Busy Day :D

I've been a busy little soaper this week - body butters, herbal balms, lip balms, sugar scrubs and soapies - phew :)

Here's a piccy of my main work bench before the action hits - I clean up at the end of each day, ready for the next! I have a big work table right next to the bench, that all the goodies go on :D

The lather lab always smells sooooooooooo good when sugar scrubbies are on the menu!

Here's a day's worth of 300 soapies all cut and lined up, ready to be tidying up and shelved for curing, then another 300 gets made the next day and so on :)

Enjoy!

Cosmopolitan Magazine!!!

Go check out this months issue of Cosmo magazine, the wonderful team there have put in an advert for my little soapies in the recommended businesses directory - ooooooohhh :)

The Jan edition has lots of good articles this month, especially a page layout on a fast workout session to tone up after all the overeating we do at Chrissy time hehe - I'm going to start this week!

Purty Packs!

I made up 40 custom gifts packs for a new wholesale client in Taiwan - and they looked so purty all lined up I had to take a piccy!

Happy New Year!

Just a quick post to wish all of you a wonderful night of celebrating New Years Eve :) May 2010 be whatever you want it to be!

New Facebook Page!

Well I've finally succumbed to customer requests to start a Facebook Fan Page - so here it is!

www.facebook.com/ScentedGrove

I've got more piccies up there, and plan to use the Fan Page to announce specials, release new products, host my bi-monthly newsletters, and get discussions going on about what you'd like to see in the soapy range :)

So pop on over, and feel free to start commenting!

My Holiday Break...

This year I'll be closing the soap studio doors on Tuesday 22nd December (so last minute orders can still be sent out monday the 21st) and will re-open them on Tuesday the 5th January, 2010.

2009 has been a very eventful year, and I'm definitely looking forward to a good, long relaxing break with my family, to recharge and refresh my creative drive *smile*

I wish each and every one of you a safe, joyus and cheerful holiday season - a time where we can all rejoice about what's most important, in my opinion - life, and enjoying it with our loved ones...

A record breaking month in sales!

No wonder I've been feeling extra tired this month *grin* Thanks to all you wonderful customers, here at the Grove studio we've had a record breaking total of 2,302 bars of soap sent out to new homes this November!

We've also begun exporting to Taiwan, which was very exciting! Our soapies are becoming worldwide travelers going to China, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand and Norfolk Island - they see more of the world that I have haha!!!

Holiday Rush!

Christmas orders have been flooding in, so to those who haven't bought your soapy gifts yet I just wanted to give you the heads up to check the website for what's currently available, as soaps are selling out FAST! I'm making soap most days, and so a lot of the new batches will be ready by mid December, so if you order soonish, I can put soapies aside for you so your orders can go out as soon as they are cured *smile*

I have a new soap planned especially for the holiday season - radiant Sweet Orange, Cinnamon and Cloves - mmmmm citrus spice, just like pomanders!

Stay tuned!

I'm getting an award!

I got a lovely call yesterday from the steward of the NSW Hunter Valley Olive Oil association, telling me I'd won an award for my olive oil soaps - and that although he couldn't tell me WHAT award I'd won he said "it would be well worth your while to come in person to the presentation" - ooooooooo how exciting!!!

Here's a picture of the soaps that were entered, 100% pure olive oil soap from the boutique olive grove in the hunter region that I get my oils from (I try to support other aussie businesses and local produce wherever I can!) - I used my 'Charm' scent blend, a lovely upfliting combination of Australian Lemon Myrtle and Lavender essential oils, and scattered calendula petals throughout :)



The awards ceremony is tommorrow afternoon, so hubby and I wilk make the 2+ hour trip down at lunchtime 'ish and may stay the night in the region - not sure yet! :) The steward wants to have a business and promotional talk with me as well, as he wants to feature my soaps in the 2 day 'Feast of the Olives' that happens in the hunter valley every year - so I'm to bring down a large box of mixed soaps, flyers, business cards etc - this could turn into quite an interesting trip!

*** EDITED TO ADD - I won the gold :) And 'Best in Show' yay! ***

Envy - latest creation!

Hi All,

I've been dreaming up some new essential oil blends lately - and here we have one of the new ones :)

Envy - crisp tea tree with zesty, sultry lemongrass - perfect for the dark edge jealousy can have, with deep green swirled with whispy tendrils of black...



Also in the works are Bewitch (exotic Rosewood and smokey Vetiver essential oil) and Sinful (with sultry Patchouli, Sweet Orange, and spicy Cinnamon essential oils) so keep an eye out on my website for them!

I've recently gotten a new camera, so have been playing with it today - I'm amazed at the crispness of detail I can now get :)