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4.21.13 - New Product! I am now making 8 oz. bottles of fragranced body spray (sometimes called body mist). These are great for layering fragrance to help it stay all day. They're also cooling on the skin as the warm weather starts in. Or, you know, if you're in Chicago with me, SHOULD start setting in ANY time now! :) Great for Mother's Day and graduation presents too!

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3.20.13 - I'm in print! My shop was mentioned in the April 2013 issue of Parenting magazine. I'm on page 81, in the bit called "The New Eco Hero". I have to say, if you know anything about toys for small children, you know it's pretty amazing to share a sentence with Melissa and Doug toys!

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3.09.13 - Fragrance line update. I am no longer carrying Mangosteen as a part of my regular fragrance line. I can get it as a special order if you're interested, I'll just need a little extra lead time.

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2.23.13 ODDS AND ENDS SALE! For a limited time get 8 ounces or more for the price of 6! Most of my odds and ends are one-ounce chill pills. Lately I've needed to do some mock ups of larger bath bombs for new listings. Additionally, I've accumulated quite a few one-ounce odds and ends recently. So the next ten orders will include either one large bath bomb, as well as the regular six one-ounce bombs, OR eight one-ounce bombs, at the same great price of $5 a set. Once I've gone through all the bath bombs sitting on my shelf right now, this special will end and will go back to the 6/$5 regular price. Check them out here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/84935777/limited-time-bonus-packs-odds-and-ends

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The current list of scents I can use in any of your custom bath items or candles is:

Unscented
Almond biscotti
Apple
Apricot freesia
Baby Powder
Bacon
Banana Nut Bread
Black cherry
Blue skies
Blueberry
Bonfire
Bubble gum
Chipolte caramel
Choc chip cookies
Clementine cupcake
Coconut
Coffee
Cool Water (type)
Cucumber melon
Dill Pickle,
Duck farts
Eucalyptus
Fudge brownie
Grape
Grapefruit
Grass Stain
Green apple
Green Tea
Gummi Bear
Hazelnut
Honey almond
Honeydew melon
Hot chocolate
Kiwi
Lavender
Lemon cake
Lemonaide
Lime
Mango
Maple pancakes
Monkey love
Mulberry
Orange
Papaya coconut
Peach
Peppermint
Pineapple
Pizza
Pomegranate
Raspberry
Rum
Saffron and honey
Sandalwood
Spearmint
Spiced apple cider
Strawberry
Sugar cookies
Sugar plums
Sweet Pea (type)
Toasted Marshmallow
Toffee
Vanilla
Vanilla-Raspberry
Violet
Watermelon
White Ginger & Amber
White Zinfendel
I figure the pizza, pickle and bacon would be great for any boys or men who don't want to 'smell like a girl' when they use a great, hand-crafted bath product.

A few other fragrances that are a little more traditional, but also great for the males in your life:
Vanilla
Sandalwood
Blue Sky
Bonfire
Peppermint

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So it's come to this... I am now receiving upwards of 4 messages a week from people who want me to send them a product for free so that they can 'review' it on their website/youtube channel/facebook page, etc...

I am not interested in these promotions. If you send me a request for free items for a site like this, I will be forwarding it to Etsy's abuse team as spam.

I'm sure some of the requests are legitimate and maybe these reviews work for other people, but the sheer numbers of them that I have been receiving recently just makes it look like a lot of people are trying to get something for nothing. And I don't want to get into the business of deciding who's a legitimate 'product reviewer' and who's trying to scam Etsy artists. So I'm going to make an executive decision to just not be involved in any of them. Thank you.

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So many of you have been incredibly gracious in wishing my sick little girl ferret, Gaia, well when you order. Unfortunately at the beginning of February Gaia finally succumbed to the effects of her two cancers. I miss her like crazy. On top of that, in early January one of my boys, Kári, was diagnosed with one of the two cancers Gaia had. Adrenal cancer. So he's on treatment for that now. So if you were ordering stuff from me to support my rescue ferrets, well, we can still use your help. Kári's treatments cost around $100 a month and in the next year or so he'll need an $800 surgery. So we'd appreciate your continued support.

ETA: February 2013: Almost exactly a year to the day that I lost Gaia to a complication of her insulinoma cancer, my little boy Logi was diagnosed with the same disease. He's doing well on a special diet and medication, but we're now facing that same battle again.

On the 'silver lining' side... I'm not going to run out of the baby food jars I use for the candles and scrubs any time soon now that I'm back to making him 'duck soup'.

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