The Scented Cottage®Studio

Very BEST wishes for a blessed Christmas and joyous holiday season. Even facing mounting difficulties in the New Year we all still have a lot to be thankful for. My family has chosen to focus on our "haves" instead of our "have nots". It is easy for us because we have been t…

Oh my oh my in the midst of a busy busy schedule my SweetiePie and I took a long week end to travel to Pensacola, Florida. His cousin gave us a travel trailer and we went to pick it up and have a visit with cousin and his wife. My SweetiePie and his cousin served in the Navy together and have a v…

OH my ... the count down has officially started for us at the Scented Cottage. It has been a flurry of wrapping, packing, post officing etc. and I've barely had time to come up for air. Nothing to show you...and for some reason blogger won't let me add photos this morning! Let me first …

Hope everyone had a very blessed Thanksgiving. We were very blessed to be able to be with our family and share good food and good times. Now it's time to get busy again and get ready for the final push towards Christmas ! Soaps are on my agenda for the rest of the week, here are a few of th…

There are many people struggling just to make ends meet, and many are finding that they can not even get them close. Some how we seem to have lost our focus on what is important...really important. I am thankful every day for each and every blessing. We are not wealthy people...not in terms of mo…

Happy Happy Monday ! It feels like the start of a great holiday season. First let me say that the winner of the stickers etc. picked by Mrs. Glossers' Random Number Generator is Andie of The Brown Bee Studio Click and go visit her sweet crafty life...you'll love it ! Now on to new busin…

First for the GOOOD news, as per Mrs. Glosser the winner of the bird nest ornament is Patricia...you can visit her sweet shop by clicking her name Patricia Rose For this weeks give away I am offering stickers, scraps, notecards, embellishments etc. etc. etc. a whole lot more than you see in the ph…

Hope ya'll had a wonderful week end. We spent some time in Augusta with our son and beautiful daughter-in-law. We did a lot of eating and a bit of shopping and a lot of walking and now need to rest up. This week will be spent adding some new items to the web shop and trying to catch up. The wi…

The start of a new week ... may it be full of blessings for all! AND a new little give away, or maybe I should say an "itty bitty" give away. We have a sweet petite teacup and an itty bitty teacup and someone will get one of our itty bittys ... you know what to do ! Leave a little comm…

This Friday the shops at Make Mine Pink will be showing Roses Roses Roses ! Lots of beautiful items for your home or for gifts. I hope you will join The Scented Cottage and the participating shops. Here are photos of a few of the items we will have for this Friday. Using Mrs.Glosser's Math Go…

For this Mondays Show and Tell I'm taking you on a walk down memory lane with me...while digging through boxes I came across some things I made years and years ago. Okay, years and years and years ago...it was the nineties when craft shows were booming and sales were not good but great! I ha…

Happy Monday ya'll ! I think it's time for a little give away...do you have a favorite sign saying? Post it here and Wednesday I will draw a number and that comment will win one of those sweet little Cafe signs. Au Revoir ! My wish for you: May your sign always be full speed ahead!

Each year Make Mine Pink celebrates all who have suffered and survived Breast cancer and honors those who have lost their battle with Breast Cancer. The Boutiques at Make Mine Pink have many exciting things planned; from special limited edition products, special discounts or a percentage of sales d…

Can you believe I almost missed the start of October? "There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne "While other birds fly South Sparrows stay..." October bir…

roll around so fast ! My show is first...my sweet faux cakes are almost all gone. I think there is one small baby cake left. So I needed to make some more roses and nests for the tops. Making the roses takes time but it's also relaxing for me. The real fun is putting the goodies together! …

I am excited about this Pink Friday...Stitches in Time. I love needlework of any type. I appreciate the time and patience it takes and can't help but think of the loving hands and hearts that took the time to create each item. I am really happy that I have a cross stitch with the motto of mo…

...There is no way to describe how fabulous the Make Mine Pink Retreat was! Oh we had a wonderful time, lots of fun and laughter but we also learned a lot too. Joyce picked the BEST speakers who addressed our concerns and related to us and our businesses...purrrrrrfect ! Now I am trying to recover…

Happy Monday my sweet friends and visitors ! This is the start of a hectic and exciting week ... so not much show and just a bit of tell. I will be leaving Thursday morning for the Make Mine Pink Retreat in Williamsburg, VA. Willie and Wynona will be looking out the window and waiting for my r…

It's Pink Friday ! This Friday we celebrate Harvest Home...what could make a home more inviting than the wonderful aroma of cinnamon, spices and oranges and apples. That's the delicious scent of our special Slices and Spices® potpourri blend and we're offering it in several different b…

Show and Tell Monday...Woot ! Well it has been one busy busy week at the cottage. Trying to get things made, get things out and get things cleaned up. It has been a time of going in many directions, some of them at the same time. This hasn't ever happened to you has it? Usually I take the sum…