Milestone: 300 sales on Etsy!

On Sunday, I passed a huge milestone: my Etsy shop now boasts 300 sales! Wow! I am so excited and happy and thankful for all of the support from my customers, friends, and family.

So, in the spirit of giving back, I am holding another giveaway through Rafflecopter to give back to my awesome people! You can enter a chance to win 3 lip balms (your choice of flavors)!

a Rafflecopter giveaway
Make sure to enter daily for your best chance to win! Winner will be announced on Monday, May 20!
Thank you all so much for your love, support, and kind words.

A Year in Review

2012 has been a fantastic year for me and my soap business! I thought I would end out 2012 by focusing on all of the positives of the year.

HUGE Achievements for me this year include:

• I attended my first craft show in August, which kicked off a great fall/winter craft show season!
• I was asked to be a part of Bramble Berry's Fall/Winter S.O.A.P. team, and my youtube videos were featured on the results page!
• I sold over 180 items in my Etsy shop!
• I had my first International sale!
• My facebook fan page currently boasts over 600 fans!

And in my Etsy shop:

• I debuted lip balm in tubes, and now boast 23 different flavors, with three new ones coming in January!
• My bath bombs debuted in July, and have become my biggest sellers on both Etsy and at craft shows!
• My hot process soaps debuted over the summer, opening up a world of new fragrances and dyes that are unstable in cold process soaps.
• Wax tarts made their debut in September.
• The Soap of the Month Club and the Bath Bomb of the Month Club debuted in November!

I was also featured in three blogs this year:

• The Married Life Blog
• Pearls and Mason Jars
• My Blog Finally Made It

I am sure that there is more that I am forgetting, but just looking at the list above, my business has improved by leaps and bounds this year! I am so proud and humbled and completely happy with the progress that my shop has made, and I cannot wait to see what 2013 has in store for me! Check back next week when I preview a little of what I am planning for the coming year!

Milestone: My soaps are headed to London!

Creme de Menthe Lip Balm

I just wanted to take a moment and share a big milestone of mine that I passed this last week: I shipped my soaps to London!

I am so excited about my soaps catching someone's international eye and I felt such pride when I waved goodbye to that package as it headed out to travel over the pond to the United Kingdom... Cheesy, I know, but I just cannot express my excitement and gratitude!

I love this milestone, I am so excited to reach it, and I am over the moon that something made with my two hands is reaching someone so far away. I hope she loves her goodies!