Happy New Year 2024!

Happy New Year friends and welcome to 2024!  I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are prepared to charge into the new year with enthusiasm and vigor.  I'm excited for 2024 and hope to make it a fabulous year full of lots of treasures for my customers.  Weather here hasn't been too terribly cold yet, but I chose the cover this month because I have actually seen icicles like this near where I live.  I'm always amazed at the beauty and grandeur of nature and so fascinated with magnificent creations like the above.

For many people the beginning of the new year is a time of reorganizing, evaluating and making plans to tackle the new year.  The same is true here at Cherry Rose Cottage.  I love, love, love organizing things, and January is a great time to get things in shape to work more efficiently throughout the year.  Right now I'm in the middle of organizing and revamping my shipping station so my shipping supplies are not scattered to kingdom come.  It's an ongoing process keeping track of supplies, inventory, and not letting everything get cluttered and unworkable. For a certain kind of person (you know who you are), there is such a sense of satisfaction in cleaning up a cluttered, not-so-efficient space and turning it into an organized, efficient area.  Those of you who are born with the organizing gene know exactly what I mean.

In addition to organizing and planning, I'm thrilled to share that I've begun creating some hand painted tees and clothing.  While I'm still in the process of testing out a few aspects of the process, I've created a few experimental items and the outlook for adding these to the store in the near future is excellent!  Creating these designs is something I've wanted to do for so long, and I'm so incredibly excited to get this process rolling.

In closing this month, as always, I want to say thank you for your continuing support of Cherry Rose Cottage.  If you enjoy shopping here, please share Cherry Rose Cottage with your friends and family.  It is the biggest compliment you can give and it means so much to me as I work very hard to make sure my customers are happy and feel appreciated and welcome.

2024 is a bright, shiny blank slate just waiting for each of us to write our story.  Let's make it a fabulous year.  And, of course, don't forget to stop in for some shopping now and again.

Happy 2024!