We Are Off To Sweden...

We are once again packing our pillows for a long trip. This time our pillows are going to Sweden. We are thrilled to soon have our pillows in the wonderful shop Country by Mail. Several years ago I book marked this wonderful site as a great shopping experience for Nordic merchandise. I do hope you will stop by and take a look at all the gorgeous items.

I also want to tip my hat to all of the wonderful blogger's out there who are continuously coming up with amazing blog posts and photos. I must admit, I do struggle with finding interesting material to post, so I hope you will all bear with me. My head has been buried in work and unless I post about the qualities of burlap, I don’t think I have many exciting things to share with you except for my excitement that Petit Coterie will be available soon at Country by Mail.

I would also like to thank so many of you for your kind thoughts and prayers for my husband. He is doing so well that I have to hold him back from doing too much. So a huge thanks to all of you! You are the BEST!!!




Many blessings to all of you this week!

Easter Blessings and The Winner Is...

I have been a bit reflective this week, thinking of all the blessings that I receive each day. I normally don’t use my blog as a personal journal but with Easter here I have to say that I relied on my faith this week to see my husband through heart surgery. Very unexpected as he is always the one telling me that I should be taking vitamins and of course stop eating junk food. Faith get's us through the most difficult and stressful times as well as making us take stock on how truly blessed we are.

The winner of our burlap King slip is Julie, from Being Ruby. I want to thank each of you for your wonderful comments and for participating in our giveaway. We really love doing giveaways as you may have noticed. It is our way of saying thank you for visiting our blog and becoming one of our blogging friends.

Happy Easter to each of you and we wish you many blessing.

Revival Time and Giveaway at Petit Coterie

We had stopped making our burlap king slip and yet we still get so many requests for it. So it was revival time this week and now we feel it is greatly improved. We added the envelope closure to the back and also added a new wreath. We are so excited, it's like having an old friend back. So we have decided to share it in a giveaway. Yes, we are giving one of our burlap king slips away. Just leave a comment and we will have the drawing next Friday.


I hope all of you are having a wonderful weekend!

Show and Tell Friday...

This has been a busy week at Petit Coterie. We did have a chance to add our new Petite Pillows. Most of our pillows are 16"x16" and larger, so we decided to offer our Petite ones which are 12"x12" perfect size to send as a gift. We just had to do a show and tell Friday and we do hope you will post a comment to let us know what you think of our Petit Pillow.

I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend!

The Winner Is...

Friday was a blur but in my frenzy I did manage to pull a name from all who entered my giveaway and the winner is Polly. Congratulation!!

I want to thank all of you for entering my giveaway and for all the nice comments you left. I love to do a giveaway, so please do stop by again as you never know when the urge may strike



Have a wonderful weekend!

End Of The Month Giveaway...

It has been awhile since we have offered a giveaway, we thought it would be a nice way to end the month. We also thought it would be nice to giveaway one of our original designs the D. LaBlanc. To enter just leave a comment, we will draw the name on March 5th.

We have had so many requests for a personalized pillow and this last week we completed one for a customer. We just had to share it with you, I think it turned out so cute! We will be offering this pillow which can be customized with your own text. I Would love your feedback on this one.

Wishing all of you a fabulous weekend!

Mardi Gras 2010

The festivities have been going on since January 6th, which is also known as the Twelfth Night. Today is Mardi Gras which is French for Fat Tuesday, the last day of feasting before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. There have been the large balls as well as many parties. Children are out of school for Mardi Gras so they can share in the festivities. Most of the children in the south enjoy going to the parades, as catching the good beads can be quite a challenge.

From the small towns in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to New Orleans there have been parades as well as homes decorated in the gold, purple and green. Of course we cannot forget about the King Cake which is tradition. Who ever gets the piece of cake with the baby has to buy the next cake.

I thought it would be fun to show the new king and queen of Ixolib. The pageantry of the balls is steeped in tradition and the costumes are gorgeous. I love the decorated masks. Which one would you choose? photo Sun Hearld

I hope all of you have a wonderful week and "Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez".