Central Farmers Market Dates

Hey Locals - Mark your calendar. We just got our second quarter Central Farmers Market dates: April 6th, May 11th & June 15th. Starting next month, the night before our market date, we will post a "COTS quickie" via social media (we knew "quickie" would get your attention). Simply visit us the next day and mention the Secret Saturday Saying and you will get two of our most popular COTS items for the price of one! Yep that's right, you can get two tea towels, wine stops and tile coaster sets (or any combination thereof) for the price of one! Make sure to tell all your friends. Central Farmers Market is located on the southeast corner of Central/Northern in Phoenix and is open every Saturday from 9-1pm.

Ring in Spring Stylishly with COTS

I’m going to be honest with you, I “acquired” this blog entry title from a recent Rue La La e-mail but it sounded so cute that I couldn’t help it!  There is nothing like springtime in the southwest!  This time of year takes us back to a more simple time. Especially in the Phoenix Valley home of COTS headquarters.  When we say “simple time” it’s not in a Little House on the Prairie simple way, but envision The Wonder Years, a simple sort of small town way. I think it’s the spring baseball training games, seeing families walking their dogs, children playing outside and, since Easter is around the corner, Easter egg hunts.

Speaking of Easter (do you like my smooth transition?), we have outdone ourselves and have fabulous Easter and spring tea towel designs available at www.CranberriesOnTheSide.com.  If you’re not already following and/or liking us on Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, and even an occasional Instagram pic into our personal lives, you are missing out because our fans get a sneak preview of our latest designs and we’ll toss out a discount code every now and then to our faithful followers.  Don’t forget our tea towels make the best hostess gifts so if you are invited to Easter dinner or an Easter egg hunt, don’t show up empty-handed!

The first quarter of our Farmers Market appearances are now over and we should be getting our schedule any day now for the next quarter.  We’ll make sure to pass those dates along to you.  We can’t tell you how excited we get when we have repeat customers or people that tell us they received a COTS item as a gift and just had to check us out.  We’re starting to see the rewards of our once tiny idea and inching our way closer to building the COTS empire. When we say “empire” it’s not in a Laverne & Shirley moving to Cali empire way, think bigger, think Mrs. Fields cookie empire or Martha Stewart.

Until next time,

Brenda & Julie