May you be safe and warm and surrounded by the ones you love.

The Holidays are nothing without cranberries. Even people that dislike cranberries rarely complain about the color and smell of natures edible rubies. Cranberry Garland by Spotted Cow Soaps reminds me of a long strings of yarn and sharp needles. It reminds me of 20 little classmates happily poking through tough cranberries and wondering if that [...]

These Soap Calculator Videos were mentioned on the Southern Soapers Message Board. Sadly, I’ve not had much time to participate on this board or any others lately, but I hope to rectify that over the Holiday weekend. Many of you already know how to use Soap Calculators, but if you’re new to the craft, these [...]

Are you looking for a creative way to get your products in front of a large audience? Girl in Your Shirt may be for you.  One of my favorite blogs, Quick Online Tips, posted about the service. Give it a read! The fee for advertising with Girl in Your Shirt is fair and could help [...]

The over the weekend this site came to a grinding halt and continues to load quite slowly. I’m hoping the problems are resolved today. I have complete faith in my hosting company as I can count on one hand how many problems I’ve had over the past 5 years and most of those can be [...]

‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…’ Please don’t shoot me if that song is stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
Linda Nigro from Soapier has so many Holiday Soaps I didn’t know which one to write about. She lists creativity as one of her ingredients and she’s absolutely right. The [...]

My host will be moving my sites to a new server. This is good news but the sites may be down for awhile when they do it - sometime in the next few days.

If your family is more like the one portrayed in a ‘Christmas Story’ rather than the one in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ you will really appreciate this soap by Grumpy Girl. Like she says in her own description-everyone has a ‘Drunk Uncle Bob’ at Christmas dinner story to share.  I’m not at all surprised by [...]

Indiebizchicks.com is hosting a tele-seminar on how to market your craft business online.
The topics covered include how to market online - even if you don’t have a website, how to get featured in the media and on shopping sites, how to get other people to promote your products for you, and more.
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I’m dreaming of a White Christmas…but come December 26th I’ll be dreaming of green grass, green leaves on the trees and flower beds at 75 degrees Fahrenheit. But if the snow that covered my walkways were made of shea butter, I may not grumble as much about shoveling it.
I really like the color of this [...]