A week of lots of soap making. I finished a few fragrances just this week alone, and if I can keep this up I may actually have my inventory complete by mid April- just in time for heavy show season to begin. I made my new gardener’s soap- so it will be ready in time for the Hofstra Flower Show. I also made Olive Oil Castile- since it takes forever for this stuff to cure well. I also made 10 batches of basic soap during the week. This allowed me to figure out what supplies I needed and pick them up on Friday. I may actually have what I need for the year, although I hope sales are so brisk that I am totally wrong and end up to my ears in soap all year.
I started making samplers. I have 30 of them almost done. These things fly off the shelves. I always have trouble making them up. Some people find it important to have fragrances that they know in the samplers, some don’t care because it is just a quick and easy gift. So I try and make sure 3 of the 6 fragrances are something that is recognizable and that can be reordered this year, and the other three are left overs from last year or from special orders that I fill. But no matter what I do, there comes a time that I make some filled with 6 fragrances that can no longer be had, because I just plain run out of the recognizable ones, which is fine. But this year I plan on making some of each right off the bat and try and extend my supply of the samplers that include the most popular fragrances as much as I can.
I bought my books for my next few classes. This school being over is finally getting more and more real. I can’t wait to go on with my real life. I feel like the classes I have left are just bogus and a waste of my time. I know I am learning and I know some of it is good stuff, but I want to jump into the business head first and I feel like the time I am taking with classes is holding me back more than it is pushing me forward now. I think this feeling will end in a few weeks when I have a few more web design classes to do- two more to finish my minor. Then I have summer break, and just four more till graduation. It will be a great Christmas present to myself, and I will be bored as heck on Jan 07 I’m sure..
B went with me when I went to pick up oils in Friday. It is so much more fun going with someone than going alone. We had lunch at Shady Maples- I just love their food! Then we went to CDM wholesale, it was her first time there and I think I bummed her out. It is this huge wholesale craft store and there were tons of stuff that we see at shows throughout the year and are told that the crafters “make” them- liars! I think it should be mandatory for every craft show producer in the are to go to this store and look at its contents before jurying their shows- it would cut down on the buy/sell junk for sure!
Friday night J came over. She was stressing about life and needed a reality break. Saturday we worked in the shop, making soap and bath fizzys. I think pounding on the bath fizzys helps her vent some anger, LOL! She left much happier and I think a little more confidant that everything is going to be OK.
Sunday C and I went looking at houses. We saw another one with potential, so we really need to think about it some more. Once we got back I worked on some homework and we rearranged the closets again- but I think this time we can actually see what we have, and I know I can finally reach everything without a step stool, which is way cool!
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