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Let's chat today about how vision boards have helped me both in life and in business. I felt this should be a part of the 40 over 40 series because once I began implementing the practice of making vision boards every year, things changed.  First of all, what is a vision board? Well, you're about to find out. I decided today's blog would be a video post of a workshop I offered for my facebook group. Our  theme this January in the group is "Embrace the Morning" and vision boards are. a big part of that. We're setting goals and...

The new year is upon us, friends, and boy do I have some big plans and goals and today I am sharing one of them that has me ready to jump into 2022! The Facebook Group Community The first area that I am focusing my efforts on in 2022 is my Facebook community. I have a group of nearly five hundred women who have attended monthly soap sales and shared laughs and community to a degree up until now, but I am going to give them a group they can be proud of in 2022 -- a group that serves...

Dear Friends,   I haven't posted a blog in some time, mostly because I have been rather busy in the studio, but also because this has been an unexpected time for family to reconnect, to have dinners together again, to go back to all of those things that I have genuinely missed. It has also been a time to battle hardship together. It seems that some businesses, like some families, have flourished during this trying time of Covid, but some have suffered irreparable damage. I have felt for and supported all of those businesses that I can, like many of...

It has always been my intention to grow my little business so that I could help other women by giving back. This is the first year I have achieved enough of my goals to make this happen. I chose Gratitude Soap as the product that would help me to give back to my community this year. This soap allows me to use the ends of my soap bars (that might otherwise be wasted) to create colorful balls of soap that decorate a brand new product: Gratitude Soap. It is lemon-scented and luxurious, but it's also just ....fun, creamy lathery --...

I get a lot of questions about this, so today we are going to talk about how I make my cold process soaps. I'm going to give you the quick and not-so-dirty version of the process here, and then show you a video of me in the studio making my new Walk in the Woods soap for 2019. Cold process soap making takes time, creativity, precision and a little elbow grease, especially for those large batches, like the one I am making in the video. What you need to know Here are the basics: Cold process soap making uses a...