If anyone is in Seattle two weeks from now, I'll be speaking on a panel at the Shop/08 Panel on Monday, March 3rd, a conference for indie businesses. There's a nice array of business topics. Here are just a few of them:• Turn Your Passion Into Profit: Straight Talk From Women Entrepreneurs • High … Continue Reading
Lipstick Recipes
You can make a great lipstick out of your favorite lip balm recipe. If you don't have a favorite from-scratch recipe, you can use a pre-made base like the one here or I've designed a few recipes for making lipstick at home below. Remember, if the recipe calls for a liquid oil that you don't have, … Continue Reading
Monday Round-Up
After a long weekend away to Portland and back, it's hard to get in the swing of things. Not to worry, the mound of mail and stack of bills is enough to swing me right back into tempo. Thankfully, I had a little "prize" at the end of my mail pile. Nahia Creations in Pullman, WA sent me a little … Continue Reading
Where Cupcakes Meet Expectations
This weekend in Portland was a delightful whirlwind of sugar and fat. We ate our way through this fantastic city. Given that we live only five hours away from Portland, I'm not sure why we're not there more often but I plan to remedy that in the upcoming year. The cupcakes in that city are … Continue Reading
Portland Soapers Unite!
The Winning Soap! There was a wonderful feeling of community and soaping harmony today in the back room of Besaws Restaurant in downtown Portland. Much thanks and praise goes to Kate Dixson of KatyKate products for organizing this fun outing. The big winners of the day were: Soapy … Continue Reading
Chocolate Recipe for Slidey Tins
Thank you to Koinonia Community for this recipe designed just for our slidey tins! Hey Anne-Marie! I love the chocolate lip gloss. Here you go...a recipe for a small (test) batch. 2T apricot kernal oil 1T beeswax 1T cocoa butter 6 chocolate chips Melt together. Add:5 drops … Continue Reading
The Search Continues ….
Thank you to everyone that posted such positive, supportive comments yesterday for my Mom and Dad. It's great to have such an awesome community at the blog. We had a fabulous tour of the Nike facility (I want to work there when I "grow up"). Much thanks goes to customer Kate Dixon from Portland … Continue Reading
Would You Steal from this Woman?
This is my Mom on her recent birthday, celebrating with the traditional Norwegian Kransakage. She is the sweetest, nicest and most kind-hearted person I know. Some unscrupulous person just came and ripped out four of her prized dwarf fir trees and stole them right out of her yard! My Mom has … Continue Reading
Lipstick Making – Mixing Colors and Testing
Day One - Colorant Choices Day Two - Ingredient Choices Once you have all of your ingredients assembled, it's time to start designing your perfect color. There is no easy way to do this. Designing the perfect color is a process of trial and error. Thankfully, so long as your recipe contains no … Continue Reading
Otion Commercial Shoot
After four years of doing print and radio advertising, Otion is moving to the next advertising medium. We're going solely with television ads for 2008. We are lucky to have an award winning film production company in Bellingham. Handcrank Films shot the Otion commercial in four hours on … Continue Reading
Lipstick making – ingredients & melting
Click here for day one - lip stick colorants When making lipstick, there are a lot of different ingredients you can use. The basic ingredients are covered here but there are many, many more exotic oils, waxes and butters that can be used in lipsticks. Wax - Waxes can be beeswax, candelilla … Continue Reading
Dr. Seuss Cloud Soap
Here is SoapyLove's latest creation. Debbie posted some useful tips about making this soap over on her Daily Soap Ditties blog: The problem with clear colors is that they bleed. But one way to get around that is to make the bleeding unnoticeable. These clouds might absorb some of the light … Continue Reading
Lipstick Making – Day One
Making lipsticks is just like making lip balms - except with about ten times the color. Since Bramble Berry's Lipstick Kit*was included in the holiday gift roundup for the Boston Herald newspaper, we've been getting some questions about making lipstick. This week's blog posts will focus on making … Continue Reading
President’s Day Soap
President's Day was originally designed to celebrate President Washington's birthday. Now it's common to include President Lincoln, also born in February and all the presidents in this federal holiday. To celebrate the day, I made soap (no surprise there). This soap is an easy three layer loaf … Continue Reading