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I am sooooo excited because I won 2 blog giveaways !!

I have never in a gazillion years

won anything until the wonderful

world of blogging !

Enter because it is so much fun !!

The first one was from The Attic

and it is the most wonderful

smelling soap bar and chandelier tea towel ~

I am dying to

go to Coronado Island to visit their shop !!

The next one was from Dore' at Burlap Luxe ~

They are wonderful

smelling things from Eco Natural Soap ~

I cannot wait to try them but I wanted

to show you a picture of them all wrapped up ~

There was also lip balm but it is in my purse :)

I also wanted to show you a little of

what I have been working on

the last couple of days ~

They are all on my website at

Katies Rose Cottage Designs ~

Have a wonderful rest of the week !!

I just found a magazine that I didn't even know was out there that I love !!
It is called Mary Jane's Farm ~

It is full of absolutely gorgeous pictures, wonderful articles, recipes and great craft and sewing ideas and patterns ~

I love what Mary Jane says in the front of the magazine ~

"Whether you are a city chick or a farm chick, we're here to help guide you back to your farm girl roots, back to healthful eating, next door biscuits downtown for an evening of crocheting with friends, uptown in a dress up apron, and starward to your dreams.... "

Make sure and visit their website because it is full of wonderful things as well as how you can visit them ~

They have a Bed and Breakfast where you stay in "wall tents" ~ I am not a tent camper girl but I have to say these are definitely my kind of tent camping ~

This is what they call their "outhouses" ~ isn't it wonderful !! I really really want to stay here ~

Until next time ....

Yay !!! We have had wonderful warm weather the last couple of days soooo I recruited my sweet husband to paint ~ he has been painting a bunch of wonderful things that I have found at flea markets and estate sales over the last couple of weeks ~ they would make awesome gifts for Christmas coming soon or they would be perfect for your shabby cottage chic decor ~ Here is an example of a few things we have added to Katies Rose Cottage but there is a bunch more there ~

I don't think I have told you that today is one of my favorite days of the week!!!~ LOL ~ Flea market day !!! It is so funny because when we moved here, I thought for sure I would get mugged at the flea market ~ I had no idea how awesome it was ~ Well...... needless to say I missed a couple of years of wonderful searching and getting to know some very sweet people ~ it looks really gross but the treasures abound ~You can find most anything you want from shabby cottage chic, antique and wonderful things to recreate ~

I just wanted to stop in real quick
and say hi from Cabo ~
We are at an All-Inclusive
which we haven't done before but
it is great!
We have walked on the beach
and then in the evenings
there are lounge chairs in the sand ~ It is
wonderful to go out and listen to the waves
and watch the sunset ~

The food is amazing !!

The weather in Cabo is wonderful ~
I forgot how nice
dry heat is :)
The pool is really cool because it looks
like it drops off in to the ocean ~

It is always fun to shop but oh my gosh
the prices are crazy expensive !
Mexico isn't inexpensive like it used to be ~

Ice tea and lunch are calling my name ~

Talk to you soon !!!

I just got done adding some wonderful new items to Katies Rose Cottage ~

If you have visited us very much you will know that I love crowns ~
One of my favorite verses that I think of with crowns is ~

Isaiah 62:3
"You will be a crown of beauty in the Lord's hand "

We just added some crown soldered charms to our jewelry category ~

We also listed some gorgeous handmade rose ribbon pins that have a wonderful vintage look ~ I love these because they can be used to embellish clothes as well as purses or gifts ~

The last thing that I wanted to show you are these awesome pink rose buckets that are in the Romantic Home category ~ this is one of my favorite collaged prints so I was so excited to find these ~

I love to visit blogs !! It is so amazing what wonderful people that I have met through blog world ~

One of the blogs that I love to visit is LeAnn's at "For the Love of Cottage" ~

LeAnn was doing a blog giveaway and so I entered it not even thinking in a gazillion years that I would win ~ She was giving away a signed Christie Repasy framed painting ~ oh my gosh !!!
I have always wanted one but have never gotten one ~

It is absolutely gorgeous and I thank you LeAnn for the wonderful and amazing gift !

I am off to Canton today to find some wonderful treasures to add to my website ~ yay !!! I love Canton !!

Yesterday I started adding some beautiful handmade cards and also some wonderful hand stamped fabric ribbon that I adore !
I will be adding more cards when I return later tonight or tomorrow ~

YAYYYY!!! The goodies from market are starting to come in !!! I am sooo excited to receive two huge boxes today ~ I just listed some wonderful pink enamelware that I just love ~ Here are some pics and you can also find them at http://www.katiesrosecottage.com ~

I am reposting this from January because

I LOVE Drop Cloth fabric and am participating in

My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia's

Blogger Block Party !

I have been ruffling the world lately with

my awesome ruffler for my Bernina

(which I love too !)

There have been some wonderful tutorials

and ideas for drop cloths because

it is the coolest fabric with such a vintage look

and a great price !

Who would have known that drop cloths were good

for bags too !

I just love vintage wood chippy frames ~ they add such a wonderful charm to any cottage chic, shabby chic and romantic decor ~ We have just added some to our Vintage Finds category along with some chippy wood petite mirrors ~
www.katiesrosecottage.com

Welcome to my new very girly office !!!

I decided to make my oldest daughter's room, who got married, into my office ~ My office has been in my bedroom for the last 5 years, so it is wonderful to have a room of my own to make shabby girly cottage chic !!!! It was yellow and the first thing I did was paint it my favorite color pink ~

Then I added some things that I have been collecting for awhile ~ it is so funny because I have collected things for my office for so long that I had way over the amount that would fit in the room ~ but..... I am sure that I can find somewhere else for them :o)

I just wanted to let you know that we have some new Halloween and Thanksgiving soldered charms in our Jewelry category ~

But the best news is that we are going to have a sale like we have not had before on the charms ~ For every charm you order you will get 10% off PLUS a FREE ball chain ~

This would be a wonderful time to stock up on charms for Christmas gifts ~ Each one always comes with an organza bag ~

The sale will run through midnight on September 8th ~

I LOVE quilts and I especially love quilts with roses ~ I think quilts add such a cozy cottage look to a home ~

Last year I found these wonderful pink rose quilts with rose swags so I bought one for my bed ~ well, I noticed that people are using them for more than quilts, they use them for pillows. covering benches and so many other beautiful things ~ I found these gorgeous quilts again and so I have them on my website ~ I also have some other pretty quilts including one in one of my favorite colors, robin's egg blue ~

I just got home from having a wonderful long weekend

girl's trip to Southern California ~

My two girls met my mom, sister and niece

and we laughed, shopped

and ate to our heart's content ~

We all used to live in the same town

but now my girls and

I live in Texas and they all still live in California

so it is great

to get together and do trips like this ~

This is Chelsey (my niece), Kristin (my oldest daughter), Kim (my sister),

Sue (my mom), Stephanie (my youngest daughter) and me ~ We are

at the Orange Coast Swap Meet ~

What is a girl's trip without chocolate :)

This is one of my new favorite shops ~ It is called the Daisy Shoppe ~

Their website truly does not show how soooo yummy it was ~

Their clothes were awesome, girly and lacey ~ I loved the decorations and

accessories too ! It was me all over !! This is my daughter though in the picture :)

This is my mom and my two girls at the Irvine Spectrum ~

It was a glorious sunny day to shop at an outside mall ~

This is my sister, Kim and I ~

It was the end of the day and it looks like we should have

been getting our makeup done with my mom :)

My niece must have been hitting the shops since

she wasn't in any more of these pictures ~

It was a fun time and we can't

wait to meet up again soon

for more girl's weekends !!

I have a confession to make ..... I am not a yard sale shopper ~

A flea market shopper but not a yard sale shopper and it is all because I have already been there done that on the Little Tykes stuff ~ I have friends ( Pat and Lisa ) that live close to me that always find treasures at yard sales ~ not me though ~

But ...... when Dorothy at the Shabby Y emails to say she is having a yard sale I am there with bells on (really flip flops) ~

She has the most amazing studio in the back that she even opened up to the shopping gals ~I pretty much drooled over her neat as a pin studio stuffed with awesome treasures ~

Here are the wonderful things that I got from her that will be on my website soon ~ well, except the oval frame ~

I also went to a tiny little flea market and found these old photos and sweet baby shoes ~ I am going to use the pictures for pocket pillows ~ My daughter was with me and we just cracked up going through the boxes of pictures ~

This girl's bow is so fun ! I can't imagine wearing a bow that ginormous :)

People did call my girls bow heads though when they were little so maybe I can imagine it ..... hmmmm

I have been having so
much fun making totes lately!

I pretty much love
The Graphics Fairy
and get alot
of my graphics from
Karen's website ~

These are just a couple
of the totes that I have
made using her images
and the
Citra Solv transfer method ~

These are on my website
and more will be coming
soon!

Have a wonderful week!

Today it was a wonderful day to get out petticoats, wash them

and hang them out in the beautiful sunshine to dry ~

There is something so gorgeous about seeing the layers and layers

of ruffles hanging in the sun ~

I want to live in the time when all girls wore petticoats

because they are so sweet and feminine ~

I could definitely be a petticoat kind of girl !

You can find the one Kristin is wearing here ~

I have always loved to take craft classes ~ they are always so much fun !!
But... sometimes it is hard to get to them because of the time they are offered or various other reasons ~ so I have been thrilled to find wonderful E-tutorials of beautiful projects ~

These are 2 ladies that I have purchased tutorials from and can tell you that the projects are great and the instructions are so good and very easy to follow ~ best of all is that you can do them on your time frame and see the pictures and directions as many times as you want ~

The first place that I just adore is Dawn at "Lessons from the Nest" ~
A few of the lessons she has to offer are silver sugar bowl pincushions, a fairy in a jar artwork, altered compostion books and many more ~

Margo at Robojunker.com has just started offering E-tutorials and she has soldered jars, china swags and wreaths and more ~

Make sure and check out both of these fun sites !!

Have fun crafting !!

I am soooo excited to get to go to

Karla's Cottage for Bird Song, a wonderful

fun, craft filled weekend on April 30 and May 1st ~

There are going to be awesome classes taught

by Lisa McIlvain, Carol Spinski,

Debbie Dusenberry and Karla herself ~

It is going to be held at Karla's

beautiful studio and cottage ~

It is going to be "down home, comfy and casual" which

is the way I just love to be !!

There will only be 20 guests so spots are

filling up fast ~

Come join us !!

These pictures make me want spring and to

be there right now :)

Click on the logo below to go to the

Bird Song Blog ~