Holiday Nesting Open House

Holiday Nesting Open House

Bittersweet Design Studio and Moonshine Essentials
December 18 and 19 from 12 noon to 5 pm

Directions: From Route 7 east or west - Take Route 9 west - go approximately 1/2 mile - immediately after the traffic light get ready to turn left on to Simpson Circle.
The shop is just up the gravel lane from the first house on the right. There will be a sign. You can park along Simpson Circle.
We hope to see you!

Welcome and thanks for stopping by! Please join us for our last event of this Christmas season, our 16th annual open house. Not only will we treat you to some yummy homemade breads,a db somehting hot to drink, we will also send you off in style - everything you purchase will be packaged or bagged for gift giving.

If you have been here within the past year, you know that we are an ever evolving shop, and that once more we have honed our focus. In many ways, our focus has shifted towards ‘hearth and home’, and being ‘green’. You will find many more of our handmade products (knitting, jewelry, note cards, wreaths), and those of our friends (handbags, candles, soap) and more, as well as a larger variety of vintage items, from furniture to home décor - and of course cool vintage Christmas. My daughter and I have also included clothing and accessories in our vintage line – including outerwear, formal wear, lingerie, handbags, and hats. As usual we are having just plain fun!

the 3/50 project

3 What 3 independently owned businesses would you miss if they disappeared?
Stop in. Say hello.
Pick up something that brings a smile.
Your purchases are what keeps those businesses around.

50 If half the employed population spent $50 each month in locally
owned independent businesses, it would
generate more than $42.6 billion in revenue.
Imagine the impact if ¾ of the population did that!

68 For every $100 spent in locally owned independent stores,
$68 returns to the community through taxes, payroll and other expenditures.
If you spend it in a national chain, only $43 stays here.
Spend it online and nothing comes home.

1 The number of people it takes to start the trend… YOU.

Pick 3. Spend 50. Save your local economy.

Courtesy of The 3/50 Project, ®© Cinda Baxter 2009. All rights reserved.

Holiday Nesting Open House

Some christmassy items in one of the cupboards at the shop. Top shelf - vintage planters; 2nd shelf - vintage plates, candle holders, glasses; 3rd shelf - kitchen items and holiday soaps; bottom shelf - vintage and new kitchen items ready for holiday cooking!

Vintage coffee carafes, vintage pressed glass (USA made) Christmas cookie platters, Herbal Star candles, Mid Century Modern Inland Glass platter.

Of course there are lots more goodies to be found here - We're the best place to shop for Christmas.
We'll be open December 11 & 12 from 12 noon to 5 pm AND December 18 & 19 from 12 noon to 5 pm.

Bittersweet Design Studio at Really Great Finds

Just a few photos from the Garden Room at Really Great Finds in Purcellville.

Some great vintage Made in USA glass cookie platters - I have about a dozen? of these in various designs.

Aluminum 'feather tree' showcasing vintage ornaments.

The Christmassy red hutch has a variety of hand painted snowman items and snowflake plates, platter and tray. The top - not shown - is filled with those wonderful vintage, glazed greenware, electrified Christmas trees with the little plastic 'bulbs'.

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" Open House

This is a note to let you know what events we have planned for the upcoming months.Here is a list of our ‘end of the year’ events.

NOVEMBER:

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” Open House (at the shop)

Friday and Saturday, November 20th and 21st, 12 noon to 5 pm.

Need to come earlier or later? Just let us know!

DECEMBER:

”Holiday Gift Shop & Moose Café” hosted by the Mountain View Elementary PTA

Saturday, December 5, 2009, 1PM-4PM Café and Gift Shop opens at 1PM,

Student shoppers only 1PM-3PM, parents can visit gift shop 3-4PM.

“Holiday Nesting” Open House (at the shop)

- Consecutive weekends

Friday and Saturday December 11th and 12th, and

Friday and Saturday December 18th and 19th,

12 noon to 5pm, all 4 days.

Need to come earlier or later? Just let us know!

Because we are an ever evolving shop, we have once again honed our focus.

In many ways our focus has shifted towards ‘hearth and home’, and being ‘green’.

You will find many more of our handmade products (knitting, jewelry, note cards, wreaths), and those of our friends (handbags, candles, soap) and more, as well as a larger variety of vintage items, from furniture to home décor.

My daughter and I have also included clothing and accessories in our vintage line – including outerwear, formal wear, lingerie, handbags, and hats. As usual we are having just plain fun!

We would like to update your information with us – so that we may better stay in touch.

1. We would love an email address – to allow us another way to communicate with you. Sign up on the email list at the shop and receive a free gift. If you are already on our list – let us know and we will give you 10% off your purchase at our November Open House.

2. You can also message me through my website at www.bittersweetdesignstudio.com

3. If you would like to shop online – go to the website above and click ‘shop online’ – then you can choose to shop at my Etsy shop, Artfire shop, (or on eBay – if I have anything listed on Ebay at the moment).

4. Another way to keep up with what is going on at the shop – and in my life – follow my blog – www.bittersweetdesignstudio.blogspot.com

5. Make an appointment – You know you are always welcome to come at a time convenient to you – for a group of friends – or just yourself.

Just email me – info@bittersweetdesignstudio.com

We hope you have had a wonderful year and hope to see you at one of our upcoming events!

Fondest regards, Elizabeth and Virginia

Etsy's front page WOOT!

WOW!!! How exciting is this - November 10, 2009 - will go down in history... (Do you hear the serious announcer's voice???) I was on the front page with my 'Home' Ribbon Wreath in a selected "Holiday Gift Ideas" treasury. It was between about 8:40 and 9:05 pm. This rocks! I tried to load the entire page here - but I couldn't. I'll work on that...

Treasuries - Two in One Day

Take a look at these two Etsy Treasuries -
The theme for the first one is teardrops by www.PynkRoseDesigns.etsy.com view it at :
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=73956

and the theme for the second is horns of plenty or cornucopia by www.morrigae.etsy.com view it at: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=73897

Many thanks to these two Etsy shops for featuring:
Pair of milk glass vases - teardrop pattern
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27852081
and a vintage ceramic cornucopia
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31874727

How fortunate to be featured in two treasuries in one day!