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we're still alive!
Hi everyone! Happy Independence Day! Yes, we're still alive even though it seems we've been quiet.
We've spent the past couple of months trying to sort through all of the store's inventory, trying to figure out what to keep and what to toss, which products to continue making and which to discontinue. All the while, kira is growing up before our very eyes.
We are going to be at the Made in Hawai'i Festival, August 15th-17th in booths #380 &381 in the arena. We decided to go with two booths this year because we really needed the additional space. We're planning to have kira with us more often than not so we needed a space for her to be in and well, after last year, we realized that there just wasn't enough room for all of you to comfortably look around and that kinda hindered a lot of you (and us!)
Okay, so with that in mind, what are we bringing? Almost everything including the kitchen sink! Just kidding - well, kinda. Here's a list:
Lip balms - we've secured a good amount of your favorite flavors so we're off pouring. Can you believe it? In order to make our production schedule of goods, I've had to order in almost 3000 tubes. Yikes!
Cuticle Balms - will be available in 9 fragrances including some of your favorites like wasabi bliss and white tea and ginger.
Lip Scrub - so far, the 8 flavors are still holding strong. this includes the new vanilla latte and green tea smoothie - both I just absolutely love!
Shampoo bars - I've got 12 fragrances on the board to be made including many favorites like summer love, wasabi bliss, satsuma guava and island girl.
Body Souffle - I know at least a good dozen or so of you who would do bad things to my car if I didn't bring these with us.
Drawer & Closet Sachets - I'm making more, I promise and I'm making more than I did last year so hopefully they'll make it past the Diamond Head craft show this year. For those of you who don't know about these, we made our own version of the paper drawer sachet envelopes last year. We made 500 of them in 12 fragrances and although we hardly moved any at the Made in Hawai'i show, we sold ALL of them at the Diamond Head show and many of you we're coming into the store looking for more!
Car & Room Fresheners - these are coming back as well. we're offering quite a few new fragrances including the unusual and alluring ume blossom and the unisex and enchanting white tea & ginger. the usual favorites will be there as well such as satsuma guava, shave ice, lemon drops and sweet lavender. we are heartbroken to announce that one of the fragrance components of the shave ice fragrance has been discontinued by one of our suppliers so until we find a replacement, what we have on hand for shave ice is all we have.
Travel Packs - updated and plentiful! The new travel packs will contain our waterless hand cleanser instead of our hand and body lotion (you have the body souffle as a moisturizer anyway) and we've added in a lip scrub and cuticle balm. The result? More bang for your buck wrapped up in a totally cute bag!
Escape pods - as if we'd ever leave this behind. Wasabi bliss was one of the new fragrances last year and I've got to tell you, I was really surprised that so many of you liked it! This is the one fragrance I've gotten the most calls about and the most requests in ready-to-scent for. Needless to say, we're bringing more this year!
Goodie Bags - they're back! We didn't do many of them last year and so many of you cried. So they're back and in force. I guess I have to get hubby ready - some of you wanted them so badly that he got pushed out of the way more than a couple of times!
Reed Diffusers - we only brought the medium ones with us last year and this year, we're bringing the smaller ones so keep and eye out for these!
The gift sets. Quite a few different varieties in very affordable price ranges. I can assure you, though, all of them are an excellent value for the dollar!
Some items are coming with a new twist. Before it all becomes too confusing, I'll put it in a list format.
Massage bars - I don't know if many of you got to see the new travel massage bars before we closed the retail side, it was in a miniature deodorant tube. I've managed to find an even more compact tube that is even cuter than the old one! I also want to make a bar sampler in a tin but we'll see how far I get.
Solid perfumes are getting a make over as well. I've found these wonderful little compacts that are just so cute and sweet, I had to use them. Solid perfumes seem to be all the rage now days, along with roll-on perfumes. These will be available in 9 fragrances and in a few gift sets.
Our roll on perfumes, which many of you loved but had bottle issues last year, we've redone that, too, moving to glass ones instead. These are the same compact size as last year's version but no more breaking tops, unless you drop them, of course.
Boo boo balm - I've noticed more and more of you preferring pots for home and tubes for purse. I've finally found the kind of metal tins I've always wanted for this product line at a quantity I was willing to deal with so I've ordered them. You'll have to see it to understand my adoration of this little 1/2 ounce tin.
We are going to be offering some new items such as our hot cocoa bubble bath mix. Its not the liquid like last year's one but a powder in an envelope. Its smells so good!!! There's a few more items up my sleeve but well, after the fourth night in a row with less than 4 hours of sleep, I can't seem to think of the other products right now.
With the store closing we've paired down our standard fragrance offerings to 6 instead of 8. We've dropped poshie, ambrosia, breathe and lemon drops and added in wasabi bliss, satsuma guava (to replace ambrosia) and jasmine green tea (to replace poshie). These "discontinued" fragrances will still be making cameo appearances here and there so please don't be too upset and if you really need to get that lemon drops shower gel, I can still make that for you!
Okay, on to the kira update. She's doing well. Her nine month check up (yes, she's already nine months old!) last week puts her at 19 pounds 6 ounces and just over 27 inches in height. So that 75th percentile for weight (down from her 90-95 percentile) and 50th percentile for height. She cut three teeth in the past two weeks (te first two in two days with the third following less than a week after) with the fourth one (hopefully) out today. Fitting, seeing as its independence day. She's been "walking" around the house for almost a week-and-a-half now. She lets go of the couch or whoever or whatever she's got a hold of and starts taking her steps. They are becoming a lot more purposeful and steady so its only a matter of a little while more until she takes more than 6 steps before sitting down. She likes climbing on things. She's managed to stand from a sitting position (nothing around her to help her up) twice so far. She loves to dance and listen to music and watch other children. She was sleeping through the night until she started cutting teeth and then everything shot to hell again but well, she'll eventually get there again. She's eating gerber puffs and crackers and its so cute watching her feed herself - she's so serious and thoughtful while doing it. Hubby keeps reminding me that this is why we didn't get the expensive berber put in just yet - our poor carpet!
Anyway, back to work with me! I hope all of you have a great and safe holiday weekend!
carri
Hi everyone! Happy Independence Day! Yes, we're still alive even though it seems we've been quiet.
We've spent the past couple of months trying to sort through all of the store's inventory, trying to figure out what to keep and what to toss, which products to continue making and which to discontinue. All the while, kira is growing up before our very eyes.
We are going to be at the Made in Hawai'i Festival, August 15th-17th in booths #380 &381 in the arena. We decided to go with two booths this year because we really needed the additional space. We're planning to have kira with us more often than not so we needed a space for her to be in and well, after last year, we realized that there just wasn't enough room for all of you to comfortably look around and that kinda hindered a lot of you (and us!)
Okay, so with that in mind, what are we bringing? Almost everything including the kitchen sink! Just kidding - well, kinda. Here's a list:
Lip balms - we've secured a good amount of your favorite flavors so we're off pouring. Can you believe it? In order to make our production schedule of goods, I've had to order in almost 3000 tubes. Yikes!
Cuticle Balms - will be available in 9 fragrances including some of your favorites like wasabi bliss and white tea and ginger.
Lip Scrub - so far, the 8 flavors are still holding strong. this includes the new vanilla latte and green tea smoothie - both I just absolutely love!
Shampoo bars - I've got 12 fragrances on the board to be made including many favorites like summer love, wasabi bliss, satsuma guava and island girl.
Body Souffle - I know at least a good dozen or so of you who would do bad things to my car if I didn't bring these with us.
Drawer & Closet Sachets - I'm making more, I promise and I'm making more than I did last year so hopefully they'll make it past the Diamond Head craft show this year. For those of you who don't know about these, we made our own version of the paper drawer sachet envelopes last year. We made 500 of them in 12 fragrances and although we hardly moved any at the Made in Hawai'i show, we sold ALL of them at the Diamond Head show and many of you we're coming into the store looking for more!
Car & Room Fresheners - these are coming back as well. we're offering quite a few new fragrances including the unusual and alluring ume blossom and the unisex and enchanting white tea & ginger. the usual favorites will be there as well such as satsuma guava, shave ice, lemon drops and sweet lavender. we are heartbroken to announce that one of the fragrance components of the shave ice fragrance has been discontinued by one of our suppliers so until we find a replacement, what we have on hand for shave ice is all we have.
Travel Packs - updated and plentiful! The new travel packs will contain our waterless hand cleanser instead of our hand and body lotion (you have the body souffle as a moisturizer anyway) and we've added in a lip scrub and cuticle balm. The result? More bang for your buck wrapped up in a totally cute bag!
Escape pods - as if we'd ever leave this behind. Wasabi bliss was one of the new fragrances last year and I've got to tell you, I was really surprised that so many of you liked it! This is the one fragrance I've gotten the most calls about and the most requests in ready-to-scent for. Needless to say, we're bringing more this year!
Goodie Bags - they're back! We didn't do many of them last year and so many of you cried. So they're back and in force. I guess I have to get hubby ready - some of you wanted them so badly that he got pushed out of the way more than a couple of times!
Reed Diffusers - we only brought the medium ones with us last year and this year, we're bringing the smaller ones so keep and eye out for these!
The gift sets. Quite a few different varieties in very affordable price ranges. I can assure you, though, all of them are an excellent value for the dollar!
Some items are coming with a new twist. Before it all becomes too confusing, I'll put it in a list format.
Massage bars - I don't know if many of you got to see the new travel massage bars before we closed the retail side, it was in a miniature deodorant tube. I've managed to find an even more compact tube that is even cuter than the old one! I also want to make a bar sampler in a tin but we'll see how far I get.
Solid perfumes are getting a make over as well. I've found these wonderful little compacts that are just so cute and sweet, I had to use them. Solid perfumes seem to be all the rage now days, along with roll-on perfumes. These will be available in 9 fragrances and in a few gift sets.
Our roll on perfumes, which many of you loved but had bottle issues last year, we've redone that, too, moving to glass ones instead. These are the same compact size as last year's version but no more breaking tops, unless you drop them, of course.
Boo boo balm - I've noticed more and more of you preferring pots for home and tubes for purse. I've finally found the kind of metal tins I've always wanted for this product line at a quantity I was willing to deal with so I've ordered them. You'll have to see it to understand my adoration of this little 1/2 ounce tin.
We are going to be offering some new items such as our hot cocoa bubble bath mix. Its not the liquid like last year's one but a powder in an envelope. Its smells so good!!! There's a few more items up my sleeve but well, after the fourth night in a row with less than 4 hours of sleep, I can't seem to think of the other products right now.
With the store closing we've paired down our standard fragrance offerings to 6 instead of 8. We've dropped poshie, ambrosia, breathe and lemon drops and added in wasabi bliss, satsuma guava (to replace ambrosia) and jasmine green tea (to replace poshie). These "discontinued" fragrances will still be making cameo appearances here and there so please don't be too upset and if you really need to get that lemon drops shower gel, I can still make that for you!
Okay, on to the kira update. She's doing well. Her nine month check up (yes, she's already nine months old!) last week puts her at 19 pounds 6 ounces and just over 27 inches in height. So that 75th percentile for weight (down from her 90-95 percentile) and 50th percentile for height. She cut three teeth in the past two weeks (te first two in two days with the third following less than a week after) with the fourth one (hopefully) out today. Fitting, seeing as its independence day. She's been "walking" around the house for almost a week-and-a-half now. She lets go of the couch or whoever or whatever she's got a hold of and starts taking her steps. They are becoming a lot more purposeful and steady so its only a matter of a little while more until she takes more than 6 steps before sitting down. She likes climbing on things. She's managed to stand from a sitting position (nothing around her to help her up) twice so far. She loves to dance and listen to music and watch other children. She was sleeping through the night until she started cutting teeth and then everything shot to hell again but well, she'll eventually get there again. She's eating gerber puffs and crackers and its so cute watching her feed herself - she's so serious and thoughtful while doing it. Hubby keeps reminding me that this is why we didn't get the expensive berber put in just yet - our poor carpet!
Anyway, back to work with me! I hope all of you have a great and safe holiday weekend!
carri
