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Greetings to all! Just a quick note to say THANK YOU for all of your support online!  If you hop onto my home page, you will see that all of my bath bombs and most of my soaps have come close to or have SOLD OUT.  Just when I was thinking that perhaps I should not be making fancier soaps in the New Year, I get this overwhelming wave of support for everything.  It is so inspiring to get such support and I have renewed excitement for making some beautiful soaps.  As I've mentioned before, I do LOVE my soaps...

Oh it's that most wonderful time of year again!  I do LOVE December and Christmas time and the whole season.  This year I am again, sitting out the market atmosphere simply because I am still healing.  I have to always remind myself that it took years for my knees to be unwell and all the accompanying limitations that goes with that and though, my knees are much improved, I still have a long way to go.  It is so lovely though, to bake gingerbread cookies, sip on a cup of coffee, and burn a candle and relax while listening to...

Hi there! This blogs pic is a throwback to 2006 (almost 20 years ago!) when I made these beauties for retail sale in local shops.  I didn't have my own shop so sold them to gift shops around Manitoba.  They were so pretty!  I can remember that these were actually a mistake when I was trying to create another technique from a book (there wasn't too much internet back then so inspiration/instructions came mostly from books).  They turned out so neat that I tweaked my mistake even more and ended up with my original Hartmont Signature candle. I tell this...

Happy October!   First of all, I have to thank everyone who partook of the Fabulous Fall Stock & Save sale in September!  It was so great to get most of my old stock cleared out of my stock room and open up room for me to organize and get all of my product making into one area...instead of two or three areas.  It was becoming a bit much!  Moving forward, I will have a bit of back stock still but most of my candle orders will be made fresh to fulfill your order.  My soap orders will be of...

  Happy September to all!  Salt Spring Island Fall Fair is over for another year and I am so thrilled to accept the honour of winning first prize for my soap entries this year!!  I think I can safely say that I am one of Salt Spring Island's best soap makers.  The theme of the fair was Mad about Plaid so of course I had to take a crack at making plaid soaps.  Lemme tell you, it was not easy!  Suffice to say that tutorials on the internet are lacking in alot of details that are gonna make or break...