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I was just interviewed this morning by the largest newspaper in Vermont, the Rutland Herald, who are (is? - good thing I'm not writing the article) writing an article about Women Business Owners in our Okemo Valley. They were talking to over 40 women today and when I first heard that number I went "Wow", we have come a long way baby! Yah, Girl Power!
This started my brain rolling, and thinking about how much I love having my girls at the shop with me (well most of the time) and how fortunate I am that they can come to work with me. And this led to my latest brainstorm about bath & body products for little girls and at first I thought "Little Diva's" and then went, wait, no, it needs to be something with more kick so it'll be "Girl Power" soaps! So I'll be rolling out a line of fun girlie soaps this summer.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Happy Birthday to Me (and a big sale at Summit Soapworks!)
Today I woke up, turning 37 and went "Wow, how'd I get here?" That was of course after both of knees creaked getting out of bed while I stumbled bleary-eyed to the coffee pot silently praying to my higher power that my husband had already made coffee for me (which he did because he's seen me without coffee, not pretty!) I remember the days when I thought 37 was an age nearly elderliness......now I think 70 is young.....
Anyway, so I said "Hey, let's have a sale to celebrate my birthday!" and so there's big savings at Summit Soapworks today and tomorrow in celebration of my big day! 37% off liquid soap, shea butter lotions, body sprays and salt scrubs! Enjoy and have a great day!
Anyway, so I said "Hey, let's have a sale to celebrate my birthday!" and so there's big savings at Summit Soapworks today and tomorrow in celebration of my big day! 37% off liquid soap, shea butter lotions, body sprays and salt scrubs! Enjoy and have a great day!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Upcoming Earth Week Celebrations in Cavendish
I had the good fortune to meet up with an acquaintance of mine today, Dallas, who owns the Solar Store located in Cavendish, VT on Route 131. Dallas is heading up/working on many of the upcoming Earth Week celebrations in Cavendish listed below.
Cavendish Earth Week-April 20 (Monday): Depression Era sustainable housekeeping tips (clean green for cheap) Sponsor Cavendish Historical Society 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7807
Cavendish Earth Week-April 21 (Tuesday): Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic of the Vermont Law School, will speak on the impact of climate change in Vermont. Sponsor Cavendish Community & Conservation Association (CCCA) 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week- April 22 (Wednesday): Earth Day -Windy Wednesday Celebrate all things related to wind power. Kite flying and demonstration of various wind devices, including a Skystream. 1-3 pm at Fletcher Field off of Route 103 in Proctorsville/Ludlow.
• Sustainable Energy Panel Sponsor Cavendish Solar Store. 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week -April 23 (Thursday): Gardening, composting, recycling and local foods. Sponsor Cavendish Community & Conservation Association (CCCA) 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week-April 24 (Friday): Movie Night-The 11th Hour Sponsor Cavendish Fletcher Community Library 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week-April 25 (Saturday): Sustainable living in Cavendish Workshops on sustainable building, landscaping and energy. There will also be presentations on Tax Incentives and Group Net Metering. Vendors will be on site. Sponsored by Cavendish Solar Store, USA Solar Store, Cavendish Community & Conservation Association, Cavendish Historical Society, Calabrese Architects 10-2 pm at the Cavendish Elementary School. Food by WAWWE. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week-April 26 (Sunday): Sustainable Living House Tour. Meet at the Cavendish Solar Store in Cavendish. At 1 pm. Please carpool where possible. 802-226-7093
For more information information about solar products please visit their website at www.usasolarstore.com
Cavendish Earth Week-April 20 (Monday): Depression Era sustainable housekeeping tips (clean green for cheap) Sponsor Cavendish Historical Society 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7807
Cavendish Earth Week-April 21 (Tuesday): Patrick Parenteau, Professor of Law and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic of the Vermont Law School, will speak on the impact of climate change in Vermont. Sponsor Cavendish Community & Conservation Association (CCCA) 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week- April 22 (Wednesday): Earth Day -Windy Wednesday Celebrate all things related to wind power. Kite flying and demonstration of various wind devices, including a Skystream. 1-3 pm at Fletcher Field off of Route 103 in Proctorsville/Ludlow.
• Sustainable Energy Panel Sponsor Cavendish Solar Store. 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week -April 23 (Thursday): Gardening, composting, recycling and local foods. Sponsor Cavendish Community & Conservation Association (CCCA) 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week-April 24 (Friday): Movie Night-The 11th Hour Sponsor Cavendish Fletcher Community Library 6:30-8 PM at the Cavendish Elementary School. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week-April 25 (Saturday): Sustainable living in Cavendish Workshops on sustainable building, landscaping and energy. There will also be presentations on Tax Incentives and Group Net Metering. Vendors will be on site. Sponsored by Cavendish Solar Store, USA Solar Store, Cavendish Community & Conservation Association, Cavendish Historical Society, Calabrese Architects 10-2 pm at the Cavendish Elementary School. Food by WAWWE. FMI: 802-226-7093
Cavendish Earth Week-April 26 (Sunday): Sustainable Living House Tour. Meet at the Cavendish Solar Store in Cavendish. At 1 pm. Please carpool where possible. 802-226-7093
For more information information about solar products please visit their website at www.usasolarstore.com
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
My Calm Moment Today
I took a calm moment today. Those of you who know me are laughing because you think that I drink too much coffee to ever be calm. In fact, I have a friend who is by trade an herbalist and special educator who describes me to her friends and colleagues as "random access". I'm pretty sure that was her way of nicely telling me that she would say that I was ADHD or ADD....see, I already went off on my first tangent.
Anyway, I was treated by my new friend Laura Tuttle, moved here recently from Maine, to a wonderful facial and eyelash tinting at her newly opened day spa called Calm Moments. Now, the eyelash tinting fascinated me from the minute that she mentioned it because mascara is the only makeup that I wear and I liked the idea of replacing it so that I didn't have to deal with clumps and not blinking my eyes to let my mascara dry (which never works for me because it always seems to be my time to sneeze!)
The eyelash tinting is a vegetable dye that is applied directly to the eyelashes and looks great! And my facial was wonderful and it included a foot massage while my facial mask was drying. I was completely relaxed and calm, I almost fell asleep right on the table. She said "don't worry, it happens all the time". My face is completely hydrated and smooth as little Lucy's bottom.
Laura also offers several different types of massages, facials, tinting, waxing peels and wraps in her day spa located in downtown Ludlow right behind DJ's Restaurant at 144-1/2 Main Street. Check out her website at www.calmmoments.vpweb.com or give her a call at 802-738-5556 to treat yourself to a calm moment.
Anyway, I was treated by my new friend Laura Tuttle, moved here recently from Maine, to a wonderful facial and eyelash tinting at her newly opened day spa called Calm Moments. Now, the eyelash tinting fascinated me from the minute that she mentioned it because mascara is the only makeup that I wear and I liked the idea of replacing it so that I didn't have to deal with clumps and not blinking my eyes to let my mascara dry (which never works for me because it always seems to be my time to sneeze!)
The eyelash tinting is a vegetable dye that is applied directly to the eyelashes and looks great! And my facial was wonderful and it included a foot massage while my facial mask was drying. I was completely relaxed and calm, I almost fell asleep right on the table. She said "don't worry, it happens all the time". My face is completely hydrated and smooth as little Lucy's bottom.
Laura also offers several different types of massages, facials, tinting, waxing peels and wraps in her day spa located in downtown Ludlow right behind DJ's Restaurant at 144-1/2 Main Street. Check out her website at www.calmmoments.vpweb.com or give her a call at 802-738-5556 to treat yourself to a calm moment.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
New artists at Summit Soapworks Gift Shop
I've been busy cranking out soap, making bath bombs and playing around with some new scents for the spring. Today, two new Vermont craftspeople joined the store, Vermont Balsam (vtbalsam.com) with their oh so wonderful smelling balsam products and Mountaine Meadows Pottery (mountainemeadows.com) with their many funny sayings.
Vermont Balsam sent incredible smelling sachets, "mug rugs", hot mats, computer wrist rests, all smelling like balsam as well as afghans, pillows and cat mats made from recycled sweaters. At first I was a little unsure about the recycled sweater line but when they arrived I was like "wow". And my kitty is getting a new cat mat for her special place by the fire.
Mountain Meadows has many plaques with different sayings, some inspirational, some folksy and many that are hysterical. I of course ordered the hysterical/humorous ones for the shop like "Put on your Big Girl panties and get over it" and "We don't skinny dip we chunky dunk". My favorite is "Everyone brings joy to this office (or in my case the shop), some when they enter and some when they leave".
Vermont Balsam sent incredible smelling sachets, "mug rugs", hot mats, computer wrist rests, all smelling like balsam as well as afghans, pillows and cat mats made from recycled sweaters. At first I was a little unsure about the recycled sweater line but when they arrived I was like "wow". And my kitty is getting a new cat mat for her special place by the fire.
Mountain Meadows has many plaques with different sayings, some inspirational, some folksy and many that are hysterical. I of course ordered the hysterical/humorous ones for the shop like "Put on your Big Girl panties and get over it" and "We don't skinny dip we chunky dunk". My favorite is "Everyone brings joy to this office (or in my case the shop), some when they enter and some when they leave".
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Passing the last winter days
The ski season is winding down, so the shop is a little slower pace and we've had more time to pass the last of the winter days. One of our favorite activities is shoveling some of the larger snow banks and "spreading the snow" around our paved driveway and doing the snow melt dance, don't laugh, many Vermonters do this, well, not the snow melt dance part but definitely the spreading of the snow around. I know that it's working because I have to reach higher and higher lately to put food in the bird feeders. The other day Jaycob heard geese and while everyone says that robins are the first sign of spring, I'm a firm believer that it's really the geese that know what they're doing.
We don't have cable or a satellite dish, a personal decision to be unplugged for our kids sake, but we do belong to Netflix and recently finished the first season of "Everest Beyond the Limit" from the Discovery Channel. I'm not a fan of most reality tv shows, although "The Deadliest Catch" is one of my absolute favorite shows but I think it has more to do with my love affair with Alaska than anything else. So when I ordered this show for Jaycob I expected it to be dry and boring, like how interesting could watching some men climb a large snow covered mountain be right? I was completely fascinated and stuck to the TV, in fact, I've suffered two nights of shortened sleep because of this show. It was fascinating to watch men with their dream of summitting go to the extreme point, dancing with death, to reach the highest point of the world. I don't at all understand it, see, I get the risky behavior on the "Deadliest Catch" because it's a means to the end of a large pot of cash and being someone who always worked too much, I get that. I don't get paying $40,000+ to risk a life and if one happens to survive they might not still have all of their digits and or in one man's case both of his feet. But I suppose it's as they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and so I rooted them all on and won't sleep again later this week when the second season comes in the mail...
We don't have cable or a satellite dish, a personal decision to be unplugged for our kids sake, but we do belong to Netflix and recently finished the first season of "Everest Beyond the Limit" from the Discovery Channel. I'm not a fan of most reality tv shows, although "The Deadliest Catch" is one of my absolute favorite shows but I think it has more to do with my love affair with Alaska than anything else. So when I ordered this show for Jaycob I expected it to be dry and boring, like how interesting could watching some men climb a large snow covered mountain be right? I was completely fascinated and stuck to the TV, in fact, I've suffered two nights of shortened sleep because of this show. It was fascinating to watch men with their dream of summitting go to the extreme point, dancing with death, to reach the highest point of the world. I don't at all understand it, see, I get the risky behavior on the "Deadliest Catch" because it's a means to the end of a large pot of cash and being someone who always worked too much, I get that. I don't get paying $40,000+ to risk a life and if one happens to survive they might not still have all of their digits and or in one man's case both of his feet. But I suppose it's as they say "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and so I rooted them all on and won't sleep again later this week when the second season comes in the mail...
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