We're head over heels in awe with our new scents for our holiday collection! Every year when the calendar turns over to July my mind begins to think about the gift-giving season and how our soaps will soon be celebrated with family and friends and shared amongst many. The holiday season is but a blink of an eye for a manufacturer so it feels as though it arrives quickly and then departs just as fast as it came.
It's that time of year when we bring candles into our shop. A hand-selected assortment of aromatic fall blends with the help of olfactory assistance chart the way to the next season's chapter. The candles help to enhance your mood and wrap you in warmth and glow as we approach the crisp days and blanket nights. That starts tomorrow at our shop.
My brown eye Susans are hanging on through the dry summer days, and I always feel like since they're late bloomers they're getting me ready for the next season with their colors of goldenrod and earth brown. I'm fond of the color brown. It's best blended with neutral hues of cream and sand. Little things.
Our new Tallow Skincare Essentials continue to shine brightly. The Tallow Soap is what I consider to be a special on top of special offering, as making it is quite different than our tried and true olive oil soap and requires a link in our soap manufacturing schedule. I've managed to slip in the links, but it's safe to say that as holiday soap production is underway, those links will be fewer. The nature of handmade and its multi-level levels.
The fall soap menu has been released! We've been sharing it often because our posts get lost sometimes. So many of our customers don't even visit our social media posts so if it seems redundant that's the reasoning behind repeat posts.
A pleasant perk of an old home is glass door knobs. Years ago when we first stepped foot in this old house the doorknobs stood out to me. All these years later, and they still do. There's something uniquely special about everyday fixtures in an older home, especially when they're original.
I'm getting ready to order fall garden seeds. Plants like parsnips, onion, spinach, and Swiss chard are on my list for planting in a few weeks. Typically there's a sixty-day period before fall produce matures, and since this is all very new to me, I'm excited to throw caution to the wind and experiment with these little beds of goodness. I've learned so much up until this point and in awe of the produce I've been able to grow in such a small area. This morning someone posted about how you can extend your tomato crop by picking the green tomatoes right before a frost and placing them in paper bags in a cool dark room. They told me that they enjoyed tomatoes through Thanksgiving and beyond.
Jill
