sale! SALE!

This weekend, take 15% off your entire purchase in my etsy shop, no matter how big or small. There are quite a few brand new goodies that I've recently listed. Come take a look! (please) Discount will be applied as a paypal refund before items ship on Monday morning.

Etsy Buy Handmade Sudstress

ta-da!

drum roll please.............

HERE it is!

Please comment on it if you feel so inclined. It would make my day.

look out!

I am to be the featured artisan on Art Fire this Wednesday, July 29th. I answered several interview questions a couple of months ago and have completely forgotten what I said except that I mentioned Neko Case. I'm sure if I were to answer the questions again, they might be slightly different, as I'm sure they would for anyone. I'm very excited to see what happens. I've been focusing most of my energy on Etsy for my online sales and I'd like to see if I can make Art Fire work for me. Starting with exposure would certainly be an appropriate first step. I will post a link to the interview no matter how ridiculous my answers seem in retrospect.

Sudstress

Buy Handmade

teaser

I've been working on a little something for this collaborative contest between martha stewart weddings (dot com) and etsy. I am not giving it away yet, but this might be the cutest soap I've ever made. It is a new take on, and combination of several things I've done in the past, but now they are coming together in a way that I think is perfect for this contest. I wish I could upload the picture right now, but it is too soon.... I have until September 1 to submit.

As you probably know, I am without traditional job and any sort of exposure through martha stewart would be h u g e.

I also have some other big news of a decision I made recently. The time is not right to announce that either. Sorry. This post has been one big tease.

clankin' around in my noggin

custom wholesale soap

chocolate raspberry soap cake custom made for a bridal shower

tomato, pumice, clay, lemongrass, rosemary & clary sage gardener's herbal scrub soap

more sensual calendula petal - one of my favorites

silk & shea re-design

Gah! I've been meaning and meaning to write. You can rest assured that when there's nothing going on in my blog that there are all sorts of things happening my real life. I've been wrestling with several major issues lately and have been trying to sort them out. If you could see my thoughts, they'd probably resemble the aftermath of a tornado and I've spared all but those I need to help me through them. There are no quick fixes, I just have to trudge on through.

One major speedbump is that I quit my job about two months ago when I decided to permanently leave bartending after 14 years in the industry with no real plan on what to do next. It's obviously been and continues to be a huge transition for me even though I sort of glossed over it in a previous post. Then, three days after I quit, Neko died, overshadowing everything leaving me feeling as though the rug had been pulled out from under me. Every other day, I get this feeling like someone is wringing out my intestines when I remember how permanent death is. I've also been feeling isolated and disconnected as a result, which is strange because I love alone time and value it as highly as food, water and sleep. I'm an odd contradiction. My apologies for being so vague and so brief for those that might actually want to know what's clankin' around in my noggin.

Today I took a ton of pictures of soap that will be finished curing soon, so I'll share a couple with you and then come back later (maybe today, maybe not) to elaborate, vent, wax philosophical or just brag about my soap.