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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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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Listen to the Smell - Your Essential Oils Are Talking to You

LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES, FEEL WITH YOUR EARS, TASTE WITH YOUR NOSE (and never diet again!) - Janice Ferrante on Blending Essential Oils :0) Or as Jack likes to say, "listen to the smell, the natural plant fragrances are trying to tell you something".

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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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Getting the Jump On Christmas

I shocked and amazed everyone by requesting that we do our name draw now, because if my husband or I picked any of the girls in the family, I wanted lots of time to make some nice gifts this year...

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Lavender, a Natural Healing Essential

Lavender has been shown to help insomnia sufferers to fall asleep more quickly and have a more restful sleep. In 1995, The Lancet published a study which reported that inhaling lavender essential oil was as effective as tranquilizers in helping insomniacs fall asleep.

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