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Looking up today

It’s been a busy day around here!  Are your holidays getting busy too? Seems we may be winning the battle with the shopping cart here on the website.  It’s loading almost everything now and seems stable but please let me know if you have any problems at all!   Maybe I might have this thing figured out?  When I have needed to run away from the computer screaming, I’ve been clearing the soap racks and cutting a few pounds of soap that  we finished cooking up last week.  I’m uploading pictures tonight of the new projects we played with so I can finish those posts I promised too.  Cross your fingers that my run of computer bad luck might be over!

The beer soap is once again sold out of on hand stock.  It is back to preorder only status for now but is listed here on the site to make it more convenient for you.  We have more molds on order so we will be mixing up the next batch very soon- and it’ll be  a much larger batch!  We go through this soap so fast I’m starting to think I’m going to have to look at buying the beer by the keg.  Anybody know if that’s even shippable?  And can you picture the look on the delivery man’s face?  I’m sure he’s really going to believe me that it’s for soap!  His eyes might roll out of his head.

I had a question presented to me asking if we might have a berry scent in the works.  Yes, there is a raspberry scent being tested but it isn’t quite ready to bring out yet.  It will most likely be available around the end of January, if it continues as well as it looks.  I’ll update you more about that later in the year or early January.

I must run back to the kitchen now and finish playing with the new green colorant.  At least the mess I made in there today is easy to clean!  I will return this week with a promised post and will be working in the background all week.  Drop me a line if you see something I missed.

 

Happy Washing!

Dorothy

 

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Soap for little stinkers

Whew! Hope your holiday went well and everyone who was brave enough to head out into the stores found what they wanted. We are still adding on and tweaking this site so we again thank you for your patience. Also, thanks to those of you who are letting me know what’s broken! For a good giggle and to keep my Facebook promise, I wanted to tell you about a new gag gift we made. I will admit now that some of you will not be as amused by our recent project as all of the guys around here were. We created a gag gift set of guest soaps for that person who can be a “bit of a stinker” but luckily these are a lot more fun to play with. It all started with an idea from a friend of mine last year….

Her son’s Cub Scout den was working on their Whittling Chip. For those who don’t know, this is when the older boys learn how to properly use and care for pocket knives. They must go through the safety rules and show they can properly handle the knives, and as part of that his group needed to carve soap. I had donated some bars of coffee soap for their project and her scout saved almost all of the scraps from the carvings to make his own soap ball. His mom told me that after a short time how much it looked like a big brown ball of not-quite-mud sitting on her bathroom counter and that I really should try to make some soaps that looked like poop- on purpose! Of course, with my sense of humor, I kept the idea on the list. What guy wouldn’t find it funny to hand his buddy something gross like that, I was told. I had to see.

A Handful of Little Stinkers

We started with just a little bit of coffee in the water to get the right color and molded the fresh soap into balls. It was originally planned to make them round as our friend had suggested but hubby accidentally squished one as they cooled. The new shape actually improved the look! We immediately remolded them all to create a gift no one will forget. Yes, they look like they should be floating in a round bowl somewhere.  I know one of the first concerns people have is, “But how does it smell?” Actually, like flowers. Really- they smell like lavender, jasmine, and honeysuckle.  We thought it would be perfect to be able to give someone a chance to say their stuff really did smell like flowers. They will also love the bubbles as they wash with these little gems. It has been a huge hit in testing with all ages with great reviews on cleaning and fun. Each gift set has about 2.5oz of individual “bars”, which range from 5-6 bars per bag depending on their weight. Since these bars were hand molded and shaped, their individual weights will vary. We even have an optional poem available for your gift giving needs. There are 12 of these “Little Stinker” bags still currently available and we are already taking preorders for the next round by email until the shopping cart allows it again.

Little Stinkers soaps

If you are trying to order these (or anything else) and the site crashes it again, please email me at dorothy@texaspioneercreations.com I will continue to try to get this fixed over this weekend. I am still fighting to get the pictures loaded to our site for adding these to our shopping cart. I apologize for not having it online today but have spent all day working out the kinks & migrating parts of this system. I will be working on the site this weekend and updating the blog with other projects we’ve completed lately. Pictures to come of the pumpkin, teakwood, beer, and kid’s soap also. Thanks for your patience and humor as we’ve grown and tried to expand into the online universe a bit more. I hope to complete our online expansion within this week!

Happy Washing!

Dorothy

Updated Nov 24, 2012  @ 10:46am CST with pictures.