Please join us for Last Minute Gifts at the Make Mine Pink Friday Shopping Event.

Please join us for shopping with a twist on Friday December 11, 2009 as we present "Last Minute Gifts"
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Christmas is just around the corner, but there's still time to find just the right gift for that someone special on your shopping list this year. Whatever her interests or tastes, here are some last minute gift ideas that will fill her holiday season with delight, and remind her that you think of her all through the year.

A gift for the kitchen is always welcome. Perhaps a delicately embroidered kitchen towel to hang on the over door, a toaster oven cover in the prettiest fabric and lace, white farmhouse canisters for holding utensils or a floral bouquet, or a cupcake clock to add whimsy to her kitchen wall.

For a new mother, or a mother-to-be, a baby blanket in soft white fleece or a cuddly bedtime friend for a little one to love. Gifts for the nursery might be a cute cupcake coin bank or a decorative wreath of childhood toys and treasures to display.

Do you have a crafter or stitcher on your list? She would be delighted to find a new project under her tree this year. Beautiful quilting fabrics and patterns or a scrapbooking kit for her most precious memories. For the book lover, a vintage basket to hold her favorite books, or a carefully chosen book to give her new inspiration.

To add romance and beauty to her home, there are pillows dressed in ruffles and roses, vintage vases and dishes for her shelf, silk flowers in colors that fit with any décor, a Victorian vanity tray to grace the dresser in her boudoir.

Does she spend hours in her garden? Think hand painted birdhouses, cup and saucer birdfeeders for feathered friends. An outdoor fairy house to inspire her creativity. Or if she prefers to spend her time entertaining indoors, perhaps a pretty handcrafted apron, a pair of elegant candlesticks, a broken china teapot to bring out whenever friends come to tea.

Your lifelong best friend deserves a gift as beautiful and unique as she is - a one-of-a-kind sterling bracelet, a vintage needlepoint transformed into a boudoir cushion, an antique pendant hanging on a ribbon chain. Cinderella shoes that make her dreams come true with heirloom laces, jewels and vintage brooches.

A last minute Christmas gift can hold all the love and friendship you feel at this season and always.

Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
http://www.makeminepink.com/pink-friday


Photo Contribution 1: Angel Heart Designs | Photo Contribution 2: Sew Graceful | Photo Contribution 3: The Polka Dot Rose

It's all about Christmas!

Please join us for shopping with a twist on Friday December 4, 2009 as we present "It's all about Christmas"

Christmas is all about family, friends, church and community. Seeing loved ones who live far away and reconnecting with those who are nearby, but we don't see as often as we wish we could. It's about caring for those who are alone at this time of year and inviting them to be part of our families too. Working with our communities to bring Christmas cheer to those in need, is such a special part of our Christmas tradition.

Christmas is about time spent sitting around the fire, enjoying the warmth of the season. It is hot cocoa or our favorite tea, sipped from our favorite vintage holiday cups. Working on new stitching projects for someone we love, while telling stories from the past year and our hopes for the year to come. We're thankful for those we will share it with.

It's about planning cookie swaps and holiday menus. Yankee swaps and prizes that bring a little extra element of excitement to young and old alike. Christmas is about searching for gifts that we're sure everyone on our Christmas list will love. We're filled with excitement when we find that perfect item for someone on our list, and we feel a little giddy at the thought of them opening our gift on Christmas morning. The Ultimate gift for someone special is no longer elusive. With a love of repurposed and well loved gifts from the past, our choices become easier and more personal; our treasure hunt memorable.

friday 12-4Under the sparkling lights of the Christmas tree shines gift wrap that's almost as pretty as the gifts inside. Some gifts are wrapped in vintage linens and held closed by a vintage rhinestone brooch. Others are tied with velvet ribbons and big bows. Each gift bears a handmade gift tag, twinkling with glitter and the name of someone you love. The sense of anticipation we feel looking at those Christmas treasures is almost as exciting as watching the gifts being opened.

Christmas is all about sharing the blessings of the season with family and friends and believing that everything about the Christmas season is magical.


Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
http://www.makeminepink.com/pink-friday

Photo Contribution 1: The Ultimate Gift - Photo by Carol of Business in the Bag

Christmas Is Coming

We started getting the boutique all decorated for the Holiday season this past week in preparation for our annual Downtown Christmas Walk this Sunday, November 22nd. The Christmas walk has been a holiday tradition in McHenry for the last 22 years. Families come from all around to see the toy's for tots parade, pony rides, wagon rides, shopping the specialties stores, and ending the day with the lighting of all the trees in Veterans Park. It's a wonderful day for us at the boutique, as it kicks off the Holiday shopping season.

The Ultimate Gift Basket

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Participants
Angel Heart Designs
C'est Chouette Home
Candylights CarolineAlexander
Cottage Flair
Esprit de Jolie
Forget Me Not Dreams
Gail Friend Designs
Katie's Rose Cottage
Lil Bit Old Lil Bit New
Mary's Cottage Treasures
Olivia Paige Emporium
Patricia Rose
Petite Bookstore
Savon Marie
Shabby Shan's Cottage
Sweet Hummingbird Lane
The Polka Dot Rose
The Sassy Beach
Tres Belle Boutique


Finding the Ultimate Christmas gift for someone special has never been easier. From lavish baskets filled with all of her favorites, to distinct, ultimate, one-of-a-kind gifts, the boutiques listed above can help you create the Ultimate gift.

Please click on each link for ideas and gifts that are sure to please everyone on your list. We’ve set up special “Ultimate Gift” categories to make it even easier for you to shop. Order now and we’ll ship for the holidays!

Enter to win this Ultimate Gift Basket valued at $950.00.

Please join us for The Comforts of Home at the Make Mine Pink Friday Shopping Event.

Please join us for shopping with a twist on Friday November 13, 2009 as we present "Comforts of Home"

When I think of the comforts of home, I picture a favorite sweater, soft and worn with time. Sitting by the fire, wrapped in a quilt that my mother made so many years ago bring back so many memories of home. Looking around, there are framed photographs on the wall, some of people I see every day, and others of friends of loved ones that once touched my life , yet are no longer with us. The memories woven, remain alive and an important part of our lives. The antique clock that my great-grandmother cherished, chimes the hour in the next room, and the crackling of the fire seems in tune, counting the minutes.

As I sip my tea from a special antique cup and saucer that was once a part of my grandmother's treasured collections, I can't help but remember and smile. No one made a tea party more special than she did. At the end, we'd read our tea leaves as if we could tell the future. Mine was always filled with wonderful things that were sure to come true.

The fragrance of potpourri simmering on the stove, reminiscent of holiday get-togethers, gingerbread and pumpkin pie, and mingling with memories of my mother's kitchen on any Sunday or holiday, fills my senses. The lit candles, with rich and spicy scents, cast soft shadows around the room, lighting up corners with thoughts of familiar voices and laughter.

The comforts of home reach out from the past and wind their way into those of the present. Our homes, stamped with our own distinct style, with just a touch of nostalgia mixed in. Grandmother's teacup, the glaze finely crazed with age, sitting on the shelf alongside a favorite new set of coffee mugs. A vintage lamp standing tall, surrounded by candlelight. Among the faded family photographs hangs a framed print that makes you smile just because. A treasured worn sweater lies in a dresser drawer beside a brand new knit cardigan. On the sofa beside me, the colors of a new quilting project are bright compared to the quilt my mother made.

It's the little touches from generations past that help to make our house a home. Each item is so different from the others, yet nothing feels out of place. It just feels like home.

Joyce Lucas, Founder
Make Mine Pink
http://www.makeminepink.com/pink-friday

Photo Contribution 1: My Rose Retreat | Photo Contribution 2: The Roseberry Cottage