Weekend Schedule

I wish I could be at the market this weekend...maybe I need to clone myself?   Instead I will be playing the bagpipes at the Relay for Life instead.   And June 2 I will be driving a friend to the airport....Next market date for fresh soaps, butters, salves, outdoor sprays, ...June 9!  

Until then, all products are available from my home studio, Green Tree Health & Wellness, Karin's Deli, and Cariboo Keepsakes. 

May is Speeding Along

I'm amazed at how fast May is going by.   It's almost the second market weekend of the year, May 12.  Tomorrow, in fact!   Of course I had meant to be spending this week diligently making soaps, salves, etc. but got completely side tracked with this hideous cold.   Ugh.   Colds in May??   It's just not right!!!!

I'll be at the Quesnel Farmer's market tomorrow, May 12.   I'm hoping to have a couple of new knitting items out for sale tomorrow, plus a re-stocking of clay facial masks.

I'm "patiently" waiting for a new shipment of jars for body butter.   I've got a one-off jar of body butter with my Sweet Dreams bath salt blend.  It got rave reviews from sniffers last weekend, and was thinking I could make single batches of different scents through the summer, something different from the standard selection of orange, lavender, lemon verbena, and vanilla spice.   But I need more jars before I can try that!

It's getting close to mosquito season, and I'll be bottling "Outdoor Spray" to bring to the market tomorrow.   I'm now using a base of water instead of the cyclomethicone.   Same great essential oils, different carrier liquid!   I'm toying with the idea of making a solid butter "Outdoor Spray" that can be rubbed on.   I'll see how the spring goes and how much time I've got between soccer season and pipe band!    Remember that I can't make any sorts of claims regarding insect repellency!!!  If I do that, then the "Outdoor Spray" becomes classified as a pesticide.  

See you Saturday at the market!   It's forecast to be a beautiful day :)

Lisa

 

Upcoming

May 5 - first Farmer's Market of the season!   I'm busy scheming a new booth arrangement, new shelves, new display...lots of scheming but so far no actual building.   Or soapmaking for that matter!   That will be happening tomorrow.  And the day after.   And all next week :)

Also new is my involvement in Small Town Love.   I'll keep you posted when my site there is fully operational.  The possibilities are very exciting!

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Also exciting are the four new lavender plants I bought while in Vernon!   Four beautiful new Hidcote lavender, a variety of English Lavender, or Lavandula angustifolia if we want to get picky and use the International Nomenclature label!   All I'm interested in are the incredibly beautiful deep purple flowers that will be in my garden this year!  And the fabulous lavender essential oil that I am planning on distilling this summer with my wonderful lavender!

Off to the soap mines....

Soap Demo!

Come see soap making live in action down at Green Tree Health and Wellness on Wednesday March 21.  I'll be mixing Energy soap sometime between 11 and 11:30, and pouring into moulds....well, when it's ready to be poured!  I'll be stirring by hand and that can take a half hour or longer to get the soap to the pouring stage.  We'll just wait and see what happens tomorrow!

Come on down to Green Tree tomorrow and check it out!  

See you there,

Lisa

Passion

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I had an Alexander Technique lesson yesterday, and as I was driving up I was stricken with envy of my two friends I'm doing it with.  The teacher, of course, has her passion in teaching Alexander Technique.  My other friend has found her passion with a healing thing called Quantum Biofeedback.  And me?   Um....passionless, except for knitting.  And where does that get me in the world?  And why should I care if I'm not creating world peace with my knitting?   

  I've always liked the quote from Mahatma Gandhi - "Be the change you want to see in the world".   Maybe the challenge for myself is to really embrace that at my own microscopic little level of home and hearth.  Knit, with love, beautiful clothes for people to wear.  Make, with love, beautiful soap for people to use.  Garden, with love, so that my family has good food to eat in the summer and through the winter.   Don't sweat over not having a large passion.  Enjoy and embrace all the small passions that I pursue every day.

 

as long as that doesn't include having to wash the floor every day!!!

happy days everyone :)

Lisa

 

I think I'd better go wash the bathroom floor.....ick!

Christmas time

is ticking.

note to self, from self. 

Dear self:

STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!

Get away from the computer and in to the other room and wrap soap for tomorrow's Christmas Market at the Quesnel rec centre!  Don't forget to make more body butter!  And salves, especially now that the new stock of tins has come in.  Did I mention soap?  Yes, wrap more!

Okay, okay.  I know!  There's only so much time today, and so much to do if I want to get to bed before midnight. 

I did manage to get a new shipment of soap in to Cariboo Keepsakes.  And a new shelf display in to Green Tree soaps. 

Yes, I know.  It's very nice, but it's not helping you get ready for tomorrow's market.

Okay!  Away I go.

See you tomorrow at the market!

Lisa