Black Friday Cyber Monday Sale on Lots of ready to ship goodies!

Just want to let you know that I have over 50 items that are ready to ship on sale this weekend. The sale is ready right now in my Etsy store. You will find cute Christmas gifts in many sizes and varieties:
-Shabby Headbands
-Embroidered Tees
-Princess Wands
-Feather Headbands
-Tutus
-Christmas Headbands
-Flower Headbands
-Fancy Photo Prop Headbands
-Much More

Most items are 30% to 50% off and are labeled as November 29 to December 2 Deals as a category in my Etsy Store. Everything is also buy one item and each additional item ships for free.

Happy Thanksgiving

Pink and Light Pink Feather Bling Headband $10

Peppermint Shabby Headband $5

Ivory Singed Flower Lace Headband $5.25

July 4th Auction

This week I'm having an auction on some ready to ship items for the 4th of July. All items are patriotic theme in red white and blue. Several of the items are made of the popular new chevron stripe fabric.

Chevron Stripe Flutter Flower Headband








Chevron Stripe Chiffon Rose Star Headband

Chevron Stripe Flutter Flower Headband







There are many more items available in the auction. Here is a link to the album on the Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152979274865019.1073741828.328745335018&type=3

 Be sure to stop by the auction and make a bid through June 23rd. Item bids start at $1.99 If you bid please specify the bid amount and leave your paypal email address or specify if you win you would like to send your payment information or request an invoice.

Celebrate Summer Vacation Handmade Boutique Auction

This weekend Maggie's Rose Garden is taking part in a handmade boutique auction with several other boutiques from around Facebook and Etsy to celebrate summer! The auction has a variety of pretty things for newborns on up to adults. We have included several headbands and a 4th of July tutu dress in the auction. The auction runs from May 31st through June 4th at noon Eastern time. Please be sure to check out the album for the auction, and read the album details with information on how to bid. Each item says how much the bidding starts out at and how much the bids need to be increased. Please also like the boutiques in the auction to stay up to date with our newest designs. 

Take a look at some of the beautiful auction items up for grabs

This sunny yellow singed flower with bling rhinestone center is on a yellow stretchy lace headband.  by the host of the auction, Aubrey Anna's Boutique. Her headbands are made of so many lovely layers with a vintage and modern feel perfect for summer portraits.

Bidding starts at $11 for this item

The next item I want to feature is a sweet summer cherry necklace perfect for any princess occasion. These chunky bead necklaces are not only so popular right now, but also super adorable! Check out the Facebook page Balloons Fashion for fabulous necklaces and more.

Bidding for this item starts at $7

No summer is complete without a trip to the zoo, and the next item a Goin' Bananas Boutique Layered Bow is the perfect compliment to any little zoo monkey. Be sure to stop by KaKa's Bloomin Creations.

Bidding for this item starts at $5

One of the first signs of summer is when the sunshine and rain create a palette of beautiful colors across the landscape. Magic with Ribbon has so many little pretties to celebrate the arrival of all the rainbow of colors. The sweet little ribbon art clip pair is a perfect finishing touch to celebrate summer with purple flowers.

Purple Flower Clip Set $2.75 for starting bid

For a middle of summer treat check out the Americana headband from  Maggie's Rose Garden Boutique. The headband is a festive fancy headband to celebrate July 4th. The headband is a red chiffon ballerina flower layered under a royal ballerina flower with a flag print bow and rhinestone bling center on a white soft elastic headband. Perfect for the Fourth of July parade or other special patriotic occasion.

Bidding for this items starts at $2.99

Have a wonderful summer vacation!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

 I have several family members who have served in the military including three of my grandfathers. One who served in World War II as a fighter pilot in the Asia Pacific. My aunt served as an MP and served overseas in South Korea. I appreciate all of the military families all over this country who sacrifice so much to keep all of us safe and free. We are truly blessed and thankful for your service to the United States.

This is our family's first year in Virginia Beach. We live about 20 minutes away from the ocean front, and we are so excited to live the Beach Life this summer! We already have plans to take surfing lessons and spend many days in the sun.  I wish you all a happy and safe Memorial Day!

This post is to also show off an Etsy treasury to celebrate this awesome holiday that kicks off the summer of 2013!
Our Sunny Yellow Pixie Tutu Dress is featured in an Etsy Treasury called Three Day Weekend.

The treasury features several sunny yellow items available for sale on Etsy. I personally love the watercolor art by Karen Faulkner titled Spring Morning.

 The Vintage Yellow Rose Plate would make a lovely gift for a special person's summer birthday, or as a decorative piece for a sun room.

  Also be sure to stop by the curator's Etsy shop. BonBonsTreats stocks a variety of beaded jewelry with several styles of sterling silver earrings available for purchase.

New Etsy Store Stocked with Lots of Ready To Ship Items

A few days ago I opened up my new Etsy store named Maggie Rose Bows to sell most of what I have in-stock. I have at least 100 items to list that are handmade and ready to mail out, so be sure to check out the shop for a last minute gift item!

Bright Rainbow Feather Headband

Fascinator Headband-Paris Chic

4th of July Tutu Dress & Headband

Included in the ready to ship items are over 50 headbands that are perfect for a baby shower gift, or as a photo prop for summer pictures.  The first photo above is a colorful headband made of hot pink, turquoise, lime, orange, and yellow. There is a rolled rose in cupcake fabric and a rolled satin rose in hot pink with a shabby flower in turquoise in the center. Finished with bling and bow embellishments and a marabou fluff. Here is the Cupcake Rainbow Fascinator. The next featured headband is a beautiful multilayer fascinator headband with a gray shabby flower on a black curly feather pad with a white polka dot bow and rhinestone bling embellishments and a pink marabou fluff all on a black and white polka dot headband. Here is the Paris Chic Fascinator. The last featured photo is of a Fourth of July crochet top tutu. The tutu has a royal blue stretchy crochet top with a red and white stripe tutu skirt. The headband is a satin rose in red, a royal blue shabby, and a star bow with a rhinestone bling on a white elastic headband. Check out these items here Fourth of July Tutu Dress and 4th of July Headband. I have more 4th of July headbands available in the shop right now.

Also, I have two specials going on right now. #1 I will contribute $1 per ready to ship item purchased in my Etsy store to an Oklahoma tornado victim fund. This is through the end of May, so order by May 31st. #2 If you are the 1st of 5 orders to leave feedback for my store, you will receive a $25 gift card to spend on your next purchase of in-stock/ ready to ship merchandise.

Thank you for stopping by the blog!

Sale at A Little Bit of Everything Boutique goes on through today! Everything in the store is 20% off!! Maggie's Rose Garden Boutique has everything you need for a perfect Halloween costume, or for the perfect fall outfit for a birthday or fall photos.

A Little Bit of Everything is a store downtown in the Kaleidoscope right next to Palmer's Deli. The store features many unique clothing items accessories and gifts for your shopping delight! Maggie's Rose Garden has a nice section of the store devoted to our handmade and boutique clothing and accessories for girls with a limited selection for boys. The hours of the store are Tuesday through Friday from 10-2. You may also shop Maggie's Rose Garden at our website, the link is in the text above. Please make sure to visit us on facebook for up to date sales and specials and our new items. Our next shipment will arrive in the store about the middle of next week with new tulle tutus and some cute hair accessories.

We have a few of these Sesame Street inspired costumes ready to go in the store.

Happy National Princess Week

To celebrate we are going to have a coupon available (below) to print and take in to A Little Bit of Everything Boutiques during the week of April 24th to the 27th for 10%  off any item in our section of the store. Be sure to like the facebook page for great products and offers available in the store. Here is the coupon:

Here are some great free printouts from Target to celebrate as well:
Free Disney Princess Printouts

What are you doing for National Princess Week?

Happy Thanksgiving Fun News for Us!

Maggie's Rose Garden Boutique has a store-front. We are so excited to be a part of the new concept store A Little Bit of Everything Boutiques .  There are over a dozen other vendors offering their wonderful items promoting the princess mentality! Items are very chic and stylish clothing and jewelry accessories, gift items, art, bath and body items, and more.

If you work in the downtown Des Moines, Iowa area be sure to stop in someday. Warning though, it may be difficult to leave, or even addicting. So, for those of you who have visited the store, or plan to in the next week we want to offer you something to make your day merry and bright. From November 22nd through December 2nd we are offering 50% off any one item when you spend $50 or more. Here is the flyer, which you must have in order to use the discount. Here is the flyer.

For those of you who can't make it out to the store, and would like to place a custom order we are offering 20% off your total purchase plus free shipping on orders $75 or more through the holiday season. Be sure to browse our website just click on the link Maggie's Rose Garden

In the next week we'll be posting an awesome giveaway with other ALBOE vendors. Be sure to look out for that!

Also scroll down to check out photos of some cute items available in the store downtown. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.

photo courtesy of Sara Like A Fox Photography

Made in the USA Dancewear

We are so excited to introduce our new line of products from Reflectionz. The products are made in the USA of high quality materials.!! We will carry leotards, hot shorts, tutus, dance bags, and cute matching coordinates from this brand.

Your little girl will love the soft 90% cotton 10% spandex leotards available in many sizes and colors. These are perfect for dance as well as for dress-up fun too!

Some of the products we will carry can be seen at Maggie's Rose Garden We have special introductory pricing on all the items.

Model Search Win $200

Win $200 in free Products!!

Model Search!

Maggie's Rose Garden has some great things planned for summer and we are looking for some fresh faces to model our products! To enter the contest send 3 recent, clear quality photos of your model to

nmadison@maggiesrosegarden.com

Please include the name and contact info. Then make sure you invite everyone you know on facebook to like the photo submission.

http://www.facebook.com/Maggiesrosegarden

Anyone is invited to enter the contest, although our items available for adult men is slim-pickens, sorry guys you could enter and give your products to someone you love :) Pets are welcome too!

Please no cell phone photos and we will choose one photo per submission out of the 3 photos you send to enter the contest. I will post all contest entries in a contest album where you may vote for your favorite submission. Each "like" a picture receives counts as one vote. You must "like" Maggie's Rose Garden before you can "like" your favorite photo. The photo with the most "likes" wins!

The winner will receive at least $200 worth of Maggie's Rose Garden products and will be featured on our website, blog, and facebook page!

Entries will be accepted through 4/14, with voting through 4/28, winners announced 5/1!

As a token of our thanks there will be 2 additional winners in the contest chosen by random number generator one will receive $50 and one will receive $25 in free products.

What are you waiting for? Get out your cameras and start clicking!!

Official Rules

You may submit more than one contestant in to the contest, but please only send 3 photos per contestant. Please include name for each contestant. When photos are submitted you are giving permission for Maggie's Rose Garden to use the photos online and in print. Please make sure if you are submitting any professional photos that you have permission to do so from the original source. We will not remove any watermarks from photos we use but we may reprint/repost photos. The contestant with the most likes is the winner of the contest. Photos must be liked, comments do not count toward the total. If there is a tie, the tie-breaker will be determined by random number generator. For additional contest entrants the wild-card winners will be destermined by random number generator. Each contestant will receive a number between 1 and 100 (could be more if there are more than 100 entrants) and the number chosen on May 1st on http://www.random.org/ The top prize winner will receive $200 in products from Maggie's Rose Garden. One wild-card contestant will receive products or gift certficate in the amount of $50. One contestant will receive products or gift certifciate in the amount of $25. Upon entering the contest please understand that if your contestant wins, you will be asked to provide a photo with the entrant wearing the free products from Maggie's Rose Garden. All entries must be received by April 14th. Voting is until April 28th and the winners will be announced on May 1st.

Pettiskirt PreOrder Sale

We should have our new stock of pettiskirts ready by the first week of April. We are having a preorder sale for anyone interested you will receive $5 off your pettiskirt order. Let us know which size you need and what color and we'll let you know what we have available.

Here is pricing before the discount:

Solid Pettis-These have the same color satin waist and chiffon skirt with yards and yards of ruffles! $32 Light Pink, Raspberry, Red

Two Tone Pettis- The satin waist will either match the skirt chiffon or the ruffle chiffon. $35 pink raspberry, pink lavender

Pastel Pettis- These are pink, lavender, white $35

Zebra Pettis-These are hot pink satin waist with zebra chiffon and hot pink ruffle $42.50

Minnie Pettis- These have polka dot satin waist and either pink or red chiffon skirt with white chiffon ruffles. $42.50

Barbie Pettis- These are raspberry, black, and light pink $42.50

Email List Birthday Club

In order to keep you up to date on our sales and specials please enter your email address below. If you would like to join our birthday club you will receive 20% off an order during the month of the birthday you add to the list. Just for signing up you will receive a 10% coupon on your first order.


https://spreadsheets0.google.com/viewform?hl=en&hl=en&formkey=dFlZcTZPOFBFV2IyZFpMV1lOa2pjR3c6MQ#gid=0

Tutus for Noah and Charlotte

Sara has been through a lot in the past year. She found out her Sweet baby Charlotte has a rare cancer called retinoblastoma. It is cancer in the eye. They decided the best treatment would be to have Charlotte's eye removed. Soon after they found out that Noah has cancer in his eyes too, but thankfully the tumors are treatable with chemotherapy. You can read the story here.

No family should have this burden on them. Sara is working hard to be a mom, wife, business owner, and on top of it all she is also going to nursing school.

I would like to help Sara's family. I'm sure the emotional and physical burden has been difficult enough not to mention the financial burden that comes along with medical and travel expenses incurred along the way.

Here is Sara's facebook page which has a link to her store she has on Artfire. Please if you have anyone on your gift list for Christmas buy some things from her store.

I want to do something for her family so my tutu instructions for a layer tutu and for a Pixie tutu are up for sale until December 31st at 1/2 price. The code is 50INTRO. You can receive the instructions in pdf or word format. Here is the listing on my website.

Picture of Zebra Diva tutu provided by Like A Fox Photography. Thank you, Sara Abrams.

I will also be adding blogs about other friends of Sara who are trying to help her out.

Mama's Little Monkeys has a charity section in her Artfire store to help out Sara. Please check out her store if you are looking for quality children's boutique items as gifts.

I need to learn how to add pictures on my blog in order to do more pictures. Sorry I am not able to show more with pictures.

Thanks for reading. Please bless Sara's family this Christmas. Thank you :)

This is the most wonderful time of the year! When we take a moment to give thanks and remember all of the blessings we have in our lives :)

At Maggie's Rose Garden Boutique we want to say thanks to our customers for all of your support throughout the year. We have enjoyed getting to know so many of you as we learn and grow and accomplish some dreams along the way too!

We would like to take a moment to give thanks and extend our best offer to you. If you order $100 you will receive 50% off. If you order $50 you will receive 20% off. Many of our items are also on sale through Monday. Take a moment to browse if you have an idea in mind and do not see it on our website please email us and we will be happy to design a custom order just for you.

Thanks again have a happy, healthy holiday season.

Please be sure to join us on facebook.

Facebook Fan Giveaway The Winner Is....

Thanks for all of our fans who continue to let their facebook friends know about our group. We love to give back for your support! Since we hit the big #300 we would like to give one person a $30 gift card as a token of our appreciation!

Chosen by random # generator the winner is fan #207 Emily Rose Andersen. Thanks for being a fan, Emily :)

We will have another giveaway once we reach 350 fans so keep inviting people :)

We keep adding new products and we are so happy to take custom orders for those of you who have ideas but don't see exactly what you want on our website, etsy store, or here on facebook.

Thanks again for all the love!

Des Moines Farmer's Market Saturday June 19th

There has been so much anticipation for us working up to this day, June 19th!. We are so excited to be having our first market day. We hope if you are planning on a morning at the Downtown Des Moines Farmer's Market that you will stop at Maggie's Rose Garden Boutique. We plan on having a TON of fun boutique items for babies, girls, boys, and women. I don't like leaving out the guys but we will have hairbows in honor of Father's Day that say Daddy's Girl.

We have a coupon available for this Saturday. Purchase 2 flower clips and receive a headband or purchase 4 hair clips and receive a hat for FREE!!. Here is the link for the printable coupon sheet

http://www.desmoinesfarmersmarket.com/market_tips/coupon_sheet.php

Also to thank our facebook fans if you purchase a tutu on Saturday you will receive a free flower clip. Click here to become a facebook fan.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1335156786&v=wall&story_fbid=134883196523685#!/MaggiesRoseGarden?ref=ts

We are busy at work designing new products and enjoying the spring sunshine. Recently we have been designing several new pixie dresses and costumes that would be beautiful at a wedding as well as for a birthday outfit or for dress up fun!

The pixie dresses are a stretchy top covered with delicate flower blossoms. We like to use hydrangeas, daisies, rose petals, and more. The skirt is made of several layers of pixie cut tulle. The fun thing about these dresses is that they are one of a kind. No two dresses will be exactly alike we have so many options to choose from in flower colors and tulle.

Maggie's Rose Garden is so excited to be a part of this year's Downtown Des Moines Farmer's Market. Every Saturday from May through October the farmer's market features fresh produce, meat, dairy, other food, flowers, plants, arts, crafts, and other products from over 200 Iowa vendors.

We have been accepted as an occasional vendor this summer and will be at the market 5 times throughout the summer. We will have many styles of hair accessories and hopefully other items like tutus, flip flops, costumes, ruffle skirts and socks, applique and rhinestone tees, and pillowcase dresses.

Does anyone else think there is a Baby Boom happening right now? Everywhere I look there is a friend or family member or a woman at the mall having a baby. Yes spring is that time when we prepare for babies to arrive. It seems to me though that the current amount of pregnant bellies is at least double the norm.

I've heard of a Baby Boom. Wasn't the last baby boom around the time of the Great Depression. Now we have one during the time of the Great Recession.

I personally think this would be an extremely fun time to be having a baby. There's all kinds of new gizmos and gadgets and gear and trendy baby attire now adays. When I wore my babies a few years ago people looked at me like I was psycho. Now babywearing seems to finally be catching on!

If you are looking for a perfect baby shower gift look no further than Maggie's Rose Garden We offer many boutique style items for newborns including crochet hats and headbands with bows or flowers, tutus, legwarmers, and applique tees and custom embroidery.

Even with the record-breaking snowfall and low temps we've been experiencing through out the country, we have so much to look forward to. Spring will be here in a few months.

It really is a time of preparation and anticipation. A time of waiting and hibernating. So many happenings await us even beginning in February.

The season of love is upon us. Valentine's Day. Weddings. Babies. Mother's Day. The thought of spring and growth and green makes all of the cabin fever dissipate.

Especially when I have time to share some of the wonderful creations we've been designing at Maggie's Rose Garden

We ordered several types of new silk flowers from various online retailers and I love them. My favorite flowers still come from the best craft store in the US, Hobby Lobby , but we love being able to offer a variety of sizes and types of flowers. The flowers are used in so many of the products we design including the deluxe tutus, princess wands, blooming flower headbands, bloomin beanies, flip-flops, and more.

I wanted to offer something new to those who love Valentine's Day and I was inspired by ribbon I picked up at Hobby Lobby The ribbon is decorated in the suits of playing cards; hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. I thought how fun would it be to design a tutu I've named Queen of Your Heart. The tutu is made of red, black, and white tulle with a black satin ribbon wrapped waist and finished with bow and flower clip of choice. The black tulle has red satin appliques and the red tulle has black satin appliques. I love the look of this tutu, perfect for Valentine's Day photos. I am also adding many more of the flower headbands and beanie hats to inventory in a rainbow of colors and flower sizes. We've also been working on Valentine hair bows, curlies, and clippies to match all your little lovlies Valentine outfits.