Sneak Peek before Christmas Open House!

We are so busy getting ready for Christmas Open House that we haven't even taken a breathe for the last week and a half.... the living room was cleared and is being transformed into a Christmas wonderland..... Christmas Open House is next Friday, November 4th from 5pm - 9pm.... there will be wine and lots of food because we know how we can work up an appetite shopping! The shops will be full of sparkle and glitter.... and at #2 shop there will be a Holiday clothing trunk show....

Sooooo! here is a sneak peek ( a very small one) to show you what you will see next Friday!

The rooms were cleared of everything!!!!!

Monica busily fluffing up the trees......

On the evening of our open house we will be holding a raffle for a $100.00 gift certificate to the Cottage Garden to benefit Breast Cancer.... Linda from Papa Ed's Ice Cream Parlor will be walking in her 4th 3 day walk.... Soooo to help her raise donations we will be holding our raffle, tickets will be $1.00 each... so come have fun, start your Christmas shopping and help a worthy cause....

See you all next Friday!!!

Bye Bye Halloween and Fall

The Cottage Garden elves are busily getting Christmas set up for our big November 4th open house..... sooooooo! that means that Halloween and Fall is on sale to make room for all the sparklys of Christmas....
Hurry in for all that last minute decorating you need to do before Halloween and Thanksgiving... its going to be gone by the weekend.....

Fall Fashion Show!

Wow our very first Cottage Garden Fashion Show was a rousing success last Saturday night.... All our seats were taken that we set up in the front lawn.... gals had their glass of wine and plate of nibbles and waited for the show to begin.....
All the photos were taken courtesy of Ken Baker of Baker Custom Photos..... thanks Ken!

Even the arbors on the sidewalk leading up to the shop were adorned with little chandliers.... the setting in the front of the shop was so alluring.... You can just about notice the burlap curtains on the porch in the corner of the picture... Meilan was stapling her little heart out hanging them up this past week... but it made the front porch look like another room of the shop..!

Our first model was Monica.... wearing our new ironhorse jeans and Chalets Allison vest.... if you haven't tried on a chalet top or bottom yet you don't know what you are missing.... they feel so good on.

Lu Anne is wearing a Chalet ruffle jacket and the Tulip scooter pants.... we can't keep these pants in... not only are they so cute they are sooooo comfortable.

Dayna is wearing a Tulip dress and jacket.... the detail in this clothing line is incredible...

Valerie is one of our fabulous cottage garden junkies... she is wearing a Chalet tunic dress and cutloose grey pants.... comfortable again.... and comfort is the name of the game....

Merry is wearing a cute top from Cecico and one of our favorite new clothing lines is Baik Baik.... the pants are ultra comfy with a yoga top and the fabric is a wonderful satin blend.... comfortable and cute....

Jennifer is so stylist in a grey vest with a chalet tunic, long sleeved lace top and by the way the lace tops look great under everything to give it that dressed up look.... and she is also wearing satin pants.....

Jackie is just so hot looking in her cut loose rust tunic and she has on our Comfy USA pants and vest.... the two big buttons on the side just make these pants so adorable...

Linda is wearing a woven vest from Kleen and the satin pants.... we love these satin pants I'm telling you, they look great with everything...... she also is wearing a wonderful floral scarf to complete her outfit.... she is ready for a night out on the town.

Then there is Morgan.... the sweet petite daugther of our own cottage garden girl Monica.... she is wearing an adorable dress from Bluebird.... and with leggings and boots it is so cute!

Loree is wearing another new line we now have in the shop APU.. This eggplant colored tunic dress looks so sweet on her with her leggings and booties..... she lusted over the long necklace from one of our local artists she is wearing... wanted it for Christmas but decided she couldn't wait so it went home with her.....

This is Eileen.... Miss Personality.... this gal has such spunk that we put her in our Lulumari top and purple baik baik pants..... and topped it off with a crocheted purple scarf....

Po also is wearing baik baik pants and a lulumari top... but she decided that the black hat just totally completed the outfit and she was so right.... she is ready for a day of lunch out and just go and have fun with her gal pals....

And then there was me.... I love love love our new company from California called Wings of Lace.... Lexa combined vintage crocheted doilies, tablecloths and put it with a velvet piano scarf.... when you have it on you just want to twirl and twirl and twirl.... I have a long sleeved ribbed top under the dress......

After the show we mingled with the guests..... and drank more wine!!!! Linda from Papa Ed's ice cream brought over her wonderful raspberry sorbet balls and we again poured wine over it... Have you ever tried it, YUMMY~

All our customers/models for a group photo.... oops wheres Loree! She ran in the shop to go shop so we had to get another photo....

There she is! on the end.....

The front of the shop looked so pretty as the sun was setting.......

Thank you to all the girls who so graciously consented to be our models.... we had so much fun working with them and outfiting them in all our newest fall fashions..... they were such great sports..... and from all indications they had a blast too!!!

And a GREAT BIG THANKS TO MEILAN...... she worked sooooooo hard the last couple of weeks putting outfits and accessories together for all the girls to wear..... she MC'd the event and described all the details of each of the outfits...... stop in any time and she can help you put together your fall wardrobe......

We will be planning another fashion show for a charity event to be held in central Phoenix on November 12th.... more details to follow just in case you would like to attend.....

Front Porch Festival!

Next Sturday is the first event to kick off the season... Our annual Front Porch Festival will be held in Catlin Court from 10am - 4 pm....All the shops will be decked out for Fall and hosting some special events like make and take projects or entertainment on the front porches. The Cottage Garden will again be having Ian playing bluegrass music on his banjo....he has become quite the favorite to come listen to... so come onto the porch and do some toe tapping with Ian.... #1 shop is still all festive with Fall and Halloween inside and out.... so come do your shopping for all your decor needs.....

Then at #2 shop we will be having a special event after the Front Porch festivities... Our Fall trunk show in September was such a success and everyone had such a good time, we decided to host another one on Saturday evening starting at 5:00pm.... we will be having a fashion show starting at 5:30pm. so come early have a glass of wine and some munchies and then grab a seat in the front lawn and watch our fashion show..... 12 of our customers have consented to be in the show.... yea! Meilan has put together the most amazing outfits. Then afterwards shop all the latest fashions that have just arrived.....

It will be such a fun day and evening and we hope you all can make it..... and the weather should be absolutely wonderful....

We have these adorable metal pumpkin parts available at #1 shop for those who want cute pumpkins without all the mess.... one,two,three and its done!

SEE YOU ALL NEXT WEEKEND!!!!!!!!