back in the saddle again...

It's the new year, and I'm back in the studio making stuff. As I was doing inventory, I realized that I was out of damn near everything. Big production starts again as soon as I can clear space for the drying racks. Today I'm making Winter Salvation Body Butter. I love making it, my hands and elbows and arms are always so smooth and good smelling by the time I'm done. This year, now that I've nailed down a really great supply for evening primrose oil, the butters are even richer than before. Hopefully it'll stay cool enough to ship them for a few more months, as the butters tend to go liquid in temps over 90 degrees.

I'm infusing them with roman chamomile and bergamot this year. It smells amazing. I'm really happy with this product now.

This week I'll need to get some Spiced Orange Tea and some Tea Hee into production, I'm almost completely out of both of them. Yay for making soap. I always build up stocks significantly before the holidays, and then I spend most of my time shipping and making custom orders, so I'm pretty excited to get back into the studio and start making stuff again. That's my fave part, the making of the soap. It's so very zen. I tend to take the slow route, and stir and think, and stir and think. Soapmaking is my very own quiet philosophy time, as silly as that sounds. ;) I mean, it's not like I'm defining new metaphysics or anything, but hey, remind me to tell you the one where Socrates and a platypus walk into a bar....