Marmalade

After almost a weeks vacation in Florida I am back to the cold weather of Chicago. Not that I really mind, although I had a wonderful trip visiting my Dad, Pam and My grandparents it is always nice to be home. It was a very relaxing week minis my son crying every time i left his sight. I came back with a slight tan and a backpack filled with grapefruit. After examining my frig I discovered I had all the ingredient to make a Citrus Marmalade. It was a little more work to make than I thought but boy is it good and it also made about 14 8oz jars. They are so pretty but i will never eat that much Marmalade in my life time. So if you are in the mood for Homemade Marmalade send $3.50 via pay pal (cost to ship) to my account shannaukarch@yahoo.com and I will mail you out some! It's good stuff I'm telling you! :)

Now I am gearing up for February's Handmade Market should be a great show! If you are in Chicago come and see me! February 13th from noon - 4pm @ The Empty Bottle

Lip Balm -

Lip Balm is the word for the week!

This week I made two different lip balms, labeled, photographed, listed and sold them! Okay so I only sold them for 2 dollars a piece and sold only about 10 so I can't say it is making me rich but over all I will say it was a good week...

I had a craft show this afternoon and I can say that my Lip Balm was a hit!

Thank you Chocolate Orange and Coconut Vacation lip balm, with out you my show would have been a failure.

Now if I can just get a few sells on my etsy shop. I am not sure how you hit it big on etsy with soap... for now I will just take a few sales. I have to come to the conclusion that It's hard to buy soap or lip balm on line when you can't smell it before you buy it... but don't worry I am still going to try

If only you could smell a picture....I can only hope that some day u can.