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Its March & our 2nd Anniversary!!!
This month we celebrate 2 years of berry sweet bath & body. Hard to believe that its been that long already but time does fly!

In honor of this momentous occasion, we are offering a 15% discount on your entire purchase with us from March 15th through the 29th. If you come in on Tuesday, March 18th (our original grand opening date), we will offer a 20% discount. For those customers on our mailing list, keep an eye out for a lime green postcard from us - we've got a special offer just for you! Our hours are still the same Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 11am to 3pm, Saturdays 10am to 3pm, and closed on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. I will be in the store for these hours until the end of the month, even if the princess is fussy, so try to hang in there with me if I'm more than a little frazzled!

Speaking of the mailing list, for everyone who is already on our list with their snail-mail addresses, if you could send me your email addresses or give it to me when you redeem your postcards, that would be great! Postage has been getting out of control and I overheard that its going up again in May. I think it would be great to be able to just email updates and specials to you, just don't send me to your spam folder!

Okay, I've been working on restocking the store and its been going a little more slowly than originally anticipated but I have got some items done:

We have our waterless hand cleansers, the pocket-size, back in stock in all 8 signature fragrances.

Boo-boo balms in the pots and tubes were poured today and I'll be labeling them this week. If you want them, please feel free to ask and I'll label them on the spot for you if none are ready.

Lip scrubs in the small size are 75% done, including the two new flavors of vanilla latte and green tea smoothie - I love these new flavors and I think you will, too! They are almost ready to sell, I just have to box them up. I still have three more flavors that I have to make, including enchanted apple but the rest are done. We'll also be working on restocking the lip balm bar, too. I didn't realize we were out of mojito until a customer called asking for it today. Oops!

Shampoo bars are the tricky ones. I am hoping to get them done this coming week in time for the kick off of our anniversary promotion. I will probably go wide with the fragrances but only one batch each - something is better than nothing, right? Anyway, as soon as they are done, I will start calling all of those on the waiting list - don't worry, I still have all of your names and requested fragrances.

Massage bars are also on the production board. I have a new twist for you on them for those of you who'd like a less messy form of application. I've decided to put 3 of the massage bars into twist up tubes - the scents are sweet lavender, satsuma guava, and eucalyptus spearmint. They will still sell for $6 each but I think this form makes it easier to transport and use. The original form of the massage bars will still be available for the purists out there. I still have the original bar form at home but I think I'd like to take the tubed one on vacation with me.

The Car and Room Fresheners are back in stock. These are the organza bags with the beads, not the paper sachet ones. We currently have shave ice, bliss, hawaiian rainforest, summer love, satsuma guava, lemon drops, plumeria, sweet lavender and poshie available.

Speaking of the paper sachets that everyone seems to be asking me about I did find 3 large asian plum sachets hiding in a box in the corner the other day for anyone who's interested! First come, first to get it! I'll be making them again in time for the Made in Hawai'i Festival in August but probably not sooner.

A lot of you have been asking for our roll-on perfumes and solid perfumes. I'm looking at changing the bottles for the roll on perfumes back to glass and I'm still trying to locate a vendor for them. As for the solid perfumes, I'm also looking for a cool new packaging for that one, too. Hopefully, it'll be up soon.

We are totally out of our small reed diffuser bottles. We have the medium and large sizes still in stock. Same as always, you pick the scent and I'll make it for you. I'm thinking about making a travel version of our reed diffusers so when you leave home, you can take a little bit of it with you. Its small and it will contain about 1 oz of fluid so it can totally pass those pesky TSA agents. It will contain about 5 or 6 sets of sticks so you can throw a set away when you're ready to pack it up. Totally sweet and cute on the bedside table!

I am totally overwhelmed by the positive feedback our Wasabi Bliss fragrance has been getting! My hubby was more than a little skeptical when I first blended it but I was totally in love and very pregnant at the time. Smart man to not argue with a pregnant woman. Anyway, I will be putting it in the shampoo bars, as requested by many of you, cuticle balm and solid perfume. If you want it in the body souffle and other products, as long as its available in the ready-to-scent line, you can have it! I have the itch to start blending again...

Wait until you see what we've got in store for our bath salts! Its going to be great! No more guessing how much salt to use, or sitting on salt rocks in the bath! I love them, they are simply adorable and easy to travel with for plane weary bodies. Or heck, just weary bodies in general. They will be sold singly or by the set in our cute signature blue boxes. I'll leave the rest a secret - I have to give you something to look forward to!

Things have been a little crazy and I want to say thank you for hanging in there with me! Kira is still in the throws of teething (the pediatrician says it'll be a couple more weeks until that bugger shows itself) and therefore its next to impossible to get anything done without an extra set of hands. Unfortunately, my mother-in-law is going to vegas during our anniversary promotion so please be patient with me if I seem distracted. Sleep is becoming a commodity for me.

I think I've written enough for now. Thank you again for all of your support and patronage! I hope to see you during our celebration!

carri