So Shabby Pink Mentioned in June 2007 Romantic Country Magazine

I was so thrilled to find out the Romantic Country magazine was going to mention my So Shabby Pink Jars in their June 2007 issue. Many grateful thanks those who made it happen.

Romantic Country magazine brings all the shabby and cottage look into one beautiful group of pages. Each issue is just breathtaking and it's hard to put it down! I don't think you can buy a subscription yet but I will be first on their list when they offer that service.

So Shabby Pink Announces Beautiful Shops Contest

So Shabby Pink is part of a community of women owned web shops called Beautiful Shops. They are having one of the coolest contests I've seen in a long time.
Click on the image below to read about it:

Look at all the winner receives!

Here are the participating shops that all donated gifts to the contest "gift basket:"

Participating Merchants:

A Bit Of Paris
A Garden Tea Delivered
All About Lullabell
A Rose Without A Thorn
Becky's Rose Cottage
Bella Rosa Designs
Bella Rose Cottage
Bonnie & Clyde's Treasure Trove
Camp Divas
Chloe's Chic Boutique
Cupids Charm
From Desperate To Diva
Lavender Hill Studio
Merry Treasure Shopper
My Pink Boutique
Natasha Burns
Paris Bebe
Rose Cottage Shop
Shabby Pink Chic Cottage
So Shabby Pink
Tea At Tiffany's
Teacups & Twigs
Victoria's Vintage Shoppe

That's a LOT of prizes - $1,000 retail value. Hope you go on over and participate!

To enter our contest simply visit the Shops listed above to find five pink starbursts with words to equal a secret sentence and then complete the entry form at Beautiful Shops and you are entered to win Our Beautiful Fabulous Gift Basket!

So Shabby Pink has Headers in Stock Again!

We have completed some new headers for our online store. Come visit and shop our lovely redesigned flea market finds. We now have a sale every Monday!

So Shabby Pink New Shabby White Products

Here are a few of our newest additions to our website:

Weird Thing About Me #3

My husband is a walker. He walks many miles everyday. I am so proud of him. He takes care of himself.

When he comes home, he takes two Gatorade bottles from the FREEZER that have turned to slush during his 1-1/2 hr. walk. One is for him and one is for me!! I look forward to that Gatorade drink - half frozen into a wonderful crunchy slush! It's my favorite part of the day to sit there with him and have this great treat.

Well, I was out with errands the other day and he didn't put one in the freezer for me. I HAD to have that time with him so I went to Sonic Drive-In and got myself a Diet Cherry Limeade - whose slush - is almost as good. Then I had my slushy with my darling husband. All was well with the world again.

Bye!

Maybe This is Weird Thing # 2 ???

I like being an adult because I can eat pizza or cookies or spaghetti or leftover shrimp or anything I want for breakfast and no one can stop me. :-)

Weird Thing about Me #1

A few blog posts back, I said I had been tagged and had to tell 7 weird things about me. Here is #1.

~~~Have you ever ordered a salad in a restaurant? Then when they bring it, it's a nice size all full of the things you like but it is stuffed into a really small bowl.......so if you want to put your salad dressing on it, how do you get the dressing to the parts underneath? Then, if you cut part of it, the lettuce falls out of the bowl. Ugh. The bowl is too SMALL!~~~

So, what I do now is ask for a larger bowl or plate to accompany my salad - even if I order a small salad. My husband says I am the only person he has ever known that cannot eat a salad stuffed into a small bowl...... I don't want to. I want a larger bowl. :-)

So Shabby Pink Presents - PINK CHOCOLATE -

Good morning! Here is one of our new color schemes, Pink Chocolate.

Boutique Spotlight

Now, I want to spotlight another Make Mine Pink member,
C'est Chouette.
"Rescuing vintage needlepoints and artfully recreating them into today’s beautiful pillows"

What beautiful work C'est Chouette does! If you favor excellent workmanship and impeccable design taste, these pillows are for you. Make it a goal this year to have one of these (or a set of these) beautiful pillows in your home. Vintage needlepoint rescued. Gorgeous in any shabby or cottage home decor scheme.

Have a great weekend!

Ugh Oh! I've been tagged!

My Pink Boutique (who is actually a family member) has tagged me! Now, oh joy of joys, I am supposed to tell you 7 things that are weird about me! Gee, only 7??

Watch the World from your Computer

I have discovered one of the best things on the internet. Cams and Live Video Cams. There are evidently hundreds and probably thousands of cameras all over the world and we have access to them on the internet!!
Some of the cameras take still shots and update at predetermined intervals. Some are live videos.

This is my favorite:
http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/
Someday, I plan to go to this camera and have friends meet me there on the computer at an appointed date and time. Check out the other cameras around NYC!

I also enjoy watching the remote areas of Alaska.
http://www.akmining.com/webcams.htm
and
http://akweathercams.faa.gov/index.php

There is even a camera that updates, I think every 5 minutes, on Mount St. Helen!
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

There are MANY more websites that offer more of the same. If you don't have anything to do, go look around the world - LIVE!

If you find some that really interest you, send them to me and I will post the link!

Pink Diamond Contest from Make Mine Pink

“Someone Will Win a Pink Diamond”

We are so excited! As a proud member of MakeMinePink.com, we have joined with other Pink Boutiques and Make Mine Pink for the “Pink Diamond Campaign”.

Every year Make Mine Pink likes to do something special to honor our valued customers, clients and friends. In all, $2500 worth of fabulous pink prizes will be awarded throughout the contest with a Grand Prize of a genuine pink diamond pendant.

There are several fun ways to win prizes for the Campaign, by just visiting the boutiques at Make Mine Pink and locating the six diamonds hidden among the participating Pink Boutiques each of the six month, or you may see one of the Make Mine Pink boutique owners wearing her pink rhinestone “MMP” pin as she goes about day to day activities, or making a donation to a favorite women’s charity.

A monthly prize will be awarded for May, June, July, August and September entries with a grand prize awarded for the month of October. It’s that easy!

Join us in our excitement by visiting the boutiques at Make Mine Pink.
For more information, you may visit the “Pink Diamond Campaign” link at Make Mine Pink.
http://www.makeminepink.com/pink-diamond/

So Shabby Pink New Vintage Item

One of our new items is for your romantic cottage chic office. This is a vintage item and has been painted our perfect pink.

We have also added some new Paul De Longpre and Catherine Klein yard long reproductions.
Come on over!

So Shabby Pink Uses FlyLady

Good morning!

It is time to start cleaning up and cleaning out!

I was told about this really interesting site: http://www.flylady.net/

FLYLADY!
You just have to sign up for it and try it. WHEN I apply her suggestions, the change is amazing!

The emails can get overwhelming sometimes, but on those days that I really cannot follow her lead, I just delete them and pick them up the next day.

So Shabby Pink sure needs her!

Try it!

New Products and New Ventures for So Shabby Pink

So Shabby Pink is a member of www.beautifulshops.com
Also, look for our ads in my favorite magazine:
Romantic Country

So Shabby Pink presents
- PINK CHOCOLATE-
If you are not faint of heart when it comes to decorating, this is for you.....Made from recycled wood material.

The shabby / cottage style is so varied in its design! It can range from old flea market finds to very sophisticated victorian fancy decor. I call it Primitive to Prissy. :-) I really like the old chippy distressed look. The more distressed the better! My husband still cannot understand why I want to buy something new for the house provided it looks old!

Old architectural pieces on each side of the hearth and old chippy window screens camouflaging the fireplace screen gives it a very unique look (window screens are removed when using the fireplace, of course).

Then there are the pink shutters.......

What is the shabby and chic cottage style?

I love the shabby style. In fact, I've been decorating that way for the past 30 years. I started going to flea markets and thrift shops when I was in my 20's because I could not afford to buy expensive furniture. I began to get such a feeling of accomplishment when I would take an old beat up table or box and transform it into something that received praise from my friends! I got addicted to that feeling!

Well, someone else came along, put a trademarked name to it and marketed it internationally. Well, it's just the flea market decor many of us have used and loved most of our lives and by now - WE are the experts!

I'll be talking more about this look on my next post.

I tell you, Make Mine Pink has lots of talent over there!
These are some of the eclectic shabby pink chic items I recently bought from Laura's Pretties:

http://www.lauraspretties.com/

She does the sewing herself.

This pretty fabric sachet bag below is so sweet. It came with a lace sachet inside.
It was made from a retired Rachael Ashwell (TM) fabric. I love it!

I LOVE teapots and this has become my favorite!

This is the whole collection I bought.
Have fun at her site!
http://www.lauraspretties.com/

If you have never visited Make Mine Pink, you just must. If you are like many of us who enjoy the very feminine or the very shabby and worn (that's me), this is the place for you. PINK, of course, is everywhere.
The new 2007 membership is bigger, better and has so many added benefits that I just can't list them all here.
CLICK HERE or on the emblem above to go there.

This is another of our Spring items!

So Shabby Pink Door Knob Hangers

I love these gorgeous doorknob hangers. They are soft and make of fabric and trimmings.

These are the only 3 I have left. They are currently on sale.You can see them at :http://www.soshabbypink.com/

Another product I received recently from another Make Mine Pink member is this adorable little chocolate bunny pulling a wagon full of jelly beans! The little sheep in the foreground is going to live hanging around on door knobs from now on. Her products are available at:

http://www.treasuredheirlooms.net/