Smiling, smiling, smiling

We went to Land's End on Mother's Day. A meal there is always fun.

Sometimes one just needs to get away from the hum drum of life and spend quiet time out on the Homer spit. I don't ever remember a time when I took the spit for granted. So many save up over a lifetime just to visit the spit for a week once in their life. Me? I get to live here. How cool is that?

Today I had to run into town...twice. The first trip I had to drop my daughter off for training for her job. I managed to slam the ear piece of my cell phone in the car door. Oops. It still works, but all the rough edges are hard on the ears. I stopped by the cell phone company to buy a new ear piece. Since it's right by my favorite automotive parts store, I stopped in there. Yes, I do have a favorite parts store. It's all the years we had our shop. I'd given one of the employees there some of the soap I'd made. I wanted to get feedback.

She loved it and said she'd be my tester any time I wanted to try out new soaps. Yay.

Before I went in the second time, I sliced off samples for her of the various batches I've already made. She was thrilled to get them.

I had another bag filled with samples. This time I showed them to a potential customer. I walked out of that cold call meeting with my first wholesale account. Yay!!!!!!!! I don't have my company logo. I don't have my labels figured out or all the packaging figured out, but I have a wholesale account. Not a place where I can put my soaps on consignment, but an honest to goodness wholesale account.

Life is good. Life is very good. I showed her one of my packaging ideas and she loved it. It's different than any of the other soaps she carries. Another yay for me.

I also have a place where I can put my soaps on consignment. In time we, the shop owner and I, plan on it turning into a wholesale account. Right now their store is new, and since she's family, what can I say. I'll make the soaps, she'll sell them. It will work for us.

Sunday evening I made a mechanics soap. It turned out really nicely. Tonight I made a batch of soap that is unscented, but I added ground oatmeal anda honey to it. I also used coconut milk for the majority of the liquid. It feels wonderful. It has a burnt sugar smell to it, which isn't offensive at all.

Tomorrow I hope to make another batch of soap, plus a lip balm. Then on Wednesday, I hope I can get another batch of soap made, plus a lotion bar.

Once I get all the recipes figured out, it won't be near as hard to keep up with demand. Right now I'm creating the recipes as I go and all of that takes time. Lots of time.

A wholesale account. I know it's not exciting to the rest of the world, but it's very exciting to me. :-)