I just finished making a BIG batch of one of a kind journals for the store.
Tea stained lined paper inside and each cover is a unique, one of a kind work of art.
5×7 size.
Regular retail price is $8.95 each.
Sophie’s price is just $4.50!
Lots of different cover styles to choose from.
Would make a great Mother’s Day gift.
Mother’s Day is May 10th.
SoO0oO0o0Oo0O YUMMY!!
But I’ve only got FIVE of them available. I just ‘happened to find’ a few small bottles of chocolate raspberry fragrance oil on a recent back room cleaning mission. Not really enough to make a batch of candles or tart melts with, but just enough for a few reed diffusers.
You’ll be able to smell it as soon as you walk into the PINK area of the store. These bottles will last about 4-6 weeks. They are $5.00, and come in a cute pink and brown gift bag. A nice little Mother’s Day gift. Or perfect to set on your desk at the office where you can’t burn a candle, but could use some nice fragrance.
But if ‘just the smell’ won’t do . . . Sophie’s got lots of REAL chocolate goodies, already gift wrapped and ready to give.
Or how about a ‘caramel sundae’? Yummy caramels in a sundae dish!
Mother’s Day is May 10th.
Here’s another one of my talented friends for you to check out:
http://heartsandhappiness.wordpress.com/
She make all kinds of personalized items, like wrapped candy bars for wedding favors or anniversaries. Note pads with matching wrapped chocolates.
My current favorite are these gift packed socks and chocolate bar. Perfect for creating a little Easter basket for a friend.
She has HUNDREDS more great gift items on her website, so be sure to have a gander!
And LOTS of them. As always, half off the retail price. Many of them ‘wrapped and ready to give’; AND lots of them under $10.00! You can even get a nice little gift for under $5.00 with a little help from Sophie.
Tis the season when there’s no such thing as a quick trip to the mall or a ‘big box’ store to grab a gift or card. So if you need a quick gift and don’t want to dampen your holiday spirit by spending half an hour hunting for a parking space or dealiong with the crowds and long checkout lines and cranky cashiers . . . . come see Sophie!!
She’s been VERY busy stocking the store with lots of great gifts!
Have a peek:
And that’s not even ALL of it!!! There’s more that I just didn’t get pictures of. And of course lots of great Christmas decor, both primitive and shabby cottage.
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The Gingerberry Cottage show in Hillsboro continues until the day before Thanksgiving. Country Christmas show in Canby ends this Saturday, and Every Husband’s Nightmare at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Hillsboro starts next Tuesday.
Other than that, not a lot to write about. Here are pictures of what’s new in the store though:
The PINK PRINCESS tree has finally been added to this years tree repertoire!
Some sweet little white feather trees.
AND I finally moved the lime green and red decorated tree out of the conservatory to where you can actually SEE it and reach the ornaments to buy them!
Lots of ‘gifts to go’!
Sweet stocking stuffers and little gifts for co-workers.
A wee bit of fall decor is still available.
OUR WEBSITE : www.cscrafts.com/aj.html
OUR BLUJAY STORE : http://www.blujay.com/folk_art_originals
TO PURCHASE OUR ONE OF A KIND HANDCRAFTED PRODUCTS, E-BOOKS AND CRAFT SUPPLIES; PLEASE VISIT OUR ETSY STORE :
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5876981
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What gal wouldn’t LOVE a pair of PINK suede, fleece lined gloves?!?!? We’ve also got brown, cream, tan, olive green and burgundy in the gloves and mittens. A real deal at $5.00!
Food is always a good thing to give when in doubt! These cute little crocks contain a jar of mixed nuts. Nice teacher or hostess gift.
Ceramic leaf candle plates and grubby candle makes a nice hostess gift.
Caramel ’sundae’.
LOOKS like candy, but these are bath fizzies!
One dozen chocolate fudge truffles in a clear acrylic box with cute chocolate tag. “The answer is chocolate, what was the question?!?”
Cookie and cocao packet with snowlfake ornament and ‘warm wishes’ tag. $3.00 each. Yummy flavored cocao flavors lke white chocolate macadamia, chocolate respberry and chocolate caramel! On orders of 8 or more of these I can make personalized tags for you that say “Warm wishes from your name”. Great ‘little something’ for the office crew.
Pretty gift boxes filled with yummy things like chocolate covered pretzles and chocloate drizzled caramel corn.
More boxes and containers filled with goodies! Even some empty, pretty boxes for you to fill yourself.
At just $2.00 a piece, these stockings make a fun gift bag!
More gifts and decor items are being added every day!!
OUR WEBSITE : www.cscrafts.com/aj.html
OUR BLUJAY STORE : http://www.blujay.com/folk_art_originals
TO PURCHASE OUR ONE OF A KIND HANDCRAFTED PRODUCTS, E-BOOKS AND CRAFT SUPPLIES; PLEASE VISIT OUR ETSY STORE :
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5876981
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That’s Build Your Own Basket! (as in gift basket!)
I found this ‘piece’ made from ten wine crates at the thrift store a while back. Had NO IDEA what I was going to do with it; but it was unique and the price was right.
UNFORTUNATELY, I didn’t look at the back side of it, and the crates on the back weren’t painted the same as the front!
Time to experiment with paint and see if I can mix something up to match the rest of the paint color.
Not a bad match if I do say so myself! Now, what to use it for?!?!?! Ten empty cubbies to fill up . . . but the lower ones and especially the ones on the backside aren’t terribly visible since things not at eye level are easily overlooked.
I decided to create a build your own gift bag or box station out of it. The gifts items in the top part and the boxes and bags in the lower part. Since most people don’t want price tags on items they are giving as gifts, (and it’s a pain to remove price tags!) I decided that I wouldn’t put price tags on the items in the gift station, but have everything be the same price; so no price tags are needed.
I filled it with assorted journals, notecards, listpads, bookmarks, pocket calendars and magnets.
By stacking them upright in the top bins I had room for LOTS of variety! For the items that wouldn’t fit in the top part here, I used baskets and put them on the upper shelves on the backside.
Lip gloss, bath fizzies, shower gel, lotion, bath beads, candles . . .
Then I filled the rest of the lower shelves with ‘ready to use’ gift bags with tissue paper, curly ribbon and a hand made tag.
And I couldn’t let that little area between the top and bottom go to waste, so I put a few extra bags, left flat, in there.
The perfect spot to ‘grab a gift’ and go!
All items are retail priced at $3.95; which means Sophie’s price is just $2.00! You can put together a very nice gift box, basket of bag containing four items for just $10.00.
OUR WEBSITE: www.cscrafts.com/aj.html
VISIT OUR ETSY STORE: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5876981
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FALL AND HALLOWEEN HAVE ARRIVED AT SOPHIE’S COTTAGE!
And of course, a Halloween tree! (sorry about the bad photo!)
Some new gift baskets filled with bath/body products:
Ane even some gifts for your four legged friends!
These are the COOLEST things ever! A doggie water bottle (with a clip even) and a flip down BOWL so they can easily drink! Perfect for the dog on the go!
Mini alphabet rubber stamps sets make a great gift for the crafter, scrapbooker or cardmaker. There are a DOZEN different font styles! Fun to mix and match!
NEW CALENDARS ARE IN! 16 month 2009 calendars.
Gifts for baby:
AWESOME vintage white chest of drawers
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OUR WEBSITE: www.cscrafts.com/aj.html
VISIT OUR ETSY STORE: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5876981
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Personalized baby plaques make a great baby gift or first birthday gift. The frames can be painted any color you’d like. The purchaser of this one requested pink.
I’ll start with the one for dad. Because we only have ONE ‘dad’ gift in the store. . . . . BUT, it is a really special one! It’s a little hard to read in the picture. It says, “The greatest gift I ever had, I got from God, I call him dad.”
I thought these little craft totes would make a great teacher gift with a Starbucks or craft store gift card tucked into a pocket.
Teacher memo sets:
These lemon-mint votives smell DIVINE! So nice to tuck a yummy smelling votive candle in with a gift.
Little journal and pen sets in pretty floral prints. LOTS of other little stationary gift sets throughout the store. A magnetic list pad with a pen is something everyone can use another one of!
Gifts for the graduate. Ahhhhhh. . . . . so many things they NEED as they head out into the world. We don’t have any of those ‘needful things’! But some very inspirational and sentimental gifts to tuck in with some of the necessities to remind them to seek balance as they make their way in the world.
“May your day be filled with blessings like the stars that light the sky; and may you always have the courage to spread your wings and fly.”
“Success is a journey, not a destination.”
“Success is simply getting up once oftener than you fall down.”
“Time changes many things, but not the joy that friendship brings.”
“If we did everything we’re capable of, we’d overwhelm ourselves.”
“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.”
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
