SoapMaiden

Last month our web developer extraordinare, Kevin, from KR Graphix, did us a great service by introducing us to the Soap Maiden. She has an incredible line of soaps and lotions and potions that we have gone crazy over! You can tell that she loves what she does by the meticulous and appealing product she puts out. All of us shop gals have snapped up her all natural bars that are cured for 4 weeks! 

The Soap Maiden was telling me about how she has taken time to perfect her recipes, and how her chemistry classes really ending up paying off.  Frankly, I'm just jealous of her kitchen! Our personal favorites, are the Lemon-Lemongrass soap, and Peppermint & Cocoa lipbalm. It goes on so smoothly and smells delicious. The Soap Maiden is debuting new products with us every couple of weeks and just brought by a new selection of hand and foot balm and a clay face mask.

We love supporting local artisans with handmade product that is actually good for you. What we love even more is a product that looks, feels and smells good enough to give to your friends.  The Soap Maiden says around the holidays she's going to be putting together gift baskets that will include a smattering of some of her great product. Perfect for people you really love and people you are just getting to know! Bath and BodyWorks better watch out, the Soap Maiden is on the block!

Simple Pleasures

It's going to be another rainy Saturday.  The upside to all this foul weather is that the plants and flowers (yes, mushrooms included) are still beautiful. When I was letting my dogs out before work this morning I noticed that each of my roses had some beautiful blooms so I decided to bring some into the house.



It's amazing the joy that can be found in the simple things, like fresh flowers from your yard. I guess the adage of "stopping to smell the roses," really hit home this morning. It's so easy to want more and bigger and better, but sometimes simple is just perfect. 

Lost and found

Allison has coerced me into doing today's blog.  This is Karan, and I am not blog literate.  Allison is sitting next to me telling me where to click.  However, I read A LOT of blogs!  

We had a couple in earlier this year on their way back to New Jersey from Florida.  The wife pleaded with her husband to leave I-95 and go east to Newport News, Virginia.  The husband granted her wish----wow!

Seems that when they were in Florida for the season, they were at the library and ran across an old issue of Southern Living magazine.  It just happened to be the February 2010 issue which just happens to be the one that featured our shop.  She was obviously taken with what she saw, thus the 85 mile side trip out of the way.  

They were both so nice and made several purchases.  We look forward to their next visit when they head back south for the winter.

You just never know what you can find in an old magazine.  Maybe that's why I tend to hoard them!

For those of you who haven't seen the article, you can read it here.

To be mentioned in Southern Living was an incredible thrill.  From date of contact to date of publication was almost two years.   They sent a photographer who spent almost an entire day taking photos of everything----entire spaces to small vignettes to Lucy.   What fun it was!