Featured Etsy Designer -- Toile Tales

Lori and Amy are the FABulous ladies behind Toile Tales -- one of our favorite little hat shops. You may have seen them featured here and well, you can feel the love - we adore them! Read on to get the details on Toile Tales and to win $30 to their cute little shop! We also love their prices -- there is nothing over $35! 

{How did Toile Tales begin?}

Amy and I met when our 12 yo's were in preschool. I {Lori} was already sewing and dabbling in crochet. I gave Amy a sewing lesson and before I knew it, she was putting my skills to shame. Pretty much the same thing happened with crochet! Amy was such a quick learn! We have been joined at the hip ever since.

Our crafting fervor had no end! We produced so many items but only had a few girls (at the time) to put our creations on. That's when we started on eBay and small craft fairs. We had a few S L O W years and finally opened our Toile Tales site and have steadily been growing a customer base. We LOVE well ran craft fairs! It's so fulfilling to meet people and see who is buying the item! We put a little piece of ourselves in each item that when the product leaves, we wonder how they will treat it!

{Do you have a favorite item in your shop?} 

Our overall favorite hat is the Darling (especially for adult ladies) but we adore the Flirts on little girls.

{the darling} in a FABulous coral color - perfect for Spring! 

{What is your bestseller?}  

Our best seller is the Darling hat, but a close second is the flower embellishments.

{What is up next for the shop?}  

PATTERNS!   We have written all of our patterns and are working on getting them tested.

cupcakeMAG for Littles picks!

{what our Littles are wearing} 

{the flirt} in Ecru because it can go from season to season and it will always be in style

{the darling} in Charcoal with the perfect flower embellishment 

{the townie} because it doesn't get much cuter....how precious! 

Ready to win? Read on to enter the giveaway and get $30 towards your Toile Tales purchase! 

Giveaway: $30 toward anything you LOVE at Toile Tales

How to win: Let us know why you want to win. This comment is mandatory. You also MUST be a follower of cupcakeMAG and cupcakeMAG for Littles. 

For extra entries you can do the following below and leave us a separate comment for each letting us know. The more you comment the better chance you have to win!

1. Follow cupcakeMAG on Twitter

2. Follow Toile Tales on Twitter

3. Make sure you "Like" us on our Facebook page

4. Make sure you "Like" Toile Tales on Facebook

5. Subscribe to our updates (top right corner above) - just sign up with your email!

6. Tweet about this giveaway and include @cupcakemag -- you must tweet, not just follow.

7. Tweet about this giveaway and include @toiletales -- same as above. 

8. Write a blog post about this giveaway on your blog and send us the link.

We will select a winner via random.org on Saturday, Feb. 12th at 11pm. Please make sure you enter the mandatory comment first before doing the extra entries.