Sooo Much Fun!

Everything is going great! I wish it would never end:) My dad's candles turned out great- It was a fun night of candle making. Our whole house smelled so delicious:) Since then my mom has also ordered 25 for Christmas gifts. I'm thinking of maybe making a flyer to pass around to companies to sell them, or even just in my neighborhood! I had to go back
down to
Hollywood to get more
supplies so I
went with Brady to an
appointment
he had in that same area.
Brady went more nuts then me! He was putting all sorts of things in my cart:) He even set up a table for me in the garage and went and bought me a double burner. It's perfect because the garage is warm and that helps make a good candle. Anyways, I am loving all this candle stuff and I hope the sells continue to grow! (P.S. sorry about Brady's middle finger:)

My first Sell!!

I can't believe it! I've been hired to make 100 candles!! Andy Gardner, our tax guy, wants to give out candles to his clients and he's hired me to make them!! Yeah......so if you want one, have him do your taxes:) The cool thing is that I was at my parents house last night and I was online looking for supplies and my dad asked me what I was doing. So I explained to him that I was making candles for someone to give to their clients and he thought that was such a good idea that he ordered 100 himself!! He has a convention he is doing on the 29th so I have to be snappy! I found a wholesale candle supply store out in LA which is going to be very helpful since now I wont have to pay shipping and I don't have to wait for everything to be shipped!! I also went online and ordered some labels of my own that I can stick on the bottom of my candles, and I opened my etsy shop. There isn't anything on there yet but there should be after I finish my candles. Yikes....... So wish me luck!! It's going to be a busy candle week:)

It worked!! day 4 cont.

I'm going to call it chocolate almond soap! It doesn't smell like that but that's what it looks like:) I couldn't get the last batch to melt all the way so I went ahead and just added the oatmeal, coco powder, coco butter, and I also added ground Cinnamon and more olive and coconut oil. After it set and I cut it, I could see that the chunks that didn't melt didn't change color either so now it looks like it has almonds in it. A cool thing to know to make something else creative later!! I went to Walmart and in the poppuri section they sell all different kinds of fragrance oil but I wonder if that is not something you can use in soaps and whatnot. Probably not, it says to avoid contact with skin:) Anyways, another great soap day!! P.S. the powder on top is just ground up oatmeal that I had left over. Not sure if that looks good or not. It kind of looks like powdered sugar on almond brownies. I da know:)

day 4- - it will be awhile:(

I still love the idea of having my own etsy shop but the thought of it scares me just a bit cause I know I'm not ready yet so I think for awhile I will just make soaps and candles for my family and friends. Right now I am remelting my last batch and I'm going to add some oatmeal and ground Cinnamon to it. Maybe in a year I can start my shop. I also need to invest in some more fragrance oils. It is definitely a fun hobby and is something fun for me to think about:) I'll post some pics of my soap when I finished

Day 3 - vanilla sugar cookie soy candle

It's been busy and I've been lazy but here is a soy candle ready to go! It is filled with vanilla sugar cookie fragrance!! I want to burn it but I've got to make some inventory:) Good news! I've been using my very own home made soap and it works great!! No burns so that's a good sign:) I think I'm going to remelt my other bars and add some fragrance and cocobutter to make the bar a little more smooth- I'll post how it turns out!!

Day two!! not actually day 2 but day 2 on my venture

I tried soap again for I think the 5th or 6th time and this time is even closer!! I figured out what was wrong with all my other batches!! I didn't add enough lye and the way I figured that out is because I added too much Lye this time and my soap set up before it even got to volcano stage!! so I added more water and oils and melted it again but I think I stirred too fast because now my soap is like chocolate muse! it will be floater soap:( but it's soap and at least it's not a gob of gue!! so I'm happy, I'm getting closer to getting it right and I learn more about how it all works with each batch! Another cool thing is that I had emailed a lady who has the most awesome soap making website! Her whole website is helping people make their own soap. She has every bit of information on there to help you! I emailed her and asked her some advice and she emailed me back!!!! What a cool lady!! She attached a bunch of links to help me with my soap. Any who, hopefully my next batch will be even closer........I hope:)

Day one!

So I'm registered and getting started!!! Scary!!! I haven't actually opened my shop yet because I need to make some more inventory!! I've been reading and looking at another girls shop and I saw that she had a blog spot as well where she posted all of her progress. I thought that was a pretty good idea so I decided to do the same! Now I feel like I have something to report to and it will keep track of all my progress. I have to say that I have my candle making down pretty good so that won't be too hard to get some cool candles finished. It's the soaps that make me nervous. I won't post any on my shop until I know forsure that they are awesome!! I have tried to make soap serveral times but I just haven't figured it out quit yet:( If I can get one recipe down where it's perfect, I can work from there and add on and be more creative. I think the problem is that because I am making such small batches of soap everything has to be super percise and I am too cheap to invest in a scale and also a stick blender. but to make my soap work right, it has to be done. Anyways, I'll keep up on my progress!! I'll make some candles and atleast get those rolling!! Until then, see ya!