Showing posts with label Sweet Repose hand-poured soaps and candles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweet Repose hand-poured soaps and candles. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Is it here yet...

Hell no, it's freezing out there!!!
I went out in the studio today to stage the new cupboard I redesigned...
love it...
This was one of those cheapies you get from Good Will,
I painted it white, then applied vintage wallpaper to the back
and shelf...sweet huh!

Doesn't the wallpaper just make the setting pop...
I'm slowly getting candles and soaps ready for my opening the
first nice day in April. Got lots of redoing to do once it's warm enough.
But inventory is coming out of my house, piles that
have accumulated over winter...

I won't have a huge amount of candles, just herbal and floral scents
that will go with my theme WILD THING...
lots of bird houses and gardeny stuff, however,
I will have lots of soaps.
I will have some greeting cards for gift ideas and will do gift baskets too.

I have another shelf that will get vintage kitchen wallpaper,
it will be staged on the other side of the shop,
perfect for those fun kitchen thangs some of us actually use.
My little shop is near Fruitland, 3 miles from the city, many of those people,
like me, don't want to drive all the way into town for a gift...
so this will be perfect for them too!

This is about down-sizing for me, I've worked hard for many years
in the city...and I'm over it!
I want to stay home, for the most part...
watch my chickens peckin' around, play catch with Scratchy
and work out in the gardens... and make soap!
Sun-up to sun-down, this is how I roll...
no more taking care of everyone else's stuff,
it's about ME now and I want to relax and breathe free!
You can live this way, but you have to sacrifice and
after a while you forget how important you thought those things were!

My Etsy store will be located here too,
easy for me to keep track of what sells without having to call around.
So I'll be cranking out body parts and bubble-stuffs
to my heart's content in my sweat shop...
just wait till you see!

COME ON SPRING!!!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

In spite of the weather...

A room with a view...I love my new window in my room at Sisters',
I love having a room at Sisters'...
rooming next to my bestest bud Brandon and his
wonderful decorating style that totally
enhances mine...
HELLO BRANDON...wherever you are...

Bits of Valentines' Day are arriving with the scents of LOVE SPELL...
YUMMMMM...
I have a new surprise coming for my soaps...very romantic...and very poetic!!!

The newly painted sideboard nestles into the upstairs of Sisters',
it's a perfect match...as most of my furniture has had a sudden departure...
but that's what it's all about for a dealer!

You have never smelled a peach candle like this one,
it'll make your mouth water for more...soaps too!

Pumpkin Cheesecake, an all time favorite in American made Ball jars,
not real classy, but then that isn't the REAL issue is it...
MADE IN AMERICA

Next to my man Brandon and I, the room belongs to Erika and Elaine...
two of the sweetest, most talented young gals out there...

The girls make these hand-printed signs that are to die for...
I want them all!!!

...and of course, there's BLOOM...
the little white farm house next door,
it's turning very Springlike over there...you simply must go check it out...
fresh Lilac and Lemon Verbena soaps!

We ain't afraid of no stinkin' snow!!!
Venture out to Sisters' Garden and Bloom...
SOON!