Perfume Price Adjustments

After our executive meeting this evening (me sitting at the computer!!), we decided to offer our Roll-On Perfume and Solid Perfume Sticks™ in cute little individual color-coordinated organza bags. Order a WINTER scent? It will arrive in a slate blue organza drawstring bag. Order a SPRING scent, your item will come tucked inside a little green bag. We believe these will make outstanding displays for our retailers.

In addition, we are seriously considering professional printing of our labels for these two products. We are looking at labels which will include a tab so we will no longer be including the labor-intensive shrink band. Some of these decisions have to do with the wholesale opportunities we are currently entertaining. Which leads me to today's bad news!

After a successful launch, we are adjusting our prices to more fairly represent our costs effective immediately.

Roll-On Perfume will increase from $7.95 to $11.95 per unit and Solid Perfume Sticks will increase from $5.95 to $7.95 per tube.

Shea Glycerin Soaps will stay at our very low pricing of $2.95 for a full-size 3oz bar an $1.25 for the sample-size 1.25oz round. We do not plan on wholesaling these soaps.

We are considering whether to continue offering bath salts.

In the very near future we'll be welcoming Velvet Sugar Scrubs™ to our line soon along with seasonal scented soy tealights...manufacturing compliments of our sister site, SparklePuss.com - Super-Scented Soy Candles (when we finish setting up the candle lab!)

Today's awesome ETSY FIND:

GORGEOUS!! Heart Pendant by ShineDichroicsuk.Etsy.com

Thanks for visiting, have a GREAT Friday and enjoy your three-day weekend!

Thanks to MONICA!

Wow, today was one of those days that I didn't realize I needed help until the job was done!

My sweet friend and babysitter helped fill perfume vials today...what a total blessing!! We needed to get a large package of samples out for swag bags for an event and I would not have made the postal deadline without her!! THANK YOU, Monica!!

We are already considering expanding our line...sugar scrubs and scented soy tealights. Since we already have SparklePuss Soy Candles in operation (launched in December of 2005) we will use that "division" of our manufacturing facility (aka The Garage) for producing our candles.

I'm working on selecting gift wrap/packaging. This is the part that I got NUTS over...don't you love fluffy curly ribbon, bright packages, cube boxes, colored tissue and shred...oh dear...you don't think about that stuff, huh? Well, I better keep it to myself then...more soon!

Have a wonderful week...kids start back to school after Labor Day...I'm ready for the routine that the school year brings!


Today's awesome ETSY FIND:

I would love to own one of these MadBags.Etsy.com ! Isn't it gorgeous? Go Indies!!

NEW Fragrance Perfume Debut - AUTUMN EQUINOX

OK, it really is way late, but I probably wouldn't be able to sleep anyways as we are launching perfume #13...AUTUMN EQUINOX!

AUTUMN EQUINOX scent description...bathe in this exquisite, warm and spicy floriental. Hypnotic aromas richly surround you with a smooth and velvety union of jasmine, rose and ylang-ylang fusing the intense and mysterious bottom notes of sandalwood, amber, tonka bean and vanilla. The powdery, creamy vanilla finish intrigues and beguiles with its' deep, crimson sensuality. Seductive. Sacred. Mezmerizing.

oooooh, doesn't that sound WONDERFUL as the nights have a bit of a crisp nip as the temperatures are dropping toward autumn (eeeek, who said that?)



We'll be updating our website with this new perfume tomorrow...for now, nightie night.

Thanks for coming! See you soon!

Today's awesome ETSY FIND:

I just love these colorful handmade magnets- ThePurplePear.Etsy.com ! Aren't they cool? Go Indies!!

More Photos...

OH YEAHHHHH!!!

My sister is the most amazing amateur photographer. I keep urging her to post some of her really good stuff on Etsy, but she doesn't think she's very good (wrong)! Before my dad passed away, he gave a camera to each of us (that was about 14 years ago before digital cameras came out for the average joe). She started taking these really dramatic photos of her two cats. Then when she got a digital camera and a camera phone she just got even better!!!

Here is her photo from a seaplane over Seattle from her CAMERA phone!

photo coming soon

So anyways, it occured to me...duh, SHE can get good photos of my stuff! We got together and she did my Solid Perfume Sticks™...I feel SO good about what she did!

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So I'm in the process of updating my website and Etsy shop with my new pics!

Thanks for taking the time to read, enjoy the rest of your weekend!!




Today's awesome ETSY FIND:

I would love to own one of these family signs! OffWoodlandLane.Etsy.com ! Isn't it gorgeous? Go Indies!!

the MOST beautiful seattle day

Happy Friday to me!

You know what?

I don't think I've felt this good in YEARS.

We've been through a lot the past few years and FINALLY as a family, things are really looking up. I can FEEL the intense stress (that we've been under for so long), start to melt away...eroding like when the ocean waves gently but surely start wearing away at the shore to reveal a new landscape.

Today is a gorgeous, sunny, not too hot and not too cold day (78°F). Driving westbound over 520, I see the spectacular (understatement) view of the snow capped Olympics, the deep blue water of Lake Washington with the Space Needle poking over the horizon and if I turn my head to the left and back, there is THE MOUNTAIN in all her majesty. Hard to think she's a VOLCANO. Breathtaking nonetheless! But not quite as breath-TAKE-ing-AWAY-ing as heading down (DOWN) Queen Anne Ave - the view from the car (speeding down the hill) was (momentarily) fantastic. Driving by Kerry Park "warms the cockles of my cockles", that park is a special spot.

Days like this make me remember own of my dad's favorite quotes. "Just another crappy day in paradise"...Larry Hagman said that in a magazine article a long time ago and dad thought it was so funny! Dad would say that quote when he was especially happy about some situation. It makes me smile. Even though he is gone, it is nice to remember.

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AND

I'm SO excited about Four Seasons Fragrance!!!

Even on days off, I still enjoy "working"...I love the saying...."if you love what you do for work, you'll never work another day in your life"...ah. I get it. There is SO much I want to do with my new endeavor...who needs sleep, I guess?

Thanks for visiting the blog today and have a great weekend!

How did it get to be August 13th!?!?

I can't wait for vacation.

I want to post a slideshow here.

And have a space to promote fun Etsy shops and websites.

Huh.

I have a lot to think about. And a lot to do! I think my blog is boring and needs to develop with some cool photos or something to make it more inviting!

Right now I'm working on getting out Autumn Equinox for Alchemille's birthday!

Thanks to everyone participating in the drawing for our PERFUME CLUB-Six months of scent is our grand prize. Drawing to take place August 31, 2007.

If you don't know about this, please join our mailing list to be in the know!

I also want to add some single scent perfumes...so my husband John and I were talking about it and we came up with "Scent of the Month"!!! That way I don't have to add it to the regular line but we can have some "excitement". So I'm working on that, too.