Been Awhile Part 2

Here are some pictures of my newest items. They did pretty well at the craft shows and are starting to pick up in my Etsy shop as well.

Body Butter (yes, I need a better picture)



Lip Balms~~I don't have a lot of flavors yet but I do have some 'favorites' like Pina Colada, Chocolate Raspberry (made with straight cocoa butter to give the chocolate flavor)and a new flavor that's one of my favorites~Wine Cooler~it's great, especially with sweetner!!! Yumm...



Sugar Scrubs~just a little fancier than the salts

Been Awhile

Holidays have come and gone. Ours was quiet, & too short as usual. It's sad that in the US we get more time off to stuff our face and empty our wallets at Thanksgiving while at Yule/Christmas, etc.; we are only given the one day to share with family and friends for a very special time of year (just in case anyone who has the power to change that reads this, lol).

I had been a busy little crafter! I've been doing craft/vendor shows since the end of October. Working full time leaves me little time to prepare new items or make more of my exisiting items. I even put my Etsy store on 'vacation'.
With only a few weeks left for shopping, I figured I'd open it back up.

I really didn't do well at the "craft" fairs. I put the word craft in quotes because many of the fairs I have been to have had a larger number of VENDORS, not people, like myself, who make things by their own hand. There have been Avon Reps, Tastefully Simple, a bath/beauty Vendor, and more. Why are they there? Why are the small towns having them at these fairs? There was a women at one who made the most beautiful tree skirts. I don't know if she did well or if everyone went to by the "commercial" jewlery and beauty products; leaving us sitting there ....

(ok, enough of that)

Craft Show Day 10/26

Well it was a beautiful day today; sunny, kind of warm,..so, all of us vendors expected it to be a profitable day for us. NOT!

We don't know why; even the jewelry vendors didn't do well and that's unusual! I think the only one who did well was the food vendor selling chili!! LOL.

I did get a lot of peoples interest, though and took my cards. I got an invite to another craft show on the 1st, and some suggestions to bring my items to a couple of stores to sell. That was good to come away with, anyway.

Here's a picture of the new body scrubs I wrote in the last Craft Show entry:


This is Honeysuckle Rose scent. I have other scents available, too, like the photo below:

This is a scrub I made for the men out there whose partners would appreciate softer hands!! I've asked quite a few men who have come to the Craft Shows for their opinion on the scent and they all liked it!

Holiday Ideas

Here are some items that would make lovely gifts:

This is an Oriental 'inside' painted bottle; fill w/choice of scent!

Lavender Love Herbal Tea in a hand painted collectible bottle!

This is my Victorian Christmas gift basket!

Check out my site for prices and information....sale on now!

More ideas to come...

Craft Show Day

Today was a brisk fall day, a little too brisk for some people though, including us vendors!! The wind would gust up now and then but the sun would come out too, warming us up.

I made out pretty well for my only 2nd show! I've been invited to come back again next Sunday. The owner of the store lets the vendors set up on the property for free and it's near a nursery in my town. It's a perfect place because the Nursery has a 'pumpkin' town all October and brings a lot of people by her shop!!

I sold quite a few of these items:

My oil blends............

My teas............................

and some body scrubs...no pics yet!