Another Day

We've survived so far!  Two weeks ago we did the Temple Terrace Garden Show.  Saturday we finished Hollie's Nursery in Lutz and in two more weeks we're going back to Temple Terrace for Clouds of Hope!
The nursery show was awesome, what a beautiful site they have.  I must admit that I had a few moments to shop and of course bought some plants!  lol
We've got online orders rolling in nice and steady.  Custom orders are piling up for my soon to be up and running sudzy body wash!  Oh and my Palm Wax candles are doing great...what a scent throw!!  Hopefully I'll have those up on the web site soon.  Right now I've got a 7oz size, soon though will be my 14oz'er!!

Post Card Mania

What a great place!!  We were invited to the employee shopping at Post Card Mania in Clearwater and did we have fun.  I wish I'd brought my camera but alas it stayed at home.  However what I can tell you is that our new sugar scrub and body butter gift baskets literally flew out the door!!  All of our thanks to the employees, boss and Ferris who made our day so wonderful, Sybrina and I had so much fun!!

I've had so many people asking that I've gone and gotten Gift Certificates for the Holidays!!  Denominations start at $5.00 and up in store only,  and for our online shoppers we'll have a page opening up soon!!

All Kinds of Fun

In case you missed it we've got a few new shows we're attending!  Postcard Mania in Clearwater tomorrow from 12-2.  Grand Central District in St. Pete from 11-3 this coming Sunday, Dec. 6th.  Up and coming for the new year is the Dade City Kumquat Festival on Jan. 30th, 2010.
We also have a new store, the Spotted Donkey in Texas, I'll have more information closer to her opening!

I have to show these off!  For those of you who've had our soaps before, I redesigned our bands, showing them off with and without The Greenhouse Soaps logo!!  So much better than before I think!!

I've got news

I've got some great news!  WE'RE NATIONAL!!!  We're in Texas now at a great store called the Spotted Donkey which will be opening soon!  I'll see if I can get Cathy to send us some pictures!!

This past week has been great as we're entering into the busy season!  Three large, large and larger soap orders which all had to be finished by yesterday!  Now we have a craft show to get ready for tomorrow at the Safety Harbor Rec Center!!

In case ya'll missed it, I've been coming out with not only a few new soaps but new colors too!  This one is Ocean Breeze, it's a great clean scent and works great for the guys and gals....I'll have more of a description soon!

The new Sweet Pea color!

The New Coco Mango!  I love the variety of colors in the soap!

The New Lavender....heh I figured I could finally make it purple!!

Last but not least our Lilac- Yup decided that should be a lavender color also!!

Have I been Busy!

Aside from the August Simple Living order, I had another to fill at the start of September! And looks like I'm going to have my soaps in another store soon....can't say which yet but the good news is coming :0)
I've happily been playing with a few of my new things. My all Organic Lip Conditioning Balm, this one is scented in Peppermint Essential Oil. It really does heal up those chapped lips.

Where has the time gone??

Is it just me or has the time flown by since the start of the year?? I actually hadn't felt much like writing since my Nana Ruth passed away last month. But time does march on and while I miss her like crazy, I've got things to do! Soap waits for no one! Heh, we just finished our monthly craft show, boy what a mess! It POURED just after we'd set up and we didn't have enough time to put our tarps out! Ten minutes later and a bunch of wet labels (not soaps) the crowd came out, fortunately all were understanding about our drippy labels. So ya'll know what I'm going to be doing this week!

Last week I just finished another soap order for Simple Living in St Pete, as you can see from the pic's that's a whole lot of soap....and that's not even all of it! I had more curing on the racks in my soap room.
I'm trying like heck to finish building my wholesale soap pages....yup you heard it, I'm going to be branching out into wholesale too! So excited about all of our recent changes!!

The kids go back to school this Tuesday, with the super summer we had I'm going to miss them so much! However I'm not crazy about waking up with my oldest at 5:15 to get him going for the bus......gah

sidetracked #2

While waiting for my sugar cubes to stiffen up a bit, I had it in my head to do something about all my soap scraps! Those slivers really add up after awhile.

So I created my Odd Ballz, hubby said it looks like a weird geode, my eldest said it looked like a food pod and what exactly did I have in there? Now that was funny as he got his nose right over them, still not convinced that it wasn't some odd looking food! Of course me being me, didn't want to do the usual soap balls so I get this idea to wrap my pre cooled ball with another layer of soap, really funky looking eh?


I'm itching to roll a bright yellow center with perhaps a green outer layer, now wouldn't that be something?!!