Rose Mille

June Cachette du Mois

Where did the last month go!!  Oh, I know, moving, renovating, designing, sourcing. ... 

But now it's time for the June Cachette!  I LOVE this one. I hope you do too.

This month’s Cachette gets it’s inspiration from beaches and brides. Clean crisp linens, delicate butterfly dancing on the warm summer breeze. Something old something new, something borrowed and Something blue.

Tucked inside a  10” keepsake band box
A Vintage Gardenia Headpiece Garland
A Blue Silk Multi Blossom Millinery Spray
A Dozen White Dresden Butterfly's
A Silk Organza Fat Quarter
A White Linen Fat Quarter
A One Ounce Bottle of German Glass Glitter
A Generous Vial of Faux Mica Flakes
Six All White Crepe Paper Cups
Thirty Six Luminescent White Crystal Beads
Two Yards Lt Blue Picot Trim
Two Yards White and Light Blue Check Ribbon
Two Yards Light Blue Silk Ribbon
Six Vintage White & Teal Plastic Rose Charms
Two Vintage Hammered Brass Buckles
Twelve Light Blue String Tags
Twelve Silver Framed Tiny Tags
Thirty Five Glass Shell Beads
Two Blue and Two Silver Shell Dresden Borders
Six Lace Lake Frame Post Cards
Two Victorian Swing Prints
Twelve Mother of Pearl Shank Buttons
A Dozen Gorgeous Signature Michelle Rose
Jorgensen, “June” Post-cards
A Custom Made Eggshell Band Box With;
Blue Silk Ribbon Ties

Oh MY

Get it HERE!

Offered at $100

Or on our Web-Shop where you can also subscribe....

Enjoy,

May Cachette du Mois, Giveaway Winner!!

Drum roll please!!
And the winner of the May Cachette du Mois is...........Kristen Wesloh!! 

Whooo hoo Kristen!  I can't wait to see everything that you will do with it.

Honorable Mentions; Jeanie Chambard-Orth, Paula, Judith Mildred, Krista, Marie Sierra, Terri Tharp and Keri Buyer - please send me an email at info@rosemille.com, I have a surprise for you.

Cachette Giveaway!!!

Tell us your best ideas on how you will promote the May Cachette, and we could send you a May Cachette absolutely freee! Including shipping.

Leave a coment on this blog with what you will do, ie name of your blog, facebook page etc. and we will pick the the one we like the best.

Go here for more information about the Cachette.

Contest ends April 30th at Midnight, 2012

So let's hear those ideas!

xo

mi

May Cachette du Mois

Yay, it's May!

{almost}

I love this month's Cachette! The soft pale pink velvet ribbon offsets the ordinariness of the brown kraft paper covered band box perfectly. Inside the box are elements of white lace, flowers, mainly roses and moss green ribbon trim.

It contains rugged burlap, kraft paper tags and a gorgeous piece of natural 100% linen fabric. As well as a pretty (in a Grandma kind of way), fat quarter of brown fabric with pale pink roses. Keeping the "May" theme, we've thrown in May basket vintage German scraps, white crepe paper party baskets with pink handles and even a "basket" shaped needle case.

Of course there is some pink German glass glitter, and 11 vintage plastic charms, 2 baskets and 9 roses; 6 tiny and 3 small.

The box is tied with 1 1/2" pink velvet ribbon, and inside is a yard of the same but vintage! There's 2 pair of vintage appliques a bunch of pearly pink flower stamens and 6 vintage dangling Geisha silk Cherry Blossoms.

The multi-blossom Dahlia spray is divine as well as the two yards of vintage pink and white millinery braid. And think of what you can do with five meters of white paper edging, self adhesive even.

I'm sure I missed something, so check it out again on our web-shop, or just get it now!

$100 plus $10 shipping

Petite version available too!

xo

mi

 

 

Introducing "Cachette du Mois" Petite!

The little sister of our original collection has arrived! We are so excited to introduce the smaller, more "petite" version, of our very popular "Cachette du Mois".
The Petite version has an eight inch band box, (as opposed to the 10" original) filled with some of the more popular items of the larger version, but things that we have somewhat more quantity of. Of course we are offering this new size at a fabulous price of $58! Valued at $70-85.

 Currently we have the smaller box for February, March and April. The petite January box will be available in a different color, or we may just use the 8" box, stay tuned for more info on that.

Starting with February

The Petite Cachette's will have a dozen of their month's post-cards, just like the originals.

Let's look at March

They will each have a cute, vial of German Glass Glitter as well.

And April

Automatic "Petite" subscriptions are also available as well.

If you know you want one you can order them all right here!

Choose Month

February March April

Or you can read more about them including the list of contents on our web-shop, here

BTW, We are already filling up the gorgeous May Cachette du Mois, yes there is a Petite version. To be announced mid April.

xo

mi

 

April Cachette du Mois

April showers bring May flowers

So the saying goes. Yellow Daisies and grey skies are the inspiration for the April Cachette. Being that yellow is my daughter’s favorite color and her birthday is this month, I am dedicating the April Cachette to her, Happy birthday Shawna!

Yes, Easter is in April and we have included some cute "Dresden" chicks to decorate your Easter cards and spring projects. Also some green matt borders and silver metallic swallow "Dresdens".

Inside the Sunny Yellow hand made band box is:

A 22” square of sunny yellow homespun gingham fabric
A hank of grey DMC embroidery floss
2 yards of 2 1/2” silver satin ribbon
1 yard of striped yellow silk taffeta ribbon
(brought back from France)
3 sparkly rhinestone straight pins
2 yards of silver leaves trim
2 yards of vintage yellow satin ribbon
One strand of grey glass pearls
Six spun cotton 18mm yellow mushrooms
Six spun cotton 10mm yellow mushrooms
12 Grey tags with brown holes
Two flat 4” silk Daisies
Six “Grey Circle” Frame Cards
Six Small vintage plastic Daisies
Six tiny vintage plastic Daisies
12 Matt yellow Dresden chicks
A dozen vintage green leaves
A vintage Cornflower Bud bunch
A 1 oz bottle of Buttercup German glass glitter
Six silver Swallow Dresdens
2, 24” strips of green Dresden border
2 Pair of vintage Daisy appliqués
2 small Van Gogh print cards
One bunch of vintage yellow flower stamens
A vintage Daisy spray with 12 flowers
A dozen gorgeous April post-cards
One yard of Silver Satin ribbon ties

 

You can order it right here or go to our Web-Shop where you will find more information.

Offered at $100

If you would like to order a  subscription, to ensure that you will be first on the list to receive a cachette, and to automatically be sent a new "Cachette du mois" every monthuntil you request to opt out in writing (Minimum of 5 months commitment). Please include your phone number in the notes box on as you check out, so that we can call you to set up the automatic subscription.

All subscriptions now get FREE shipping!!  (Shipping charges will be reimbursed when subscription is finalized.)

xo

mi

Evolution of a Collection Kit

Years ago, when Rose Mille was in San Jose, (1998-2002) there seemed to always be this growing pile of mish-mush, wonderful leftover bits and bobs, random odds and ends of ribbons, threads, buttons etc. So we started making collections out of them. We put them in clear topped boxes by color and theme, and also lengths of ribbons in "bits-bags". No two were alike never to be exactly repeated again. 

These boxed kits we lovingly called "Rose Mille Starter Kits". Each box was filled with everything and anything that we could fit into them; ribbons, glitter, fabrics, buttons, snippets of pretty papers, sheet music, millinery flowers and even wooden spools of vintage thread.

Very early on while still in California, we launched a "Ribbon of the Month Club". It was wonderful but very hard to keep going without the benefit of the internet, we had to rely on walk-ins and snail mail advertising, which proved to be very costly.

 
Later, in Stillwater we started putting a few collections together that were the same. But this time we used old See's candy boxes that had come with us from the Bay Area. The only problem was that since the tops were not clear, it was hard to keep them from being rummaged through in the shop.

{This could be another post, shortly after I opened Rose Mille in 1998 I was fortunate enough to purchase inventory from an old fashioned "Notions" store in Palo Alto called "Irma Schwabel", named after the proprietress. Yup, this is worth it's own post. Who had sorted her thread in old See's Candy boxes. But I digress.}

In our earliest advertising campaigns, we used vintage images tailored to our events. We found vintage post-cards so charming and fitting our look, so we used them for our semi-annual sale and soiree. 
Each time layering the new post card over the previous years card, with just enough peaking through so, in case anyone ever looked closely, they could see the progression.

In 2011 we wanted a cleaner less cluttered look so we stopped layering and put more work into re-designing the cards even more.

We were also creating our "Frame Cards" to use in displaying our jewelry and winding ribbons and trims on. Everyone wanted the cards, so we decided to sell them. This led to making other kinds of cards like our "Vintage French post cards", and our Christmas cards for sale.

Before there was a Rose Mille, I was making custom hats and bridal veils under the name "Michelle Rose Designs".  Some of my hats were to big and some too tall for the average hat box, so I found a manufacturer who would make custom ones for me. Over the years this manufacturer has made many custom boxes for me, including the band boxes for our new collection.

The internet, and later blogging, has made it much easier to connect with like minded people and makes it possible for designers and shop keepers to sell items that would normally get damaged in a physical shop.

This time, with technology in our favor, we pulled everything together and launched "Cachette du Mois". Named after those wonderful French Cachette boxes that we carry. The ones that are shaped like strawberries, logs, mushrooms and even fish.

This past December, we launched "Cachette du Mois", starting with January and includes:

Twelve custom post-cards.

A custom band box.

Unique bits and bobbles to covet or use in your special projects.

Finally it's working.  Thank you everyone for "getting it". Right now I am choosing the ingredients for our April box. The Post-card and box are all ready in stock. We have also designed the box and post-card for May and June. I can't wait to show you.

For more information and to purchase our latest kit or a subscription click here.

xo

mi

March Cachette du Mois

March is an exciting month, especially where it is cold and snowy in the winter. However this year not so cold and not so much snow. Since living in the upper Midwest, I have learned that March is when we dare to start thinking about Spring, my favorite season. It may sometimes be the "snowiest" month but hey, Spring is just around the corner!

The birthstone for March is Aquamarine, so we chose this gorgeous silk taffeta ribbon, that was found in France, for the box ties. Some of the earliest flowers coming up are Violets, which are featured on this month's post-card.

Violet and aqua, with lots of green are this month's colors. Still cold outside we have velvet Violets, and antique crystals for what's left of the sparkly snow.

Yards and yards of ribbons, trims, a generous piece of my coveted favorite linen fabric, a fat quarter of Aquamarine silk tissue, Lilac glass glitter and vintage chandelier crystals.

Spun cotton plums, velvet leaves, vintage millinery netting and braid, a poesy of velvet violets and sparkly rock candy stamens in aqua.

Assorted "Dresden" embossed paper embellishments, including a pair of "in like a Lion", Lions and four "Good Luck" vintage appliques.

Tucked inside this month's Cachette du Mois are:

A quarter yard of grey roses on aqua, linen fabric

A quarter yard of aquamarine silk tissue fabric

A bunch of velvet Violets

18 Moss green leaves on wire

An aqua Dresden assortment

Three Large double sided horse shoes for luck

A dozen four leaf clovers in gold

A pair of Golden Lions

Four "Good Luck" vintage appliques

One yard of fancy flower trim with pearl centers

2 yards of aquamarine vintage rayon ribbon

3 yards of vintage green Soutache cord

A one ounce jar of Lilac German glass glitter

One yard of tubular aqua and violet millinery braid

3/4 yard of vintage French silk netting in violet

Ten vintage chandelier crystals

A bunch of rock candy stamens in aqua

A bunch of spun cotton plums on wire

A dozen gorgeous March post-cards

A hand made Tarragon band box with;

One yard of French silk taffeta ribbon ties

 

You can order it right here or go to our Web-Shop where you will find more information.

Offered at $100

If you would like to order a  subscription, to ensure that you will be first on the list to receive a cachette, to be automatically sent a new "Cachette du mois" every month, with a surprise gift, until you request to opt out in writing (Minimum of 5 months commitment). Please include your phone number in the notes box on as you check out, so that we can call you to set up the automatic subscription.

xo

mi

 

 

 

 

January Cachette Projects

We have some great creations using the January Cachette du Mois, coming in!  Check these out.

This just in from Margaret Simonson, gorgeous. Here is two more from Margaret.

Margaret mentioned that this bracelet was inspired by French General, kudos to Kaari!

 

January Winter Crown, by Nicole Gunderson

She used just about everything in the collection!

Mushroom Angel Terrarium, by Dana Caprio

Using the Spun cotton mushrooms, sparkly flower stamens and glass glitter in Snow.

A precious copper nest pendant with the glass pearl eggs, by Dana Caprio

What have you done with your cachette?

More to come!

xo

mi

 

February 2012 Cachette du Mois

Love is in the air!

{cold cold air}

And here is something to warm your heart. The February Cachette du mois is overflowing with lots of Valentine inspirations. In fact it is taking lots of skill just to be able to close the lid!

Tucked inside a red ribbon tied, 10” keepsake band box you will find;
5 silk single stemmed Carnations
6 pink and red crepe paper party cups
6 pairs of vintage appliques
6 large vintage paper heart scraps
6 vintage paper rose scraps
5 white scalloped paper Dresden borders
6 large manilla tags with glassine bags
6 small manilla tags with glassine bags
12 strands of red & white bakers string
 6 ivory blank cards with envelopes
6 signature lace post-cards
 a 20 x 20 piece of heavy red linen
a hank of white DMC cotton
a red and white cupid cameo cabochon
a one ounce jar of Red fine glass glitter
2 yards of white millinery braid from the South of France
2 yards of red silk ribbon
2 yards of pink galloon trim
2 yards of pale pink satin ribbon “l’amour toujours”
2 yards brown cotton lace ribbon
4 rhinestone pins
6 white lacy heart cabochons
a large red Dresden Cupid
12 Golden Dresden arrows
20 Golden Dresden hearts
A dozen gorgeous "February" post-cards

You can order it right here or go to our Web-Shop where you will find more information.

Offered at $100

If you would like to order a  subscription, you will be first on the list, and we will automatically send you a new "Cachette du mois" every month, and a surprise gift, until you request to opt out (Minimum of 5 months commitment). Please include your phone number in the notes box on as you check out, so that we can call you to set up the automatic subscription.

xo

mi