Cottage & Family:
Katies Rose Cottage

I am really excited to
have my daughter Kristin
join me at Katies Rose Cottage!

From Kristin.....

I am so excited to be starting this adventure with my mom :)
It is a joy to be able to work with her,
learn from her,
and get to indulge in
all things vintage! Here's a little about me~

My husband James and I have been married for 5 years
and we have a
little baby boy on the way (due less a couple of weeks from now!).
We are so excited and blessed to be parents and
I cannot wait to share our
little family with you as we grow!
I love to travel, so having a pilot for a dad and a travel photographer
for a husband works out perfectly
;) I adore cooking, creating, and all things vintage!
I've been
praying about God's direction for my job
for about three years and
with a little one on the way, I knew I had to make a change and start
doing something that will spark my passions
. While I've always wanted
to own my own business as so many member's
of my family do, the
opportunity just never presented itself.
However, going on all of my
mom's shopping adventures,
rummaging through her office to create new
treasures, and seeing the joy she has
in her job made me secretly want
to work alongside her.
Then, as I watched her grow in her business,
God did an amazing work!
He opened the door for me to partner with my
mom so I can finally do what I am so passionate about :)
I am thrilled
and blessed to have the opprtunity
to work along side of a godly,
creative, and beautiful woman, my mom :)

I am in the process of combining my two websites

so have been kind of missing for a few days ~

I am so very excited to be moving my website,

Katies Rose Cottage over to my new

website at Katies Rose Cottage Designs ~

I have had Katies Rose Cottage now for 6 years and

it is time for an update and will be awesome to have both

websites together ~

I love the new format and I love the new look !!

Sign up on my new website mailing list

for a SPECIAL as soon as I am done !

Wowwwzaaaa time just flies!!

I have been missing for a little while because our

house flooded from a broken pipe ~

We have had the joy of staying in a hotel and being all

discombobulated from life ~

Anyway in amongst painting the main living area of

our house and having no water or flooring .....

I have been able to add a few things to

my website and will be having

a freebie with purchase soon ( like tomorrow ) so make sure

and sign up on my website mailing list for the scoop ~

I am so excited to decorate for Christmas and my crafting supplies

are definitely calling my name ~

I am hoping next week our house

will be back in shape again ~

I just love crinkled dyed ribbon for using on my projects ~

This is a tutorial on how to make it yourself ~

First you get whatever color ribbon you want to use ~

I use seam binding for the ribbon because I love how it feels ~

Then you soak it in either tea or instant coffee ~

I scrunch mine in a ball and wrap it in about 3 rubber bands ~

Then I sit it out in the sun and as it dries it gets a wonderful aged look especially on the outside edges ~

After it has dried about 3/4 of the way, I take the bands off and kind of loosely spread the ribbon out to dry in the sun ~

Every once in awhile I go and turn the ribbon until it is completely dry ~

Then it is ready to use on your projects ~

I just love love crinkled dyed ribbon !

If you don't want to try it, I do have some for sale on my website here ~

I just wanted to show you a few new things

in our shops but we do

add things almost every day so check back often ~

These are canvases that have been sealed with beeswax ~

These can be found at Katies Rose Cottage ~

We also add different jewelry designs to

our website, Katies Rose Cottage Designs ~

These are a couple of the new necklaces ~

I just wanted to show you some yummy things that are some of my new favorite things ~

I kind of hoard these pillows and bottles but I have actually let some go that are on my website at Katies Rose Cottage ~

This cone is soooo pretty and is one of my favorite colors !

These are the sweetest ballet shoes that I got from my friend Lisa at Tarnished and Tattered ~ She does such wonderful things !