It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

I love the holidays! It might be the carols I hear on the radio...or the seemingly endless opportunities to indulge in delicious treats...or the absolute joy I get in shopping for gifts. Or it might just be that the season is characterized by yummy smells of pine, peppermint, apple cinnamon, hot chocolate, pumpkin spice, and crackling fires. At the soapery, you know we love yummy smells! In keeping with that love, here we are preparing one of our specialty gifts this season...Peppermint Bark soap! It smells so much better than it looks...with the perfect blend of warm chocolate and peppermint. Yum! Customers tell us this is the perfect hostess gift for all those holiday parties this season...or a unique stocking stuffer for a hard-to-shop-for friend!

To make these even more wonderful, the peppermint oil in them that are for fragrance also have that "cooling effect" that peppermint products are known for. What better way to celebrate the season that to wash yourself in the scents and flavors of the holidays? :)

Light at the End of the Tunnel...

One million apologies for the lack of posting, but the soapery is in its final stages of preparing for its LAST craft fair of the year! (Yay!) OK, maybe I shouldn't be cheering, but I am not going to lie. We have really enjoyed the craft fairs this year...it's always so nice to be out in the public and meeting with people who like our products! But we have been fervently making soap for so many days straight that I am really looking forward to taking a few days off once this show is over. Plus, having time off means more time for experimenting and coming up with new ideas and perfecting old ideas!

But never fear, there's no extended rest for the weary here...the soapery has BIG plans for the rest of the year and 2011. Stay tuned, but we're hoping to finally put some of our goodies online as well as try out some new soaping ideas. Aaaand there will be much more updating of this blog, so there will more chances for you to put off that big pile of work that's sitting on your desk, or that big pile of laundry that is starting to grow legs, or whatever else you might be hoping to put to the back of your mind for a while. :)

Tonight, we head to Orinda to set up for this weekend's show. Wish the soapery luck. Trying to cram about 150 pounds of soap into a 3-foot display space is a feat we have never faced before. Ah, the challenges of being a soapmaker. ;)