Couture, my local boutique is CLOSING!

Dear Valued Customer and Friend,
Couture is announcing that we will be closing our downtown boutique by March 31st, but our business will continue online at www.pipsqueakcouture.com This has been an important decision in the making and I will post my personal story about it later, but for now here is the info:
On March 1st, we will open our doors to the public with the entire contents of the shop being sold at 20% off and the discounts will increase to 75% off over the next couple weeks. This means great savings for you!

Look for every item in the store to be on sale:
• LADIES CLOTHING • BABY & CHILDREN'S CLOTHING • TABLES • CABINETS • ANTIQUES• LIGHTING • DECOR • TEXTILES ••ACCESSORIES • JEWELRY• HOLIDAY DECOR • DISPLAY PIECES • SUPPLIES• PAINTINGS • PROPS• COUNTERS... and so much more.

THIS WILL BE OUR FINAL SALE!!! COME EARLY TO GET THE BEST SELECTION, AS NEW SPRING LADIES AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING IS STILL ARRIVING!

Our Valentine's Girls...

So after last week being one of the longest weeks of my life...I had to sew Aspen some cute, new Valentine pants for her little party at school! These are my new variation on the garden party ruffle pants, but they have a little cinched bloomer style leg. Very fun...and large rosettes...can't beat that!

So I snapped this quick picture just as we were leaving for school...so London managed to grab the binky and put it into her mouth in the time it took me to get the camera focused on them! Can you stand it! Oh well, it will have to do for now, as I told you last week was such a long week with sick kids and a watered down shop that this was a fight not worth the fight on such a loving day! Sorry mom! She and I both hate binkies in pictures!

On another note, it is pretty hilarious Aspen has this baby doll in her arms...she is definitely not into them a whole lot but on Valentine's day morning I guess she wanted to share the love!

Hopefully in the next few days I will get some shots of a bit of the new spring inventory...I spent my free time in a watered down haze, so now I am playing catch up online...hang tight girls! You will love it!

Meet Miss Lola Ruffles...

Hard to believe I am working on spring and summer collections right now, but that is just how it works in this business! So meet the Lola Ruffle dress...this spring and summer's collections will be all about ruffles, lace and roses...what more could a little girl want in her life!

I love the way halter dresses and tops look on little girls...especially when it gets really warm, it just seems like the perfect thing to wear! So this dress and the Cosette are both available in the same color palette: ctiron, orchid, cotton candy pink, and powder blue.

I will also be offering the matching garden party ruffle pants or lace trimmed leggings to go with either version of ruffled dress!

the cosette

This is one of my new favorites for spring...I love all the ruffles...and this dress sort of reminds me of an orphan dress...a little orphan sweeping her house....which is why the name is Cosette...from Les Miserables...very fitting, right?

So Aspen agreed to a photo shoot, if I let her accessorize herself...so here you go...my girl in all her overabundance of accessories. The other night, yes I said night, we went to the bookstore and she was insistent to wear her sunglasses, all these necklace you see here, and her dog purse...which led to these two little girls following us thru the whole store to point out what Aspen looked like walking around in sunglasses at night!

I was completely thinking I had posted to this blog since the new year....hmmm...I wonder what happened! I guess my life has been a whirl wind of holidays and birthdays with bits of sewing happening all the while and I completely forgot to keep up with the blog!

Aspen's Year in photos...

New Year's Eve Aspen is turning 4 years old!!! Very hard for me to believe...so I thought it would be fun to do a year in review, a picture from each month, showcasing Miss Aspen in her Pipsqueak Couture! Above, is the outfit I made her for her 3rd birthday....we missed out on her mini party as both girls got really sick, London got pneumonia at just 8 months old!

Then in Feb. I was at the height of working on Easter dresses....so here are a couple pics of Easter clothes on Aspen! It's so funny when you see them everyday, they never look like they age...but then all of the sudden, your toddler looks like a young girl just like that!

These photos are actually around Easter...I remember Aspen being in a daze in the pink Aspen in wonderland dress....she was so sick poor girl!

And finally in May spring hit, and we could get out in the yard more!

I love this photo of Aspen above....she looks so much older here, than she did right as she turned three! Down below was our Halloween 2010 photoshoot done end of june beginning of july...
So that halloween photo is another all time fave!! And below it is back to school time!.....


Fall harvest...this summer we grew our own pumpkins and veggies in the back yard and in October we were still able to pick carrots with the warm fall we had! I think this was the highlight of Aspen's summer was to have her own veggie garden!

Amazing in October we were able to wear something sleeveless around here! And in November we were in full Christmas swing.....and somehow, Aspen no longer wants to pose for pictures for me....

December, as you know....still no posing for her mother!!!! I thought kids were supposed to get easier as they turned four....I wonder what sort of year I am in for in 2011!!!!

Time to accessorize!

These are the ruby rosette pants...they are a heavy printed velveteen fabric, the perfect winter pant! I wished I could have had these in stock back in October, but the fabric didn't get released until December...so it has been a mad dash of making these little babies, so the girls can wear them all winter!

My spring collection is all about the rosettes on everything, so what better way to entice you than to show you these Valentine pants, London is wearing with her nutcracker dress now...

They are really just the sweetest things...London just rubs these pants constantly and then touches the rosette...she is a girlie girl for sure, she put on all the pearls herself!!!

Christmas pictures....the impossible!

Once again, I am at it trying to capture a cute picture of two girls together....and as you can see Aspen just ran off, telling me she preferred not to be in the picture because she didn't want to smile in them! Next year, I have decided maybe I just need to have my card feature several images of these two by themselves so they both look cute individually!

I think my best one is this one where Aspen is forcing her sister to hold her hand! And she is hoarding the vintage kitties from her sister! And I have not even gotten the matching dress for little London done yet...so she isn't even wearing Pipsqueak Couture in our Christmas photo!

Can you just feel the love between these two?!? Sharing toddler secrets, I just love it!