My friend, Mary Ann, is the owner of a really cute home accessories boutique in uptown Suttons Bay called Anchor Cottage. Last year, she decided to expand and bought a very nondescript office building in town and transformed it into this darling little shop.>
Look at this super sexy mermaid sign that she has for sale!
She has wonderful products and is a great merchandiser!
Just look at all of the cool stuff on this table!
If you’re in the area, stop by and check out all of her cool stuff in person at 412 St. Josephs Avenue.
Yesterday, Coco held court at our store in Suttons Bay. Basically, this entails Coco sitting on a pillow while each and every visitor to our store oohs and aahs about her cuteness.
She got lots of petting….all doggone day long.
The blur in this picture is Princess Coco — she’s all atwitter as she plays with sweet little Henry.
At the end of the day, Coco was EXHAUSTED and slept all the way home.
Larry’s primary claim to fame is the fact that he has survived with his neck intact for about 6 months now. For some reason, Larry has escaped the grisly fate of all of Coco’s other stuffed toys: garrotting within 24 hours. With all of the other toys, Coco goes in for the kill almost immediately, ferreting out a weak seam like a Rottweiler going after a filet. But, in this case, Larry has received the utmost respect, even affection from Coco. She pulls Larry up onto her bed and rests her sweet doggie head on his little llama head. She chases Larry when he’s thrown, but not to tear apart lustily, instead she rather daintily brings Larry back to the thrower. If I didn’t know better, I might say that somebody’s got a crush on a little llama.
We bought this perfectly okay clock radio a few months ago so we could know what time it was in the bedroom when we needed to know what time it was while we were in the bedroom. All was well until I had a bout of insomnia wherein the gleaming green numbers felt like a strobe light piercing my brain when the lights were out. For a while, we heaped dark clothing upon the face of the clock at nighttime, but a faint glow still emanated from within. Yesterday, I walked into the bedroom to see this scenario: my lavender eye mask hooked gracefully around the face of the annoying clock face. The perfect solution, dreamt up by my always enterprising husband. And, I’m sure the clock radio is enjoying the aromatherapeutic benefits as well. Heloise, eat your heart out — he’s all mine!
It’s like Christmas every day at our store in Suttons Bay as Pete, the nicest UPS guy in the Midwest (Coco loves him, but she’s always adored a man in uniform) drops off package after package to 309 St. Josephs Ave. Our tiny boutique is filling up with colorful clothes for spring (lots of spicy colors this year: think marmalade, raspberry, and coffee — sounds like breakfast, no?); sassy accessories & gifts, and my personal favorite: giant man-eating Gerber Daisies! (you can see them in the shot above). If you’re in northern Michigan (and if you’re not, you should be planning a trip here ASAP), please stop by. We are open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 11am to 5pm. If you can’t manage a trip to our beautiful area, check out our site cuz we will be doing a mega add of new products in the next few weeks.
Somewhere in the middle of this photo, you’ll see two sweet little doggie eyes, peering out from the flotsam and jetsam of our just out of the dryer jeans & socks. It’s one of her favorite things; in fact (dare I say it?) there is a Pavlovian reaction from our sweet girl whenever she hears the dryer door slam shut (and she knows the difference between the washer door shutting & the dryer door shutting). Whenever she hears that alluring pop, she’s immediately in the moment (doesn’t matter if she was eating or eviscerating her favorite toy), and ready to plop into the mass of HEAT. She’s probably wondering how she found herself in northern Michigan when she so obviously prefers the tropics.
In keeping with my 2008 New Year’s resolution to only like movies that start with the letters, ‘JUN’ (see Juno)….here’s Junebug. A sweet, independent film about families and the blending of families by marriage. A sophisticated art gallery owner (Madeleine) from Chicago falls in love with a charming man from North Carolina (George) and when she needs to visit North Carolina to sign an artist for her gallery, she and her new husband spend a few days with his working class family. His mother is disapproving & repressed, her other son resentful & uncommunicative, her pregnant daughter-in-law starstruck by the glamorous new wife, and his father mostly silent, although he tends to deliver the most meaningful & poignant lines in the movie (When defending his wife’s taciturn exterior to Madeleine, he says, ‘She’s not like that inside. She hides her real self. Just like everybody else.’) It’s sweet, it’s well-acted, it’s poignant, and it’s well worth seeing. And, the name of movie comes from…?? Well, you’ll just have to watch it and see.
