Wedding season has officially infested my brain. All day long I’m either labeling favors or designing labels for favors or pouring favors or talking to brides about favors or shipping favors off to their joyous events, so of course that leaves the spare moments for thinking about imaginary weddings. Not my own of course, because [...]
Filed under: gift guides on June 29th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
And we were mixing creams, cutting soap, and labeling lip balm! By candlelight. Candles are a big huge part of off grid yurt life, and I actually prefer them to bulbs. Which is fortunate. Plus it gives me an excuse to buy old FTD containers and milk glass bud vases. That’s enough reason to live [...]
Filed under: kids, yurt stuff on June 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s nearing market season again, and we’re trying our best to be ready for it this time. This means building displays, finding an e-z up tent, trying to be organized for once, and soaping like nobody’s business. This is where I wish I had a big enough oven to CPOP a 10-lb loaf mold. Soapers, [...]
Filed under: local, soap on June 18th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Big Cartel, that is. For those of you who don’t know, big cartel is basically a shop-hosting site, like Etsy. But unlike Etsy, the shops are fully customizable, able to be integrated into your personal website, and available for a flat monthly fee, vs twenty cents per listing and the monthly promise of 3.5% of [...]
Filed under: soap on June 16th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Since being the Etsy featured seller back in January, we’ve seen lots of shop-copying going on. I built my shop on a principle of simplicity, so I don’t have very many distinct targets, but in a way that makes things more frustrating…it’s harder to call it out. One seller (who was pointed out to [...]
Filed under: soap on June 6th, 2010 | 10 Comments »
