Holiday Shipping Dates, Cyber Monday and 2009 Pricing

Just to let you know, here are the shipping dates over the holidays. I'm doing it a little differently so that I can spend a week after the holidays with no one home to do some paper work catch up and re organizing of products and the new cart. For some reason, I find it hard [...]

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Holiday Woodlands Soap

I made this soap using the Angels Wings essential oil blend. I used  4 parts fir needle 2 parts white grapefruit 1 part frankincense That blend had smelled quite light and pretty to me as it was. After I made the soap, I found that it became quite woodsy, it reminded me a little of opening up an old cedar chest, [...]

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Cyber Monday Skincare Sale x 3

It's cyber Monday x 3! This Monday we have 3 cyber specials, and next Monday and the Monday after that. Sounds like fun!

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Cranberry Skin Care - thank you!

Since it's the holiday season with Thanksgiving in the US and Canada over and Christmas fast approaching, I found my mind wandering to cranberries in homemade skin care. I just knew that they had to be good, but how could we take advantage of that goodness?

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Handmade Christmas Selection

Since Christmas is moving in, and I am a big believer in supporting small, home businesses, I thought it would be a great idea to ask anyone who does handmade items that would make nice Christmas gifts to jump in on the comments section and add your site.

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Changes and Your Own Website

THINKING OF PUTTING UP YOUR OWN WEBSITE OR BLOG IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS SALES? For those of you who have been wanting to put up a new site, or revamp your old, I can highly recommend the services that I am using.

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Lip Scrub - Interesting Product Idea

I came across this today and thought it may be of interest as a simple thing that could be easily made either for yourself or for sale. It could be a nice stocking stuffer if made with a Christmas twist.

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Controversial Take on Using Sunscreen

It’s been an interesting week, I tried to post this before that but wordpress wouldn’t work for me. Then we lost our power in a storm for a few days and now my telephone line for my computer is down. Thanksfully I can sneak the house line from the kids once in awhile so here, [...]

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Susun Weed on Making Herbal Infusions

At the moment I have some dandelion flowers infusing, it’s a yearly ritual for me. I would hate to see those babies go to waste! I am planning to write an article on it this week as soon as time allows. But today I receiced Susun’s newsletter which is FULL of great infusing info and a [...]

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Easter theme ideas to play with

I was trying to think of something nice and Easterish for this weekend, since the really colourful and artistic soaps seem to be more in line with synthetic colouring and melt and pour soap, I couldn’t really think of too much besides a soap on a rope that I used to make with easter egg [...]

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