Whew The Rush Is Over

Hi Everyone

I just got done with the last of my orders on Monday and shipped all of these raggedies out to there new owners. Some of them are going to be Christmas gifts.



This was a very very busy season for me but I did enjoy it. This is why you have not heard from me in awhile, no time to do any posting. Just work work work trying to get all my orders out and doing some craft shows.!!!

But it is over and now it's time to look at next years plans for My County Cottage and Raggedy Dollys. I have some new ideas for both my wood and dollys that I will be making for the new year. I have some cute Valentine dollys coming soon!!!

Oh and did I tell you after I shipped out the last of my orders I came down with the flu. How fair is that when I now have to get ready for Christmas at the last minute, like I do every year and I get sick. While it's raining outside and I still have to do all of my Christmas shopping and here it is Wed. already. I am trying to decide if I should go out shopping and risk getting worst or try going out tomorrow. I am stressing about getting everything done so I guess I will take the chance and go out shopping today!!!

I just wanted to share a photo of our Christmas tree with you all. Notice no presents under the Christmas tree yet! Yikes need to go shopping like now!!!



I had a Christmas decorating party with my kids and they all helped decorate the tree and house. We had a lot of fun doing it but they had to bear with my holiday music. I played it while we did the decorating, just to put us in a festive mood!!! We shared in the memories of each ornament, what it meant to each of us and who made it and the date it was made. You see I have all of my kids ornaments they made when they were young and we have fun unpacking and looking at them every year. They are so proud of there creations and that I have saved them all of these years.

That's it for now I really do need to go shopping!!!
Thank you for visiting
Rosalie

Pay It Forward

Come join in the fun and make the world a happier place. So this is how it goes...It’s the Pay It Forward Exchange. It’s based of the concept of the movie “Pay it Forward” where acts or deeds of kindness are done without expecting something in return, just passing it on, with hope that the recipients of the acts of kindness are passed on. So here’s how it works: I will make and send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment to this post on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I do not know what that gift will be yet, and it won’t be sent this month, probably not next month, but it will be sent (within 6 months) and that’s a promise! More than likely I'll get it made after Christmas and sent out early in the New Year. What YOU have to do in return, then, is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog to 3 diff people. Unfortunately this is only possible for those who have a blog."

So the first 3 people to comment and join in will get a handmade gift from me.... Ready, Set, GO!

More Halloween Stuff

Hi Everyone

I just wanted to share with you all photos of my grandson Nicholas, my son just emailed these over to me. I did not get to spend Halloween with my grandson so my kids sent me photos of him in his costume. His a cute Lil guy you just can't see his face his got great big eyes and long lashes.

Here are his photos he was Spiderman:









Thank you for letting me share these photos with you.

That' all for now I have to get back to work, lots to do today!!!

Bye,
Rosalie

Happy Halloween

I had a great Halloween I spent it with my cutie pie granddaughter Ashlynn. We took her out trick or treating around the neighborhood. She had a great time, they were filling her pumpkin up with candy. Her first time out she was only 6 mos.and didn't know what was going on.

My daughter rarely lets Ashlynn have any sweets, so when she tasted her lollipop she would not let go of her pumpkin filled with all that candy. She would not let anyone have any of her candies. She is so cute!!! We all laughed at how she hung on to her pumpkin.

Here are photos of Ashlynn she was a cheerleader!!!



We had to run after Ashlynn to take these photos my daughter and I with our cameras!
Ashlynn was having fun making us run around after her to take her pic.



She finally stopped here and gave us a pose.



Ashlynn also had a couple of glow sticks she just loved those things. She was trying to open it to see what was inside of the stick very curious Lil girl.

I am sooo lucky to have them down the street from me.

That's all for now just wanted to share these photos with you. I am a very proud grandma as you can see!

Bye,
Rosalie

Thank You Everyone

Hi Everyone

Thank You for your support and emails during these trying times. You have made me feel a lot better through all of this. I have been so busy with this unexpected big problem with my website that I haven't had time to do a post!!!

The problem was worst than we thought for awhile we thought my whole website was lost. Then my webhost informed me that she had a very old backup of my website. So I lost eveything on my website that was added on this year, my dolls and wood items. While I was able to do a little updating to my website, but there is a lot missing on there. It just threw me all off, for the time being I will have to leave my website as is until I can work on it again later.

I have lots of orders to fill right now so I will be working on them. My orders are more important to me right now, so website needs to wait! I will be adding my dolls and wood products back on when I can. Just wanted to let everyone know I am still here and that you can continue to email me, with your orders for the products you have seen on my website in the past. I am working on some more dolls and some new Christmas wood items. I will post when I have them listed.

Well that's all for now just a short post to let you know things are looking a lot better now. I am not so devastated anymore by all of this, and I will survive it all!!!

Thanks again for all your friendly support : )
Rosalie

I Am Still Here

Hi Everyone
I am writing to let everyone know what is going on with my website and that I am still here. As you all have noticed it's down right now. Well there having a big problem with the servers and they are working real hard on getting us all back up real soon. I was told my website should be back up on Sat. I am hoping it is, it has been down way to long.

If you need to contact me for any reason feel free to email me Or you can call me at 951-609-0507

Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you.

Bye,
Rosalie

Sneak Peek And Sharing

I just had to share with you all this photo of my Lil Raggedies with real Lil shoes and anklet socks, they came out so cute!!!



These Lil Dollys sold out at the fair, but I will be making more. I will post when I have listed them over at my website.

Here is a photo of a Wood Witch Boot and Primitive Halloween Sign I have listed over at My Country
Cottage Go over to our Halloween section and take a look!




Here is a sneak peek at my Christmas Annie Ornies coming soon!!!



I have to share this story with you my hubby and I went over to Best Buy yesterday and purchased our first mp3 player. Yes I know they have been out for a long long time now. But I was always afraid they would be to hard to figure out and I just did not have the time right now (ever) to try to figure out something new.

Well we went ahead and bought one and I have to tell you it was not that hard to figure out. Even though the player came with really bad instructions and going over to there website was no help either. That was just to figure out how to use and charge the mp3 player. The salesman said all you have to do is rip the Cd's (we wanted to put our audio Cd's we just purchased on the mp3 player) to the windows media player and transfer to the mp3 player.

Well guess what I was able to figure it out with just that info. from the salesman, it was very easy to do. I just love that Lil mp3 player, to think we were going to buy a Walkman CD player to listen to the audio Cd's we bought. So glad hubby thought of the mp3 player, I never would have because of having to learn how to use it. Hubby is not good at all with electronics, so I have to be the one to figure all that stuff out for us. Our kids never have the time to help us, you know how that is.

Well I ordered one for me today I should get it in a few days. I have so much I want to put on mine I like to listen to Prim Talk Radio and it is hard because I am not always in front of my computer to listen in, but they let you download there program to an mp3 player now I wont miss a program. I can download audio's and music of course on it the possibilities are endless for me. I am going to have fun with my new toy it is a Sandisk Sansa mp3 player, I can hardly wait to get mine. My mp3 player has an FM radio and voice recorder built in, it also has a micro SD slot to add more GB to hold a lot more stuff if needed.

I got a better price ordering it from Buy.com they have great prices there. So if you ever thought of getting an mp3 player but were afraid they were hard to learn to use. They are not at all, if I can do it so can you. Sometimes you have to "Just do it" as the saying goes!!!

So back to working on my orders and getting ready for another show that's coming up way to soon!!! I need to build up more inventory Quick. I have a great friend Glenna that has convinced me in getting help for my business and not do it all myself. She has given me some good suggestions to help increase my production for this holiday season. So right now I am working on implementing her ideas which should increase my production. I will let you know how it all works out.
Goodnight,
Rosalie