Saturday, August 26, 2006

How's this for a neat find? This awesome template! I found it on this site right here... Blogger-Templates

If anyone out there knows of a neat site you want to share just send it my way. My addy is suffolksoaplady@yahoodotcom Make sure you change the DOT!

Well it's lunchtime on Saturday and I have spent my morning cleaning house. Funny how I threw out 3 big bags of junk from closets and the fridge, but the house doesn't seem cleaner. Larry (my husband) is gone to the bank to cash his check before noon. I'm always surprised when he takes a Saturday off but I think he's been getting burned out at work lately. I had to sneak online and see whats going on in the cyber world and check for soap orders.

Myspace is down for some reason. I tried logging in a few times and I can't. I checked my mail and got a few mails from myspace people this morning but then nothing. Maybe the world is blocked out. Just like my blog here, my myspace page is new also. I only have 8 friends so far and Tom is one of them. Pretty sad, but thats what I get for spending 3 months in an office job. You get cut off from the cyber world.

Anywho the guys are probably going to work on a truck today thats in the yard. Take a look at this thing..



Larry's boss gave it to Brandon just because. He said he had it for a couple years, it was one of those "Pimp my ride" projects that just never happened. Since Brandon is 16 and has his permit, George gave it to him. I have to say the vomit came to my throat when I saw it roll in the yard, but they have actually done some work to it and it's looking slowly better. I will have to post pictures of its progress.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Well it's Friday morning and I'm online doing some of my advertising again, and decided to stop in and leave a post. I've added 2 great places to advertise to my list and hopefully they will bring some people to my site. I'm getting some hits but not nearly as much as I'd like. Maybe someday if this blog gets busy enough I will share my business website with you all, but for now this is just my diary, my place to brag or whine or think out loud.

I also need to add a few more pictures to my site because I have that dreaded "picture coming soon" gif. If people are scrolling around my site chances are because they want to see my soaps. I actually had one lady send me nasty emails, saying she wanted to have a party but my soaps werent ready. HUH? Just because I add pictures of up and coming soaps to let browsers know whats on my curing rack? I think I may need to add a very special "On the curing rack" section to my site instead of having them in with the cured soaps.

I'm not putting in much time on my soaps today. I have to break at noon and shower to go get groceries. The weekend is here so I may not be around much. I have to wrestle the computer connection with Larry and he usually wins. I will leave you with a picture of my adorable kitties. You can detect a hint of evil in Junior's eyes. He's way cute but if he climbs another curtain I'm dipping him in gravy and giving him to the dogs.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Well it's dinner time and I have some spaghetti cooking. My cats have been driving me crazy most of the day. I've once again found Blog Explosion and am going through looking at all the neat stuff. I'm thinking it's time for a blog makeover already. I will work on that tomorrow, because right now I only have a few minutes.



No these aren't my kitties, I just saw this on the net. Gives you an idea of how my day went though.

Here I am again, awake and surfing the net for ways to advertise my new site. It will be interesting to look back on this blog in a few months or even a year and see the road I took to expanding my business.

One of my great ideas that I am currently working on:
I set up an html page on my hard drive with all my info listed on it. It's not notes scribbled down in a spiral notebook, it's a page complete with links, usernames, and passwords. Every morning I wake up and open that file. I just start clicking and checking. I look at my email, my domain, my counter, my shopping cart, credit account, about 5 different forums, several places I have found to advertise my soap site, and now, this blog. It takes me a few hours but then I get up and create more soap or lip balm. Then it's time to break for lunch around noon, and I usually eat lunch right at my laptop. After that full feeling goes away I get up and start my exciting housework. Let me tell you, with all the feet walking through this house it tends to get dirty fast.

Well thats enough of a peek into the first half of my day.. let me show you some soap I made last week. I actually pureed a cucumber and added it to this batch. I used a bit of cucumber fragrance to boost the scent and some chlorophyl (from plants) to boost the green. If you look close you can see tiny little flecks of cucumber peel. Here they are freshly cut, right before I polished them.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

I just read that today is Blogger's 7th birthday. Can ya tell I need some sleep? I really miss my favorite forum. I'm going to bed, but tomorrow I'll come back and post more pictures.

Ok, can ya tell I can't sleep? My favorite forum is down and I'm use to posting alot. Anyhoo, I came across this picture on the net a few days ago and had to save it because it is the picture I have in one of my bathrooms. I was looking for something like a gothic girl in a bathtub, but I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it.

Ok here's a brag. Here is some soap from a batch I made last week. It smells awesome and the swirls turned out pretty good. It's still curing so I can't take them to the farmers market yet but thats ok because they don't have any big events coming up within the next month anyways. The color is much more vivid than the picture shows. Seems as though blogger isn't very picture friendly. You get the idea.


My name is Michele. I have been making and selling soap locally for 3 years. I recently decided to expand to the internet. I set up my website, which is awesome btw, and did some research on SEO. Seems as though one of the things that helps you to rank high on search engines is having lots of links pointed at you. One suggestion I read was to find some bloggers and have them write about your site. Seemed easy enough. I joined Blogger. I looked around. You seriously have to click through 20 garbage sites to get to 1 decent one. Long story short I got bored with that quickly and here I am doing my very own first post.

So that is why I'm here. Maybe next time I stop in I'll share more.