Just like carrying a bouquet of flowers. These adorable coin purses or has a strap so you can use as a wristlet is one big flower.......
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A Day At the Desert Botanical Gardens!
Monday daugther Angie, the kidos and grandma (moi) went to the Desert Botanical Gardens just off the Galvin Parkway...... thought we better get it in before the heat hits. Everything was blooming like crazy. Have not seen so many flowers on the cactus and the wildflower garden was just so beautiful.....
The kids were so anxious to go to the butterfly pavilion, so we made that our first stop.....
There were butterflies everywhere you turned and what a beautiful surroundings they had.... they will be there till Mother's Day. Then it gets just to darn hot for them.
The kids were so anxious to go to the butterfly pavilion, so we made that our first stop.....
There were butterflies everywhere you turned and what a beautiful surroundings they had.... they will be there till Mother's Day. Then it gets just to darn hot for them.
Flowers everywhere... I was in flower heaven. I snapped so many pictures it was hard to chose which ones to put on the blog.....
These metal sculptures were positioned in between the flowers and cacti....
OHHHHHH SO TRUE!
Never knew these plants were called the chocolate flower...... learn something new everyday....
Another favorite of the grandkidos was the people and plants of the desert section... They had a ball going into the huts that had been constructed. And they ground mesquite tree pods with a smoothed out stick from a tree to make flower like the Indians did many moons ago......
The end of our journey through the gardens and the kidos had fun. And learned a few new facts about our beautiful desert along the way......
Highly recommend attending the gardens before it gets too hot. Right now is a perfect time with everything blooming.....
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Fashion Show!
What a thrill we experienced this past Friday night.... We were invited to participate in a Fashion show at the Wigwam Resort in Old Litchfield Park. It was quite a worldwind few days as we put together outfits for the models who we meet on Thursday night..... We had 13 outfit changes and boy did they have to change fast so there was no break in the action of walking down the 45 foot runway......... The lines started forming about 6pm and by 7pm all the seats were filled and the show was ready to start.... We went on at about 8:15pm..... Little old us The Cottage Garden made its debut in the fashion world in front of 100's of people.....
This Michael and his gals that did our models hair and makeup..... what a great job they did on the models.. they all looked fabulous... His salon is located in Goodyear and is called Sweet Salon Hair Design.... All I can say he is great!!!!!
I couldn't have done this without our great shop gal Meilan.... She spent 2 days putting the outfits together and had it all organized with the each outfit having all the right accessories..... And she fit the models to the perfect outfits....
The girls getting ready....
The girls did a great job modeling and I think they had fun tooo.... I know we loved the experience and when all was said and done we had an absolute ball participating in this....
We had such a great response from everyone we talked to that we had such wonderful clothing and they will be by the store to check us out..... YEA!!!!!!!!
Thanks to all the shop girls and especially Meilan for all the effort they put in the last few days to make this all go so well!!!!!! Couldn't have done it without you!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Can you Imagine!
I met a gentlemen named Don the other day and he showed me the most amazing jewlery that he makes.. He hand paints on pieces of polished wood and makes them into rings, earrings, pendants, or bracelets.... They are all quilt patterns and the detail is so meticulous..... And oh yes did I forget to mention that he is 84 years young.... This man just truly astounded me.... the work that is involved in each piece is so awesome...... He and his wife winter in Phoenix and they are now on their way to their home in Minnesota....
Monday, April 4, 2011
The Clothes keep coming!
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