I'm actively churning away at getting my homemade soap and bath products business up and running. Sometime this week I have to go down to the court house and register my DBA. Right now I'm doing my research on packaging and best bulk suppliers. For the start up I'm going to be taking preorders, with samples of the products for everyone to check out of course. I should be starting with handmade soap, bath salts, scrubs, and lip balm. Once I get kicked off there will be bath bombs, men's shaving soap, facial masks, foot & hand care, etc! I'm really excited about this... almost to the point were I'm annoying the crap out of the hubby. :)
If anyone has anything they've been looking for in the bath & body products world and want to give me ideas, let me know!
Also, which do you prefer: lip balm in a tube or a pot?
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The blog of a knitting junkie. Oh, and a little talk of everyday life too.
About Me
101 in 1001
Start Date: 12/29/07
End Date: 09/25/10
bold = completed
italics = in progress
Craft
1. Design a sock pattern
2. Completely fill my current art journal
3. Make at least one blanket for Project Snuggles
4. Hand carve a stamp
5. Complete a sweater for myself (only seaming & blocking left!)
6. Knit an afghan
7. Try pinhole photography
8. Get out my 35mm SLR and shoot at least 1 roll of B&W
9. Dye up that big sack of Romney fleece
10. Research & execute a way to bind and preserve the Santa letters
11. Restore antique trunk from great-grandfather
12. Sew the All Day Tote by Lotta Jansdotter
Mind
13. Take a creative writing class
14. Update resume
15. Read all the unread fiction novels I currently have before buying any new ones. (3/18)
16. Write my Grandma 12 letters (0/12)
17. Write and submit at least 3 freelance articles
18. Get Mary’s address and start writing her letters
Home
Health
19. Try belly dancing
20. Take a yoga course or join a studio for a month
21. Try rock climbing. (indoors is ok)
22. Start exercising, build up to doing it 2x/week for a full month
23. Give meditation a real, honest try
24. Start going to the chiropractor again
Social
25. Host a dinner party
26. Host a Dead Celebrity party
27. Have a book swapping party... perhaps every couple months?
Financial
28. Pay off credit card
29. Pay off car loan
30.
31. Fill current jelly jar of change and buy something fun for myself.
32. Open a savings account and put in $10 every paycheck
33. Save $1 for every completed item
34. Pay off student loan
35. Research debt consolidation
36. Pay off past due taxes
Experiences
37. Visit the DIA again
38. Spend a weekend in Chicago
39. Go horseback riding
40. Travel somewhere off of this continent
41. Get a spa facial
42. Get my other calf tattoo
43. Do the color tour of the leaves changing up north
44. Try eyebrow threading in lieu of waxing
45. Take a motorcycle riding class
46. Get my CCW
47. Get a henna tattoo
48.
49. Visit IKEA... finally!
50. Go to the Traverse City Farmer's Market
51.
52. Dye hair with henna
53. Do the Oil Cleansing Method for 30 days.
Tasks
54. Get a passport
55.
56. Get the cats’ shots up to date
57.
58.
59. Buy a filing cabinet and file all important paperwork
60. Brush the cats at least once a week for 3 months
61.
62. Get my car’s oil changed regularly so I don’t kill the poor thing (2)
63. Resist the urge to dye my hair with synthetic, chemical dye.
64. Grow out my hair so I can donate it to Great Lengths w/o having to have super short hair.(done 3/21/08! 12 inches donated!)
65. Get life insurance for myself
Splurges
66. Buy myself a magazine subscription
67. Buy one pair of really nice, expensive shoes. (and by expensive I mean over $50!)
68. Buy a spinning wheel
69. Buy some BPAL imps
Edibles
70. Make a cheesecake
71. Bake an apple pie using my Great Grandma’s recipe
72. Make my own granola
73. Make jam from scratch (freezer jam ok)
74. Get a food dehydrator and make dried fruit goodies!
75. Have more sit down meals (18)
76. Try 50 new recipes (21/50)
77. Buy blender and drink green smoothies for 7 days in a row.
78-101 To Be Determined Later!
End Date: 09/25/10
bold = completed
italics = in progress
Craft
1. Design a sock pattern
2. Completely fill my current art journal
3. Make at least one blanket for Project Snuggles
4. Hand carve a stamp
5. Complete a sweater for myself (only seaming & blocking left!)
6. Knit an afghan
7. Try pinhole photography
8. Get out my 35mm SLR and shoot at least 1 roll of B&W
9. Dye up that big sack of Romney fleece
10. Research & execute a way to bind and preserve the Santa letters
11. Restore antique trunk from great-grandfather
12. Sew the All Day Tote by Lotta Jansdotter
Mind
13. Take a creative writing class
14. Update resume
15. Read all the unread fiction novels I currently have before buying any new ones. (3/18)
16. Write my Grandma 12 letters (0/12)
17. Write and submit at least 3 freelance articles
18. Get Mary’s address and start writing her letters
Home
Health
19. Try belly dancing
20. Take a yoga course or join a studio for a month
21. Try rock climbing. (indoors is ok)
22. Start exercising, build up to doing it 2x/week for a full month
23. Give meditation a real, honest try
24. Start going to the chiropractor again
Social
25. Host a dinner party
26. Host a Dead Celebrity party
27. Have a book swapping party... perhaps every couple months?
Financial
28. Pay off credit card
29. Pay off car loan
30.
31. Fill current jelly jar of change and buy something fun for myself.
32. Open a savings account and put in $10 every paycheck
33. Save $1 for every completed item
34. Pay off student loan
35. Research debt consolidation
36. Pay off past due taxes
Experiences
37. Visit the DIA again
38. Spend a weekend in Chicago
39. Go horseback riding
40. Travel somewhere off of this continent
41. Get a spa facial
42. Get my other calf tattoo
43. Do the color tour of the leaves changing up north
44. Try eyebrow threading in lieu of waxing
45. Take a motorcycle riding class
46. Get my CCW
47. Get a henna tattoo
48.
49. Visit IKEA... finally!
50. Go to the Traverse City Farmer's Market
51.
52. Dye hair with henna
53. Do the Oil Cleansing Method for 30 days.
Tasks
54. Get a passport
55.
56. Get the cats’ shots up to date
57.
58.
59. Buy a filing cabinet and file all important paperwork
60. Brush the cats at least once a week for 3 months
61.
62. Get my car’s oil changed regularly so I don’t kill the poor thing (2)
63. Resist the urge to dye my hair with synthetic, chemical dye.
64. Grow out my hair so I can donate it to Great Lengths w/o having to have super short hair.(done 3/21/08! 12 inches donated!)
65. Get life insurance for myself
Splurges
66. Buy myself a magazine subscription
67. Buy one pair of really nice, expensive shoes. (and by expensive I mean over $50!)
68. Buy a spinning wheel
69. Buy some BPAL imps
Edibles
70. Make a cheesecake
71. Bake an apple pie using my Great Grandma’s recipe
72. Make my own granola
73. Make jam from scratch (freezer jam ok)
74. Get a food dehydrator and make dried fruit goodies!
75. Have more sit down meals (18)
76. Try 50 new recipes (21/50)
77. Buy blender and drink green smoothies for 7 days in a row.
78-101 To Be Determined Later!
7 comments:
OOOOOH I am so excited for you! I will definitely be a customer, I love giving stuff like that as gifts! I'll have to think about stuff I'd love to see in that market...and I defintiely vote for lip balm in a tube...balm in a pot gets indescribably germy in no time flat.
I'm a tube girl too! I love any fruity soaps, I buy a bunch at the Sheep and Wool Festival, so if you'll be making them I can start getting mine from you. They work great with the knitted soap sac.
Hi there,
I prefer a pot :)
Helen
Tube, less finger germys that way.
How fantastic! Love bath goodies.
Good luck! :) I'd be interested in gentle, very gentle products for sensitive skin.
I prefer a tube, digging lip balm out of a pot tends to get under my nails. Yuck!
I prefer lip balm in a tube also. I find it to be more portable that way.
When I do use the balm in a pot, I leave it at home & use a q-tip to keep it from getting under my nails.
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