More than chocolate at the Chocolate Walk...

Hint to your someone special that you found the perfect idea for Valentine's Day...

Maybe Moon Dance Jewelry by Kelly Moore from Ogden.

Kelly creates her one-of-a-kind jewelry from silverware.Beautiful bracelets, rings, and necklaces

...Or, Soul Garden soaps handmade by Kay Weishaar and Christy Coffman.
The fragrance of lemon-eucalyptus soaps, lavender soaps, and lemon-clove-cinnamon soaps
fills the air when you enter Mary Rose.
...Or, a stained glass heart

Maybe a Polish pottery mug or our new soup bowls with two handles

Hope to see you Saturday, Feb. 11, for the Chocolate Walk!

Chocolate Walk in Perry, Feb. 11th

Come to Perry for our Chocolate Walk Saturday, Feb. 11 from 10:00-4:00. Stroll from shop to shop while you enjoy chocolate treats. Stop by Mary Rose for homemade fudge.

Dagmar Scheel has created the most wonderful felted wool slippers and socks.

Some fit children, and some are for adults. You won't believe how cozy and warm.

Dagmar filled three shelves with knitted socks and felted slippers in the most glorious colors.

See Colleen Eckhoff's needle-felted creations:

...Flower pins

...for your Valentine

Letterpress Valentine cards by Sarah McCoy,

the Permanent Collection

BRR...Bike Ride to Rippey

Bikers will be braving the cold to make the ride from Perry to Rippey for the

35th annual BRR Ride Saturday, Feb. 4.

Stop in Mary Rose for hot cider while you browse.

Stay warm by wrapping one of Jan Busby's unique, handmade ruffled crocheted scarves around your neck--even more than once. Choose from many colors, textures, designs, and lengths.

Jan Busby also creates purses made from wool blend suit coats. She often incorporates the suit coat pocket into the fully-lined bag. Long handles make it easy to sling over your shoulder.

Jan and her husband, Gary, are also innkeepers at their Yellow Swan Bed and Breakfast in Dallas Center, www.yellowswanbb.com.

More wooly, woolies...A crocheted flower attached to these hats I crocheted add a bit of flair. I crocheted the hat on the right from yarn hand-spun by Marrie Williams from Kelley, Iowa.

Keep your hands warm and cozy with felted wool mittens handmade by Janice Johnston from Rippey, Iowa. Janice creates her mittens from felted wool sweaters and lines them with soft fleece.

...Penguins on these mittens

A wool scarf handspun by Sally Farley

and handcrocheted, with a button closure

Another one, over nine feet long with wonderfully nubby textures

Choose from our wall of handspun yarn draped over a vintage iron bed

to make your own creations.