We're traveling from Saturday to Saturday winding around projects and holiday assembly. A continued effort to construct an assortment of holiday gift packages like scrumptious soap and lip balm, soaking salts, facial serums, and the merry list goes on. I'm in love with those travel bags! We offer a variety of styles and colors at the shop. They would make an amazing holiday gift, hint, hint.
Bringing back some of your bittersweet favorites, like nail creme and shower spray. Both essentials have been improved with even more healing and natural ingredients. This week I'll be working on a new body polish and hair treatment that I mentioned a few posts ago.
The holidays feel different this year. Do they to you? I believe we are approaching our busiest holiday ever and that there will be challenges to keep items in stock. Folks are definitely shopping early, and I believe that's a great idea. Bittersweet is so very different than a shop that stocks premade items. We make up about eighty percent of the inventory that we sell at our store. From the very beginning those twenty-five-plus years ago I saw a need for stand-out inventory. Items that are fastidiously crafted by hand with a steady eye on detail and quality. I can't tell you how many times I've purchased something only to be disappointed and disenchanted. When you make your inventory you don't have to encounter this simply because you are able to guarantee that it does and is what it says it is. Blessing. The years come and go, but that has always been front and center in all that Bittersweet does and is. We don't want to meet your expectations, we want to blow you away and exceed them!
I must confess this little one that started as a soap business and birthed into a modern apothecary has blossomed and transformed into a beautiful gift. The most precious gifts are those that stand tall with glory and admiration, and mostly thankfulness. Being thankful for each and everything no matter the size or shape. Little things.
Hard work and determination are still very much a common denominator in life's undertakings.
We're expecting a rush of holiday shoppers from now until December 23. Our holiday open house is on December 2 and 3. In between and after wrapping several thousand bars of soap in record time, on December 23, I'll do what I always do at the end of the day. Turn down the lights and take in the memories of the moments that were presented to me this holiday season. Then a long winter's nap is on my Christmas list.
Wishing you peace and joy as the holiday approaches.
Jill
