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Monday, January 31, 2011

Auctions starting 1/31 - 2/6

Check out these items listed from Serendipity Boutique Members!

little*bits*by*lisa







seamsbycyndijo





frogbelliesandblossoms


jade*and*rosesCouture

jade*and*rosesCouture


tkcuddlers


bella*sera*boutique















Sunday, January 30, 2011

Congrats Tavery...Model of the Week 1/30!

Congrats to Tavery and her mom Ramona (ebay id 2*chicas*couture) for being chosen as our Model of the Week!

































If you are interested in having Miss Tavery model for you, please see the link below to Ramona's ME page for contact information!

2*chicas*couture

Monday, January 24, 2011

January Featured Member: jade*and*rosesCouture!!!

Please take a moment to learn a little more about one of our Serendipity Boutique members: jade*and*rosesCouture.  Her designs are creative and couture all the way!  She is this month's featured member!


1.  What is your name? 
                  Jennifer
2.  Do you have a nickname? 
                  My family called me Jenni  growing up, but I prefer Jennifer!
3.  What is your boutique name?
                  jade*and*rosesCouture
4.  What design groups do you belong to? 
                  I am a proud member of FUSION&Co.  Besides my main group I am a member of Serendipity Boutique, All About Accessories, Babyart, BCMM, BDandB, CBD, CBL, Haute Couture for Kids, HGC- Hope For God’s Children, Royally Spoiled, UBDB, eBD

5.  What types of products do you offer?  
                  I design mostly girls over the top appliqued  Couture with a few boy designs from time to time.  I just started offering Lalaloopsy doll clothing LalaCOUTURE and customized dolls to my items!
6.  Where can we find your products?
                  I only sell on ebay for now! 

            Link to Jennifer's ME page

7.  Do you take custom orders from clients?
                  I can occasionally take side orders, but being an Army wife has us moving again in February, so between that and being a single mom most of the time I am strictly limited right now.  Repeat customers can e-mail me and all customers can contact me through ebay!
8.  When did you first decide you wanted to enter the custom boutique field? 
                 Well before I could sew,  I first discovered boutique overalls by tortoise*and*hare*clothier!!  My first group was a buyers group and I became  amodel mom after that.  I decided to give painted clothing a try in August of 2008 and I became jadeandrosesboutique which was my original design name!
9.  What made you decide to give the custom boutique field a try? 
                  I decided that I could not get everything  I envisioned into my painted designs and got my first sewing machine a year ago!  I cannot afford to buy the clothes I create and I wanted to make very special and detailed clothes!  The economy was and is horrible but I wanted to just see if the idea would work!
10.  Do you remember the first item you designed that sold?
                  I painted a witch Halloween themed overalls jumper!  It sold for $150.00!!  OMGoodness!!!  Look at sweet little Rebekah in this pic!

                
                  My first sewn clothing design was an Alice and Wonderland set that sold for $240.00!
                

11.  Where does your inspiration for design come from? 
                I am constantly inspired and pushed to be my best just being amongst other very talented designers including the girls in FUSION&Co. and many other designers but I am personally inspired for my exact design approach from the visual stimulants all around me!  I love movies, toys, holidays, themes in general!  I also hate cookie cutter patterns and designs and I always have to try and make it my own!  Every idea comes from somewhere, it is what we choose to do with it that makes it art!
12.  Do you sketch your designs out, use patterns, or just go with it for new designs?
                I draw out everything in a sketchbook!  I sketch the design and add notes and then I use pages at a time to sketch all of my own applique templates!
13.  What materials are your favorites to work with?
                Hmmm… I love beautiful prints and fabrics!!  I also love trims.  I use cottons, knits, fleece, denims, anything the design calls for!
14.  Do you have a favorite theme (I.e. certain holiday, character, etc)? 
                I am so glad I have been sewing for a year so I can answer this question right!  I LOVE Lalaloopsy dolls, Waldorf Inspired Dolls, Tink, Movies, and Halloween inspired designs the most!
15.  What has been your favorite design to date and why?
               My favorite and most successful design to date is my Crumbs Sugar Cookie Lala set designed November 2010!!  I designed the skirt in my head and I never have had a pattern for tops and leggings, so those are also from scratch.  I used so many fabrics and it just turned out beautiful!!



16.  What has been your most original and creative design?
                  It is a toss up between the Crumbs Lala set mentioned above and the very next set I listed, Tinkerbell and Friends!  The Tinkerbell  5 petal skirt was also an original skirt design!


 17.   Who would be your dream client and why? 
                 I already have a few dream clients!! They are patient, caring, communicative, prompt and reliable, and just a JOY to sew for!
18.   Where would you like to see your brand go?
                Ok, call me crazy, but who would ever have thought  a designer  who has only been sewing a year could be blessed by God to have the success I am having to be able to work from home so I will just throw it out there…  wherever God leads me to go!  His plan is perfect.
19.   Tell us something exciting about your brand that we may not know. 
                Jade is me (Jennifer) and Roses is my daughter (Rebekah)!  She is my model and my joy for designing the girly over the top clothes!
20.   Do you have another job or is this your primary job? 
                This is it right now!  I pray every day that my income will sustain us to not have to go back to full time work so I can continue to take care of my kiddos while Kenneth (DH) is in the Army!
21.   Tell us about your family.
                Kenneth and I have been married 13 ½ years!  Patrick just turned 11 and is a first degree level 4 Black Belt in TaeKwonDo (going for his second degree level 1 in February)!  He is also a WORLD Champion title holder in Traditional Forms and in Free Design Traditional Forms!!  Rebekah is 7 and turning 8 in April and dance competitively for two years.  She is currently a Green belt in TKD!  Kenneth and I both were teachers for 12 years and he joined the Army this summer and I became a WAHM, lots of life changes to keep it interesting!



22.   Share something with us about you that we may not know.   
                 I have two!  One is I was adopted at birth.  My birth mother was 14 years old and in the 8th grade!!!   If you are from Texas this might be exciting!  I was a Kilgore College Rangerette which is a very famous college dance team!  We even went to Japan all expenses covered to perform for 6 days!
23.   What do you do for fun?  
                 I love to play Poker and Kenneth and I both are quite good at it!!!  I also love to snuggle up and watch movies with my kids!
24.   What has been your most memorable vacation?
                It had to be 14 years ago when I flew to New Jersey to meet Kenneth’s parents for the first time and had no idea he would propose the first night with a ring and everything!!
25.  Where would you love to visit? 
                I would love to visit Hawaii and Germany!
26.  What are your pet peeves?
                People who drive too slow esp. in the left lane, immature people, crying babies, unthankful kids, parents who blame the teacher when their kid gets in trouble, mean selfish people, jealousy, two faced people, there are probably more but that is good for now, LOL!
27.  Any habits you want to share? 
                I bite my nails!!  It is a horrible habit I have had since I was 6 or so!
28.  If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?  
                I mostly say nothing because everything I am and everything I have and will go through in life is part of a plan much bigger than me, but I do wish I did not suffer from my neurological disorder and depression which leads to extreme fatigue and vertigo.
29.  What is your best trait? 
                I am honest and trust God!
30.  Anything else you want to share?
              I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to have been chosen as Serendipity Boutique's first Member Spotlight!!  Thank you so much SB!!

Awards won by jade*and*rosesCouture:


Top 5 Picks Week 1/24

Congrats to these Serendipity Boutique designers for being chosen as a Top 5 Pick for this week!

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