Thank you, one and all, for trying to keep in touch with my blog. I wish I could say that I have been overwhelmed with business and that is why I have not had time to post but that would be a lie. I have had some business transactions but they have been minimal. So, since I can offer NOT ONE GOOD excuse, I will offer none. Just know that I am still here and still making soaps/lotions/aprons and now, a custom order for eye pillows!

As for the soap story, I ran into many picky little problems but think that most of them are solved. One problem was the need for labels. So, I had to design a soap label. sounds easy, huh! But it isn't! I had to define not only my products, but also myself. That was hard for me. When I started this little adventure I was just going to make soap and sell it! LOL!!! WEll, making soap is the easy part, the rest, the marketing, is a different world.

After I decided what I wanted on the labels, I bought a sorry little printer that printed about 10 pages of labels before it went kabonkers on me. Then, because I had orders to fill, I had to start making the labels by hand. Then I got too creative for my own good...and that took even more time but what fun I had drawing and coloring soap labels!

So, now I have a printer again and am a lot nicer to the world.
I also have a couple of retail accounts and am ever so excited when they sell a bar of soap or a bottle of lotion.

My next post will probably turn back to "as we age" because of many other things that have come up since I decided to write about soap making on this blog. Aging is not going away and I feel that I am just a teenager in the beginning of aging. The worst is yet to come and I would like to be prepared and share what I learn as we travel down this road.
thanks again for reading and keeping in touch.