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Soap, Glorious Soap!
So we're right back in the swing of things here. Later on this morning, we have the Diamond Head Arts & Craft Show at Kapiolani Community College. We'll be in booth #145.

We have a few new things coming up in this show. Namely, we have our goodie bags! We did have to remove the hand lotion to keep the price down, but hey, its still an excellent value for the money and an excellent little gift for those that you're not quite sure what to get. They are available in the six signature fragrances (jasmine green tea, mango tea, satsuma guava, summer love, sweet lavender, and wasabi bliss), and just for the holidays, holiday berry has made a re-appearance as well!

Solid perfumes are back in stock. Looking more than adorable in their new compacts and packaging! Very sleek, if I do say so myself, and very classy, too. I couldn't resist, I made 10 fragrances. I know its a lot to choose from but I was having so much fun and just couldn't stop myself. So the fragrances are, in addition to our six signatures, kiele kai, sweet pikake, poshie, and kudzu & ginger. These are limited editions because if I wanted to get these same compacts, I'd have to order about 10-15K of them and hubby would have a kitten over having to store that many of them so needless to say, when they're gone, unless I can aquire only a couple thousand, they will be gone. I'll still find a container for our solid perfumes, but they may not be quite this cute.

Okay, our two new fragrances. What can I say? I got inspired at the 11th hour and started blending again. Kudzu & ginger came about because I wanted to blend a fragrance that, I felt or had hoped, would capture the spirit and light of my little daughter, kira. I wanted something floral, but a sweet and delicate floral, not heavy to daunting. I wanted something a little earthy drydown and maybe just a hint of berries. Well, what I ended up with was absolutely enchanting but the drydown was a little too sensual and, dare I say it, a little too sexy to be named after my 13-month old daughter. So, kudzu & ginger it is. This fragrance has a heart of the sweet kudzu blossom, top notes of luscious fresh white ginger flowers, a hint of blushing jasmine, a touch of black berries and tuberose and a base of vetiver and oakmoss. We introduced this one at the Season's Best show at the end of october with resounding success. Needless to say, I'm very happy about this one and we may even see this one in the line up next year.

The second new fragrance, I haven't named yet. Its a combination of jasmine, earthy brown sugar, a touch of sweet figs, lily of the valley, a hint of plumeria and a little freesia for good luck. Enchanting and alluring, to say the least and it will be available thanksgiving weekend in...

Roll on perfumes! We finally got a hold of some glass roll on perfume bottles. Before you go "Glass???," I just want to say that I've been toting this little sucker around for a month now without any leaks or breakage. Packaged like last year, we are offering seven fragrances for your perfuming pleasure - kudzu & ginger, sweet lavender, summer love, holiday berry (just for the holidays!), jasmine green tea, love, and that yet-to-be-named scent. Oh, did I forget to mention that I put a beautiful combination of glass beads in each bottle, just for your entertainment? They are beginning to look like little works of art in a bottle. I just love looking at them on my work table - its almost a pity to label them and put them in their boxes.

Drawer Buds will be ready at the thanksgiving show as well. Think of our car & room fresheners except miniaturized. They are simply adorable and sold in sets of 3. Each set is boxed in a clear takeout box and tied with a festive ribbon, of course. We have three scents available. Poshie with dried dark pink rose petals, Lavender (not our sweet lavender, but a beautiful lightly herbal lavender) with lavender buds, and chamomile blossom with calendula flower petals. These are of limited quantity as well and we're looking at about 25 of each for the year.

Holiday lip balm flavors are going to be available for sale starting today. We have candy cane, peppermint bark and peppermint frosting. All of them seriously yummy.

Our car & room fresheners. It is with a heavy heart that I say we just bagged the last of our shave ice scented beads. But, on the flip side, we have new ones to entertain you with named "island cutie" and "juicy pear." We will have two holiday scents available soon - holiday thyme and mistletoe. These will be appropriately packaged in holiday themed cello bags.

Soap, glorious soap! After an almost two year hiatus from soap making, I finally did it! We have curing in our workroom, 4 double batches of our cold process soap. We have jasmine green tea, satsuma guava and mango tea. For those of you thrill seekers out there, we also have a fresh mint, created with peppermint essential oil, a touch of menthol, eucalyptus and spearmint. For added zing, I've even thrown in some ground peppermint leaves, which give the soap a leafy green hue. Needless to say, do not use this one on the face! Hubby has been bugging me for months to make a "cooling" soap and well, it does feel pretty brisk and wonderful on those hot muggy days we've been having lately.

Anyway, its just after 1am and I have to be up in five hours to get ready and get to KCC for the craft show. Take care and I hope to see all of you soon!

carri