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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Summer is flitting, fleeting and as always I am caught off guard for the busyness autumn brings to life. School begins the day early and our schedule isn't quite there yet. We are hurried and flustered and grumpy too.

So now that school is started I've had some extra time to create some new wonderful fall items. I've started with some costumes of course with the coming active season. The three I'm showing here are a cupcake, a pumpkin princess, and my favorite inspired by Minnie Mouse. I hope to have a few more to add tomorrow as well!

The cupcake costume is inspired by the shirt I bought at GAP that says "lil then a cute cupcake applique! I love this shirt and had to make a cute cupcake tutu, hairbow, and legwarmers to match. The tutu is a two layer style of brown tulle with little pompom sprinkles sewn on the layers. The top layer is icy pink glimmer tulle frosting. I love how this one turned out! The bow is a huge boutique stacked butterfly style with cupcake ribbon,


shocking pink, pink, and turquoise. The legwarmers are super
cute pink and brown stripe. I can recreate this exact set or I could also make the tutu in different colors or with sequins as the sprinkles instead of pompoms as sprinkles.









The Pumpkin Princess costume started with the super cute pumpkin ribbon I purchased from Hobby Lobby. The bow is huge 6 inch boutique stacked bow with the black and orange pumpkin ribbon, orange polka dot, black, and orange ribbon. The tutu is just a basic orange with an orange sewn satin waistband. The legwarmers are super cute orange and black stripe with little black and white polka dot bows. My favorite part of this set is the rhinestone shirt! The black puff sleeve tee is a soft tee from Old Navy with a super cute rhinestone saying "Lil Pumpkin" The rhinestone transfer was made for me by JewelTagz. I love it love it!! This is a OOAK as I'm not sure if I'll be able to duplicate the legwarmers. This set would fit a 3 yr old perfect. My daughter wears 4 or 5 and the tutu waist was a bit snug on her and she has a pretty thin waistline.





Finally the set Magpie was just dying to try on today. The set inspired by the famous Minnie Mouse. The tutu is very intricately designed red tulle with white satin polka dots all over and a sewn black satin waistband with a bow! The ears are beautifully crocheted in to the classic mouse club style and set on a black satin headband. The headband is finished with a three inch version of Minnie's signature red and white polka dot bow! We paired the set with a basic black leotard. I am working on some ears that are on clippies and would be so cute with pigtails! I could also make some black legwarmers to match the set. I can redo this set in any size you need for your little princess.

I hope to add more to this in the next few days. Please check back again for more exciting creations from Maggie's Rose Garden.














Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Multi-Family Garage & Boutique Sale

Garage Sale
6809 Roseland Drive
Urbandale, IA 50322
Friday July 10th 2009

East of 70th South of Douglas

Three homes pooled all our outgrown stuff for a sale! Here is a list of some of the stuff we will have at the sale:

Leaf Mulcher
Antique 1920's Bed
Patio Table
Furniture- end tables, children's princess dressing table, vintage nightstand
White Wicker Twin Headboard/Footboard
Kitchenware
Breadmaker
Toaster
Dishes-2 full sets
Glassware-Lots of different sets champagne and wine glasses, fancy candy dishes, unique vintage pieces
Area Rugs
Linens-Kitchen and Bedding
Home Decor
Halloween and Christmas Decor
Home Craft Items
Lots of Children's Books and Other Vintage Books
Children's Toys and Games
Baby/Pet Gates
3 Boys Bikes-Need some work
Boys Clothing sizes 4-5-6 Gymboree, GAP, Children's Place, and more snowpants and snowboots
Girls Clothing sizes 3 and 4 small amount of girl's clothing mostly Gymboree lots of training pants snowboots and other shoes size 8 and 9.

Boutique Items:
Tutus
Princess Wands
Costumes
Headbands
Hair Bows Galore

Check out my website for examples of items I sell:

www.maggiesrosegarden.com

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Girl's Night Out Saturday January 31st, 2009





If you are in the Des Moines, Iowa area please check out Girl's Night Out.




Saturday evening is sure to be filled with all the fun and frills of being a GIRL!!




A chance to win lots of $$$ in giveaways including $50 gift certificate to Maggie's Rose Garden and tons of other prizes like a hotel stay or a spa day! There will be manicures and pedicures, a chocolate fountain, lattes, lots of shopping opportunities.




Come to listen to live music and to find some fun ideas for Valentine gifts or to just get away for the night.

Kristen Schroeder from Indulgent Moments will also be sharing cake decorating tips.

You can see some of her awesome skills in the photo. The cupcakes were a huge hit at the bridal show we went to.






Check out my website for more wonderful tutus and hair bow designs.
This tutu is inspired by the E.E. Cummings poem "I Carry Your Heart In My Heart"


Maggie's Rose Garden Boutique






Wednesday, January 7, 2009



The weather is my bones' foe these days, and I've been a bit of a bear; hibernating and gaining a few pounds of extra blubber.

So today was a perfect day for Magpie and I to put on the puppet show of the century. She dressed in her best formal attire for the occassion, a lovely yellow tutu dress adorned with blue mums and satin ribbon streamers.

She enjoyed her part as the giraffe and courtsied and she said, "Thank you very much, thank you." Sadly we couldn't find the fairy princess so we'll have to save her act for another dreary day. I would like to find a couple of patterns to make our own puppets.

I've started working on Valentine items for the store. I have been busy making hair bows and tutus galore so stop by. I think I will be having a season of love sale in the next couple of weeks. Not sure yet what that will entail, but I think I will be trying to cater to brides as the wedding season is starting right now. I have a wedding show to do towards the end of January. That should be a great experience.

I know I'm kind of rambling. I think I could really just go to bed right now and sleep until my husband tells me its time to get up. Maybe he'll let me sleep in and get the kids ready for school....maybe : )

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Huge Black Friday 50% Sale Plus Last Chance for Giveaway


Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I have so much to be thankful for, even in the midst of such widespread economic hardship. There is something to be thankful for all around me. The list is endless really.



I would like to give you all one more thing to be thankful for, a wonderful sale to help you purchase those sweet little angel princesses of yours the perfect gift for Christmas or the Holidays!


I have something for every princess in my store tutus, tutu dresses, princess wands, hair bows, streamer hair bows, applique tees, flip flops and more.


For Black Friday the sale is 50% off any item until noon and 30% off any item from 6-Midnight. If you heart my store today you will be entered to win the Black Friday Giveaway http://smoxworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/11/win-winter-wonderland-tutu-dress-set.html


Details of the giveaway are at the link above. All you have to do is contact my online store here http://www.maggiesrosegarden.com/store/WsContact.asp

and you will be entered, or go to my etsy store and heart my shop or an item in my shop http://www.maggiesrosegarden.etsy.com/ and you will be entered to win.

You will also receive an extra 10% coupon for any time when you enter this contest. So with the black friday sale you may take up to 60% off an item!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Win the Winter Wonderland Tutu Dress Set Giveaway

WIN The Winter Wonderland Tutu Dress Set Giveaway!
********************************************I am so excited to announce a collaborative giveaway from SMOX and MaggiesRoseGarden!
*******************First, what I know you're most interested in; The prize!The winner will receive a Snowflake Princess halter tutu dress and matching Snowflake Winter Princess Wand from MaggiesRoseGarden, and matching hair accessories from SMOX; First Snow Rosettes, Snowflake Clippie Pins, and coordinating ribbon wrapped headband. (Items will ship separately.)The Snowflake Princess Tutu Dress is a size 2-3 and is made of 300 yards of tulle in light blue glimmer, smoke blue, and silver glimmer. The tulle is embellished with snowflake sequins in blue, light blue, and silver. The chest is wrapped in light blue soft satin ribbon for beauty and comfort, and embellished with a sparkly snowflake. The straps are typically halter style, but can done differently by request.The Snowflake Winter Princess Wand is wrapped in soft silver ribbon, embellished with the same sparkly snowflake as the dress, with a tutu puff and some pretty snowflake sequins.The hair accessories you will receive include a pair of First Snow rosettes, and a pair of snowflake clippie pins, and a ribbon wrapped headband.This darling pair of First Snow 3 inch rosettes are the perfect accessory for your winter princess! Made of white satin ribbon printed in icy blues snow flakes, and pale blue grosgrain, these are finished with delicate white snowflakes. These will be mounted on your choice of ribbon wrapped alligator clips or mini barrettes. Alligator clips measure approximately 2 inches, and barrettes measure approx 1 1/2 inches.The Snowflake Clippie Pins are standard size snapping clips, that are just under 2 inches long, and are adorned with beautiful silver snowflakes.The headband is wrapped with high quality pale blue grosgrain ribbon and is adorned with a bow of sheer white with silver sparkles and sheer blue with baby blue satin ribbon and a faux pearl center.******************************************Matching accessories available from MaggiesRoseGarden include espadrille flip-flops with snowflakes or marabou embellishments, and marabou bun puff, both of which make beautiful additions to the outfit. And further hair accessories are available from the SMOX store.********************Now that you have seen our beautiful giveaway items, here's how you can enter!1 Entry for Blogging about our contest! Just link this blog and you're entered!!(Please come back and let me know that you blogged it in the comments!)1 Entry each for Hearting our shops- new hearts only1 Entry each for Hearting an item in our shops- new hearts only, and max 1 entry per store1 Entry for every purchase made from either store during the contestOpen to all US residents.Winner will be chosen by random number generator.Check back on Black Friday to find out who the winner is!

Monday, November 17, 2008

Snowflake Winter Princess Tutu Dress Giveaway!!


I'm giving away the dress that is in the photo. It will fit a size 2 or 3 perfect!! Now is your chance to get the awesomest dress for Christmas Holiday photos! All you have to do is go to my website and fill out the contact form with your email information.
Yeah I know my pictures are horrible right now. I'm saving up for one of the those ultra-expensive fancy schmancy digital cams.
Here is the link to the site to be added to the contest drawing: