The New Year is almost here!

Along with launching the new business name and labels under Wild Sense, I also decided to embark upon a Raw Food diet. Not a diet per se, but as a way of eating, period. Having too many problems with inflammation and joint pain to continue along the way I am. (Thanks, Dianne).

Here are a couple more pics of the new product "look" which have already been posted in my Facebook soaps album but for those who haven't yet seen them I'm reposting here.

Happy Holidays

I finished with the new label design and have several fresh batches yummylicious whipped sugar body scrubs all ready for holiday gift sets. I used to make a denser version, but now I find that both my customers and my family prefer the lighter whipped formula. Too bad you can't quite see all the gorgeous label background detail in these pics. There's a soft leafy pattern on aged paper as a backdrop to everything else and in person they look even better. Hustling to get all my last minute holiday baskets made up and I'm already planning and starting batches for Valentine's Day. Wait til you see those!

On the family front, we're spending Wednesday making Yule Log cakes and I can hardly wait to decorate those. Meringue mushrooms, marzipan pinecones, holly & berries...what fun!! Check back because I'll post pics of those Wednesday night when they're done.

New Look for Green Goddess Gal

Since the business name has changed to Wild Sense aromatics, it made sense to change the blog so I've just designed a whole new layout template for it. Ditto for a new label look for us; I really like this and want to publicly thank Bobbi Smith of Secret Garden Creations for the use of her lovely graphics that I've used liberally throughout the blog and my product label designs. I'll be featuring her on my GreenGoddessDesign blog, which is in the process of being birthed as well.

Now, after I take care of some health issues I will be working full time to get my new website up with new database features and CRE cart (finally), thanks to Lori at Dazzling Hosting.

**edit** I almost forget to mention the pretty Leafy Fae on my header was created by LadyAnne's Inspired Designz. Remember if you are looking to use any graphics from these scrapbooking sites, for anything other than personal scrapbooking use (ie for your combo personal and biz blog like this one, or a website, labels, or even to make a scrapbook, brochure, or blog for somebody else) then you MUST either buy graphics that are sold for CU, or get CU(commercial use) permission from the designers! Many of them sell CU items, but not all do. They will be clearly marked in the terms of use on each site. It can't get said too often- Don't be a pirate- these talented people deserve any and all recognition for what they do.

More Design fun, new Soaps, Crafty bliss!

I've been on yet another creative kick lately. Being sick has left me no choice but to sit with my laptop on the couch or in bed for hours, playing mostly with digital designs and honing my skills to work up to selling my designs at some point. I have such a blast working with PSP, I have Photoshop, but only on my desktop cpu and these days I seem to avoid that in favor of the trusty laptop that goes everywhere. I'm curious about other design programs, such as InDesign, so I'll be looking into that at some point. I'm sure to have a great time learning!

Soap has been on the back burner while ill, but I have plans to make some different cream soaps and I also need to get some richer winter skin creams ready as well. I have several new Winter themed soaps, and plan to make quite a few more batches this week. But, due to health constraints, I will only be doing one show in Nov and that will be the Litchfield Festival of the Trees. More about that even will be announced at a later date. I played last night with my Frostbitten soap pics (I plan to use these for holiday gifts) . I used a bunch of pretty elements from jtsDesigns Digital scrap collection, and I think I'm going to have to spend part of today making a Holiday soap album because this is so much fun to do. (thanks to Scrapitsassy.com and this wonderful designer http://jtsdesigns.blogspot.com/).

I have been so lax in taking pics of everything that alas, some of my prettiest soaps are gone and I'll have no visual record of them until I recreate them once again. LOL, that's like giving birth, so they will be back.

I had hoped that by this time I'd have my new soap biz launched and the whole new name and concept done, but after getting ill yet again, I decided to just sloooooow everything way down and just play. Now that I have taken all pressure off myself, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted. The business can wait for me, and I'll get back into it at a later date. For now, I'll continue as always to make soaps and skincare for myself, family and friends and a couple of regular here and there.