My mother (pictured below) is a beekeeper in Franktown Colorado and is my supplier for fresh, ethically harvested beeswax and honey for my products.  Starting in the spring of 2011, I’ll join the beekeeping trend in my family.  My step-father’s family from Switzerland who I grew up with were beekeepers so I have grown up eating all sorts of tasty treats with home harvested honey.  Yes BE peeps, I love honey mead, honey cakes and honey in any form and I also love bees.  I love when you can feel their little suckers tap away for the sugar on your hands – I have no fear of these little friends that are so vital to our food source.  I was going to have my hives brought from Colorado this week as my mother had some she wanted me to take over but the State of Missouri requires permits and inspections, and it’s not the time of year to open up hives and have to checked….so come spring, I’ll have “the girls” with me here in Missouri.  Did you know the bees you see flying around are all girls?

Well, just wanted everyone to know that our product line will be increasing, and the lip balms are going to contain beeswax from now on.  For all my vegan customers, know that I love my partners in pollination and treat them with the utmost in care and respect.  I, nor any member of my family, have EVER feed our bees High Fructose Corn Syrup as an over wintering food!  Can you believe beekeepers do that??  It’s cheap and easy.  I love my little bee friends and will not feed them petroleum process syrup ever – hey, there’s a reason I make sugar scrubs with Turbinado Sugar!  My mom loves to come and pick up 50 lb bags to feed her bees.  Natural sugar, natural bees, natural products.

Happy Fall everyone!

The email problem has finally been fixed on the site so I should be receiving your emails consistently now, not the hit or miss prior.

Thanks for your continued support of handmade and independent business!  As always I appreciate those that have stuck with me through this transition.

In fact, it’s been so good the last 2 weeks, I’m sold out of most products and decided to close for the rest of the year.  I can’t replace our gift basket stock fast enough nor did I imagine we would ever go through so much Hemp Soap.  So instead of having just a few items, I decided to take the holidays off and make up some new products for the New Year.  I’ll be posting some updates through the coming weeks.  You can always follow my adventures on Twitter or over at Facebook on our Fan page – though I do get behind on that too….come to think of it, that’s a New Year’s resolution.

Again Happy Holidays!

The Totally Indie Coupons program is run by the super talented indie designer Lindsay Landis who also handcrafts adorable dog and cat collars over at Pattern & Paw

And Lillie over at A Planet 4 Creation helps to mail all the boxes to us….plus she cuts everything up which is an indulgence I haven’t taken her up on.  She makes the prettist blue and white porcelain earrings that I just love and have several pairs!

One of the flowers blooming right now are the spiderworts.  I wildcraft these pretty blue flowers and use them in  pocket mirrors and coasters.  I think Spiderworts are so pretty and signal summer is on it’s way.  They only bloom for about a month here so I have to make sure I enjoy them while they are here.

You can find this soap either on Etsy or at the shop.

Now all US address orders (including APOs) have the option of just $5 shipping for any size order.  And this includes delivery confirmation so you can see your order progress too with the Postal Services scan forms they now use.

We offer the option of UPS Ground and UPS 2nd Day Air for those that only want UPS, but these services rates are based on UPS’s prices, not a flat rate.  To receive the flat rate shipping price of $5, you must use the US Postal deliver service.

International orders are shipping using USPS Global Priority mail and I try to find the most economical packaging to save you money.  If I can pack an order and the cost is less than the web quote for your order, I’ll adjust the final charge.

Here’s hope everyone has a happy, safe and healthy holiday season.

debra

So – there’s some changes.  My product line is VERY limited compare to previously.  If you have been a customer of mine in the past and am looking for something, email me.  I’ll list it if you have ordered it prior.  I’m all about what works for my customers and me.  No mass marketing , no wholesale – heck I even let my UPC  drop after 5 years because I am tired of jumping to the tune of big stores.  I want simple, quality handmade products for a wonderful, understanding,  discriminating clientele.  If I don’t feel like making it, I won’t.

There you have it.  If I haven’t answered your email in the last 6 months -  I am truly sorry.  I thought I had people in place to cover the business – turns out I didn’t.  It’s fun now again – new look, new products and no pressure – life is good.

debra