Holiday Stitch Market is This Week!

In case you didn't make it to the last Stitch Market, it's now at Grace Church. Think: bigger venue... tons more goodies to shop... munchies to eat... close to downtown so you can come in after going out, or go out after coming in! Perfect for stopping in on your break on Friday, too.

Who/Where/When :
* 25 local vendors, almost all handmade goodies
* Grace Church, 1350 Osos Street, SLO {across from Mitchell Park}
* December 6th {Thursday} 5-10p; December 7th {Friday} 9a-2p

What's Cookie+Curly bringing, you ask?:
The Ever-Popular Vintage Flower Necklaces:
  

New Beaded & Stone Necklaces:


New Recycled Glass Adjustable Necklaces:


Fun Assortment of Rings, with new styles making their debut:


Pacifier Clips, upon request:


Fresh mobiles and new takes:
  

And of course, clips, earrings, and fabric cuff bracelets. Oh, and some new gold and silver jewelry. And that's just Cookie+Curly's stuff!

Come and bring family {kids totally welcome}, friends {Girls' Night!}, neighbors and share some drinks, laughter, and shopping time with us! Heck, share this link with your friends now and start planning your time together.

$1 at the door. We now have centralized checkout and accept cash, checks, and most major credit cards.

Can you come?? I hope so! RSVP here or just show up. If you're receiving this, it means I truly do hope to see you!

Molly

P.S. According to the Made in America Challenge, the average American spends over $700 annually on holiday shopping. If just $64 of this was spent on gifts made in USA, the economic impact would equate to the creation of 200,000 American jobs. Come shop with us!

Let's Just Get it All Out

Okay, so... in case some of you have not already guessed it by now, I shall divulge why on earth I have not been up to blogging so much. I have not had a single extra ounce of energy over the last few months because...

9 Week Ultrasound

I have a little being growing in my belly!

Yep, the fifth member of our family {third child} is on its way! We love the suspense of not knowing which gender is inside so you'll have to be patient with us and wait until mid-June to find out exactly who's going to be joining us.

In the meantime, please excuse my sporadic postings. I hope to have more energy soon as I just started week 13 and the second trimester usually brings more energy, but this one's a whole new ballgame for me {insomnia, car sickness, extreme sleepiness... none of which I had with my other kids} that who knows when things will "normalize"... if at all.

Thank you for your support recently. The Stitch Market was an amazing success and the holiday season has brought many new and repeat customers to Cookie+Curly. 

Thanks for all the love!

Oh, What Fun it is to...

Oh, what fun it is to go to the Holiday Stitch Market!

What a fun, fun night! Sooo cool to see so many people turn out in hopes of finding the perfect something, something for their loved ones (and themselves!) and walking away with so much love in their bags! 

I look forward to seeing more friendly faces tomorrow (10a-2p - in case you missed tonight - email me if you need the address). What a fun night!

P.S. The rings are going fast! I made extra in hopes of supplies some stores carrying my rings, but it looks like there won't be many left. Sold out of all of the clips and earrings tonight, too - More to come in two weeks. Exciting problems to have! Thanks for all the love.

molly

Holiday Stitch Market - Tomorrow!

Holiday Stitch Market is This Week!

So, it's this Thursday night (6-9p) and Friday between 10a-2p. Can you come?

This Holiday Stitch Market is going to blow away all the other boutiques and Stitch Markets you've been to in the past. Twice the vendors. New items by all the vendors. Local gals. Handmade "totally necessary" goodies & gifts. I'm super excited about this one!

Where/When:
* 1624 Phillips Lane, SLO {off California near the CHP office}
* December 1st {Thursday} 6-9p; December 2nd {Friday} 10a-2p
Basically, you really have no excuse not to come ;)

New from Cookie+Curly:

I'm really looking forward to debuting a few new items, like these fabric cuff bracelets:

   
these new ring styles/colors:

(Photo taken at night - Sorry!)

a new sailboat mobile:

(Just a sneak peak - Come to see the real deal)

and these sweet, polka dot barrettes:

(Again, taken in the dark. Poor quality - My bad!)

Please bring a friend, neighbor, or that girl you've always wanted to talk to and share some drinks, laughter, and shopping time with us!

Can you come?? I hope so! RSVP here on Facebook.

Molly

{Stitch Market}+{New Inventory}

{Stitch Market Thanks}

Wow. It was so fun to see the excitement in people's faces when they entered the Stitch Market. So many tempting items to choose from. Eyes lite up!

There were incredible vendors selling sweet crocheted hats, little girl dresses made from recycled fabrics, posy pins, sunglasses cases, iPad covers, earrings, personalized playdate cards, classy cards & invites, homemade goat's milk soap {my daughter shares names with the goat!}, captivating photography, luscious lotions & cleansers, and awesome skirts - one of which I snagged for myself. {I now own two skirts.}

I'll post more pics a bit later.

Cookie+Curly had mobiles...

Rings...

and I debuted Cookie+Curly bracelets of incredibly-colored glass beads and gems on delicate sterling silver chains...

Thank you to all who came and enjoyed the event. I really appreciate the support and love hearing what you think of my products. Custom orders from the event will be available in 3-4 weeks. I'll be in touch.

{New Inventory}

New mobiles are now available on Cookie+Curly's website! 

Also available are new bracelets and new styles of rings. What do you think??

Thank you, again, for all your support and feedback. So good to hear from you.

Have a great weekend.

{Stitch Market ~ THIS Thurs/Fri}

All the creatures are stirring, but thankfully not any mice! 

It's late-night and I'm placing the final touches on a number of Cookie+Curly mobiles, bracelets and rings in preparation for the Stitch Market this Thursday night {6-9p} and Friday morning {9a-12p}.

Are you coming?

Check out who will be there:

christina carroll - rooted in paper

emily waechtler - blue corduroy

jen hines - jenmen

jenny nanninga - the sweet stuff

kristen jones - aloette

krystina montemurro - lollipops

lindsey cheney - the pleated poppy

molly trapp {me!} - cookie + curly

olivia richardson - handmade soap

stacy lynn - stacy lynn

toni weber - toni weber photography

Are you drooling yet? Now you have to come, don't you! Something for everyone - Especially you. Looking forward to seeing you there. 

For those of you that made it to the bottom here, mention my blog and get 10% off any item. :}

{The Moment You've Been Waiting For}

{Easter Lovies}

I'll get to the Moment You've Been Waiting For in a moment. First I have to show off what my sweet darlings sported on Resurrection Sunday.

This year my sweet little girl had a "Pretty Pretty Princess Dress" that was a little over the top fit who she is right now to the tee. 

And we discovered Little Man's Easter outfit didn't fit that morning so he sported a super short tie on a sporty Old Navy top and shorts from Silver Seahorse.  {P.S. You can get 15% off your entire online order for Silver Seahorse if you enter "FAMILY" at checkout through April.}

{I want to start making ties... My son loves them and they are outrageously expensive for a little dude! Tutorial to come?}

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. It's my favorite day of any year - Have I mentioned that?!

{The Moment You've Been Waiting For}

This week is the Spring Stitch Market! Thursday night 6-9pm and Friday morning 9am-12pm. Kids welcome!

If you can't justify buying completely adorable and "necessary" things for yourself, think about Mother's Day coming up, birthdays, end-of-the-year teacher gifts... You can honestly find something for every woman in your life there.

You can find most of the details on the Stitch Market blog. If you need more info, let me know. If you know you can come, please RSVP here so we can get a feel for numbers. Definitely feel free to drop in last minute though - We'll have plenty for everyone!

A huge thank you to all those who have supported Cookie+Curly and other handmade goodies at past boutiques. I look forward to see you all there!

Autumn Has Fallen and Needs Help Up

Buy a Little - Help a Lot

15% proceeds go to a special 4-year old in need 

A group of us wanted to get together for a fun, Springtime boutique, but then something very devastating happened. My son, Calvin's, preschool crush, Autumn, was diagnosed with cancer. She had only been 4 for a short while when an unpleasant surprise hit her and she had to have her kidney and a tumor the size of a cantaloupe removed from her abdomen. I can't imagine all that she and her family are going through. You can read more here.

In an effort to show support for her and her family, 15% of all proceeds from our boutique will go to Autumn's family. Now that you know "Why", here's are the rest of the details...

Where/When:
* 1724 Farrier Court, SLO {near Costco}
* April 7th {Thursday} 6:30-9:30pm; April 8th {Friday} 8:45-11:45 am

Who/What:
* Cookie+Curly {your favorite :)} with bird and butterfly mobiles, stationary, and more.
* "natty threads" by Natalia Wellman {chic handmade items like plush dolls, fabric envelope handbags, appliqued tees}
* Aloette by Kristen Jones
* "head trip" by Glory Van Horn {precious handmade headbands for all ages}
* Stella & Dot by Summer Kabaker {boutique-style jewelry}
* Frames by Sabrina {paper covered & sealed frames by a 10 year old entrepreneur}

I'm so glad so many of you enjoyed The Stitch Market {the next one's around May} and the Holiday Hoopla. Your support for Cookie+Curly and your interest in other crafty-gals was overwhelming. Thank you! I really hope to see you at this one too.

If you think you can come, I'd love to know. And, bring friends! Perfect for Girls' Night or after dropping the little ones at school.

Hope you're all well!

Time to Sleep

Thank you to all who came out for The Stitch Market tonight! (And to our hostess, Lindsey. Beautiful house, and person.) It was incredible how many people came and all the love that was lavished on all of our products. Lots of love was showered on the birds and butterflies. Thank you!

Since last boutique I forgot to take pictures, here are a few from tonight...

Lots of happy shoppers!

Christmas C+C style

Ornament Bird

C+C Raffle Giveaway - Handmade Cards Variety Pack

Tropical Jungle Duet

Thank you again, everyone. A very fun night, for all. I'm off to bed! Just a tad bit of sleep to catch up on...

Darn...

In my last post I blogged how I had stayed up burning the midnight oil so that I could work on my birds during my time away over Thanksgiving so I wouldn't come home and have a trillion things to do in preparation for The Stitch Market. Well, so much for that effort.

The second I started stuffing my first bird I realized that I had goofed. Big time. At the last minute, while cutting out all of the birds, I changed my pattern just a bit (I seem to always be tweaking it to make the birds just right). Well, I made a mistake and didn't check one bird before cutting ALL the other birds... and sewing them together.

So, long story short, I burned the midnight oil again Sunday night, cutting and sewing. (I'm kind of happy I started over again as I found some fabrics that really zing when they're together!) Last night I stuffed all of them (while enjoying a lighthearted movie with my hubby) and today I embroider and hopefully hang a few of them. And yes, there will be bedazzled birds involved, and some special Christmas birds - both mobiles, and ornaments. 

Stay tuned for sneak peaks on what will be at The Stitch Market. And locals, come! It's this Thursday night from 6-9pm. You get a raffle ticket just for showing up (and an extra one if you bring a friend!) for the raffle held every 30 minutes. Email me if you need the address.

Great things there from The Pleated Poppy, decorative and custom cards by lollipops, Dondi Bags, blue corduroy, and many more.

See you Thursday!

P.S. Cookie+Curly will be providing a variety pack of gift cards for the raffle.

A Little of This, and a Little of That

Today was a good day in many senses. And then, there were a few hiccups. The day started strong with a wonderful, crisp hike to the "M" of Madonna Mountain with my little side-kick, "Curly". 

She loves to walk now ("Heidi do") so the only way I can get her to stay put in the hiking backpack now is to load up her "lovey" (she never was one for a pacifier) and hit the trail. And yes, those are Kix.

During "naptime" I selected and cut a huge number of birds.

 

I put naptime in quotes because this is when the hiccup was...

Remember the story from a few days ago of my son and entire bottle of moisturizing cream? Well, Round 2 happen today. Yeah.

I checked in on him about 10 minutes into when he was supposed to be napping, only to find him this time behind his previously-upholstered-but-now-naked-because-it's-at-the-cleaners rocking chair. I looked closer and found a trail of lotion on the floor. I hustled to the chair, only to find that my sensory-loving boy had covered the back of the rocking chair, the carpeting, and was working now working on the curtains. What?!?!

I don't need to go into what happened next. Needless to say, as expected by a healthy 3 year old, he recovered quickly and built a "pirate ship" in the livingroom. Ahoy there!

I conclude my day having just sewn twenty nine birds for the Stitch Market boutique on December 2nd. Had to cram in a lot of work to allow for at least a little down time this week.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, if I don't blog before then.