BigCity products in a shop near you!

I am so excited to announce that I got my first whole sale order! You can now find my lovely made felted goods, along with my all natural hand crafted soaps @ Lemon Sky Unlimited. This shop is located at 6130 Northwest Hwy, Chicago IL. The shop owner, Jane, is such a joy to work with. She is full of energy and has a great eye for beautiful products. Her shop is full of vibrant colors and is quite stunning! Just check out the store front, bright yellow lemons on a aqua background! U Can't miss it!
You will be able to find a new product I have been working on, fleece lined mittens made from recycled sweaters. They are unbelievably warm and each one is unique.


My fingerless-mitts are also available, each one is 100% wool and great for the spring, fall or that cold indoor work space!

Last but not least you will be able to pick up my wonderfully smelling, full of lather, hand crafted soap. Each bar is 5oz and smells so good you could eat it. Showering will never be the same with out it! I am so excited about them!

So visit Lemon Sky Unlimited this Holiday season and get your self some great handmade gifts the store is full of them! Your friends and family will not be disappointed!

Fall has arrived

The Crisp air of Autumn has Arrived! (lets not talk about winter)

I have the smell of apples flowing through my home. I have been making apple butter and canning it this week. It tastes so great and makes the house smell wonderful! My Great Grandparents always held a fall festival every autumn at there home, when i was a child. They made apple butter in a big iron kettle over a wood fire. I always loved those days running around with my cousins and eating apples that had dropped from the trees, not a care in the world. My apple butter is made in the crock pot, but no matter how its made it is a delightful addition to my toast each morning.

Craft Show Applications Due

So applications are due soon for Renegade craft fair Chicago and DYI Trunk show 2009

I put together these two images for submition.. I hope I get in to one of them!! Now.. got to run little Winston is asleep and Its time to make soap!

First Farmers Market

Here are the dates for 2009

Jun 14, 2009 : Jun 28, 2009 : Jul 12, 2009 : Jul 26, 2009 : Aug 9, 2009Aug 23, 2009 : Sep 13, 2009 : Sep 27, 2009 : Oct 11, 2009

Hours:9 am - 1


Below is my set up ... needs some work but not bad for my 1st all SOAP set up!

Summers Soaps at Chicago Farmers Market

I have been ask to sell Soap at the Independence Park Farmers Market here in Chicago. I am so excited... but now I have been making soap like it is my job... hey wait it is! Which is exciting. I making soap and love using hand made soap even more. I can tell a huge diffrence in my skin which is normally very dry. The image below is a Coconut Milk soap that i made last week. It turned out beautifully!

You will be able to find me @ Independence Park: 3945 N. Springfield Ave, chicago
starting Sunday, June 14. from 9 am to 1 pm

The other dates are June 28, July 12 & 26, Aug. 9 & 23, Sept. 13 & 27, Oct. 11.

Another thing that I got done was putting out a small garden below my patio. I put out two tomato plants, 8 peppers and one eggplant. I am pumped to see how everything grows! Hopefully by summers end I will be making home made salsa! Wahoo!

My Secret Room-

I have a Secret room....

and I am so excited!

So the little room in the back of our home was to be the baby's room, when the baby was still "the baby" living in my warm belly and going every where I went. We set up this little nursery room..with the bed, changing table, rocking chair.. art work... Well today all that remains of that cute little nursery for our son, is the art work... He has since taken over our room. But that is okay because I now have a Secret Room!

I am supper excited about it. I have set up my sewing/craft area, although I am still working on some shelving so the photo of "the area" will have to wait.. but today I will show you that I have organized my thread. How exciting!!

While crafting I also share this room with a piece of equipment I have always wanted! A treadmill! I am running at home now even in the dead of winter, with 3 feet of snow out side! Now that is exciting... ever since Winston was born I have wanted to hit the gym to burn off that extra pregnancy weight.. but could never make it! Actually ever since moving to Chicago I have wanted to go to a gym, but they are few and far between.

To burn off that weight I took to the streets with my stroller, but walking and running are not the same. My love for running has always been strong, I ran cross country in high school. Was running lots of races when we lived in Philly.. even completed a marathon! But ever since moving to Chicago running has been hard. The weather is awful most of the time, except those 3.5 months of summer we get, and running out side in the city has never held my interest after growing up in the country. Start - stop - start -stop .... that is why I love my treadmill. I hit start and away I go...and I can use it any time I want! Yea! Good bye Pregnancy weight!

Now I just wait for Nap Time!

Soap and Vacation.

The Soap Samples are done!

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These will go into a spring sample bag with a Urban Garden Theme!

My hand made soaps are Orange Oat and Lemongrass.

We just got back from Florida, we had a great time! We took Winston to the beach for the first time. He had a great time with the sand.. we have some wonderful videos of him digging!! Gene and I had so much fun with him and the family.-
Winston started walking this week its very exciting~!