space in this backpack that is perfectly sized for them that can go from daycare or camp through kindergarten.

We love that this personalized drawstring backpack is back for this school year.  The uses are endless. Our own kids used this cinch sack type backpack for gym in middle school and high school, for after school activities, and for overnights at friends.  They still pack their drawstring backpack for day trips and field trips where you need a jacket and a bottled water and probably a wallet.  The colors on this backpack are gender neutral this year so the boys can feel comfortable carrying a black or navy backpack with their initials embroidered on the bag.

Our monogrammed backpack patterns are adorable this year. This is our favorite floral pattern that current has a matching lunch tote available. This pattern will sell out, so order ASAP!

We love this personalized backpack option for boys, what boy doesn't love sharks?  Our quantities are limited on this pattern so order this backpack personalized with his name or initials.

Look at this amazing selection of monogrammed lunch totes!  Hello! This is a no brainer for moms who pack the lunches, she knows there are some days when the lunch tote doesn't make it home.  Is it on the bus? Is it in the classroom? Is it on the playground?  Did it get left in the cafeteria?  There are literally a million places a lunch tote can end up, but a monogrammed one can be found and returned to you.  Nobody else is going to assume possession of your child's lunch tote with your child's initials on it, so savvy moms know that getting the backpack and the lunch tote monogrammed is the biggest and best investment in new school supplies.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique has a complete web store loaded with backpacks and lunch totes that can be personalized with our commercial embroidery.  Our retail store, located in downtown Wake Forest North Carolina offers a selection of backpacks and lunch totes. Our local customers can order online and ship to the store for free pick up. Our embroidery is on site in our retail store and we can even embroider backpacks that you bring us from purchased outside our store.

We hope the kiddos and the parents have a great 2018-2019 school year!

Personalized Backpack and Lunch Tote Sets!

Summer School? Hardly not, just year around school getting ready to start in North Carolina!  We're shopping school supplies in SUMMER!  Stop in Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique and CarolinaClover.com for your new backpack, lunch tote bag and pencil case all personalized with our on site embroidery service.

Savvy moms know that having a complete matching set of backpack, lunch, and pencil case is firstly the practical choice.  Multiple kids getting out the door to school and activities?  Matching bags per kid makes life easier.  We love a monogram backpack or a personalized lunch tote bag for total practicality.  How many times has a lunch tote or a backpack been left in the lunch room, classroom or bus?  We like to think that these items will be returned to the owner with a name or monogram embroidered on them.  It doesn't make much sense for these personalized items to get tossed in the lost and found or donation box.  We all like to make a backpack buddies donation though!

Carolina Clover is featuring our newest designs in personalized backpack sets for girls and boys.  The new lines are out and are already selling out.  If you find that the pattern you covet has sold out, there will be a restock of monogram backpacks and monogram lunch totes at the end of June. You'll love our floral, fish and stripes patterns!  Don't forget to add on a drawstring backpack that is perfect for after school activities, middle school gym class or even an overnight to a friends house.  Our kids love these drawstring sport bags and they have carried the same backpack for YEARS.  Whenever it gets funky, we like to throw the bags in the washing machine and lay out to dry. Now that's quality. Can you do that with a bag from the box store? Probably not.

Carolina Clover's monogrammed backpack sets feature the best in backpacks.  You'll love the padded pockets, the folder size stow pockets the reinforced bottoms and adjustable straps you didn't even know you needed.  Most of our backpacks are a full size for elementary school and up, but if you've got a pre schooler or a kindergartener, check out our small pre-school sized backpacks for these little tikes. We love the matching lunch tote and nap time blanket and your child will too.  Don't run yourself all over town searching for all these items, shop Carolina Clover for all your back to school needs.

If you are local to Wake Forest, North Raleigh, Rolesville, Youngsville and Knightdale, consider stopping in our little monogram shop to see what we have stocked for you in the personalized backpack department.  If you discover a bag you have to have locally or from Amazon, stop by our shop for embroidery service.  Even if you don't buy the book bag from us we can personalize it for you inexpensively and we offer a 2nd day service. Don't wait until the last minute to get your backpack embroidered as our queue gets quite busy in August will all the traditional calendar kids going back to school.  Whatever you do, trust your embroidery needs to Carolina Clover's professional and commercial grade embroidery where we can add a name a monogram or initials to your bookbags.  We don't play around with our embroidery service, you get quality work with our professional embroiders that have been in business embroidering your daycare backpacks, soccer bags, backpacks and everything else for 9 years.

Monogram Graduation Gift Ideas

Did you receive a graduation announcement?  Do you need help in finding the perfect monogrammed graduation gift?  Check out Carolina Clover's Monogrammed Graduation Gift Ideas to help you tackle the task of getting the perfect gift for your graduate.

Whether your graduate is headed off to college, commuting to a job, or simply embarking on a vocational training there are many gifts that can assist with the new transition.  Carolina Clover likes to suggest practical personalized gifts for the new living situations that the graduate will be transitioning to.  In apartment or dorm living where all the rooms and facilities are shared, gift ideas like a monogrammed shower caddy or monogrammed towels are the perfect gift ideas.  Items like monogrammed towel wraps and robes are essential for the new communal living situation.

Other practical gift ideas include a good rain jacket or umbrella as they have to park and walk or just be out in the elements more than being on a high school campus.  Going for the practical gift idea is a huge help to the parents who are adding up university expenses and if you can contribute a practical and useful gift, this amounts to less they have to buy the kiddo in supply shopping.

Say your budget doesn't stretch to a big practical graduation gift we like to suggest to our customers a monogrammed tumbler with either a name or a monogram that's great for the ladies or gentleman. An etched tumbler is in the $30 range, but if your budget is even tighter or you have a bunch of graduates to buy for, we like to suggest a bulk group gift of a $10 tumbler from a box store and Carolina Clover can cut your monogrammed decal for you to go on the tumbler.  Our in store customers are offered quantity discounts, so let us know if you have a bunch of graduates to buy for  and we'll see what we can do to get your cost down on the tumblers.  If a monogram tumbler doesn't seem like enough, we like to suggest to our customers that they fill the tumbler with cash, gift cards, or even candy kisses and hugs for the perfect graduation gift idea that is affordable too.

Our in store customers like to bring us the linens they select for the dorm and we can embroider them right in our monogram shop located in downtown Wake Forest, North Carolina.  Our turn around time is 2 days for items coming from outside our store. In store purchases from our monogram shop are completed same day or next day, which is why we are the perfect place to start shopping for your monogrammed graduation gifts.

Monogram graduation gifts selected from our online monogram shop are quoted in the "availability" area of the product description.  Please allow enough time for production and shipping if you are ordering from CarolinaClover.com.  If you are ever in our area, please stop by our monogram shop that includes on site embroidery service and on site decal service.  We also offer a selection of curated gifts that can be personalized.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S. White Street

Wake Forest, NC 27587

Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm

Yankee South, The New Lifestyle Brand for Loving the South

Once again the Yankees are invading the South, this time they are loving and staying in our Southern communities and really enjoying the flip flop weather and short sleeves for a good 9 months out of the year. Who doesn't? We welcome them with their Northern sass, fuggetaboutit! They love the slower pace, the Southern charm and the Southern class that is known on the Southeast Coast.

Yankee South has captured this quintessential Northern Sass with Southern Class in a new lifestyle brand of tees, tanks and trucker hats and tumblers.  The Yankee South shirts are the softest you'll find, our favorite is the "Hustle" tank in a flowy fabric with a racer back for ladies.  You don't have to be from the North to HUSTLE! If you are from the North living in the South, the typical lifestyle brands don't speak to you, but Yankee South will.  If you are proud of your Northern raisin' and your southern Livin' Yankee South is the new lifestyle brand for you.

Our Yankee customers visit our monogram shop and comment how they love the Yankee South lifestyle brand.  They get the T-shirt going, the Legacy Trucker Hat going, some hoops and some flip flops and you've got a new "Yankee Uniform".  We joke in the shop that our big hoop earrings sell out every time we stock them and we've labeled them our "Yankee Hoops" because our northern customers love a good hoop earring with a trucker hat.

If you're a Yankee in search of a brand apparel and graphic tees that speak to your heritage, check out Yankee South.  They have way more apparel and accessories we've featured here. They are getting into more and more retail stores and will take the South by storm, y'all wait 'n see.  Meanwhile, you can shop YankeeSouth.com online or you can also find them in our monogram shop at Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique in Downtown Wake Forest, NC.  We are loving their social media, so follow them @theyankeesouth on instagram.

Personalized Easter Baskets, Very Southern!

The Easter bunny is on his way and will be arriving on Sunday, April 16, 2017!  A little late this year, but we hope that the weather is warm by then in the south and the bulbs are in bloom!

If you are searching for an adorable Easter basket for your egg hunt this year, shop Carolina Clover's sweet selection of personalized Easter baskets for bunnies of every age. Our favorite is the Southern Seersucker that sells out every year.  Embroider this basket with your child's name or monogram, it makes a heart tugging keepsake. Store it in the child's room and use for storage if you're the practical one. Fold it flat and store it until next year, it takes up very little storage space in your Easter decor.

Shown here is the green seersucker Easter basket personalized with an embroidered monogram.  We've used a block R with a circle frame that is suitable for this adorable boy in his short tall.  Our seersucker Easter basket comes in blue, pink, purple and green and is a single handle for the kids to be able to hold onto their treasures.

You will love our price and our professional embroidery done right in our shop located in Wake Forest, NC.  We happily serve Wake Forest, North Raleigh and surrounding areas with our professional embroidery service.  Stop in the retail store if you are local and shop our on site selection of personalized Easter baskets that we can monogram for you the same day.  If you're an online shopper, gather your orders and order in enough time to allow for production and shipping of your Easter basket. You can select your threads and fonts online and the style of basket for your little darlings.  We can monogram Easter baskets suitable for boys and girls!

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S. White Street, Suite 200

Wake Forest, NC 27587

Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm

919-917-5330

store@carolinaclover.com

Valentine's Gift Idea's for Her

Hey Guys! Are you looking for really cute Valentine's gift ideas for her that won't bust your budget? I mean you did just survive Christmas and you've had like 1 paycheck right?  Carolina Clover doesn't disappoint with really thoughtful Valentine's gift ideas. They aren't cheap, and they aren't cheezy and they are really going to get you much kudos for creativity.

Valentine's Gift Idea for Her #1. Pick a really sappy meaningful item. We really like a coordinates necklace, you can commemorate where you met, where you had your first date or where you got married in a cute little necklace that is under $50 delivered in either gold or silver.  Expand on this idea, if you are not into coordinates, as in latitude and longitude, consider a state necklace if that means more to your relationship.

Valentine's Gift Idea for Her #2.  Pick a trend as a gift.  She will be blown away that you even know what a trend is.  The trends that we are seeing now are like blanket scarves, round beach towels, and anything with a tassel on it.  If you see her on these trends, this is a good idea. If you don't see her on these trends, these are still a good idea because they are new territory!

Valentine's Gift Idea for Her #3. Get her a new tumbler for her morning coffee, or her waterbottle for yoga and fill it with chocolate kisses or her favorite candy. CarolinaClover.com can personalize this tumbler for you with a decal and you can fill it with her favorite candy for a personalized gift for under $30.

If you would like to see more Valentine Gift Ideas for Her, click over to our web site and shop our complete category of Valentine's gifts that she is sure to love for every budget.  We carry really beautiful custom pendants as well as inexpensive engraved pieces. Let us know if we can help you find the perfect Valentine's Gift!

Chunky Blankets and More With ArtizenHome.com

Are you looking for chunky yarn for those fabulous blankets seen in only the high end home decor catalogs or have you drooled over the cozy warmth of 100% Marino wool blankets on Etsy? The meet newcomer Artizen Home to the ecommerce arena of movers and makers.

Whether you are a knitter looking for the chunky wool yarn and supplies or you are an interior decorator looking for the latest trend in home decor, you'll find what you are looking for at Artizenhome.com. Celebrating their grand opening on September 24th, you will love their initial product offering of finished home goods and knitting supplies.

They have stocked gorgeous Marino wool colors you can order by the pound or kit for the home crafter or professional knitter. We think they will dominate the market on domestic shipping in the United States as the premier supplier of bulky Marino wool products. No more waiting tireless weeks to restock your knitting cupboard because your supplier is overseas. You can't get this stuff at your local craft store folks.

Welcome Artizenhome.com to the ecommerce world when they open for business on the 24th, shop their selection of gorgeous and on trend colors. Our sources tell us they have been knitting, photohooting, videoing and uploading finished products into their brand new store like madness.  Wishing the best of Luck to Artizenhome.com, now go shop, Y'all.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique is located in historic downtown Wake Forest, NC specializing in monogrammed jewelry, gifts and apparel.

Charles River Meets Lilly Pulitzer

Carolina Clover is thrilled be carrying this quality apparel line from Charles River Apparel.  Our retail store has been filled with the quality of the quarter zip sweatshirt in three colors. Our customers can't get enough.  This new for 2016-17 sweatshirt boasts a quarter zip pull over neckline with Charles River Branding, a cadet popped collar, relax banded waist band.  Hello Comfort Colors? Move over, there's a new legging perfect sweatshirt in town. This new quarter zip also has a hidden seam side pocket, a place for your phone! Sign me up.

Charles River Quarter Zip in Mint

Carolina Clover has stocked this perfect quarter zip sweatshirt in 3 adorable colors.  The bright coral is to die for, there's a lovely mint and the traditional heather gray.  We want all three for a month of Saturdays during college football season.

Our customers have been so thrilled with this sweatshirt and it monograms beautifully with our on site commercial embroidery service.  We stock sizes small to XL, but we've ordered the XS and the extra X's as needed, they ship to the store really quick.

Now for the best part of the story, how Lilly met Charles.  We offer a fantastic embroidered applique featuring your three initial monogram in a circle block font.  This is such an awesome stitch with a finishing bean stitch on top, the applique part allows us to use any fabric as the background of the monogram.  This is when Lilly arrived!  We've stocked 4 Lilly patterns for your enjoyment, choose your Charles River quarter zip, select your Lilly fabric, and a coordinating thread color and viola! You have a Charles River Meets Lilly Monogrammed Quarter Zip sweatshirt that will be your absolute favorite sweatshirt EVA!

Here are some of the fabric/color combinations that our customers have chosen in the store.  We love them all!

New Monogram Jewelry Designs

Introducing new monogram jewelry designs featured at Carolina Clover! We love how the jewelers we partner with keep coming up with new monogram jewelry designs that end up being the new trend or the new classics!

We are seeing more trends evolve around the double bail necklace with monogram pendant.  Our newest jeweler is putting a frame around the hand cut pendant. We love this design as many of us in the shop wear our monogram necklaces on a daily basis and we find this nice little border around the monogram keeps it from snagging on your blouses!  Carolina Clover offers this necklace is a larger 1.60+ inch size and in a small 1/2 inch size in either gold or silver.

Large Sterling Silver Border Monogram Necklace

Small Sterling Silver Monogram Necklace

Gold Monogram Cuff Bracelet

The girls at Carolina Clover are swooning over our new monogrammed cuff bracelets in script or block font.  We love the considerate design of this hand cut monogram bracelet as it is wide in the front and tapers around the back for easy wear.  This bracelet comes in sterling silver and 14k gold plate.

Black letter engraving is back with these stackable bangles engraved with a single name. We like these as a mother's bracelet to be stacked with her arm party. Does she collect Alex and Ani or Pandora?  These would look amazing stacked all together with her other collections and the price is amazing for a custom engraved bangle in silver, gold place or rose gold.

Our monogram earrings have a new twist too, literally. We are seeing a new trend emerge on a southern classic pearl earring.  On our new 360 earrings we have your engraved monogram on the front and the pearl serves a the earring back for a 360 jewelry look.

360 Pearl Monogram Earring

Wow, the last trend we are seeing is a WHOLE LOT OF state pride.  Whether you go to a state school or live where you were born and raised, Carolina Clover's jewelry partners are doing lots of designs with states.  The favorite is the state shaped monogram necklace featuring your engraved monogram inside the state. You get to pick your acrylic color and your metal component color for a custom little trinket for a really affordable price. Our southern belles are getting really creative and choosing acrylic colors for their school, their sorority or coordinating with their boutique apparel purchases.

State Shaped Monogram Necklace

The best place to shop for your monogrammed jewelry designs is Carolina Clover!  Shop online 24/7 for your gifts and new trends. If you're local to our retail shop, stop in to see what we have on display, or if you know what you want order online and select shipping to store for free shipping on your purchase from us.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S. White Street, Suite 200

Wake Forest, NC 27587

Stainless Steel Tumblers! Engraved or Decal?

This has been the summer of the double walled stainless steel tumbler, am I right?  These things are everywhere!  Whether you bat for Yeti or RTIC, the is no doubt that a double walled tumbler is THE secret to not letting your drink sweat!  If you are in the south, you KNOW your double walled tumblers keep from sweating themselves silly all over you all over the car, the furniture, out on the porch, the boat, the beach, everywhere and they keep your drink cold or hot depending on your potion.

Our customers are running in our retail store for their Yeti decals right now.  The story we are hearing is that "My dad keeps taking my Yeti and if I put a monogram on it, then there is no way he will take my Yeti again." HAHA! We have to laugh with our southern girls who know their way around a sassy swirly monogram a southern man wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole!  Make your mark, ladies!

If you're not close our retail store, where we are cutting monograms on site for your Yeti, check out our online store where you can order your decal for your Yeti online here. We recommend ordering the 3inch size for your tumbler, but we have seen the 5 inch on a tumbler! If you haven't splurged for a Yeti yet, check out our Polar Pro double walled stainless tumbler for LESS and includes a monogram decal applied for you.  This makes a great gift and we can ship super fast for this monogrammed stainless steel tumbler.

We are super excited to now offer an etched stainless steel tumbler that is engraved with your monogram in our retail store and our online store.  This is a forever lasting engraved process done by our local artist.  We are thrilled to a partnered with an artist to bring you a really AWESOME gift that is different than just pulling up to the store and buying a Yeti. The engraving is fantastic and such a classy personalized touch.  

Shown above is our pearl monogram style we are thrilled to offer as an engraving font style on our tumbler. We tried to do this monogram style in a decal and it was a nightmare, but our customers loved it so now it is back for this engraved tumbler.

If you are budget savvy, go for the decal if you really want a nice gift, go for the engraved stainless steel tumbler with a name or a monogram.  And yes, our artist has put together a selection of engraving styles that would even suit a man, so this is a great gift for husband, father, uncle or brother.  We even love these as a Groomsman gift.  This item takes up to 2 weeks in production, so you must order early. This item cannot be a last minute gift for Christmas, so please order early as our cut off date will be early in December so we can get them all delivered by Christmas.

We can do a swirly monogram too, so ladies make your mark with your engraved stainless steel tumbler from Carolina Clover!  

Shop CarolinaClover.com or Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S. White Street, Suite 200

Wake Forest, NC 27587

919-917-5330

Monday-Saturday, 10-6pm

Back to School with Personalized Backpacks and Lunch Totes

Carolina Clover is thrilled to announce a new line of personalized backpacks and lunch totes featuring your child's name, initials or monogram. Our trendy patterns are adorable and affordable.  Savvy moms know that a personalized backpack and lunch tote is a key investment in the new school year.

How many times has the lunch tote been left on the bus or in the cafeteria?  Too many times. With a personalized lunch bag, with a name or monogram embroidered on the bag, you avoid the lunch tote becoming someone elses.

We have a new line of monogrammed bookbags geared toward the middle and high school student and we call them our Campus Backpacks in the multi pocket style featured below.

We also have our line of traditional style backpacks which are perfect for the elementary school student.  These feature many pockets too, but is a bit more traditional looking.

This backpack is adorable embroidered with your child's initials, name or monogram on the outside pocket. The personalization adds so much to this trendy new print.  Our backpacks are available in many different patterns this year.

For our preschool tykes going off to school for the first time we have this smaller version of a preschool backpack that is perfect personalized with a name, monogram or initials and for snack time we have a matching lunch tote.

Our personalized lunch totes sell out every year, so do not pass up the opportunity to select a personalized backpack with matching lunch tote matching set.  Start back to school with new bags personalized by Carolina Clover, don't wait these will all sell out prior to school!

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S. White Street, Suite 200

Wake Forest, NC 27587

Mother's Day Gift Ideas

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 8th this year! Do you need to find a special gift for mom this year? We have a huge gift idea for you: PERSONALIZE!

Take the most simple gifts like a water bottle, a baseball hat, or a tote bag and add her name, initial or monogram that says a whole lot of thought went into a gift. Carolina Clover offers gifts for every budget.  Order of $50 or more ship free, so load up your cart with gifts for mom and save a few dollars in the process.

If it's that special year for a keepsake gift for mom, our jewelers have created the most thoughtful pendants for mom.  Our best seller every year is this monogrammed mother's pendant with her child's names engraved around the outside of the pendant.

Our newest design for Mother's day this year is the family tree pendant. Engrave the family names or just the children's names around this pendant that embodies the family tree.  This is a keepsake jewelry piece mom will love. Order a long chain so she can wear it layered with other pieces or a shorter chain so she can wear it every day.

We love that this pendant can be ordered at a lower price point by selecting pewter as your metal.  This pewter is polished to a high shine and looks like sterling silver but with out the sterling silver price.  Order early for mother's day, our jewelers need at least 10 days to create your custom jewelry piece for mom and get it to you before Mother's Day!

If you are local to Wake Forest, NC, stop by our retail store to place your order or select ship to store at checkout to pick your order up in our retail store.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S. White Street

Wake Forest, NC 27587

How to Cover Up an Embroidered Monogram

We've seen quite a few monogram issues in our time of offering on site embroidery in our retail store!  There's no shortage of wrong monograms, an item being passed along, or a monogram that didn't turn out so good. (not from us!)  We try to offer our customers solutions to their problems, and even we mourn with them a bit over an embroidered snafu.

One particular day, a customer presented us with monogrammed wedding gifts she had ordered with the couple's new monogram, but the wedding was called off. She was left with a good amount of monogrammed gifts she was unable to recycle or even re-gift! We put our heads together can came up with a solution to fix the monograms.  

We are asked often to "undo" embroidery work, while we do not offer this service, we don't recommend it either.  Powerful commercial embroidery machines are capable of really destroying the  fabric under the stitches in the process of embroidery. Even if you can pick out the thousands of stitches used in commercial embroidery, the chances of you not catching the fabric with a seam ripper is very small. 

We were able to save our customer's monogrammed gifts by applying an embroidery applique over the existing monogram that did a very nice satin stitch around the edge.  An applique is the process of using fabric as a backing for the monogram, and it takes a special formatted applique file to perform this technique. Our customer chose a Lilly Pulitzer inspired fabric print, a master circle font, and a navy thread to coordinate with the blue seersucker fabric on the weekend tote.

Here is the final result, you can't even tell another monogram was on this bag and a new one was added. We also backed the applique with cut away fabric stabilizer, which also serves as a sort of lining for the applique, so you can't even tell from the inside of the bag that there was another monogram on the bag before.

This photo is of the inside of the bag where you can't even see the old monogram.  This is so well done for an applique, our customer could actually regift this monogrammed weekend tote without the new recipient knowing!  The fixes here are endless, children's clothing can be passed down with the applique covering an old monogram, a logo can be covered up with a new logo using this really nice "patch" look, an incorrectly stitched monogram can be "fixed" with this applique patch, and even last name changes too!

In case you are wondering about the bags featured in this post, this is a great monogrammed seersucker weekend tote with leatherette trim and is the perfect monogrammed gift. This tote is available at Carolina Clover along with a matching monogrammed cosmetic tote also in seersucker.

Monogrammed Seersucker Weekend tote at Carolina Clover.

Monogrammed Seersucker Cosmetic Catch All at Carolina Clover.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique is located in the Historic District of Wake Forest, NC and we offer on site monogram and logo embroidery to our local customers. More information about our retail store is on our web site.

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique, Now Expanded

WAKE FOREST, NC October 29, 2015-Ready your holiday shopping list and visit Carolina Clover’s newly expanded monogram jewelry, gift and apparel shop now located at 123 S. White Street in Historic Downtown Wake Forest. Formerly the embroidery station at The Cotton Company, Carolina Clover has just launched their own storefront space with even more selection and will feature the storefront as a “Monogram Boutique”.

The proprietor of Carolina Clover, Dawn Crowder has this to say about her storefront expansion, “ We’ve been a top monogram jewelry and gift retailer online for 6 years and thriving in the The Cotton Company’s business incubator for 5 years, and it was time to give our monogram and embroidery customers more shop space and selection to continue to grow.” She adds, “I love the enthusiasm that our customers have upon locating our shop and the excitement of them realizing all the possibilities for personalized gifts available to them so close to home.”

This year Carolina Clover is making a holiday wish list available to customers who love monograms.  Sales associates will assist with writing your Christmas Wish List complete with sizes, styles, and color selections. Just send your loved ones into the store and Carolina Clover will walk them through the gift personalization process and even gift wrap it for them, it’s that easy!  You can also develop your own monogrammed gift wish list on the web site at CarolinaClover.com with free shipping and pick up at the retail store.

Find out more information about our company at http://carolinaclover.com

Carolina Clover, The Monogram Boutique

123 S White Street, Suite 200

Wake Forest, NC 27587

919-917-5330

Preppy Girls Monogram Their Spare Tires!

Monograms on our rides are not a new idea, but us girls have been relegated to the vinyl sticker.  Am I right? Carolina Clover is showcasing style and panache with a monogrammed tire cover for our SUV and Jeep girls.  Our soft top jeeps are super expensive and super sensitive, most of us don't want to put a vinyl monogram sticker on our soft top cover.  Introducing the monogrammed spare tire cover by Carolina Clover!

We've been monogramming one Jeep at a time at Carolina Clover with our Smitybilt tire cover with an embroidered monogram!  Move over vinyl stickers, we are stitching our initials right into this tire cover.  Our jeep girls have loved this design, read our frequently asked questions and our reviews on our monogram embroidered spare tire cover at CarolinaClover.com. Below take a look at some of the tire covers we've monogrammed in the various font styles and thread colors:

Monogram Tire Cover in Master Circle Font and Spring Green Thread

Monogrammed Tire Cover in White Thread and Engraved Font

Monogrammed Tire Cover in Lime Thread and Circle Block Font

Monogram Tire Cover in Fishtail Font and Aqua Thread

Getting the design you want for your Monogram Necklace

The trend has hit you hard and you are coveting your very own monogram necklace.  Where do you start designing your necklace and where do you buy it?  That's simple. Read this blog post and we will direct you where to buy and how to design your heart's desire!

What is considered a "monogram"

A monogram is a ladies' 3 initials in a form of first initial, LAST name initial, and middle name initial. The last name initial is placed in the middle of the design and created larger than the other initials.  This is considered a 3 initial monogram, a unique design for each lady. An example is like this:

Decide the size of pendant you want

The size of the pendant, the actual charm that will be created in the rendition of your initials. The BEST way to understand the sizing is to pull out a ruler.  This will help you visualize when you are shopping to choose the look you are going for.  A 5/8 inch pendant measures about the size of a dime and the sizing goes up from there.  Choose in our 2 inch pendant will be a very dramatic statement, and it is best to have your ruler handy so you know what to expect when your monogram pendant arrives.

Decide the metal or finish you want

Carolina Clover offers monogram pendants made in sterling silver, pewter, 14k gold, rose gold vermeil and 14k gold vermeil.  Our vermeil explained as the pendant is created in sterling silver and dipped in either yellow gold or rose gold.  Pewter is our most affordable choice in monogram necklaces, it is polished to a high shine like sterling silver but doesn't come with the high cost of sterling silver. Ultimately, the look you are going for and your budget with dictate your choice here. None of our metals are sold by weight, they are sold by craftmanship. If you are concerned about silver or gold weight, you should consult with your local jeweler about a weighted piece, this is beyond our scope of design services. Our special finishes include enamel and acrylic.  Enamel is laid over sterling silver to create a deeply hued finish on the pendant in your choice of color.  Acrylic is a lightweight pendant in tons of fun and flirty colors and is minimally priced.

Decide the "bail" design you want

Most of our jewelers have created one of two designs for monogram pendants.  We have the monogram necklace that is stationary on a chain, actually attached to the chain.  This is called a double bail design.  A single bail design is a single hoop on the pendant that a necklace chain slides through, giving you the ability to change out your chain and allows freedom of the pendant to slide back and forth on the chain.  Pictures below:

single bail pendant style

double bail necklace style

Choose the font you want

In the pictures above, this is an example of a script font for your monogram necklace.  We also offer a circle block font.  The biggest question is which style suits you and do your initials look good in the font.  Each pendant is created uniquely by our jewelry designers, so you will get a beautiful piece hand created each time.  If you would like to see what your monogram may look like in the 2 different fonts, see our monogram tool here.

Choose the length of chain you want

Our designers offer chains in lengths of 16 or 18 inches. 16 inches hits most women at their collar bone and 18 inches drops 2 inches below her collar bone and some times determines if it is worn inside or outside her collar.  Find a necklace you like the length of already and measure it, this is the best way to determine the length of your chain.

Choose the retailer to make your purchase

Of course Carolina Clover would love to create your monogram necklace from your choice of our two reputable jewelry designers Jane Basch and Initial Reaction, but we want you to make an educated purchase as well.  Here are some additional considerations when purchasing your monogram necklace.  Both our designers are top of the line, American jewelry artists based right here in the USA that we have contracted with for more than 5 years.  Both jewelers back their workmanship with a 1 year warranty, and then will make repairs for a small fee after 1 year.  Please make sure whomever you purchase from is based in the USA.  We've heard so many very sad stories of customers purchasing a Groupon, or from Etsy or from some random online seller that was selling it for dirt cheap and these customers have been sorely disappointed with quality, workmanship, repairs and customer service.  Please thoroughly vet your retail store prior to purchase, also it is a good idea to read the store policies prior to clicking the buy button.  Monogram necklaces are not returnable, so it is important to understand what your expectations are, contact the retailer if you have any questions prior to purchase.

Let us know if we can assist you further at info@carolinaclover.com

Seersucker, States and Spring!

As monogram fanatics at Carolina Clover we are very fond of anything personalized and of one more thing in particular… warm weather!! We are so tired of this cold and the snow.  It’s only getting worse now as we are getting all kinds of adorable new spring items in stock. We are sharing some of our favorite springtime pieces on the blog today!

You will love the spring and summer feel of this state pendant and it will coordinate beautifully with your Lilly Pulitzer apparel. Show your preppy state pride by wearing this acrylic state charm with either a sterling silver or gold plated chain.

Nothing screams spring quite like seersucker! And nothing screams preppy like monogrammed seersucker!! This preppy seersucker infinity scarf is the perfect weight for warmer weather and will dress up the simplest of outfits. Get a pink or blue scarf monogrammed in any color you can think of!

Turn any sporty outfit instantly fun and flirty with our monogrammed sun visors. The best news is that at such a great price, you could order multiple different colors to coordinate your warm weather outfits! There is a great discount price on bulk orders so you could get coordinating visors for the whole team. Wear it to the lake, the beach, around campus, or to the big game!

Be your own interior decorator and personalize any room in your home with our new indoor and outdoor pillows! We have a wide variety of styles from classy Kate Spade inspired gold dot patterns to preppy anchor patterns for your beach house. Include a monogram, initials, or a name to complete the personalization. Treat yourself to new pillows or give them as a great housewarming gift!

“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”

~ Mark Twain

What is a European Style Charm?

With so many charms on the market, it is hard to understand the terms associated with the styles of charms! European Style charms are the "add a bead" charm collection variety and are made by such popular brand names as Pandora, Trollbeads, Camilla and other less known brands found in department stores and flea markets, regardless of the brand the "Style" is the same as shown below.

Notice the the charm style is like a bead and slips onto the charm bracelet above. Most European style charms measure 4mm in inside diameter to allow for an industry standard.  This varies of course and can measure from 3mm to 4mm.  Check with your European style charm brand to find out the mm of the beads you have or are thinking of collecting.

 Styles have changed over the years and the most popular add a bead varieties are where the bead represents or depicts something special.  The actual bead hosts a beautiful design in itself of a birthstone or a symbol, etc.

Carolina Clover offers an Engraved European Style Collectible charm that features her monogram, initials or name up to 5 characters.  Our adapter for our European style charm is a bail and dangle variety as shown below.

The adapter bail measures 4mm and fits most popular European Charm Collections. The charm is a dainty 5/8 inch, about the size of a dime and the entire charm is made in quality sterling silver. Buy this custom engraved charm on our web site at CarolinaClover.com

Maggie Reviews Our Braided Silver Monogram Ring

Hi Carolina Clover fans!  This is Maggie Frost, blogger behind Moda & the Mar, a fashion & personal style guide.  As a true Southern girl, I know the importance of a well-placed monogram.  They are a classic way to put a personal stamp on anything and everything.  And nothing is more classic than a monogrammed ring.  

I received my first one for a dance recital present in elementary school and have been updating my collection ever since.  The Carolina Clover braided oval ring is now at the top of that list!  I love the petite oval shape and the black engraving really makes the monogram pop against the sterling silver.  This ring is both timeless and modern.  I know this classic piece will be a staple in my jewelry collection for years to come!

Make sure to keep up with all of the latest monogrammed trends from Carolina Clover!

Maggie

Maggie Frost

Personal Style Blogger

Moda & the Mar

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