Morgan's Birthday Party!

On Saturday, Morgan celebrated her 18th birthday with a party at the Cottage Garden II. Unfortunately it rained earlier in the day and the party which was going to be set up in the gazebo was instead on our front porch. It was just as lovely. Monica, Morgan's Mom and a cottage garden junkie created such a sweet little party for Morgan.

Morgan in the middle with sister Chelsea and mom Monica.

Morgan wanted an Alice in Wonderland theme, complete with cards and lots of clocks. The table setting was all vintage china and glassware.

Morgan did all the baking for her own party. It was all so cute!!!!

A birthday kiss from Mom.....

Morgan and her friends.....
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORGAN.........

Dancing in the Garden

Another great company we found on our Atlanta buying trip is called Prairie Dance from South Dakota. They are like little children dancing in the garden, they just make you smile. And of course one of them made to my home and she is right outside my front door. Hope you all can come and see them dancing at Cottage #1.

They are made of metal so they will withstand our hot weather........

Happy Birthday Miss Pauline!!!!!!

Today is Pauline's birthday. She has worked with me for the past five years. I started baking her a birthday cake each year and now it has become a tradition. Since she doesn't work on Saturdays I surprised her with a cake at her home. She was right in the middle of having her morning coffee and enjoying a beautiful birthday morning.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULINE !!!!!!!! HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL DAY FILLED WITH LOTS OF FUN...................

New at Cottage #1

We were so excited to find this gal when we went to Atlanta for the gift show. Her name is Sherre and she designed this tiles and pictures to create great words for your walls. She had her booth done with all chalkboard walls so of course we had to recreate it. LOVE the way it turned out. Since Valentine's Day is just a few days away we decided to give our new wall a romantic theme. The gals that have seen the wall are loving it.... You can either attached to the wall with a rod and knobs or just with a ribbon tie and a nail or a hook. Either way they look really cool.......

Check post below for French Market and Sidewalk Cafe news...... We are adding more vendors to our Market in the side yard at #2. We will keep you updated from time to time.

Ohh La La Time!!!!!

Our plans for the French Market and Sidewalk Cafe are underway and we are very excited. We will have the French Mime, tarot card reader, vintage market, and viacolori (http://www.viacolori.com/) will be in the area around Murphy Park and much more.......

Again we will be having the sidewalk cafe outside of Cottage Garden II and it is by prepaid reservations.
· Cost is $12.50
· There will be three options for the lunch.
· #1. Croissant with Mozarella, tomatoe, and fresh spinach with pesto.
· #2. Baguette roll with roast beef and au jus.
· #3. Spring salad with spring greens, dried cranberries, walnuts, feta cheese, black forest ham strips, raspberry vinaigrette, small roll with butter
· There will be two choices of ice tea
· Dessert: French Vanilla ice cream with a Madeline Sponge cake cookie
· We again will have two seatings. 11:30am and 1:00pm.
· Contact Carol with your reservations you can contact me at email, shop at 623-847-3232, or cell phone 602-510-9223. Hope you all can make it for this fun day. The Sidewalk Cafe will be on Saturday March 6th only but the shops and viacolori will be open on Sunday March 7th also.

Birdhouses

At Cottage #1 I just got in more of local artist Dave's birdhouses. Some have old tin ceiling tin roofs and old forks and spoons bent for the birds to perch on........
They can either sit or be hung up and unique in their own little old way.
Funky, funky, funky just the way we like things at the shop!!!!!!!

They look great vignetted outside...... or inside too.

New at Cottage II

We were so excited to find these raw silk ribbon rose pins. They look great on anything from jackets to hats to scarves. We have them in a beautiful array of colors.

Many new clothes have recently arrived at the shop...... We've gotten in Cut Loose, Liz and Jane, and Kleen. Can't wait to see how you like them. Many more will be arriving soon......

New scarves too.....

Bright colors are really in.....

Miss Heather in a Cut Loose blue jumper.

And of course I had to try on one of the new outfits. This one is from Cut Loose and my favorite...... ( I did take this outfit home)

We also got in some more of the printed leggings.....

Picked up this in Atlanta. One side says sinner and the other side saint depending on what mood you are in that day. HeeHee......

We have a great selection of Valentine jewelry.

We also found these fun bracelets made from zippers on our recent buying trip....

And more fun jewelry.....

We are getting all the plans finalized for our French Market and Sidewalk Cafe for March 6th. I will be sending out emails about the menu for the cafe and other festivities going on that day. The menu sounds so yummy. Again there will be limited seating. The day will be lots of fun........