Enjoy 15% off all orders over $25, PLUS a free Perfume Sampler ($10.50 value on orders over $25) PLUS we are tucking in a free Lavender Shea Butter for all orders over $50 at our Faerie Made Website!
This runs through Monday Feb 13th. Enjoy!
Happy Valentine’s Day from ME to YOU!
So this is cool …
There is a book coming out in August … My soaps are mentioned in it.
This isn’t a book on soap. Or crafts. It’s a work of fiction.
I am thrilled. A author wrote a book set here in Asheville and she mentioned my soaps …
MY SOAPS!
Best part? it will be out on Kindle so my mom can read it.
Giggle.
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So, my newest time waster is Pinterest. I can figure it out faster than I have figured out how to maneuver Google + (which I still have no idea what I’m doing there) and it’s more fun.
So, from what I can gather Pinterest is a place you can see cool things and then “pin” it to categories. Or if you find something cool you want to share you can share it there (in addition to Facebook).
For me, it’s food, gardening, animals, spaces and places, gardening and books. and a few things that are my style.
It’s fun. I have found some good ideas for gardening, seen awesome AWESOME houses and gardens.
I’m trying to not spend too much time on it, but I love looking at the cool images.
I mean … I could live here and I found it on Pinterest …
The little things that I am grateful for
I started this post a couple of times and I keep editing it because I keep thinking of more important things to add to the list.
Initially I wanted to have a short and sweet post about the little things I’m grateful for … like good coffee.
And then I started thinking about how it’s materialistic to write about being grateful for good coffee and that I was jinxing myself and I should say my family, my dogs etc … those things
and then I wrote “health”
and then I needed to add in my business because it’s how I’m surviving and able to eat well and have good health and drink good coffee and take care of my family and my dogs and and and
and I think I started over thinking things … which I do well.
I am grateful for so many things and I am now off to make a nice cup of coffee.
My Blog Today
If you clicked further from my blog today you are here now. I installed a plugin to my page to express my concerns with SOPA which will provide censorship of the internet. We’ve expressed outrage that China does it .. and we all consider the US of A to have rights? Freedom of Speech?
Well, what will SOPA do, but bring censorship?
See Google’s home page.
Sign the petition, contact your congress person.
Oppose SOPA
Investments
I invested in my life this month.
After the busy season is over at Faerie Made I sit back and work on the next year business wise.
I purchase supplies and start building up product stock for markets and shows and retail and wholesale. I also invest in something to help the business out. This year I purchased 2 new printers. One monochrome and one color.
Also, I take care of myself. I am fairly thrifty in some ways … well I do love my iPhone and good shoes like danskos … but I don’t go buy new clothes or the latest in this or that.
As you all are aware who’ve followed my blog, I am a big foodie. In fact, I love food. I love to cook and I love to eat.
I am also a lover of life and as a result I eat clean foods. Minimally processed … I do eat meat and dairy(organic and or regionally raised), I eat lots of veggies, little processed sugar, not a lot of grains, but only whole grains when I do so and I have a weakness for fats like nut butters and chocolate is my friend (but only in moderation)
Anyway, this year I invested in me. I purchased a Vitamix. Oh Vitamix, the blender to end all blenders. It is amazing. In mere seconds I can make amazing smoothies (which I have been drinking every morning for years, but now they are kicked up a notch.
I put in whole fruits, veggies, nuts… and it’s pulverized.
I made peanut butter in a minute from fresh roasted peanuts.
Hummus? Like velvet.
This morning I put a whole apple (peel, core AND seeds), pineapple (frozen chunks from fresh peeled and I saved the core too), whole almonds, almond milk, chia seeds, whole milk yogurt I make, almond milk, spinach and went whir whir whir.
Yum.
Sh*t New Agers Say -A Parody.
This is so hysterical. I live in Asheville, NC and we’ve got our fair share of New Age people here.
This one sh*t new age guys says was filmed here in town. I’m laughing hysterically because it’s so true. I’ve met people just like him here. Come on … I’ve lived here my entire life!
Oh and this one? She’s awesome. I’ve met her (not her, but still … who she is representing)
Paperwork! Oh how I hate thee…
This is the part of the business that I spend the least on during the week. Then I find myself in the middle of January or June CRUUUUNNCHING numbers and entering invoices/sales etc into Quickbooks.
Yesterday was 5 hours.
Today I’ll do more of the same.
Tomorrow too.
If I was really organized I’d do it every week. Just set aside an hour or two a week and just do it.
I say that several times a year as I sit down and stare at the computer screen for hours and crunch, and check off this and organize that.
It really is a pain in the arse, but it feels so good to have it completed.
Part of my 2012 goals is to be more organized with all I need to do computer wise.
Enter weekly sales/expenses etc
Social Networking
Sales calls, contacts, etc
Blogging (yes!)
Marketing a bit more
Updating website, improving copy
And things of that nature.
But first I have to get through this pile!
