Happy Birthday, Grandma Rose!

Dear Friends,


This has been a month of celebrations. Last week was the Grand Opening for Ruth and Rose - it was wonderful, better than I dreamed. Thank you all for coming - for all your enthusiasm, your support and all your great ideas...


Happy Birthday Grandma Rose! You are remembered in so many ways.
I want to share my very first ShadowCase with you this week. The one that started it all - my ShadowCase of Grandma Rose. Go to the Ruth and Rose Workshop to see how I put it together.

I'm thinking of you as you create your own this week. This should be a unique journey, as was mine. I'm hoping you'll share...


With Memories in Mind,
love Ruth and Rose

Grand Opening - Everything's Coming Up Roses!

Dear Friends,

Well this is the week, our Grand Opening Event! We are cutting the ribbon, throwing open the doors and are officially online at www.shadowcase.com... Our feet feel tied to balloons as all our thoughts, hopes and dreams spiral upwards. So grateful, so excited...and so tired!

So many thoughts, mostly about you. What will you think, what will you like and what will you say? We hope you find the website an inspiring place to be. Step inside and create your own custom ShadowCase with our online ShadowCase Designer, stop by the Gallery for design ideas, or visit the Ruth and Rose Workshop for creative tips.

If there should be a hiccup or two on the website, we beg your patience. We are working very hard in this new world of ours, and we hope to see you there!

With memories in mind,
Ruth and Rose

A Victorian Valentine

Dear Friends,
If you're looking for true love or would just like to be swept away by something beautiful this month, be sure not to miss "The Young Victoria". We saw it last weekend at our local movie theater, and were swept away by Victorian England and the gorgeous couple - we're sure Queen Victoria would've approved.

The music in this movie lifts one to another time and place. If you're a music lover like us, you'll want this soundtrack in your car and in your home. Even if British Royalty does not captivate you, this haunting and lovely music will. Victoria and Albert's story is really a miracle, how true love can blossom in unlikely circumstances. A love story that bore them nine children and twenty happy years. There is a note of sadness there, but it seems to make their life together all the more poignant.By happy coincidence, today just so happens to be their wedding anniversary! Happy Anniversary, Your Majesties...we could go on, but we'll restrain ourselves - you really ought to see it for yourself.

As for us, we prefer to imagine Queen Victoria and Prince Albert returning home from their travels with the latest craze-- shadowboxes from the Crystal Palace Exposition of 1871-- and sharing them with their nine delighted children.

Happy Valentines,


With Memories in Mind,

Ruth and Rose

My Perfect Little Valentine

Roses are red, violets are blue
May your Valentine bring something sweet to you...


Dear Friends,

Valentines is upon us, trailing her pink gown of lacy hearts, love notes, fresh roses and for some of us - love.

Love came unusually wrapped for me one Valentine's Day, a sweet pink bundle of joy - my first little girl. Looking into her eyes I recognized my own, twin lakes of quiet blue, and together we felt like old friends saying hello again. Hello my perfect little Valentine. That was about 8 years ago. Yet looking at her now I still remember my arms cradling her, the booties that kept those little feet warm and the vintage bonnet from that special day I'll never forget.

So as I'm ShadowCasing her baby things, I feel like I am holding on to her still. Creating something for us both to look at and remember. Perhaps even for her little girl someday, for yet another pair of eyes...

May February bring you sweetness and inspiration. I'm hoping it brings you love.
Please let me know...


With memories in mind,
love Ruth and Rose