Paws of Wood

I found a delightful little crafting site called Paws of Wood, they handcraft wooden signage and wreathes, and brooms and other woody things with silhouettes of your favorite breed of cat, horse, or dog. What a lovely idea! I want one! Good work, great craftmanship and originality Pat!

Midwest Crafts & Recipes soap Review

Shannon at Midwest Crafts and Recipes kindly sent me an absolutely delightful bar of cold process Angels in the Garden Soap she handcrafted. It is the bar in the middle in the above photo. This is a wonderfully creamy bar of soap scented with a fruity floral combination consisting of magnolia blossoms, apple, peach, strawberry, jasmine, rose, raspberry and lavender. Simply divine with a wonderful scent "throw." The bar is silky smooth with a nice slip with the addition of jojoba and is nicely hard, creamy white with sweeping amber swirls. A pretty bar of soap crack that left my skin soft and smooth. Thank you Shannon so much, let's swap again sometime! You can find her blog here:

Ingredients: Coconut Oil, Palm, Castor, Canola, Olive Oil and jojoba...a touch of beeswax to keep that white ash from forming, Fragrance.

I received a wonderful bar of cold process soap from Kelly Bloom at Bloomworks Natural Soap Company a few weeks ago and have tested it out. I tried Moon Lake Musk, one of her Elemental Soaps, and it is a delight, with good scent throw, a pretty dusky blue color, great suds, and is a nice hard smooth bar of soap. I loved using this moisturizing soap, it left my skin so soft!

Moon Lake Musk Soap: Golden Olive, Coconut, Palm Kernel, Palm, Sunflower, Soy, Babassu, Grapeseed, Rice Bran, & Castor oils; Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, & Mango Butters. Natural Herbs, Fragrance, & natural clays, oxides, ultramarines, or FD&C's for color. Net Weight: 4.5 - 5 oz

Moon Lake Musk is a moody Musk Unisex fragrance with notes of fern, lily, hyacinth, jasmine and a hint of orris and a powdery and sweet amber note. I love it! And so will you! Thank you Kelly!

MaMere's Punkin' Pie Soap with Emu Oil and Shea

Granny's wonderful all natural vegetable soap with shea butter, coco butter, real pumpkin with its skin nurturing caroten, vitamins A & C, and fantastic healing emu oil. Gentle 4 - 4.5 ounce bar with good suds. Great for your skin, contains NO artificial colors or chemicals except for a bit of skin safe pthalate-free Pumpkin Brulee fragrance oil. Delectable and in time for the holidays!

Ingredients: Water, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Kernel Oil, Glycine Soja (Soybean) oil, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter) Fruit, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter, Cucurbita Pepo (Pumpkin), Fragance, Turmeric Powder

SPECIAL! With your purchase get a FREE 2 D Maltese dog soap!

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Introducing our 3D Maltese Dog Vanity soap

Divine shea butter glycerin soap 3.5 ounce 3 D Maltese dog. The details are awesome, delicately handpainted with skin safe soap paints. This soap is unvarnished in case you do want to use it, if you want you can spray it with shellac or varnish to preserve it longer if you want to use it for just display. girl dog with pink bows and boy dog with blue bows. $6.50 each and shipping of only $3.99. Order here.

Invited to Join Bargain Belles Retail Shop on eCrater!

I am delighted to report I have been invited to join the Bargain Belles retail family on eCrater
They feature the highest quality handcrafted goods and I am honored to be part of the family! My products will be added this evening, please come check us out!