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 [...]
It’s an unusual Easter weekend. We are doing all of our celebrating and churchgoing today! Easter Sunday will be a much-needed day of rest – and possibly some egg dying and hiding them around our yard. Today was the opening day of the Olathe Farmer’s Market too – that was pretty unusual as well. We’ve [...]
It’s getting down to the wire, folks! Just two more weeks until the Olathe Farmer’s Market opens on the 23rd! I am busy making and wrapping and labeling, leaving less time for blogging. My friend Kathy came over and helped me bag and seal about 200 soaps this morning: I still have to shrink and [...]
At the beginning of this month, I shipped off a box of pear-scented soap balls to a customer who was making favors for a baby shower. She transformed the soap balls into these adorable peas in a pod: Is that not the cutest thing ever??
The problem of inflation seems to be on most people’s minds lately – including mine. My husband just reported that gas has gone up again today, jumping up another nine cents to $3.47 a gallon. Those prices are going to affect all the commodities that have to be shipped from their manufacturer to their distributor [...]
I’ve been thinking about what I could do differently at the Olathe Farmer’s Market this year which will be starting up again on Saturday, April 23rd. One idea I’ve had is to offer a Soap of the Week. My plan is to make small batches of soap (only eight bars each), then offer one unique [...]
Are you a fan of Great Cakes Soapworks on Facebook? If you are, then you probably wouldn’t notice that I have a new welcome page for first time visitors. However, if you aren’t a fan, then I highly suggest that you check it out! Mike Holmes of Redpinservices.com contacted me before Christmas saying that he [...]
I’ve been re-stocking my stash of essential oils this past week, and as the boxes arrive, I’m almost as excited about the abundance of packing peanuts as I am about the essential oils! So far, I’ve never had to purchase these lovely packing materials to send out soap orders. I simply save up the ones [...]
Here we are on the third day of January 2011, and I find myself getting pretty excited about what this year will hold! I’ve gone back through my soap journal to see how I can better plan for the demand for various soaps that I make. Other soapmakers will probably have different results, but here [...]
After receiving an email from someone locally inquiring about my soaps, I discovered that he found me because of a blurb in a local health magazine. As he said, “You read just about anything while you’re in the waiting room at the doctor’s office.” So I contacted the publisher of Enhance Magazine to find out [...]
