Rainbow Sherbet soap

In the mold

Summer Medley soap is taking a slight change. It will look the same but now be scented with Rainbow Sherbet. Everyone always thought Summer Medley smelled like Rainbow Sherbet so I am just making it official now.

I am feeling the push for the start of craft show season. First show is May 5-6 which is just around the corner. I have to get stocked up on bath bombs and cupcake soaps. Also need to work on making new signs for the year.

I am going to start selling my photography for the first time at this craft show so I also have a million things to work on for that. I am starting small and just doing a display rack to sit in front of the booth. Been spending my evenings putting photographs in mats and I do have to say it is nice to see everything all put together.

I will be working on a big custom soap order for a bridal shower in the next few days. Going to attempt to get peacock colors so stay tuned for how those come out.

gift basket

Back from my Denver craft show. It was a good show! I was debating on doing this one or not. I gave up doing another 2 day show last year that was good in order to try this one out.

I ended up making in 1 day what it took me 2 days to make which was nice. This was also new clients. Not one time did I hear I already bought from your or I am still using what I got before.

Busted out a bunch of gift baskets and soap sampler packs as those make great gifts during this time of the year.

I was really loving this basket. Maybe I like the wire style basket better then the wicker type ones?!!? Just thought it looked classier. This one is still looking for a new home :)

Monkey Farts soap make over

Above are the after make over

Blue one is the before

Next up in the mini make overs is Monkey Farts. Decided to kick this one up a notch with the colors. Next batch I might even change the colors again!

Monkey Farts has top notes of fresh bananas and juicy grapefruit; middle notes of pineapple, and strawberries; and a hint of vanilla as a base note.

I will be going MIA till next week. My really big craft show of the year is this weekend.
This one is a 3 day show with long hours as we don't pack up till around 9 pm at night so I won't have much computer time.

If you are in Pueblo, Colorado come stop by the Chile Festival!

New cupcake soap & craft show post

Back from my Fairplay craft show. Sales were up from last year. Been a strange year, my good shows from last year are all up and all the new shows I tried out I barely got booth fee back.

So what happens when the booth next to you is a craft show friend and you both have the same tent(they were the ones that told me about this tent in the first place)? We made a nice shade walk way for the customers!

New cupcake soap scented Chocolate Cream Cheese which has top note of coconut; followed by a warm middle note of buttercream; and well rounded with a base note of dark cocoa.

back from the chili cook off craft show

First show testing out my new qr code sign. See below if you want to scan it yourself with a smart phone. This craft show was an older crowd so only one person scanned it. She was pretty impressed that is brought up all the info about my company and no I didn't tell her to scan it she just pulled out her phone and did it.

This was a rare indoor show in the fire department as it was a fund raiser for the Howard volunteer fire department.

Saturday was green chili day. Can't say I am a green chili fan but the one I thought tasted the best got 3rd place.

Sunday was red chili day which I like way more. I picked DD and that was the one the judges picked as the winner so I guess I was better at guessing the red chili winner.

So I am a sucker for gem stones and rocks. Two of my best vacations have been when I went to Nevada and spent 8 hours a day digging for black fire opals. That is my idea of a great vacation by the way! Anyway I saw this rock on a vendors table and I had to have it I love pretty glittery things. :)

Show went ok not sure I will do it next year. I think I am going to do a new plan next year where I drop off some of the smaller shows like this one and save the money to get in the really big shows instead.

scouted a craft show today

So this is my ummm I forgot to take the camera with me picture!
I did get to wear my Scotch Lobster hat to the craft show. I am not a big hat wearing kind of girl but I burn pretty easy so I needed to keep the sun off me.

Went to scout a craft show I almost did but decided against it. Decided to see how it was before I do it. Old Colorado City historical days in Colorado Springs, CO.

This one has a way higher booth fee, you also need to have higher liability insurance which would cost me more. Adding to that venders were suppose to wear old west themed outfits which I own none. So all those things = high enough additional costs to make me have to think about if I would do it or not. Putting out all the extra money can be risky because Colorado weather in May is a crap shoot. Some weekends it is nice, some it is raining and others it can be snowing.

I was going to have all these cool pictures of the show but ya the camera was still sitting here next to the door. It was kinda nice to just go to a craft show and not be working for once. Getting parking wasn't too bad and there were lots of people around. The crowd levels were almost the same as the Chili Festival I did in September. Didn't see a ton of people spending money, well other then for the funnel cakes that is. Funny how even if people have no money there is always money for a funnel cake! People might not have been spending because we got there right around lunch time.

The large crowds can be good or bad as I have learned because it can make it hard for people to stop and shop as the crowd just pushes forward.

So turns out very few of the vendors followed the wear a western outfit rule. Funny how at some shows rules either are enforced or they aren't. Verdict is I guess I will give it a try next year as it is in a nearby market I haven't tried yet and there was only one other soap maker there.

Craft show report

Well I am back from the first craft show of the year. It went really good. Sales are up from last year and I am getting more and more repeat customers. Since moving from LA I have had to rebuild new local customers so it is nice to see it is starting to work. I am hoping that sales being up is a sign on how the summer shows will go.

So I have talked about this before but the Bee's are always poking around my booth because everything smells like flowers and is colorful. Well I paid the price this weekend when I got stung on my leg while helping a customer. I love bees but darn that hurt!

I was also so tired after this weekend and my dad reported sore muscles this morning. Seems we are out of craft show shape! lol

Got some good feedback on the new scents for the year. Hot sellers from the new ones were Floral Bouquet, Lick me all over, Blue Hawaiian and yes even the Beer was popular. Seems I will have to make more of the stinky beer soap!