Look What's New!

This week has been a little hectic here at Rustic Silk Soaps.  Business has picked up exponentially and I've outgrown my kitchen (and my entire house for that matter!).  Soap stuff is literally crammed in every nook and cranny to be found.  It takes up half of my living room, a whole hall way, closets, and usually my kitchen counters...  So I'm moving out!!

Well, I'm not moving out, but everything soapy related is.  I'm finally getting my own soaping studio!  I am literally so excited I feel like jumping up and down.  I'll finally have my own place that is for nothing but creating wonderful, deliciously fragrant products.  And I guess reclaiming half of my house is a plus, too.

Moving everything isn't going to be any fun, but at least I'll have a chance to reorganize again because everything has become quite chaotic.  I got my hubby to agree to a soap studio because I told him either I need new shelving in the house, or I need my own space.  He quickly agreed to a soap studio.

Anyway, other things have been going on this week as well!  I've released my first products in my skin care line.  My Rose & Aloe facial toner and facial moisturizer are currently available for purchase in my Etsy shop.  The first stock is limited, but more will come very soon!  I'm also working on an oatmeal based line.

Rose & Aloe facial toner and facial moisturizer.  Naturally colored
a soft pink due to the brilliant red rose water used to make them.

I've also finally gotten my Bubble Cookies listed on Etsy.  Right now, there's only four fragrances, but many, many more are to come!  You can find them in my Bath & Body section, along with a few other items.

Last, but not least, I've spent all week preparing for the Hog Wild Festival.  I'll have a booth there tomorrow and look forward to seeing you!  I'll have all kinds of products available - soaps, lotions, sugar scrubs, salt scrubs, bath bombs, and all of the products mentioned above!  Looking forward to a great day meeting people and talking about soap!  I'll do an update Monday about the show.

Thank you so much for reading!

Hog Wild Festival

I had a blast at the Hog Wild Festival yesterday.  Getting up before dawn and being out in the rain all day was totally worth it.  I got to see some really cool booths and meet some really awesome people.  To the left of my booth was a booth trying to raise money to construct a memorial in front of the courthouse for local veterans.  Their goal is to have enough money raised to unveil it on Veterans Day this year.  They were great company throughout the day.

Down from them was a booth by 2 Sisters and a Brush.  They were custom-making t-shirts along with very cute distressed items.  Here's a few pictures of their booth they posted to Facebook.

They made my booth look quite empty and boring.  But I was happy with how it turned out for my first set up.  Looking at it now, I realize that there was a lot of brown-on-brown-on-brown action.  I think for my next show, I will either paint my baskets to match my tablecloth, or line them with fabric that matches.  For my next show, I will also have more products, as I will have my body butter there as well and perhaps some lip balms and lotion bars.

I was really glad that I thought to leave my tent's walls attached to the tent and just roll them up. Many times throughout the day, I had to let down them to keep my products from getting wet.  Everyone around me was commenting how smart it was and how they wish they had walls on their tents as well.  The booth to my right, which had really cute wooden designs, decided to pack up and leave after the second shower.  Too bad they did, because it was after that when everyone came.  Before then, I was afraid that I wasn't even going to make back my booth fee, but between showers, I more than tripled that!  I think it was a really good turn out for a rainy day and my first show.  I can't wait for the next one!

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