Raised In Cotton

Creativity

This is a beautiful blog Heather had on creativity. I love to create and because of recent family events I was unable to take the time and just play. But, since stepping away from my Nursing career I have devoted more time to finally getting back in my little craft room. I made the board from some wonderful red fabric and trims. Adding button tacks that I made and some old Easter postcards. The Queen crown was made with canvas, paper and trims, and glitter.

I am such a "red" fan and think it goes with anything. Especially the greens, blues and faint yellows. I framed the Crown around a little plant that the Nurses at work gave me the other day. Crowns are so much fun to decorate with, you can put them anywhere for a bit of whimsie and isn't that what creativity is all about.

Come On Spring

We are having a true heat wave in Missouri-Jeez all the way up to 45 degree's today. I even heard the birds chirping outside. All the more to make me wish for Spring and to haul out all of our new and old shopping finds to sell at the shop. The first of March we plan on adding our Spring inventory, but until then~

New Chapter!

You know after 26 years of doing my "big girl" Nursing job at a local hospital I have decided "enough".  So I am backing away from a career that has provided some wonderful life opportunities and some exhausting hard days. Devoting more time to Raised In Cotton, the little shop we started almost two years ago in the old 19th century farmhouse is my direction now.  As a Nurse I have witnessed first hand how life can be gone in an instance and the "somedays" never come.

So good bye Nursing, hello to my bliss!

Here in Missouri, we had another little snow storm, so dreaming about spring and summer I thought of a plate of strawberries! 

We have a store room of some wonderful old furniture that we have been working on to move into the shop. I will post pictures soon.

Photo's

We are participating in a open air Vintage market this Spring and Summer, so in preparation of sending in our application I found some photo's I thought would be nice to share with you.

 

"Hot" Publicity

Any person that owns a business will tell you that free publicity is great. Last Friday evening the shop made the local news, a car lot that neighbors our business had a fire in one of the out buildings on their property. Thankfully, no one was hurt but a local news station mistakenly reported that it was an "antique shop" that had burned.  Needless to say, we were frantic but after investigating our old farmhouse was fine. Several of our thoughtful customers stopped in, called and emailed to see if we were OK the next day. We are truly blessed by all the wonderful friends we have made since opening our business and appreciate all of you!