Busy Times!
Our mini heart soaps make perfect wedding or party favours!
The year is flying by and I can’t believe we are almost into May! I love this month with lighter nights, sunny, warmer weather and plants and flowers starting to flourish in the garden.
Since I last wrote a post, I’ve been so busy I can’t even remember one half of what I’ve been doing! Weekends have been taken up trying out some of the Makers Markets and fortunately the weather has been kind to me. Soap, like me, enjoys dry weather and doesn’t appreciate having to turn out in wet conditions! I always enjoy meeting new customers, mostly because I enjoy chatting about the products on my stall and well, basically I just like talking. It has been really encouraging to see the same faces return for more soap or another candle. It makes all the hard work worthwhile. A couple of weeks ago I was invited to take my products to a local church for a ‘Clean Up My Community, People Vs Plastic & Pollution’ event. It was an incredibly interesting day and to meet everyone else with the same ideas, about more sustainable living, was really inspiring.
We’ve literally just put (I make my husband help me, my daughter & I’d rope in my 10 month old grandson if he didn’t destroy everything….anyone with two hands will do) a large order of soap table gifts together for a wedding anniversary celebration for a couple who live locally. The rest of the week will be taken up getting ready for two more markets and hopefully we’ll get a couple of day’s rest over the Easter period.
I must just tell you about this…..last week I needed to hand wash a cashmere sweater, but I’d run out of the mild liquid wash I normally buy. Being impatient, I didn’t want to wait till the following morning, so I hand grated a bar of my unfragranced natural soap. With a hand whisk, I swished the soap flakes in a bowl of warm water to make suds and proceeded to wash the jumper. Result…..a beautifully soft and clean sweater and I no longer need to buy the liquid wash!
I’ll be taking a short holiday just after Easter, with my cousin and I hope to return totally refreshed and ready for my next event, Harford Spring Craft Fayre in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, on May 4th. I’m really excited to be taking part in this event and maybe I’ll see you there!