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The Goat Bridge
I came across this and thought it was cool. Goats love to climb, sorta like Murray the cat, although his usually involves knocking something over and then looking innocent... anyhow, we love our goaties!
Gaslight
So if you haven't seen this one, see it! Very neat old movie from 1944, of course it's black and white and Joseph Cotten plays a good guy, he's usually a bad guy, ever see Hitchcock's "shadow of a doubt"? I love old movies! If you get a chance to see this one, it was pretty good, and still holds up today. I would totally use some element of this movie to name a soap as I did with Sundance and Captain Gregg's Choice (that's from the Ghost and Mrs Muir) but couldn't come up with anything from the movie that would work well that way. And remember, it's not nice to "gaslight" anyone!
My Shelf
I made a delivery to Diablo Foods in Lafayette today. It was the first time I had seen "my shelf" all put together, it looked so nice! I really love that they really do support local businesses, they have little markers to let you know who is local, very cool! It's a pretty nice store and I am really honored to have our products there.
Natural vs. Organic
There seems to be a lot of confusion about this, from the public in general, in regard to skin care items. I'll try to give the Reader's Digest Condensed version for you:
Natural can pretty much be anything. I don't like to use the word myself because there is no legal definition of what "natural" is. However, I think of it as being with no additives that don't need to be in there, ingredients that you know and recognize.
Organic, this one really makes me crazy. A guy came to the door the other night for a pest service and mentioned they used "Organic sprays" and that's what started this. When you get your veggies at the Farmers Market, you think of organic as being grown without sprays and pesticides, and I know the farmers have to go through a lot to maintain their "organic" status.When the farmers refer to organic, it's organic in the most pure sense, they take great care to bring you the best produce without using toxic sprays. So in using it as a marketing strategy for pest control, it just makes me aware of how "organic" can be such a buzz word in Marketing right now.
In soap making, you can get the essential oils that are organically grown, however they are quite abit more expensive and that of course would make the cost of the soap more expensive, but the main thing here is that if you are using high quality essential oils, there's really no difference in the soap. The main thing you want to make sure of in your soap is that it is free of phosphates, parabens and generally things you can't pronounce and have to look up on the internet! You want to see things like Olive Oil, Honey and things you know are good for your skin.
I guess the point here is that organic is a choice of course, but be informed of what's in your skin care products and don't just go by folks telling you that they have natural or organic ingredients. Try to learn about what makes a good quality product, especially for something that you will use on your skin, it's your largest organ and so important to take good care of it. Do ask questions, ask why they use a particular oil or ingredient. That's the thing I love most about getting food or anything else from the Farmers Market, you can speak directly to the grower/producer and find out exactly what you're getting and ask questions!
Please feel free to comment, I hope that cleared things up!
Natural can pretty much be anything. I don't like to use the word myself because there is no legal definition of what "natural" is. However, I think of it as being with no additives that don't need to be in there, ingredients that you know and recognize.
Organic, this one really makes me crazy. A guy came to the door the other night for a pest service and mentioned they used "Organic sprays" and that's what started this. When you get your veggies at the Farmers Market, you think of organic as being grown without sprays and pesticides, and I know the farmers have to go through a lot to maintain their "organic" status.When the farmers refer to organic, it's organic in the most pure sense, they take great care to bring you the best produce without using toxic sprays. So in using it as a marketing strategy for pest control, it just makes me aware of how "organic" can be such a buzz word in Marketing right now.
In soap making, you can get the essential oils that are organically grown, however they are quite abit more expensive and that of course would make the cost of the soap more expensive, but the main thing here is that if you are using high quality essential oils, there's really no difference in the soap. The main thing you want to make sure of in your soap is that it is free of phosphates, parabens and generally things you can't pronounce and have to look up on the internet! You want to see things like Olive Oil, Honey and things you know are good for your skin.
I guess the point here is that organic is a choice of course, but be informed of what's in your skin care products and don't just go by folks telling you that they have natural or organic ingredients. Try to learn about what makes a good quality product, especially for something that you will use on your skin, it's your largest organ and so important to take good care of it. Do ask questions, ask why they use a particular oil or ingredient. That's the thing I love most about getting food or anything else from the Farmers Market, you can speak directly to the grower/producer and find out exactly what you're getting and ask questions!
Please feel free to comment, I hope that cleared things up!
Downtown
So Antioch didn't have fireworks this year due to money issues, I understand that, the sad thing is that the parade, which we have had for years downtown, was moved to the mall. That is what makes me sad, we have the most adorable little downtown and only a few shops are still open. It really makes me sad, all those cool old buildings just standing there. I wish I knew how to breathe some new life into the downtown, I truly love the downtown area. We lived there for years and I still think of it as home. So how would you go about helping it?
This is the Old Theater, built in 1928, they still have commujity events and sometimes show old retro movies. I got to see Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz Here.
This is the Old Theater, built in 1928, they still have commujity events and sometimes show old retro movies. I got to see Casablanca and The Wizard of Oz Here.
Limited Edition
Well after the great Pomegranate fiasco, I had to do another soap for the Limited Edition of the month and I couldn't be more pleased with this one. It may end up being part of the regular line- up depending on how well it does in sales. It makes its debut today at the Pleasanton Farmers Market. Anyhow, it's this really nice Oatmeal Milk and Honey, with ground oatmeal and Shea Butter. It's very softly scented (you know me by now, I hate heavily scented stuff!) and smells really good. I hope it does well, I'd love to keep it around. Sorry I forgot to tale a picture and it's already loaded into the Van. I'll let you know! Have a great weekend everyone!
Letting go of Kaiser Antioch
I really get very sort of tortured when the time comes to let a Market go. I have so many friends and favorite customers there. And I get really emotionally invested too, that's what makes it hard. But when you get down to the business part of it, the real black and white, you have to look at what's best for the business, and the most efficient use of my time. Especially being that I'm "it" there's just one me to make this company work, so, I am sorry to say that I will no longer be attending the Antioch Kaiser Market. It's been very quiet for me, espceially this season, and I can better use the time to keep up with my stock.
To the wonderful people that have supported us the last 3 years (since the very first day the Market opened 3 seasosn ago) thank you very much.
Know that I will miss each of you. And don't forget you can still get our soap at McCauley Olive Groves in Brentwood!
* * * * * Ok, slight change, I'll go the second week of the month
To the wonderful people that have supported us the last 3 years (since the very first day the Market opened 3 seasosn ago) thank you very much.
Know that I will miss each of you. And don't forget you can still get our soap at McCauley Olive Groves in Brentwood!* * * * * Ok, slight change, I'll go the second week of the month
Didja hear the joke about the roof?.......it woulda gone over your head!! ;-)
They are putting a new roof on here, and the guys have been great, they took all this extra time to put plastic in an effort to keep all the roof schmutz from getting everywhere. It worked until the wind came, so I wasn't able to do any soap today. Man that stuff gets everywhere! I am enjoying the "skylight" though!
Etsy Treasury **Woot**
I was chosen to be in a "Treasury" which is a big deal in the world of ETSY. I am very honored to have been chosen!
