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A Calendar Update

St Edwards Feast Day Festival 2021

We hope you all are enjoying the weather lately. Here in the Houston area we expect some storms overnight but the weekend’s weather looks great! Will be great to get outside with you all. I wanted to share our remaining calendar for 2022 here on the blog for those of you who’d asked for it. It’s not a complete list as we still have applications pending but we’ll post another calendar update as those confirmations come in. We’re looking at a wrapping up our farmer’s markets, a few special events, deadlines for custom holiday labels, and a little more fun along the way. Thanks for being along with us for the ride!

Handmade black and white gift bag with bars
Handmade black and white gift bag with bars

November 2022

  • Nov 5th- Lone Star First Saturday Market (Montgomery)
  • Nov 6th- Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market and Jersey Village Farmer’s Market
  • Nov 12th- St. Christopher’s Bazaar (Blalock Rd) & Huntsville Holiday Market
  • Nov 13th- Huntsville Holiday Market (Walker County Fairgrounds)
  • Nov 19th- Washington on the Brazos’ Christmas Market & Christmas in Crockett
  • Nov 20th- Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market and Jersey Village Farmer’s Market
  • Nov 24th- closed for Thanksgiving
  • Nov 26th- Hallettsville Festival of Lights
  • Nov 27th- Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market
  • Nov 28th- Custom label order deadline for 2022 Holiday season
Santa visited the TPC booth at Magnolia market
Santa visited the TPC booth at Magnolia market

December 2022

  • Dec 3rd-Wunderlich Old Fashioned Christmas, Lone Star 1st Saturday Market, and Jersey Village’s Holiday in the Village Market
  • Dec 4th-Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market
  • Dec 10th-St. Christopher’s Christmas Bazaar (Blalock Rd) & Christmas in Historic Montgomery
  • Dec 11th-Magnolia Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market
  • Dec 17th- Deadline for shipping USPS to arrive by Dec 25th. All orders after would require priority/expedited shipping or local delivery.
  • Dec 18th-Christmas Extravaganza Market (Magnolia) and Jersey Village Farmer’s Market
  • Dec 23rd- Soap room closes until Jan 2023 for annual family recovery time!

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be with us at the Christmas Extravaganza in Magnolia for pictures. We’re co-sponsoring that event along with GreenLite Services again this year. Pictures are free and the whole family, including your fur babies, can smile for the camera! We’ll keep posting pictures to the site here and also on our Facebook page of the fun.

As you can see, we are going to be pretty easy to find for the rest of the year. It’s always fun visiting with you all in the booth, at the markets, and around town. We hope to see you at some of these events and that posting these updates helps your schedule too! If you have any questions, comments, or events you’d like us to consider please let us know. Need GPS info to get to one of these events? We’ve got links to many of them on our Where to Find Us page and our Facebook page too. Wants to be a vendor at any of these? Send me an email and I’ll gladly help you get in touch with the organizers. Or stop by the booth to ask for details. We’ve been a little short staffed this fall due to staff commitments to scouting. This weekend is the last of those and we will be back to full staff. Thanks for your patience, understanding, and support all these years!

See you out there!

-Dorothy

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Working in the background

I am lurking on the website this week as promised. It’s still frustrating to me how well I can mess up loading pictures to the site so that is high on the list to fix this week in addition to getting back into the swing of our blog after my absence. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get all of these pictures I’m staring at out where you can enjoy too! Cross fingers for me and it’s ok to laugh at me breaking this site- I laugh the hardest sometimes. Luckily, I don’t plan to try to make a living by computer work 🙂 Although I might totally rock at computer & website demolition, actually……

Across the street from our booth at Houston Beer Festival, June 8, 2013. Awesome time with you guys!
Across the street from our booth at Houston Beer Festival, June 8, 2013. Awesome time with you guys!

As mentioned before, we were at the Houston Beer Festival this past weekend. We had a blast and met a ton of great people. Always enjoy getting out there with you guys, Houston, and this was a great time! I must send a shout out to Maximus, one of our local bands, for some great music too. You made even this pathetic dancer start moving and grooving with those songs! Keep it up boys! Here are the only two shots hubby managed to get of the festival for us. The white tent you can barely see with the Beer Soap sign (thanks again Bob!) is ours and the second picture is from the back of the tent looking out. Angie’s Bits o’Glass is there on the left and my pasty white legs are on our side to the right in this picture. (Angie, forgive me for posting your butt online without warning lol) It was a very busy but fun day for us. We thank you again everyone for such a great time. And some new jokes for me- hooray!
Looking out towards crowd from behind the booth at Houston Beer Festival, June 8, 2013. Lots of fun!
Looking out towards crowd from behind the booth at Houston Beer Festival, June 8, 2013. Lots of fun!

I must now go back to my behind the scenes work and try to load pictures around soaping sessions. This week I’m making more of our Texas Suds Beer Soaps, another round of plain pioneer soap, and some of the Honeysuckle too. I’m plotting the Ginger Peach bars but pushed them back a few days so I could make sure I can get the colors I’m shooting for. More details later and I hope these pictures cooperate with me. See you around the website!

Happy Washing!

Dorothy