My Country Cottage/Raggedy Dollys Blog

New Updates At My Country Cottage Signs/Raggedy Dollys!!

2011-11-03T15:38:00.000-07:00

Hi It's been crazy busy over here at My Country Cottage Signs/ Raggedy Dollys orders are pouring in and my craft show season is in full swing.

I am going to be at the Carlsbad Street Fair this Sunday Nov.6th 2011 on Madison just past Grand Ave. in the beautiful city of Carlsbad. We are the booth that looks like an olde time Country Store. Come by and say hello, there will be lots of holiday signs and my friend Laura will be there with all her great vintage/retro finds.

I will once again be personalizing ornaments and yard signs for you. I have a jewerly line that now includes the new feather extensions, earrings and keychains.

I have new wedding signs, shabby chic signs over at my website if you would like to take a look My Country Cottage Signs . I haven't added my jewerly line yet but if you are interested in my feather line send me an email and I can send you pics. I will be taking these over to my shops in Temecula and Murrieta next week.

I found this "Birth Of A New Tradition" and I would like to share this with you:

Christmas 2011 -- Birth of a New Tradition

As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high
gear to provide Americans with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods
merchandise that has been produced at the expense of American labor.

This year will be different. This year Americans will give the gift of genuine
concern for other Americans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift
giving time, nothing can be found that is produced by American hands. Yes
there is!

It's time to think outside the box, people. Who says a gift needs to fit in
a shirt box, wrapped in Chinese produced wrapping paper?
Everyone -- yes EVERYONE gets their hair cut. How about gift certificates
from your local American hair salon or barber?

Gym membership? It's appropriate for all ages who are thinking about some health improvement.

Who wouldn't appreciate getting their car detailed? Small, American owned
detail shops and car washes would love to sell you a gift certificate or a
book of gift certificates.

Are you one of those extravagant givers who think nothing of plonking down
the Benjamines on a Chinese made flat-screen? Perhaps that grateful gift
receiver would like his driveway sealed, or lawn mowed for the summer, or
driveway plowed all winter, or games at the local golf course.

There are a bazillion owner-run restaurants -- all offering gift certificates. And, if your intended isn't the fancy eatery sort, what about
a half dozen breakfasts at the local breakfast joint. Remember, folks this
isn't about big National chains -- this is about supporting your home town
Americans with their financial lives on the line to keep their doors open.

How many people couldn't use an oil change for their car, truck or
motorcycle, done at a shop run by the American working guy?

Thinking about a heartfelt gift for mom? Mom would LOVE the services of a
local cleaning lady for a day.

My computer could use a tune-up, and I KNOW I can find some young guy who is
struggling to get his repair business up and running.

OK, you were looking for something more personal. Local crafts people spin
their own wool and knit them into scarves. They make jewelry, and pottery
and beautiful wooden boxes.

Plan your holiday outings at local, owner operated restaurants and leave
your server a nice tip. And, how about going out to see a play or ballet at
your hometown theatre.

Musicians need love too, so find a venue showcasing local bands.

Honestly, people, do you REALLY need to buy another ten thousand Chinese
lights for the house? When you buy a five dollar string of light, about
fifty cents stays in the community. If you have those kinds of bucks to
burn, leave the mailman, trash guy or babysitter a nice BIG tip.

You see, Christmas is no longer about draining American pockets so that
China can build another glittering city. Christmas is now about caring about
US, encouraging American small businesses to keep plugging away to follow
their dreams. And, when we care about other Americans, we care about our
communities, and the benefits come back to us in ways we couldn't imagine.

THIS is the new American Christmas tradition.
Forward this to everyone on your mailing list -- post it to discussion
groups -- throw up a post on Craigslist in the

Rants and Raves section in
your city -- send it to the editor of your local paper and radio stations,
and TV news departments. This is a revolution of caring about each other,
and isn't that what Christmas is about?

Well that's it for now, my work is yelling for me!! LOL

Rosalie

Christmas In July Sale In My Artfire Shop!!!

2011-07-23T11:12:00.000-07:00

First off I want to announce that I am having a Christmas In July Sale at my ARTFIRE SHOP It's 20% off your order until July 31st!

I have finished a few new items and wanted to share some of my pics with you. I have new Wedding Signs and some new Happy Birthday Banners.

Your the first to see my new items, their not listed yet, I will be listing them on my website very soon. If you have any questions you can email me.

Have a great day,
Rosalie

Wholesale At My Country Cottage Signs

2011-07-10T12:06:00.000-07:00

I have a wholesale section on my website for anyone interested in purchasing wholesale. My Country Cottage Signs go here to request your password to login.

I am done with my craft shows until Oct. so I will be spending my time producing new items and listing on my website. I have over 100 new items to list.

I took my granddaughter Ashlynn she is 5 years old to her first sewing class at Joanns yesterday we had so much fun. Here are some pics of our fun day!!!

Here Ashlynn is getting started:

Here she cut out her shape and hand sewed her eyes:

Here Ashlynn with her completed goofy dolly:

Ashlynn's goofy dolly she named her Louise:

Ashlynn's dolly came out so cute, she amazed her teacher!!

I will write a post when I have my new items listed on my website.

Have A Great Sunday All,

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Craft Show In Buena Park!!

2011-06-22T17:49:00.000-07:00

Sugar Plum Craft Show at the Buena Park Mall this week Thursday - Sat. I will be at my booth personalizing. Here are some photos of my booth that I took after setup last night.

This is the left front of my booth:

This is the right front of my booth:

This is an angle view of my booth:

I made these cute Heart Signs For The Girls, they were a special order, well the one that reads Real Girls Drink Beer was the special order. I added the other two, for those of you that are a whiskey or tequila kinda gal. lol I thought these were fun and cute all at the same time. So here they are, I will be selling them at Sugar Plum and listing them on my website real soon!!

If you would like one of my heart signs before I list them, email me.

Back to my work, finishing lots more signs to take with me tomorrow to Sugar Plum.

Hope to see you there, I would love to meet you.

Hugs,
Rosalie

Sugar Plum Craft Show

2011-06-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

We're having our June Sugar Plum Craft Show at the Fair Grounds this week:

Hope you can make it over for a visit.

I have been working hard on my new website and I now have my wholesale section up, so if anyone is interested in purchasing wholesale come over and request your password to login. Click Here to go over to my page

Gotta get off here, need to get back to work for Sugar Plum only a few work days left.

Oh all order are shipping out tomorrow, thanks everyone!

Hugs,
Rosalie

May Already!!!

2011-05-18T23:01:00.000-07:00

Well actually it's the middle of May I don't know where the time has gone. Here is a little of what's been going on over at My Country Cottage Signs. I made this special order Banner/Garland Lemonade Sign and want to share it. I like how it came out so I made an extra one and listed it in my Etsy shop.

Here is a special order I made for another customer, she really loved her sign. It's going to hang over her dogs muffin and cupcakes dog house. Isn't that cute!!

I am doing a lot of custom orders for my customers, I will share them when I can. Right now I am working on a very large cupcake it's a gift for someone special. Can't wait to finish it and see how it comes out.

I've been busy filling my shop over in Old Town Temecula and listing new items over at my website. I have a new website for My Country Cottage Signs, it's up and running now, it was down for some time. I am still working on the finishing touches, but we are open for business!!

We are having another lil granddaughter she is due in Oct. We went to view her in 3D last week, it's amazing what they can do. The room was set up like a theater with a large screen, it was an entire wall very large with 2 large sofas so the whole family can view the lil one. My daughter had a dvd made of our special day!

Back to my orders, just wanted to share a little of what I have been up to lately. I am posting more on facebook, so if you want go over to the link on the right side bar and like me.

Hugs to all,
Rosalie

My Country Cottage Is Now In The Rooster Creek Loft

2011-04-13T12:50:00.000-07:00

I am back to share with you what has been going on over here at My Country Cottage. I was going to open a lil shop over in Old Town Temecula but after weeks of working out all the details it didn't work out for me.

So I am doing the next best thing, I have a space over in Old Town Temecula in the Rooster Creek Loft. It's like a store within a store. I have it all decorated like a lil shop.

My shop is at 42050 Main St. Old Town Temecula, Ca. 951-694-9918 if your in the area come over for a visit.

Here are some photos of my new shop, I am so excited to have my shop!

In my shop I have a personalized area with banners/garlands and tiles, a vintage area, garden area, wedding area, seasonal area, childrens area, wine area, and lots of signs, yard stakes and plant picks. I will be adding my dolly area soon!

I am working on filling my areas with product right now. So off to work I go.

Thanks for stopping by,
Rosalie

Stock & Stuffers Spring Craft Show

2011-03-01T19:35:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share with you I will be doing Stock & Stuffers Spring Arts & Crafts Boutique next week on March 9th - 13th at 220 S. Brea Blvd., Brea, Ca. at the corner of Brea Blvd. and Birch Blvd. in the Old Tower Records Building.

The show hours are Wed.- Friday 9:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. Sat. 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. and Sunday 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.

There will be Bunnies, Spring, Country, Primitive, Shabby Chic, Victorian,Garden Signs & Stakes, Florals Pillows, Jewelry, Clothing, Beach Items, Home Decor, and much more!!!!!!
Daily drawing for a $25 Gift Certificate

It will be fun day for all hope to see you there!

I will have lots of new items in my booth, now I have to get off here and finish working. Count down is here only a few days left to setup day.

Sugar Plum Valentine Craft Show

2011-02-12T01:52:00.000-08:00

Here are some photos from my Valentine Sugar Plum Craft Show in Buena Park, I personalized at this show on the table area.

Here is a center photo of my booth

I found this on Facebook, if you use Facebook this is something you may be interested in.

PLEASE READ - THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE WHO USES FACEBOOK FOR BUSINESS OR PERSONAL REASONS. {Shared by Abby Smith } Thanks Abby

Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from the same people lately? Have you also noticed that when you post things like status messages, photos and links, the same circle of people are commenting and everyone else seems to be ignoring you?

Don't worry, everyone still loves you and nobody has intentionally blocked you. The problem is that a large chunk of your friend/fan list can't see anything you post and here's why:

The "New Facebook" has a newsfeed setting that by default is automatically set to show ONLY posts from people who you've recently interacted with or interacted the most with (which would be limited to the couple of weeks just before people started switching to the new profile). So in other words, for both business and personal pages, unless your friends/fans commented on one of your posts within those few weeks or vice versa - you are now invisible to them and they are invisible to you!!

HERE'S THE FIX: Scroll down to the bottom of the newsfeed on the homepage and click on "Edit Options", click on "Show Posts From" and change the setting to "All Of Your Friends and Pages" Note: This is the fix for personal pages but I am unsure of whether or not the business pages are set up the same way.

Goodnight,

Rosalie

I'm Back, Thank You All For A Great 2010

2011-01-25T18:37:00.000-08:00

Ok I'm back It's was a very busy 2010 for My Country Cottage Signs/Raggedy Dollys! I want to thank all of my customers for a great year!

I have lots to share. Don't know where to start. How about a photo of my Lil Ashlynn with Santa?:

Ok now down to business I am having a problem with my webhost she seems to have fallen off the face of the earth, her website is shut down. My emails to my webhost are returned to me undelivered.

My website My Country Cottage is down right now and is asking you to download firefox. Please don't download anything I don't know why it is asking for you to download and I don't know who could be doing this.

I am working on new websites right now. Click here: Raggedy Dollys is finished go take a look and let me know what you think.

We are working on My Country Cottage Signs right now, so I am referring my customers to my Click Here: Etsy Shop Until my website is complete. Sorry for any inconvience this may cause you, I will notify you when my website is up and running here on my blog, facebook and twitter!

My favorite Craft Show Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival in Buena Park is next week the show starts Feb. 3rd - 5th.

The count down is at 7 days for me, where does the time go? Still working on my new pieces, can hardly wait to see how they come out. You know when you take your sketchs and make the product it doesn't always come out the way you envisioned it. Anyhow I will share pics of my work in progress, dragged it all in the house to work on last night.

I got a new Droid X phone and loving it the phone can do so much it's amazing! I still have lots to learn, I seem to learn something new daily.

I am having fun taking photos these two were taken with my phone, not to shabby! Now maybe I will have more photos to share with you. I always forget my camera at home.LOL

I will close with this: I ran across this I feel that a lot us can relate including myself actually this is my biggest problem. LOL

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD

All of us have to eat. For Women Who Do Too Much, how and what we eat is often problematic. And developing a healthy relationship with food—well, that concept sounds a bit foreign, doesn’t it?

Hugs,
Rosalie

Sugar Plum Craft Show Buena Park Mall!

2010-09-30T12:07:00.000-07:00

Hi all just wanted to let you know I am doing the Sugar Plum Arts & Craft show right now at the Buena Park Mall, Ca the show runs thru Sunday. If your in the area come by for a visit.

Here are some photos of my booth so you can see what you will find at Sugar Plum. You have to visit us to see all the other beautiful items from the other vendors.

Right half of the booth

The left half of the booth.

An angle shot of the booth

Hope to see you there,

Rosalie

Blog Post Giveaway At Country Mouse, City Mouse!!!

2010-09-14T05:47:00.000-07:00

Click here to visit Country Mouse, City Mouse Pam is so wonderful she is having a blog giveaway for me on her blog. It's for a $20.00 shop credit that you can spend in my Etsy Shop My Country Cottage Signs

Go over and read the rules for the giveaway, the giveaway runs Sept.13th thru Sept. 27th.

I wish you all good luck on the giveaway.

Rosalie

Take Great Photos & A Birthday Party!

2010-09-03T15:37:00.000-07:00

Hi I wanted to share something that my OFG Sister shared with us. It's a short easy information video on how to take great photos for listing your items to sell. Click Here to watch the video

I hope you find this video helpful, I have. It's so easy and inexpensive to do.

I have something else to share it's my daughters birthday tomorrow she hits the big 30, "Happy Birthday Baby Girl Melissa" (she will always be my baby girl)

Wow where does the time go??? We will be celebrating here tomorrow "Big Birthday Party" with family and friends. We will have a barbecue with lots and lots of food and a fun time with family.

Have A Great Labor Day Weekend Everyone Enjoy,

Rosalie

Ashlynn And Raggedy Pippi Annie!

2010-09-01T13:55:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to share a photo of my granddaughter and a special order Pippi Raggedy Annie I made. When I was taking a photo of my new Raggedy Ann doll Ashlynn wanted to pose with her.

So here they are, aren't they both so Cute!!!

She's a big girl raggedy, I will be posting her soon on my website.

As you can see Ashlynn is grandma's lil helper, she just loves working with me. Ashlynn tells me when she grows up she is going to be an artist like grandma and work with me.

Well will see if that happens, my poor 3 kids were all subjected to this crazy crafters life and none of them are doing what I do (except my youngest who still has to help out). In fact the further away from all this the happier they are. Sad but true, maybe my Lil Ashlynn will be different. I can only wish, I would love to teach her to sew and paint.

My daughter is really great at this, she is a natural. She works really fast and does a great job, but has no interest in my work other then helping me out when I REALLY need her. Which is not as often as I would like, but I will take all the help I can get!

Thanks for stopping by for a visit and have a great day,

Rosalie

My Raggedies Have Hair!

2010-08-31T23:32:00.000-07:00

Here are my raggedy ann dollys as promised they have hair! I finished them and listed them on my website and Etsy. They are so happy because they are all ready for their new homes.

Meet left to right Ella Annie, Akisa Annie, Darlie Annie and Lakesha Annie. The girls want to know what you think, how do they look?

Ella and Akisa Annie are listed on my website Raggedy Dollys

Darlie and Lakesha Annie are over on my Etsy site Raggedy Dollys Etsy

Until next time,

Rosalie

Lemonade Addiction!

2010-08-28T12:29:00.000-07:00

Well I don't know if calling it an Addiction is correct, but I have had my hand squeezed lemonade drink on a daily basis. It's been so hot here and lemonade just seems to quench my thirst. Thanks to my beautiful lemon tree, that has given us so many lemons this year, I am able to have my drink daily.

Here is a photo of my lemon tree, she's a little bare looking now.

Funny it's the little things that seem to make us happiest. Would you like to share with me what makes you happy?

Have a great weekend,

Rosalie

Lil Raggedies Want Their Hair!

2010-08-27T15:41:00.000-07:00

My Lil Raggedies have been sitting without hair for a while, the girls have been looking at me with a sad look on their face. They want me to put their hair on and finish them up. So they can get listed and be on their way to a new home.

Here are the girls, sad looking aren't they?

I promised them I would get them done and listed over this weekend. So you should see them listed on my website next week. I made them a promise I have to keep it.

Have a Great Weekend,

Rosalie

A Brand New Look!!!

2010-08-21T23:46:00.000-07:00

I have been very busy this week working on my website, I changed the look and my name. While actually I just added signs to my name. My shop name is "My Country Cottage Signs" and my web address is www.mycountrycottagesigns.com. I changed my blog and my newsletter so that they all match my website.

You can click here to go take a look at my website. Let me know what you think I would really like to know. I added more category pages and separated my signs so it's easier to find what you are looking for.

I have a lot of new signs listed and I will be adding more this week. So make sure to come back for a visit and see all the new items I have listed.

I added a facebook fan page "Like" box on both my websites, you will find it on the right sidebar. Don't forget to "like Me"

I also added newsletter signup pages to both my websites, I just found out my newsletter signup boxes were not working on my websites. They are woking now so if your interested in my newsletter don't forget to sign up.

As you can see I have been very busy!!!

I am outa here to list some more of my new items.

Have A Great Weekend,

Rosalie

AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles: Thinking of Christmas Gifts in July

2010-07-05T03:57:00.000-07:00

What a great surprise to find one of my Raggedy Dollys listed here:

AsTheCrackerheadCrumbles: Thinking of Christmas Gifts in July

I just received an email today to let me know that my dolly was one of many beautful items featured. Go over and take a look at the collection of items from very talented artist. You may find a gift for that someone special on your christmas list.

Time to rest, I will be back to share with you what's been going on over here.

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival At Buena Park

2010-06-24T02:08:00.000-07:00

I am doing my favorite show again Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival this time in Buena Park Ca. Here are some photos of my booth. If you are in the area come by and say Hi.

This is a side view of my booth:

This is a front view of my booth, I tried to get all of my booth but this was the best I could do.

Hope you enjoyed my photos, need to get some rest now. Tomorrow is a busy day for me, my show starts tomorrow.

Rosalie

Stock & Stuffers June 2010

2010-06-02T10:42:00.000-07:00

Hi just a quick post to let you know Stock & Stuffers craft show started today and will run until Sat. the 5th. Here are a few pics of my booth showing you what you will find here.

This is a right angle view

This is the right half of my booth

This is the left half of my booth

Sorry the photos are cut off a little I didn't have room to take full shots. I did the best I could, guess you will have to visit to see it all. LOL

Have to get back to work, getting ready for my Sugar Plum Craft Festival starts next Thursday 10th - 12th in Costa Mesa. Just a heads up on my next show.

P.S. All orders will be shipped out this week. Thank You :-)

Until next time,
Rosalie

Making More Hours In My Day!!!

2010-05-26T09:49:00.000-07:00

I have been trying for the past few days to come up with a work schedule and some type of system to organize my millions of pieces of papers called notes,to do list,ideas,etc. that I have everywhere. What I am doing now is not working for me.

I am trying to figure out a system that will make life a little easier for me. I needed something to keep everything together in one place. So I designed a form that I can jot a whole week on, I hope this will work out. It's in the testing stage right now, I may need to tweak it till I get it right.

Well going over my emails today I received this email Do You Have it in You? Business Realities Part Two Lisa talks about having structure in your business by having a defined workday. I also ran across an article "Work Smarter Not Harder" where Alice also explains that by having a structured work day you will get more work done. The reason is you have x amount of hours to get all your work done, so you work faster and stay focused on your work and nothing else.

It all makes sense, where I don't have defined work hours so I tend to get distracted and seem to take longer getting things done. I figure I am going to be here all day and night so I have no reason to rush.

If I have a quitting time where I can actually close down shop, well that really sounds great to me!!! I may actually get More Hours In My Day!

So I am setting up work hours for myself and see how it goes, I may need to tweak them till I find what works for me.

What are your struggles? I would like to hear them, if you have found something that is working for you would you share it with me? I would love to hear your suggestions.

Do you have defined work hours? What type of organizing system do you use?

Well off to start my work day, thanks for listening,

Rosalie

Announcing BlogFrog & Dropbox

2010-05-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

I have two items to share with you, I found Dropbox it's a place to store your photos, files etc. offline and it's free. I use it to work off my desktop or laptop, it puts my photos, files on both computers automatically.

It's that easy, no more transferring with a flashdrive for me. Just Click Here I thought you might be interested in this free service.

The other is BlogFrog I just signed up, my friend Brenda shared this with all us OFG Sisters. When you sign up and follow me you will show up on my blog in the BlogFrog box.

So sign up please so I can see who is visiting my blog, I would love to see my blog guest. If you have a blog you can put a widget on your blog and your visitors can sign up through the BlogFrog widget and they will show up on your blog page.

You can click on the bottom of the BlogFrog box to sign up.

I do hope this information can be of some help to you, anything to make life easier and fun!!!

Now about me I am very busy listing lots of new signs on my website Click Here to visit

I added a lot of shabby cottage and primitive signs on there. I am not done yet I think I will be here all night adding all of them. This is what happens when you get behind on listing.

I need to get off here now and get back to my listing.

P.S. Stock And Stuffers craft show is coming June 2nd - 5th I will post more later.

Till Next Time...

Rosalie

Rooster Creek Photos

2010-04-17T01:44:00.000-07:00

I made a delivery to Rooster Creek in Temecula, this time I took my camera with me. Vivian's store is decorated so cute!!!

I just had to share photos of the store with you all. This first group of photos were taken inside, you can see some of my signs on display here. Hint they are on a stand in front of the window.

These photos were taken outside, just as cute as inside her shop:

Well I hope you enjoyed the photos, I am proud to be a part of Vivian's Shop.

If your in the area Rooster Creek is in Old Town Temecula on Main St. Stop by and say hello the gals there are sweet and friendly.

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Happy Easter!!!

2010-04-04T00:26:00.003-07:00

I would like to wish everyone A very "Happy Easter" We are taking a little trip to spend Easter with my Family. I do enjoy our family time together, hoping for some warm weather tomorrow. My Sis has a swimming pool, it would be our first swim time for the new year!!!

I would like to share some photos of my Grandaughter Ashlynn as I promised my friend Jean I would share them on here.

These photos were taken last Halloween. I just received these from my daughter the other day. My daughter and I made Ashlynn's Cinderella Costume isn't she soooo cute!!!

Here is a back view of her costume.

Here she is at Disneyland we went to their Disney Halloween Event.

Here is one more taken last Wednesday on spring break at Disneyland with Minnie Mouse. Ashlynn told me Minnie Mouse gave her lots of hugs and Kisses!!!

There you are Jean I hope you enjoyed the photos and yes she is growing.

Hope everyone enjoyed the photos.

We all will be going back to Disneyland in about 10 days to celebrate Ashlynn's Birthday there. Yes Disneyland seems to be our home away from home lately. LOL

It's such a magaical place to visit, when you enter Disneyland you feel like you've entered another world!!!

Happy Easter All,

Rosalie

New Shops Cottage Charm And My Favorite Things!!!

2010-04-01T22:05:00.000-07:00

Here is the info I promised you regarding my two new shops I am selling my items at.

The first one is:

Cottage Charm at
9922 Walker Suite J,
Cypress, Ca. 90630
714-826-1690

You can view Debbie's shop and get shop info at cottagecharmcypress.blogspot.com

If you are in the area stop by and see all the beautiful items Debbie has in her shop. Debbie's shop is so beautiful a unique one of a kind shopping experience you won't be dissapointed!!!

I will be going out there next week, I will get photos to share with you on here.

Now my second shop is "My Favorite Things" Janae and Cathy are carrying my Vintage Inspired Aprons and they are at:
102 E.Texas St.,
Leesville, LA 71446
337-238-0447

Here are a few of the aprons you will find there:

My Flirty Vintage Inspired Black Damask Apron:

My Marilynn Green Mod Floral Vintage Inspired Apron

Patty Pink Cupcake Vintage Inspired Apron

Lucy Vintage Inspired Black Polka Dot Apron

So if you are in the area go in and take a look at all their beautiful items.

If you have a minute let me know what you think of my new apron line????

Thanks for visiting my lil piece of blogland,

Rosalie

This Is So Sweet!!!

2010-03-19T02:44:00.000-07:00

I shipped out a Raggedy Ann dolly order last week actually she purchased more than one and I received this email from my customer:

Dear Rosalie,

O my Gosh! Your dollies are too cute!!! I received them yesterday and they are absolutely gorgeous. I will send you a picture of them - I placed with some of my other ones. And the bunny raggedy doll is so darn cute. I sat her on a chair in the dining room and she smiles at me every time I walk into my kitchen. They are just beautiful - your workmanship is outstanding! I will definitely be ordering more!

Thank you, Thank you,
Nancy

It made me feel so good to receive this email, that I just had to share it with all of you.

I am hoping she does send me pictures so I can share those with you also.

Well I do have some announcements to share hint a couple of new shops, I will be letting you know in my next post.

Need to get some rest, it's very late

Goodnight,

Rosalie

Stock & Stuffers Craft Show, New Signs and Raggedies!!!

2010-02-28T01:21:00.000-08:00

It's been a little while since my last post, I have been working on lots of orders and getting ready for my next show Stock And Stuffers it starts on Wednesday. I had a few minutes and wanted to share some info with you.

I took a little time off for a date night with hubby we went out to dinner and took in a movie. We saw Avatar in Imax 3D it was GREAT!!! I had no idea what it was about so I was in for a big surprise. I really liked the movie I don't want to give the movie away for those of you that have not seen it. So I wont tell what it was about, only thay you really do need to see it before it leaves the theaters. Also you must see it in Imax 3D to get the full effect of the movie!!!

I am happy to announce that you can now find my items at Rooster Creek in Old Town Temecula, Ca, after March 1st click here: My Country Cottage for information to the store.

I have added some new dollys over at Raggedy Dollys My raggedy ann dolls are ready to ship out now!

Lil Patty Annie

Annie Mae

I also added lots of new signs over at My Country Cottage Also go to new products button for more signs.

Bonjour Sign

Heart Brown Cupcake Sign

Whew I think that covers all the new things going on over here in rainy Calif.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

Until next time,
Rosalie

Old Farmhouse Gathering Spring Giveaway!

2010-02-11T22:31:00.000-08:00

I am a proud member of the Old Farmhouse Gathering and we are having our OFG Spring Giveaway over on our blog! Sign up for a chance to win a basket full of handmade Primitives!

Click here to enter

Below is a slideshow of all the items you can win!!!

Good luck to you :-)

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Craft Show At Buena Park

2010-02-05T09:49:00.000-08:00

I am doing my first craft show for the new year it's my favorite Sugar Plum Craft Show. It's going on right now in Buena Park at the mall. We had a very busy first day on Thursday the show runs till saturday. If you are in the area come by and and say hello!!!

Here are a couple of photos so you can see what I have at the show:

Heres another of the left angle of my booth

The shows seem to be starting earlier every year, no time for rest LOL

I added a lot of new primitive signs and shabby cottage signs over at my website My Country Cottage

Until next time,

Rosalie

A Crafter's Poem

2010-01-22T16:15:00.000-08:00

I found this poem and I think many of you can relate:

A CRAFTER'S POEM

Crafts are here, crafts are there.
My craft supplies are everywhere.
I really should clean this mess,
But I like it, I must confess.
Floor is littered, chairs are piled,
Kitchen’s looking pretty wild.
On the table counter too,
Seems that any place will do.
Hall is stacked with cartons high,
Filled with things folks like to buy.
Garage is full, but so far…
There’s still room to park the car.
never have an idle day,
New ideas come my way.
Don’t know yet what I’ll create,
But at least my imagination’s great.
My family smiles, they don’t complain,
Although at times I know I'm a pain.
But when all is said and done,
I really am a crafty one !!!!

Author Unknown

Have a crafty day!

I'm Back!!!

2010-01-20T22:21:00.000-08:00

Wow how time does fly!!! I can't believe how long it's been since my last post. So much has happened since then. I want to share with you a little of what has been going on around here at My Country Cottage/Raggedy Dollys.

First of all just before Christmas I had a girls day out with my Mom and Sister we had a fun filled day at Disneyland. I have to tell you it is so much more enjoyable going without lil ones!!! Is that selfish or what? I had my share of going with lil ones in fact I was just there this summer with my grandaughter, so I think it's my turn now.

Disneyland is so beautiful that time of year with all the decorations and Christmas lights. They had a beautiful parade and firework show. It was the perfect end to a very busy year for me!!! We stayed till they closed the park around midnight and boy did we eat, so much good food there.

Now to the not so fun stuff I have been cleaning and organizing both my wood and dolly workshops (between filling orders).

My workshops are all ready for the new year and the next run!!! I can find everything a lot quicker, so I am hoping it speeds up production for me.

I have been designing some new patterns, I have so many ideas in my head this year. I will post here as soon as I complete a new item!!!

Today I worked all day catching up on my computer work, I updated my websites with a partial list of this years craft shows. I will be adding more to my list as soon as I get the dates for the rest of my craft shows.

I also changed out the featured items on my website with some new ones. So if you have a minute go take a look My Country Cottage and Raggedy Dollys

I am excited with the New Year, I have so many new ideas that I can hardly wait to do them all. I just seem to need more hours in my day 24 hours just doesn't seem to be enough time!!!

Well I am off to do some more computer work, thanks for stopping by for a visit,

Rosalie

Last of The Dolly Orders Shipped Out Today!!!

2009-12-19T16:50:00.001-08:00

I want to let you all know that I just shipped out the last of the raggedy dolly orders they went out today Sat. Via USPS Priority Mail you should receive them soon!!!

Thank you all for your patience :-)

Now to get ready for Christmas here, just bought my tree today. Not bad for a last minute tree, you should have seen some of my past trees. They gave Charlie Brown's tree some competition, but it's all about the pine christmas tree scent!!!

Merry Christmas To All And Thank You All For A Great Year,

You are all wonderfull customers and I have made some great friendships along the way!!!

Rosalie

Buena Park Sugar Plum!!!

2009-11-19T01:12:00.000-08:00

We are doing a new location for Sugar Plum Festivals in Buena Park!!! Just got done setting up my booth and here are some photos before the show opens tomorrow Thursday Nov. 19th

This is the right angle of my booth

This is the left angle of my booth

And this is the center view of my booth

We are so excited with this new location in the Buena Park Mall here in Calif. We now have two locations here and at the Costa Mesa Fair Grounds!!!

I have a lot of new signs as you can see in the photos. I will be adding them to my websites soon.

Just a quick post to share my booth photos with you all. Did I mention I am doing two craft shows this week. My other craft show is For Every Season in Riverside, Calif. I don't do this to often, just that the dates for two of my good shows happened to be on the same week. So here I am doing both.

I am sorry I don't have any photos, I forgot to take my camera at setup. I will try and get some photos and share them with you all.

Need to get some rest I have another long day tomorrow!!! Seems like all I am doing is work, work, work!!!

For Every Season Craft Show

2009-10-20T23:12:00.000-07:00

Here we go again we are doing another Craft Show called "For Every Season Craft Show" over at 18533 Brookhurst St., Fountain Valley, Ca.

The show starts tomorrow Wednesday, as you can see are inventory is very low. We sold out at our last show Sugar Plum Craft Show and we only had 2 days to try and restock our booth. We were given a 2 sided booth at the entrance of the show WOW!!!

I have always wanted to set up my booth like this and I finally got the chance to do so, only wish I had more product to fill it!!!

This is a photo of the front booth a left side view.

This is a right side view.

And this is a center shot.

Now this is a left back of booth view

A right back of booth view.

Again if you are in the area come by for a visit, there are so many great vendors here and lots to choose from.

Here is a group photo of my new line,Cakes, Cupcakes, Paris signs and more. I have them listed on my website My Country Cottage go over and take a look!!!

Time to rest, I will be working on more product tomorrow so I can go restock my booth!!!

If I get wiped the first day I am in trouble the show runs till Sunday.

Goodnight,

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Festivals Photos

2009-10-15T12:02:00.000-07:00

The Sugar Plum Craft show is in full swing right now and I wanted to share some photos of my booth.

Here is a center shot

This is a right side view

and a left side view

If you are in the area come on over and say hi.

Hope to see you all there,

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Festivals

2009-10-06T17:46:00.000-07:00

I am busy getting ready to do my favorite craft show Sugar Plum Festivals. If you are in the area do plan on attending you won't be disappointed.

I do love doing this show it is so much fun!!!

I am making a lot of new Fall and Halloween items for my show.

Hope to see you all there.

Back to work for me I have a lot more work to finish up for Sugar Plum, set up day is in just 9 days YIKES!!!

Rosalie

It's Craft Show Time!!!

2009-09-23T15:58:00.000-07:00

Well it's craft show time again, it came here a lot sooner than I wanted but it's here!!! I am doing my first show of the season right now as I type.The craft show I am doing is Stock N Stuffers and it opened today and will run through Sat. The show is being held at 465 S. Associated Rd.,Brea, Ca. Corner of Imperial Hwy & Associated Rd. In the Lucilles's & Dennys's Shopping Center.

Hope you can make it, if you live in the area you can visit my website My Country Cottage to see a listing of all the shows you can find me at this fall.

Below are a couple of photos so you can see what you will find at my booth.

This is a right side view of my booth:

This is a left side view of my Booth

The area was tight so I couldn't get a good photo of my booth.

Here is one more photo inside the booth, my Halloween Section:

Hope you enjoyed the photos!!!

Rosalie

New Items Over At My Country Cottage

2009-09-18T12:59:00.000-07:00

I have been very busy lately this post is to let you know that I added a lot of new signs over at my website My Country Cottage Go over and take a look!!!

These are just a couple of the new items I have listed. You will find a lot more new items on my website.

This is my 11 x 11 Halloween Ghost Sign

This is my Fall Leaf Sign

Over at my Artfire shop we are promoting a Handmade Christmas this year. I added a button on my right sidebar here on my blog. Take a look at it I think it's a cute button with the gingerbread man!!! As you can tell I do love gingerbreads they are my favorite to make.

Well back to work for me, I have lots more items to finish and list.

Bye,

Rosalie

Sharing Our Adventure!!!

2009-09-01T01:35:00.000-07:00

Just want to let you know what I've been up to lately. I finished with my craft show For Every Season and had to get working on my doll orders. Got them all finished and shipped out now I am working on some new Fall and Halloween designs I have posted some on my website if you want to take a look click here My Country Cottage I will be finishing and listing more later this week.

It hasn't been all work and no play my friend Glenna and I went on an all day shopping adventure last Sat. We drove over 200 miles round trip that day. We hit quite a few discount stores we heard about in very hard to find locations, so you know we hit the jack pot, there were all kinds of treasures waiting there for us.

One of my finds was a really cute wood wagen wheel cart to display my dolls in. I put it together today and love how it looks. I can hardly wait to display my dolls on it, now I have to get busy and make more dolls to put in there new cart.

We had lunch at Pat & Oscars they have great food there, that was my first time eating there.

We also went to check out a new location at the Buena Park Mall for our Sugar Plum Craft Show being held there in Nov. and Dec. We loved it, I think the show is going to be a great success at this location!!! Good move Sugar Plum!!! I have the dates posted on my website if your in the area.

We are already planning our next outing to the movie theater, we have to do it soon before the crazy fall shows start up and there is no time for fun!!!

That's all for now till next time,

Rosalie

For Every Season Craft Show

2009-08-17T23:55:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to give you a sneek peek of my booth I am doing For Every Season Craft Show it opens on Wednesday. Glenna and I are doing this show together and we have another very large booth. Here are some photos of our booth. This it the left corner

This is the center area

This is the right side

This is the right outside wall

This is a long view of the booth I couldn't get the whole booth in one photo it is to large!!!

If your in the area come by for a visit. The show is at the corner of La Sierra and Magnolia in Riverside, Ca.

Hope to see you there,

Rosalie

Ashlynn My Lil Model

2009-08-12T02:21:00.000-07:00

I just had to share these photos of my grandaughter. I was taking photos of my aprons and she asked me to let her model one for me and take pictures of her with the apron on.

Here are the photos she looks so cute with the apron on I just had to post her photos.

Here is a side view

And A closeup

Hope you enjoyed the photos!!!

Thank You Kim

2009-08-05T02:12:00.000-07:00

I feel honored to have Kim add my Patticake Aprons Etsy mini to her blog Kim's Country Kitchen on her blog she shares home-remedies, recipes, and such.

I know you will love her recipe for her Fresh Raspberry Coffee Cake it looks delicious.

You can go visit her blog here: Kim's Country Kitchen

Thank You so much Kim :-)

I also want to let you know I just finished designing some new Fall and Halloween Patterns. I will be making them all up now and I will be posting them as I complete them.

So be on the look out I will be adding lots more Fall and Halloween items on my websites real soon!!!

Time to get some sleep I have another long day tomorrow,

Rosalie

And The Winner Is

2009-08-03T14:43:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo of my grandaughter picking the winning ticket.

Ok the winner is Denni congrats to you Denni email me your address info at admin@mycountrycottage.net

My 100th Post Giveaway!!!

2009-07-25T16:42:00.000-07:00

This is my 100th post it took a while but I finally got here!!!

I have not posted for a while because I was waiting to finish up with several things I was working on. They are all finished and I am now posting about all the new things going on around here.

Well the first thing is I am having a giveaway here for one of my new cupcake signs you have a choice of a vintage or a painted glittered sign and your choice of color.

Here are the photo choices below:

All you have to do is post a comment and let me know what style you like best the vintage or the painted if you like it with or without glitter.

That's it and you are entered in my giveaway drawing. If you post my giveway on your blog, newsletter etc. you get entered for each post you make about my giveaway!!!

Just email me about your blog post, etc. and I will enter you for each post you make.

I will pick the winner on Monday Aug. 3rd Good Luck!!!

On to the next bit of news I just finished up with my new website, I changed to a new webhost and I just love it. There are so much more features on my new website. I think you will enjoy your visit here!!! Go over and take a look My Country Cottage

While you are there I am having a Grand re-opening sale of 10% off everything on my site. Just use coupon code 1818b5 at checkout to get the discount.

Now for the last bit of news but not the least I just opened two new Etsy Shoppes: You can go over and visit them here:

Patticake Aprons and My Country Cottage Signs

Well I guess that's if for now, good luck commenting!!!!

Rosalie

For Every Season Crarft Show

2009-06-20T01:43:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos from For Every Season craft show going on right now in Riverside, Ca. show ends on Sunday. Well I have to say this is the biggest booth I have every had at a craft show.

I just had to share the photos with you all.

This is the left side of my booth

This is the center of my booth.

This is the right side of my booth

This is what I could get in my camera a photo of the whole booth.

For a total of 29 ft. wide x 4 ft. deep of booth display. Plus we also have outside space at both ends of the booth aprox. 5 ft. at each end for a grand total space of 39 ft. Wow that's a lot of display space.

Good thing I am sharing this booth with my good friend Glenna!!! As you can see we didn't have trouble filling it all, you know you never have enough booth space!!!

This is my last show for the season I will be working on my website and my blog. I will also be sharing the new items I wrote about real soon. I have a lot of catching up to do now that I am done with my craft shows.

That's it for now,

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Photos

2009-06-12T03:21:00.001-07:00

Ok here are my photos of Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts festival going on this Thursday thru Sat.This is a side view of my booth.

This is the left side of my booth

This is the right side of my booth

As you can see I have been very busy for this show with all my new products.

If you are in the area come by for a visit. We are at the Costa Mesa Fair Grounds till 9:00 p.m. of Friday and 5:00 p.m. on Sat. Hope to see you there.

Goodnight I need to get some rest another busy day tomorrow. Oh I guess it's tomorrow already.

Goodnight,

Rosalie

Sugar Plum

2009-06-06T01:01:00.000-07:00

Yes it's time for another Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival over at the Costa Mesa Fairgrounds. Show starts on Thursday June 11th - 13th hope to you see you there.

I am working hard right now producing a lot of new items for the show. I will have 4th of July yard stakes and signs along with several other new items at the show.

I will be introducing my new line of retro signs and I will be adding them to my website soon!!!

I will post photos of my booth, this time I will remember to take photos to share with you.

Goodnight need to get some rest,

Rosalie

Hi There!!!

2009-06-04T19:42:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let everyone know I am still here, just very busy with craft shows right now and I am designing a lot of new items.

Everyones orders went out yesterday, you should be receiveing them soon.

I will be back full time after June 21st when I am done with my last craft show for the season. I will be working on my websites listing a lot of new products and I am opening a couple of new etsy shoppes.

That's all I am sharing right now, shhh!! it's a surprise.

I'll do a post when everything is all done and ready for you to go take a look.

I don't have any pictures to share with you from my last craft show Stock & Stuffers. I don't really have an excuse other than I forgot to take pics, I had my camera with me and I guess I was really tired by the time we finished setting up.

I did the show with my friend Glenna and it was a very good show for the two of us.

Well breaks over for me got to get back to work!!!

I've Been Blogged

2009-04-21T18:17:00.000-07:00

I've been blogged and given this button by Blogged.com On my side bar you will notice I have been given a 6.5 score out of 10 for my blog.

Yeah I'm excited, this is what they wrote: Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it a 6.5 score out of (10) in the recreation category of Blogged.com.

We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site Design, and Writing Style.

After carefully reviewing each of these criteria, your site was given its 6.5 score.

You will find my page here on blogged.com

I had to share this with you all!!!

Bye,

Rosalie

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T09:10:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY EASTER!!!

I'm off to get ready to for our Combo Easter Party and Granddaughter's Birthday Party. My lil Ashlynn is turning three what fun, I will post some photos on my next post.

Bye now,

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Again

2009-04-07T06:25:00.000-07:00

I've just got done with my favorite craft show Sugar Plum and am in the process of recuperating from it all. I want to share a few photos of my booth here:

This is the left side angle of my booth below.

This is the right side angle of my booth below.

It was another GREAT!!! show for me, I had a lot of new products at the show.

Just wanted to let you all know what I have been up to lately and why I have not been posting here.

While it's time to go I need to play catch up with everything I put on the back burner during SHOW TIME!!!

Oh I will be working on my orders and getting them out real soon.

Bye,
Rosalie

Stock & Stuffers Craft Show!!!

2009-03-12T08:46:00.000-07:00

Here are some photos of my booth at Stock & Stuffers Craft Show. The show is going on this weekend. I am sharing a booth with my good friend Glenna.

This is the left side of the booth

Center of the Booth

Right Side of the booth

The booth was to large to get it all in one photo.

As you can see by all the new items we have been very busy. If you are in the area come over and say hi.

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Sneek Peek Preview

2009-03-05T06:24:00.000-08:00

Here is a sneek peek at what I am working on you can see my cute chick by clicking here: My Country Cottage

It's Chicks, Ducks and Daisys time of the year and here is another cute chick that sits.

This cute Duck Yard Stake below is a sample of what you will find at my shows. Sorry to big and costly to ship her. But if you are in the area of one of my shows or shops please do stop by.

Go here for my show schedule and shops info: Click Here

Thanks for stopping by,
Rosalie

Craft Show Time!!!

2009-03-04T10:08:00.000-08:00

It's that time of year "Spring Craft Show Time" I have a show coming up on March 11th - 14th
Stock & Stuffers at 465 Associated Rd. Brea Calif. at the corner of Imperial Hwy and Associated Rd.in the Lucille's and Denny's Shopping Center.

Sooo mark your calendars and if your in the area please stop by I'd love to meet you all.

I am making lots of new spring and easter items for my shows and websites. I will post again when I have them completed.

Bye,
Rosalie

Tennessee Ridge Primitives Free Pattern

2009-03-02T11:15:00.000-08:00

For those of you that sew I thought this would be of interest to you.
Tennessee Ridge Primitives Is offering a free primitive bunny pattern.

Go over and take a look. She offers a different e-pattern every month. So don't forget to put her in your favorites list.

Thank You Becky Erickson for the pattern!!!

Rosalie

I Am Still Here!!!

2009-02-25T09:46:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to share a little of what's been going on around here, well I am designing new spring and Easter items and I wanted to share them with you all. Below is a photo of some of my new items. You can find these cuties over at

My Country Cottage I just listed them under my New Products Page.

This goofy looking chick is a yard stake and he can only be found at one of my shows or my shops listed here: Show Listing Page Sorry he is to big and costly to ship!!!

I have got a lot more coming. I will post again when I have them all done.

My Sis and her family came out for a visit last weekend and all of us girls went out for a movie night. All the guys stood home and played Texas Hold em, that's been our favorite past time.

We've been holding weekly tournaments with family and friends. The group keeps getting larger and larger . It is a lot of fun to play and we have one winner that takes all each time.

We girls saw "He's Just Not That Into You" It was a cute and funny movie we all enjoyed it, including my 7 month old niece.

She had to go with us but since we went to the last showing late night there was just a couple of other people there. She did great she actually sat and watched the movie. We couldn't stop laughing at her, it was so cute. Wish I had a photo to share with you all.

The next morning us girls went out to breakfast and thrift store shopping we just love all the great stuff you can find there. Well we did find a lot, two car fulls of stuff by the end of the day!!!

Oh I almost forgot to mention I just listed some more aprons over at Raggedy Dollys

I am working on my orders right now but thought I should let you know I am still here. Just been a little busy more like very busy!!!

Well it's back to work for me and Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Wisconsin Raggedies

2009-02-06T19:28:00.000-08:00

Thought I would share a photo of my raggedies all dressed and ready to go to there new home in Wisconsin. They went off on there long journey today, aren't they just too cute!!!

I just listed this cutie down below over at
Raggedy Dollys

Go over and take a look she just joined my Valentine Raggedies.

This is just a quick post to share my raggedies with you all.

Talk with you later work is calling,

Rosalie

What have I Been Up To?

2009-02-05T16:43:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to share what I have been up to lately!!! Well I just finished up a few valentine Annies for you and just listed them over at Raggedy Dollys
Here is a photo of one of my Raggedies her name is Lil Valentina Annie

Isn't she a cutie? I really like how she came out, she is all ready to ship out to you.

Over at My Country Cottage I just listed some cute Valentine signs. Go take a look!!! Here is a photo of the signs.

I know I didn't take a good photo, but I was in a hurry and it was this or nothing.

I've have been busy, here is a photo of the order I am finishing up to ship out tomorrow. I am making an extra Raggedy Bunny Doll and I will be listing her tomorrow.

They still haven't taken there coffee bath yet, that is coming next. I think there a little cold with all the rain we are having here today. So gotta get them dressed real quick. I am sewing there dresses and they should be done soon.

Thought I would take a break from all the work and do a post on my blog it's been a while since my last post. Boy does time fly when you are having fun or in my case creating!!!

If you live in the area I just stocked all my 3 shops with new product so go over and take a look. The address for my shops are on my websites under show Listings.

Just thought I would share a little of what has been going on around here!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Bad Bad Blogger!!!

2009-01-16T16:22:00.000-08:00

Hi All

I don't even know where to start, I have been so bad at posting here on my blog. I had a very very busy Christmas season. I could barely keep up. So there was no time to post on my blog. Thank You to all my wonderful customers :-)

I want to share with you what I got for Christmas a Brand New HP Computer for Business, it's awesome it goes so fast, I can have multiple windows open and no slow down!!! I just love my new computer and I got a large flat screen monitor to go with it. I was long overdue for a new computer and monitor. My old one was obsolete a long time ago.

Because it is a Business computer I was able to get Windows XP Professional and I didn't have to settle for Vista. I like XP as you can see.

It was also time for a new sewing machine I had a singer for a couple of years and I was not happy with it's performance so I had been asking around all of last year for a good sewing machine. Well I found that the Janome kept coming up as a good quality sewing machine. Everyone that owns one just loves there machine and would use no other. So I bought myself one it arrived the middle of last week.

isn't it nice I think so!!! Now I don't know what to do with my singer, it does really look like a nice machine. I think I will just keep it for a backup I guess.

Back to business I just completed my new Raggedy Dollys Website Go over and take a look and let me know what you think. I felt it was time to seperate my two websites, what better time than now with the start of a new year!!!

It took some time to do but I felt it was well worth it. My new website has so many features my old one didn't have, I just love it. So now you all know what I have been doing with all my time and why I have no new raggedy ann dolls on my website.

I am going to change my other website My Country Cottage next but not until I stock my store with new dollys. I will post as soon as I have some new raggedies on my new website!!!

Gotta go now my Janome is calling, I am having so much fun with my new machine. :-)

Thanks for the visit and letting me ramble on.

Rosalie

Sugar Plum At Pomona Fair Grounds

2008-10-11T00:45:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to share a couple of photos of my booth over at the Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival at the Pomona Fair Grounds this weekend. For those of you that could not attend my show.

Sorry the photo below is a little blurred.

I was very happy with my booth setup I think it looked great!!! It took us a total of 7 hours to get it to look like that. It is a big job setting up our display but in the end it is worth every minute of it.

Oh it was a great show for us, but the Sugar Plum Shows are always great for us!!!

Thanks for stopping by for a visit,
Rosalie

Lil Ashlynn

2008-10-11T00:25:00.000-07:00

These photos are so cute I just had to share them with you.

This is my granddaughter Ashlynn imitating grandma sitting at my computor with my glasses on. (notice the eyeglasses are upside down) my daughter and I could not stop laughing at how cute she looked.

This one is a closeup of her.

This one she moved my eyeglasses to the top of her head.

This one she was tired of the photo taking and turned her head away from grandma.

Thought you might enjoy seeing these cute photos. Grandchildren are so much fun you never know what they will do next.

Well back to work for me I have another show next week. It's Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival over at the Costa Mesa Fair Grounds. See you there!!!

Rosalie

Exciting News!!!

2008-10-07T14:12:00.000-07:00

I have something exciting to share with you, Tina has a great online magazine that she publishes monthly called Small Town Living. Well she asked me if I would like to have an article done about my business printed in her magazine. Of course I said yes and was excited to write an article for her magazine.

The magazine came out this month with my article in this months issue, go over and take a look.

Just Click Here: Small Town Living

I feel so honored to have been asked to do this article Thank You so much Tina for this opportunity it was fun.

I have some more great news my first Show for the Holiday Season starts this weekend, it's one of my favorites Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival!!! We will be over at the Pomona Fair Grounds Friday and Saturday. Hope to see you all there!!!

The week following on Oct. 16th - 18th Thursday - Saturday Sugar Plum Arts & Crafts Festival will be at the Costa Mesa Fair Grounds in Orange County. I will be there hope to see you there also.

Well that's all for now, I think that's enough excitement for today!!! I have to go now my work is calling me actually it's hollering. LOL

Thanks for stopping by,
Rosalie

New Raggedies

2008-09-27T22:23:00.000-07:00

I just listed some new raggedies over at Raggedy Dollys

Go over and take a look.

Bye,
Rosalie

Lollishops I've Been Accepted

2008-09-27T11:50:00.001-07:00

Hi All

I am so excited just wanted to share with you that I have been accepted in a brand new shop called Lollishops

LolliShops is a juried, online selling venue for talented artists, collectors of vintage and art supply vendors. We are opening soon but they have not given us a date yet. I will post when this cute shop opens. I am excited to be a part of this froufrou shop.

P.S. My raggedies are coming soon I just have to get them listed on my website, than I will do a post here.

Bye,
Rosalie

Something New On My Website

2008-09-23T21:34:00.000-07:00

Hi All
It's been awhile I have just been so busy lately this is the busiest time of the year for me. The holiday season has started for me already, soon I will be seeing a lot of red and green in fact I will be starting later this week with some christmas.

I am posting to let you all know I added a New Product button on my website where I will list all my new items both my Raggedy Ann Dolls and my wood items. So don't forget to check on the page. In fact I just listed a lot on new Halloween raggedies and wood pieces on there.

That's all for now have to get back to my doll making, have some orders to finish and ship out.

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Shay's Blog Giveaway

2008-09-11T06:19:00.000-07:00

Shay over at Olde Colonial Peddler is having a blog giveaway she is giving away three of her beautiful pieces just take a look at the photos below.

As you can see she is very talented and does great work you have to go over and sign up for her drawing you will be glad you did. Even if you don't have a google account she will add you to her drawing, just send her an email now how great is that!!!

Well I have been busy with the holidays coming up real soon. I have been designing new wood items for fall and halloween you can go over and take a look at My Country Cottage

I am trying to get more raggedies listed on my website, but I keep selling them before I can get them listed. I have had several special orders for my raggedy ann dolls lately so I haven't had very many raggedies on my website. I am working on that now so I will be adding more soon!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

What A Great Surprise

2008-09-06T14:35:00.000-07:00

Thank You Jody of Primgals Primitive Palette for awarding me with this great award!!! I just feel so honored and special today : )

Now for the fun part.....in turn I get to nominate 7 other blogs that I just love to visit. These gals are all so talented, and have so much to contribute to the crafting world. Hope you take a moment and visit them, you won't be disappointed.

KKL Primitives: http://kklprimitives.blogspot.com

Linda's Blog http://lindawalshoriginals.blogspot.com

Mud Rail Fence http://mudrailfence.blogspot.com>

Niki's Ventures http://nikisventures.blogspot.com

Garden Goose http://gardengoose.blogspot.com

Shweet Doodles http://shweetdoodlings.blogspot.com

My Raggedy World http://annabellesattic.blogspot.com

Thank You Again Jody,

Rosalie

And The Winner Is

2008-08-19T20:18:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone

We did the drawing just a little while ago I had my son pick the winning ticket. Had a little trouble downloading the photos to my computor, it just didn't want to read the camera. But I finally got it to work so here are the photos.

As you can see the winner is Tina and her blog is Garden Goose Congrats to you Tina, please email me your shipping info. so I can ship your Lil Matilda Annie Witch out to you.

This was so much fun and Thank You everyone for your nice comments I really do appreciate them. I will be doing another giveaway in the near future for those of you who missed out this time.

Thank You All,

Rosalie

Raggedy Ann Dolly Give Away

2008-08-12T13:24:00.000-07:00

Hi Gals

While I got Lil Matilda Annie Witch all done and she is all ready for the Raggedy Ann Dolly Give Away.

All you have to do to win this cutie is comment on my blog. That's it and I will pick the winner one week from today, next Tuesday afternoon!!! Good luck to all of you.

I added a couple of Lil Raggedies over at my website go over and take a look. Click here Raggedy Dollys
and I added some to my Etsy Shoppe
Click here for my Etsy Shoppe

That's it for now talk with you all later.

Rosalie

Alpine Festival Of Arts And Crafts

2008-08-07T08:54:00.000-07:00

Hi All
Just wanted to let you know what I have been up to lately well I joined the Alpine Festival of Arts And Crafts over in Helen, Ga. Here is a photo of the cute village

They are carrying my Raggedy Ann dolls and my wood signs. If you are ever in Helen, Ga. stop by and say hi to everyone there. It's a family run business with a bunch of nice gals.

I am working on a new line I will be introducing soon and finishing up some new raggedies. I will be listing them on my websites and Etsy.

Oh did I mention I am getting ready for a blog giveaway as soon as I get the lil cutie done.

It's back to work for me I will post when all is done and listed.

Thanks for the lil chat I needed it, it's good to take this lil break and share with you all!!!

Bye,
Rosalie

Old Farmhouse Gathering

2008-07-29T13:11:00.000-07:00

Hi just wanted to let eveyone know that I joined a wonderful group on Etsy called Old Farmhouse Gathering. You can go over and see all the great things everyone has on the site. Everything is handmade on the Etsy, so enjoy. Click here to go take a look!

I just listed more raggedies and I added a new line of cute Vintage retro sexy looking aprons with a halter style top for you. Click here to view my Etsy Shoppe

I will be listing more Raggedy Ann Dolls and Aprons later this week so don't forget to check back.

Don't forget my Big Sign Sale ends in a few days on the 31st.

Thank you for stopping by : )

Rosalie

Mamma Mia

2008-07-19T03:41:00.001-07:00

After finishing my orders for my Raggedy Ann dolls and shipping them all out. I spent the afternoon with my cousin Susie and my girlfriend Glenna. We three went to the movie theater and saw Mamma Mia. Oh boy was that a great movie we really enjoyed it. It was way more than we expected.

I forgot to take my camera with me for photos to share with you all. Anyho I just wanted to share this with you so if you were thinking of watching this movie, it was a lot of fun. I want to go out now and buy the soundtrack to the movie so I can listen to it. You know when you listen to the soundtrack you can see that part of the movie over and over again in your mind. I did that with Dream Girls.

After the movie we went out to dinner and talked about the movie and laughed are heads off. When you go and see the movie don't leave right away there is something special in the trailers you have to see. Some people left right away and missed it. I tell you, you have to stay and see it!!! You honestly won't stop laughing, we couldn't!!!

Don't forget my Big Sale ends July 31st

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Big Sale On My Prim Signs

2008-07-17T12:26:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone

Once a year I have a Big Sale over at My Country Cottage and I am having one right now this time it is for my prim signs.

All my prim signs are $9.95 till the end of the month (excluding Item# 5850, 5301, 5379) Click here to go take a look

Here is what you do send me an email with your order and I will give you the discount, my sale ends on July 31st 08.

Thank You for stopping by
Rosalie

New Blog I Just Found

2008-07-06T11:11:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone
I just found this blog and guess what Marie is having a 350th post giveaway right now.

Go over and take a look!!! a little bit of Country on the Shore: ~* my 350th post giveaway *

You have a choice of a cute pincushion or some really cute ornies
Good Luck everyone!!!
Rosalie

Happy 4th Of July

2008-07-04T11:42:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to wish you all a Happy 4th of July!!! Hope you all take some time off to enjoy the day. We are getting together with family for a barbecue, swimming and then going over to the lake to view the fireworks show tonight.

We are not allowed to light our own fireworks here in Riverside County. It's very hot weather here and everything is dry, not safe conditions for lighting fireworks. Talking about hot it's been extremely hot here it's crazy in the winter it's so cold I want the summer months so I can warm up than the summer comes and it's so darn hot I wish it were winter. I just can't seem to decide which is better, I think neither because the weather goes to extreme hot and extreme cold.

I guess I can't have the weather perfect here I need to move back in closer to the beach if I want that kind of weather. But to give up our country living (we own acres of land here) to go back in to the city I think NOT!!! So I will put up with the weather and try not to complain much, it's a give and take situation here.

Moving on here is something I found that I wanted to share with you all. I found it very interesting hope you can use some of the suggestions. They say it works I haven't tried it myself yet but I am.

Bounce
My mail carrier told me that the US Postal service sent out a message to all letter carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep yellow-jackets away.
Use them all the time when playing baseball and soccer. I use it when I am working outside. It really works. The insects just veer around you.
All this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer!
1. It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them. It also repels mice.
2. Spread sheets around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.
3. It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.
4. It repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.
5. Eliminate static electricity from your television (or computer) screen.
6. Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling.
7. Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.
8. To freshen the air in your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang in the closet.
9. Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.
10. Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.
11. Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual l sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.
12. To freshen the air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.
13. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan.
14. Eliminate odors in wastebaskets . Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.
15. Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the lose hairs.
16. Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds. Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.
17. Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.
18. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.
19. Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.
20. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.
21. Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. It will keep them smelling fresh.
22. Wet a Bounce sheet, hose down your car, and wipe lovebugs off easily with the wet Bounce.
Author: From an email going around

That's all for now I need to get ready for my company enjoy your day!!!

Rosalie

I Just Found Qassia

2008-06-29T02:04:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone

I just wanted to share this with you here is a new site that may bring more traffic to your website if you have one. I joined and thought you might like to give it a try.

Just go over and take a look Qassia I think you will find it worth a try.

I am working on some new Raggedies and Wood Signs I will be posting soon!!!

Bye,
Rosalie

I've Been Tagged

2008-06-15T23:47:00.000-07:00

I've been tagged by Linda of Linda's blog

Here is what I have to do:

Tag the ABC's about you. Each player then tags 3 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

A-Attached or single: Attached

B-Best Friend: Hubby

C-Cake or Pie: Cake

D-Day: Friday

E-Essential Item: Computer

F-Favorite Color: Red

G-Gummi Bears or Worms: Bears

H-Home Town: Los Angeles

I-Indulgences: Dipped Cones

J-January Or July?: July

K-Kids: 3-children,2-grandchildren

L-Life is incomplete without: My Family around me

M-Marriage Date: 1971

N-Number Of Siblings: 3 sisters, 2 brothers

O-Oranges or Apples: Oranges

P-Phobias or Fears: Claustrophobia

Q-Quote: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

R-Reason To Smile: Hubby and Grandchildren

S-Season-Summer

T-Tag Three:

Trudy-at http://annabellesattic.blogspot.com/
Angelia-at http://itsaraggedylife.blogspot.com/
Janna-at http://countrycreekcreations.blogspot.com/

U-Unknown fact about me: I love to watch movies (Going to the Movie Theater and DVDs-of movies I missed)

V-Vegetarian or Oppressor Of Animals: Oppressor Of Animals

W-Worst Habit: Over Organized

Your favorite food: Nachos

Well there you are now you all know a little more about me!!! Now I am off to let my blog friends know they've been tagged.

Thanks For Visiting

Rosalie

My Ad In Primitive Times Magazine

2008-06-05T10:30:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let you know I have an ad coming out in a great online craft magazine called Primitive Times Magazine It's a free online craft magazine go check it out there June issue will be out tonight.

Anyways Angie Wenke of Heartland Graphics made me the cutest ad for my Raggedy Dollys website it's a half page ad and it looks great. I won't post a photo of it I want you to go over and see it and the rest of the magazine. I know you will enjoy the magazine have fun.

Rosalie

More Lil Raggedies

2008-06-01T20:14:00.000-07:00

Hi

I been really busy sewing for you all lately I've just completed some more Raggedies and listed them over at Raggedy Dollys for you all to see. Here is a photo of what you will find over there.

Go over and take a look let me know what you think of all my new cuties!!!

I will be adding some new wood signs, small heart bunco signs, bunco magnets and garden plant picks oh and some americana to my website real soon. I will do a post when I have my new items listed.

Thanks for stopping by,

Rosalie

Just Listed More Raggedies

2008-06-01T03:33:00.000-07:00

Hi All

A quick post to let you all know I listed some Raggedies over at Raggedy Dollys Go take a look at the Lil Dollys page I listed some new lil raggedies on there also. There is a new Liberty Annie on there she came out so cute!!!

I also updated my Dandelion Darlings Shoppe for June 1st updates go over and take a look at my new Raggedy Ann dolls I just listed.

Thanks for visiting and write me a comment to let me know what you think of my new dollys?

Rosalie

A New Look For Raggedy Dollys

2008-05-28T01:07:00.000-07:00

Hi All
I know it's been a while since I wrote a post here but I have been very busy lately. I have had a lot of custom doll orders which I do enjoy making special for my customers.

I have also been getting ready for a local craft show that I am doing with my friend Glenna we are sharing a booth at Stock & Stuffers Craft Show over in Fullerton, Ca. The booth came out great Glenna is very good at displaying and she out did herself with this set up. I forgot to take my camera at set up but I will be going back to restock our booth and I will get a photo then. I will post it here for you all to see.

Well on top of all that I had a new logo, backround and buttons made for my Raggedy Dollys website. I have been busy adding all the new graphics on my webpages. Go over and take a look: Raggedy Dollys Post here and let me know what you think of my new look. I really like it, it is so bright and lively and colorful. But let me know what you think?

Angie of Heartland Graphics made my new graphics for me. Go take a look at her website she does great work. Thank You Angie!!!

I will be updating my Dandelion Darlings Shoppe on June 1st I will do a post to remind you all.

Thank You all for stopping by : )
Rosalie

The Eagles!!!

2008-05-05T23:12:00.000-07:00

Hi
I just want to let everyone know that I will be getting your orders out this week. I have had a busy last week.

My friend Lynn and her hubby Don came out to visit us from North Carolina and she had VIP Tickets for all of us for the entire weekend at the Stage Coach Festival in Indio. Here is the poster for the festival

I am sad to say I had a street faire to go sell my crafts at in Carlsbad on Sunday and we were not able to attend all three days of the festival. So we decided to go on friday so we could work on Sat. and do our show on Sunday. This is who we got to go see on friday The Eagles:

We were excited and on top of that we got to see John Fogerty he was great he sang all of his songs. We had so much fun we sang and danced to all the songs and we had special seating with those VIP tickets we got to sit up close and we were able to see everyone.

So because we lost a day of work on Friday (It was well worth it!!!) we had to work all day and night on Saturday to finish up all of our products. We got no sleep that night because we had to met with our friend Glenna and her hubby on Sunday morning at 4:30 A.M. to set up our booth.

We tried something new at this show, we shared a booth with 4 other couples and it worked out!!! We all had really good sales, the booth looked like a Little Country Store. I forgot to take my camera with me, (I seem to do that a lot lately I forgot it at my Grandaughter's Bithday Party now how bad is that?) I wish I had taken it so I could have posted a photo here for you all to see.

The booth looked great we had a variety of products for our customers to choose from and we had lines coming in the booth and at the register. It was so easy with all of us setting up and tearing down. We had a fun day at the craft faire we just met the other 3 couples that morning and everything went smooth.

We just didn't know what to expect being the first time doing a project this big with so many people involved. So we are all doing the same thing again in Nov. the show is the first Sunday in Nov. I will post about the show then.

Today I tried to sleep in but my grandaughter woke me up around noon I wanted to sleep in all day. Yeah like that was going to happen around here LOL!!! I felt I should sleep a whole day to make up for the day of sleep I missed. But as we all know you can't make up for the lost day by trying to sleep the next day it just doesn't work that way.

Anyway I will be back to full swing by tomorrow and get all my orders out this week. Thank You for your patience : ) I will also be adding more raggedies on my website by the end of the week. I will post when I do.

Thank You for visiting and letting me share my adventures with you all!!!

Rosalie

Dandelion Darlings Shoppe Updates Today May 1st!!!

2008-05-01T11:43:00.000-07:00

Hi All
Just a quick post to let you all know my Dandelion Darlings Shoppe updated today go over and take a look Dandelion Darlings

I have more to share but I will have to do that later lots to do right now!!!!

Rosalie

Wood Sale At My Country Cottage!!!!

2008-04-22T23:49:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am having a wood only sale over at My Country Cottage Well it is actually for all of my newsletter subscribers. So if you want the code for the sale you will need to visit my website and sign up for my newsletter then I will email you the code.

The sale ends on the 30th of April that is the last day to get your order in. Oh it is for 15% off on all of my wood items only.

I am awaiting my good friend Lynn she is in route right now from North Carolina she moved there last year. She used to live down the street from me and just decided to move out there by her daughter and grandaughter. We used to go walking daily and bounced our craft ideas off each other, yes she is a crafter just like me.

Well we still bounce the ideas off each other now it's by phone and emails. I do miss her I am very excited about her visit Lynn and her hubby are coming out to stay with us. They will be here with us for a few days than go stay with there son for a while. She got tickets for us all to go see a concert while there out her.

Lynn is expected to arrive (they are driving out here) on tuesday so I am working hard at finishing all my orders and more raggedies before she gets here. She will be arriving at the end of my wood sale. So I can have a couple days off with them and we can have fun!!!

I will be adding more Raggedy Ann Dolls on my website real soon!!!

Thanks For Visiting
Rosalie

New Raggedies Just Listed At My Shoppes!!!

2008-04-20T23:06:00.001-07:00

I just added more Raggedy Ann dolls over at Raggedy Dollys Here is a photo of my new raggedies

I added Annabelle Annie in my Etsy Shoppe You will have to go there to see my new Annabelle Annie she came out so cute!!!.

Ok I guess I will post her photo here she is:

I also added Shelby Annie over at Folk Art Square she is on page #2 You will have to go there to see her.

Write me a post and let me know what you think?

I will be adding more Raggedies real soon I am working on more tonight.

That's all for now I am going back to work!!!

Thanks for visiting
Rosalie

My Blog Links Are All Working Now!!!

2008-04-15T22:57:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let you know my webhost has fixed all my links to my website. Everything is working now I am so happy to have it all fixed and working : ) I could not link to my website pages from my blog for a while.

My Raggedy Ann dresses are coming along I should have them all done soon. I will let you know when I do.

Back to my sewing talk to you soon!!!

Rosalie

My Grandaughter's Birthday Party!!!

2008-04-14T21:48:00.000-07:00

Hi girls

I know it's been a while since I posted but my daughter and I were getting ready for my grandaughter's Birthday Party. Happy Birthday Ashlynn!!! I cannot believe she is 2 already boy does time fly. Well it was this past Sat. and it turned out good we all had a lot of fun and food!!! My daughter has the photos from the party so when I get them from her I will post them on here.

I finished up a special order for a Raggedy Ann doll for a baby. I would like to share the photo of her with you.

You can see her over at my website Raggedy Dollys

She is lightly stuffed and each strand of her hair is hand tied so it can't be pulled off. She is not coffee stained and her face is all handstitched. I really like the way this Raggedy Ann came out she is so soft and cuddly. Right now she is traveling to her new home.

I am finishing up some more dolls to add to my website. I have a couple of new ones on there now and I will be adding more later this week.

Well back to work for me I am sewing my new Raggedy gals dresses right now. All of the raggedy gals are done there just waiting on there dresses and bloomers. I will do a post when I add them on.

Bye and Thanks for stopping by!!!

Dandelion Darlings Grand Opening April 1st

2008-03-31T20:12:00.000-07:00

Just want to let everyone know about the Grand Opening on April 1st over at Dandelion Darlings It's a new shoppe I have joined that updates on the 1st of every month with all new items.

Here is a sample of just one of my Raggedy Ann dolls you will find over at my new shoppe Dandelion Darlings.

I am very excited about my new shoppe go over and take a look at everyones new items they have listed just for you.

Bye,
Rosalie

New Shop For My Country Cottage/Raggedy Dollys

2008-03-17T21:55:00.000-07:00

First of all I want to apologize for my links on my blog not working. There is a major problem again with my web host. They still can't figure it out but are working on it I hope, that is what they are telling me. But it has been a while and it is still not working. Very very frustrating I say well that's enough with my venting.

Moving on to what has been going on around here we finally got a new Dish DVR System I know were a little behind on all this new technology stuff. Well the big box arrived on Friday

and guess who has the honors of hooking up all this stuff up. You guessed it me, my hubby is not good with all this new electronic stuff and my son never has the time to help us. So I am the one elected to do it well I have to say after about 3 hours working on it including having to call the Dish company twice (you know how long a phone call can take with these companys) because they turned off my other dish box that is connected to our other t.v. when I connected the new one. Then all of my channels did not come up on the new DVR so another phone call had to be made. Anyway I was proud of myself because I was able to get it all working. : ) Even if it took me a long long time to do it, it all works fine!!!

It is amazing what you can do with a DVR we should have gotten this thing a lot sooner. Well were having fun with our new DVR you can set it up to record a movie way in advance and it's easy to set it up to record. The machine just starts up all by itself and records the movie for you. Then you can watch it when you have the time not when it's playing on T.V. This thing will record up to 100 hours WOW!

Now getting back to business I just finished a custom order I had to share with you all because they came out so cute. It's a pair of Angie Ann & Tony Andy Raggedies named after there new owners. This pair of Raggedies do not have a coffee wash.

I enjoy making custom orders for my customers, they get to design what they want there Raggedies to look like and they also get to name them. I am pleased when they get excited over there custom order. Tony Andy is a cute new design for me.

I have joined a new shop called Dandelion Darlings the Grand Opening is April 1st. Dandelion Darlings will update every 1st of the month with new items. I will have my Raggedy Ann Dolls, Prim Signs and some OOAK items on there. I will post a link to my shop here on my blog when I get it. You can visit the site Dandelion Darlings and sign there mailing list for monthly updates and a monthly drawing.

I do have a lot of new plans for My Country Cottage/Raggedy Dollys for the coming year. I will keep you all posted here on my blog.

Thank You for stopping by for a visit!!!

Rosalie

My Website Makeover

2008-03-09T21:55:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have been very busy listing some new signs over on my website. I also made a new prim sign page and listed all my signs in one area go over and take a look. Prim Signs It's a lot easier to look at all of my signs in one place. I have subcategories on the prim sign page for the prim, primlighting and primfixins pages.
Here is a sample of some of my new items you will find over at my website.

You will find this new Bunco Plant pick at my Everyday Section

I also made subcategories under my Holiday Dollys section so you can view the different Holiday Raggedies grouped together by the holiday. Go over and check it out. Holiday Dollys I have been wanting to do some changes on my website to make viewing easier so I finally made some time to do it.

I will be doing more changes in the near future I have some other ideas brewing in my head. I will be adding two more new product lines I wont say what just yet it's a surprise. I also want to change the logo on my Raggedy Dollys page. I don't know what the new logo will be yet but I will be working soon with my graphic artist. I would love to hear of any ideas you may have for my logo. Comment here and let me know or email me that would be great!!!

Well that's what has been going on around here lately aside from doing my favorite craft show Sugar Plum. We had another great show with them this weekend. Saturday was the last day of the show and we went to tear down our booth from the show. Boy do we get a good workout as you can see from the photos it's a very large booth. We've been told by other vendors that we are building a house it's a joke we have gotten used to hearing from the other vendors. As it does take us a while to set up but with the three of us doing it myself, hubby and my son it goes pretty quick.

We came home and had a family night game of cards with myself, hubby, Adam, Melissa and her hubby. We had fun a great way to relax after a hard days work.

Thank You all for stopping by time for me to go and relax. I am off to watch a movie with some popcorn. I rented Awake I missed it at the theater I will let you know if it's any good I saw the trailers and it looked like it was a good movie.

Rosalie

Sugar Plum Show

2008-03-06T01:38:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone
I have been so busy lately with lots of orders (Thank You everyone : ) and getting ready for the first Sugar Plum Show of the year. I'd like to share some photos of my booth taken today after set up. For those of you that cannot attend my show.

Here is a closeup of some of my Raggedy Ann Dolls and Bunny Girl Dolls. I think they came out very cute I am happy with them all!!! Sorry the coloring on this photo did not come out well I am still learning my new camera.

I also said I would let you all know how the Oklahoma Show went for me and my best friend Glenna. We did very well there and will be attending again next year. That is why I have been so busy getting ready for Sugar Plum I didn't have much product left from the Oklahoma Show. But that is a great thing I think?

I am so very tired of all of the late nights I have worked getting ready for this show. As you can see by all the products I have made that I have been busy.

I will be adding more product to both my Raggedy Dollys and My Country Cottage site very soon.

Oh I almost forgot I have taken new product to all three of my store locations if you can't make my show you can find my items at my stores. For my store locations click here

I guess that's it for now I need to get some sleep.

Thank You for stopping by and visiting my blog.

Goodnight
Rosalie

At Last More Raggedies

2008-02-26T02:20:00.000-08:00

I added a few raggedies on my website under Lil Dollys
Go over and take a look!!!

Sorry it took me so long I will be adding more soon. I have a lot going I just need to finish them up.

This is a short post just to let you know I am working on my Raggedy Ann dolls and will list more.

Bye back to work for me,

Rosalie

This Is Too Funny

2008-02-21T02:40:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone
I just had to share this with you all it's just to funny go over to
Linda's blog and read her post on the new cell phone law that went into effect on Feb.1st.

Bye I will be posting more real soon!!!

Rosalie

Oklahoma Raggedies

2008-02-05T12:39:00.000-08:00

Here are photos of some of my Raggedies and Wood items that are in route as I type to the Oklahoma Craft Show. I just thought I would share them with you all.

If you get a chance to visit the show don't forget to visit my best friend Glenna she is in the Hobbies, Arts And Crafts Building up by the front entrance. Let her know I sent you she will be happy to visit with you all.

I will be adding more dollys to my website this week. I will do a post when I have them on there. I also made a cute wood bench for you to display your dollys on. Here is a photo of the bench that will be on my website you have a choice of color.

Break over it's back to work for me I swear I am harder on myself than if I had a boss!!! But I do have fun creating and seeing the finished product especially the new products.

Oh did I mention I am babysitting my 4 year old grandson that woke me up at 5:00 a.m. when I went to bed at 3:00 a.m. it's been a tough day so far. He is so excited to be at grandma's he got up early.

I took a little break from him so I can write on my blog. I will be taking him to Toys R Us in a little while. He has are day planned out for us which includes a trip to the toy store for him. But isn't that what us grandmother's are supposed to do spoil are grandchildren. It's all fun!!!

Thanks for taking the time to read my blog and don't forget to comment. : )

Rosalie

Sharing A Great Blog Find

2008-01-29T13:54:00.000-08:00

A quick post to tell you all about a great blog I found eMoms At Home it's an Internet Home Business blog for Mom's and Dad's it's full of great information go take a look eMoms At Home and they also have a magazine take a look here eMoms At Home Magazine Lots of great info here.

Well just wanted to let you all know I am still here. I am working on my raggedies right now for the Oklahoma Show and I am very busy. I will be putting more raggedies on my website.

Check back to see my new dollys. I will put photos of my Raggedy Annies traveling to Oklahoma when they are all finished. My dollys are patiently waiting for there hair and others are waiting to be dressed.

Break over my dollys are calling!!!!

Thank You for visiting
Rosalie

Really Dumb Thing I Did On My Blog

2008-01-25T01:05:00.000-08:00

Well I did something really dumb I just found out when setting up my blog that in my comments area I set it up for only bloggers to be able to comment. I was wondering why I wasn't getting very many comments on my blog. I know that I was getting a lot of visitors but not very many comments. Well it was my fault because of the way I had my blog set up. So now my blog is open to anyone for commenting. So please go ahead and comment away and I am sorry for this. Since I plan to have a blog giveaway real soon for my one year blogversary. That would have been terrible because not everyone would have been able to write a comment and join in the fun! Well it's all fixed now girls and don't forget to check back for my blog giveaway!!!

Here is a picture of my raggedies getting ready for there coffee bath!!!

This is what they look like before there coffee bath and without there pretty dresses on. I will be dressing them next before they get to cold!!! It's been raining and very cold here this week. Some of these dollys get to go to the Oklahoma Craft Show there very excited!!!

I will post photos of my raggedies after I have them all dressed. Well that's it for tonight I have got to get some sleep!!! Have lots to do tomorrow like finish up my dollys.

Goodnight
Rosalie

My Raggedy Ann Dolls In Oklahoma City

2008-01-15T22:27:00.000-08:00

Yes that's right my Raggedy Ann Dollys are going to be on there way to "An Affair Of The Heart" Craft Show in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Feb. 8th - 10th at the Oklahoma Fair Grounds. If you are in the area stop by for a visit it's a very large and great craft show.

I am very lucky to have my good friend Glenna taking my Raggedy Annies to this show for me. Glenna will be selling her primitive wood signs, yard stakes and well you will have to go see!!! Wish I was going sounds like a fun and big show to attend lots and lots to see!!!

Well you know I am very busy getting ready for this show and making more dollys for my website and stores. I will be posting soon with some more dollys for all of you to see.

I was so excited I just had to share this with all of you!!! My Raggedies in Oklahoma City they can hardly wait for the trip. I will post photos of the dollys before they go on there trip.

Bye till next time,
Rosalie

Valentine Raggedies Finally Here

2008-01-06T02:56:00.000-08:00

Hi Gals

I just got done listing some Valentine Raggedy Annies over at Raggedy Dollys Go over and take a look I now have dollys on there for sale.
Here is a group photo of my raggedies!!!

I have been busy I also listed some dolls over at my new Etsy Shop Take a look over at the right side bar for my mini Etsy listings. I also have some new listings over at Folk Art Square
go take a look there also.

I finally completed my first batch of Valentine Raggedy Ann dolls and I do have more dollys started. I will post when and where I have my raggedies listed.

I will also be sending my raggedies to my shops, I will post photos and let you know what shop will be carrying them. So if you are in the area of any of my 3 stores you can go in and see my dollys.

Well that's it for now I was so excited to finish up my dollys I had to share this with you all!!!

Thank You for reading my blog : )

Rosalie

Happy New Year

2008-01-01T18:35:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Well Angie Wenke of Heartland Graphics did it again she helped fix my blog. Look how great it looks, she matched up all the colors for me. I could not have done it without you! Thank You Angie : )

Well I had a great New Years Eve we all went down my brothers house to celebrate the New Year together with all my sisters and my Mom. We started 2008 with a brand new baby in the family my sister in law had a New Years baby today she almost went in last night but baby waited until today. That was our highlight for 2008.

That's all for now Thank You for visiting!!!

Rosalie