Primo's Pawtourage Featured!

We've been featured, check it out! Thank you Kathleen!

Soapy Links

Check out Carolyn Friedman's blog Becoming a Radiologist Technician where she has listed the "Top 25 Soap Making Resources Online” All my favorites are there and a couple of new ones I will be checking out.

Fantastic Give Away Blog!

Reposting this as a reminder the give away is still happening! If you like Give Aways, and who doesn't like getting something neat free, go check out Audreys' Give Aways. She does excellent reviews of the various artisans she finds (she did one for me and she is thorough) and hosts Give Aways for products that are really unique, well made and just plain cool like the OcasiaCasa Give Away she is featuring now, her newest.

Featured!

2 Virgos Designs was featured on a blog, The Art of Craft. Thank you, Robert! go on over and read all about 2 Virgos Designs!

Linda B has featured my Black Knight of Avalon Spa Bag in her Etsy Top 5 Finds blog! Go check out Linda B's Blog! There are all kinds of goodies there! Thank you Linda B!

Free Ad Space for 2 Virgos!

Cathy Winsby of Soap Making Essentials has graciously given me free ad space. You can see my ad as well as some other nice soap shops here. Thank you so much Cathy!

2 Virgos Designs Featured on a Blog

Wind and Rain kindly featured a blurb about my Etsy shop. Thank you Marie!

Feathered Friends Mementos Review of My Soy Wax Lotion Tarts

jix1764 of Feathered Friends Mementos blog has cast her vote and written a nice, thorough review of my soy wax lotion tarts. Thanks Heather!

"Help! Someone is Copying me!" What to do.

Donna Maria, CEO of Indie Beauty Network, radio show host and producer, author, work shop organizer, and speaker has written an excellent article about what to do if (when) you discover someone is copying your business ideas. It can happen to any of us, and probably will the longer we are in business for ourselves, and often the perpetrator is a friend, and our reaction can be pretty emotional. Read Donna Maria's well written blog article and find out what you can do to weather this in your business. Thank you Donna Maria for this heads up guide.

Update

I am holding my own and haven't been to the ER in way over a week now so am feeling stronger. Thanks for your encouraging words! soon I will post a review of some stellar mineral eye shadow I have just received and a long awaited article on puppymills from my dog, Blossom's, viewpoint, I promise it will end on a very good note! Blossom gives it a 2 paw salute!

To Blog or Not?

A question on one of the forums is whether our blogs should contain personal matter or be strictly business. I know I don't follow a blog myself if it is solely commercial, I get enough of commercials eveywhere else. I quickly unfollow anyone on Twitter if all they post are endless promos. More than 5 ads, and they are history. While I do post new products and do product reviews here as the case arises, I feel like me, you want to know a little bit about me, what is going on in my life, what interests me, and what challenges do I face sometimes. I find it fun and interesting and yes, sometimes sad, to read about other bloggers' lives and goings on, I WANT to hear about it, it is what makes that person's blog stand out and makes me want to come back for more. I try to keep it balanced here, a little personal, a little business, to make it live and breathe. What do you think?

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.