It was just like Christmas when the Fed-Ex guy rang the doorbell!! I tore into the boxes as fast as I could and was NOT disappointed! My custom soap boxes finally arrived!!! I was all teary-eyed when I saw my soap inside this beautiful packaging. Seriously. I never would have imagined that it would look [...]
I had to interrupt my regularly scheduled shampoo bar report because something else just showed up in my mailbox today! Several months ago, Soaperstar Celine Blacow of Dublin, Ireland made such a fuss over the Cranberry Yuzu soap, that I offered a swap. I had been drooling (from afar, of course) over all her beautiful [...]
Last night as I was sitting at my computer, my hubby handed me a small package, delivered by FedEx, and said, “You’ve probably been wondering where this was.” Actually, I hadn’t been expecting it at all! It was a thank-you package from Brambleberry for participating in the S.O.A.P. Panel! Apparently it had been riding around [...]
In case you didn’t know, the state flower in Kansas is the sunflower! Sunflower oil is a great oil – high in vitamin E, but the shelf life is usually shorter than some other oils, so I had moved away from using it in my products. When I first started making soap (on a regular [...]
I did a little swap with Tiggy of FuturePrimitive in the UK. I swapped some of the new refined Whipped Shea Butter for these two lovely soaps: Tiggy is a master scent blender. The Orangery is scented with Sicilian orange, cardamom, cedarwood, and ylang ylang essential oils – it’s like nothing I’ve ever smelled before, [...]
I received my receipt for sending a box of soap for Haiti to Clean the World this week, and just wanted to share some of the letter they sent with it. I am so impressed with this organization! Apparently they sent over 200,000 bars of soap to Haiti in 2009, so they already had a [...]
I’ve been so behind on reading my blogs, that I just now realized that Yummy Suds passed the Beautiful Blogger Award to me last Wednesday! What an honor and a nice surprise! I would love to pass it on to these fine soap bloggers: Staci of TheSoapBlog.com Stephanie of Honey Bee Soaps Erica of The [...]
My mail carrier, Michelle, is very high on my list of favorite people. I have written previously that she should win Mail Carrier of the Year for arranging to have my packages picked up while she was on vacation several thousand miles away. Today, as she was driving past my house, she just happened to [...]
