PROGRESS REPORT :: Member's News

Each month members share news of their business, craft, art, and projects and plans!

I have been trying to re-vamp my shop a little. I have added a lot more Palm wax candles as well as some new essential oil tarts! I plan on adding more products in the near future. I am also signed up to do the Out of the Box Sampler (Etsy team) in May - which is dedicated to Eco Friendly products. I have to send in 25 samples and am also going to include a box of matches, and coupon. I hope that this will help increase interest in my shop and wonderful (I think so anyway :)) candles. I am excited about this project and would like to encourage other members on our team to check it out - esp. for the month of May.
Greenleafcandles

So much excitement this month for my little shop! I recently have undergone a tremendous transformation in terms of branding and packaging my products and am proud to offer them for sale. Check out my lovely new tea tins, great new organization of my gardening collections, and my newly launched herbal tincture line
Biophiliadesigns

I will be presenting my social enterprise pitch at the 9th Annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University on April 21-22, 2012. My new social enterprise is a subsidiary company of Herban Lifestyle. I will be announcing the details in the next few weeks via a Kickstarter campaign. http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/
Herbanlifestyle

I am working to get more of my other one made! I might have mentioned this before, not sure, but for the longest time I have wanted a rigid heddle loom. I got some books to read up on it, and also did a lot of research. There are so many beautiful looms out there. I especially like the Kromski and the Ashford, but they are quite pricy, and haven’t quite been in the budget. However, I did find one that was: Little-Quick-Weaver-C. It’s made by a small family business in Bloomingdale MI. They have a saw mill and they mill all the parts for the looms, with lots of TLC. The “lady of the house” is a long time weaver, but wanted to make a smaller ridig heddle loom to put on lap or table, and small enough for her granddaughter to use. I got it a couple of weeks ago, and it’s beautiful. It comes with instructions, and it’s already warped when you get it. How cool is that? Only problem is I haven’t been able to really use it yet.

I am busy getting ready for kidding season, which means a lot of things need to be in place. I have been trying to get a chance to build a milk-stand, and finally last weekend I got it done. I was lucky enough to have all the materials needed. Never throw out scrap wood, you will always find a use for it down the road. Is it perfect? No, Norm (This Old House) would probably have a comment or two about it. But it works, it’s functional, and I built it myself from scraps. All the goats have been on it, and it went very well. They were all very excited about the goodies in the feeder. J Trinity is for sure
pregnant, so hopefully milk late spring. I’ll use that for drinking, cheese, yogurt, kefir, soaps, lotions and the list goes on. Have not tried to make soap with milk before, and understand it can be quite
sensitive process, but eventually we’ll get there. So there should be some great goat-milk soaps available sometime down the road. It’s on the list at least.
Friggjasetr

One of my bee new houses.
Biophiliadesigns