At the country....

Country Fairs

This weekend the first Farm Fair will start. We are lucky to have such good friends who invited us to their farm. There will be lots of nice products such as : goat cheese, marmalads ( very special ones, like sweet chili pepper ), biological honey straight from the bees, fresh brewed beer and wines, food from the medieval period. For those who are interested to experience the lovely air and lovely area, do have a look at our shop for the adress.

We are looking forward to it.

Little Tuscany

The weather is not so good at this time of year. Unfortanetely.... but we have to take everyday as it comes. It is too precious to be ungratefull. With the air crash yesterday, there are so many losses. How must one child as a survivor of an airplane crash, survive again? Our thoughts are with the family friends and beloved ones.

Therefore we made a little Tuscany to see the colours of life in dark times. Wishing you a lovely day....

Lavender blue...

We love the smell of lavender. It makes you feel it is becoming summer. There are so many different varieties of lavender. Some of them grow in the mountains, others more down the hills, so the smell of lavender has also many varieties. Not disrespecting nature, but I felt to mix some species toghetter. Some Bulgarian lavender, and some Mont Blanc. It made a lovely combination of the soap.

Strawberry vanilla soapcakes

We love strawberries , and found at LIDL that they are here from Spain. The Dutch strawberries are not that sweet, so to speak. Some neighbours have a small fruitgarden, where every year they grow them. These lovely people allways come and give them to us. Homemade marmelade, zucchini and so on. So then we prepare them for dinner and bring the lady upstairs (82 years old) 2 times a week a lovely meal. That is how we are priviliged to chain. It is allways a chain reaction to give and receive and to pay it forward. It is better than money.. and brings you more happiness!

Enjoy your spring.

Waiting for spring..

My mother, Gioia and I went on a small holiday. It was nice to restrain in the woods. We had a lovely time and Gioia was enjoying it too. When we got home, our order from the Soap Kitchen came in. So we have lovely new oils and stuff. We love the smell of mango, so I made a small batch of mangosoap with loads of sheabutter, mangobutter and grapeseedoil. One particular oil was also great: the butterscotch perfume oil. ( non dicouloring). Will try that one real soon.

Venice

When I was in Venice, 21 years ago, I was so touched by the beauty of Murano glass and the masks for carnival.The colours of Venice are so inspiring.

Snow...

Everyone who thinks he or she has a white dog.....must certainly agree, that when snow falls...??

Sure the doggie could use a warm bath. I made new doggie soap with lovely teatree oil, citronella, lavender. All essential oils and this time had to test it on Gioia herself.

Happy New Year's Eve

We wish you a wonderful 2010, in good health, among people you love and in your personal goals. Remember : it is not important what you do , as long as you do it with your heart!

Please click on the bottle and glasses, to see our New Year's wishes card we send to you all and knock on the door to come in!

Lots of love from Georgette and Gioia

Warm Christmas Wishes

We wish all our friends from blogspot, and followers a lovely and beautiful Christmas time.

Enjoy the snow, enjoy people you love and don't forget people who live alone, or are hospitalised.

Children who are in pain, or do not have a warm home to go to. They will love it to spent Christmas with your families.

If you have something to give.. it divides your happiness! A smile , a present, time to give or just listen to a lonely person.Every person has something to offer, small or big... rich or poor, we all have something beautiful.

So enjoy this time of year and we wish you a healthy and lovely 2010.

Candy Time

Christmas allways is a time of eating more than you are used to. We eat candies, turkey or just nice things you like. To me, personally I allow myself chocolate truffles with champaign or just truffles on a milk chocolate base. So , because I really must loose some weight, I made some Candies and chocolate truffle soap with raspberries. Not feeling guilty ........ now....

Have an wonderfull happy and blessed holidays. This little poem is for you all!

"Keep whispering your heart dreams, because you never know when,

Your angel is listening "

Snickerdoodle Buttercream

Reading this name for a fragrance oil, was a great gift.Ofcourse there are tremendous good scentmakers in this world. But surprisingly, this one is real like you want to eat it. Eatible, adorable and sellable.You can describe it as : nuts, cream caramel, butter, and hints of honey en slightly roasted peanuts. Real Cold Process made this time.

Christmas Eve

We love this time of year. Today we have Saint Nicolas who will be staying here for a while to give the children presents. ( similar to Santa Clause). A nice tradition a family matter.

We allready made some christmas soaps, with lovely scents as : cranberries, vanilla, honey and nice woody scents with cinnamon and apple. We wish you a lovely Saint Nicolas and we continue with the christmas products.

Autum Leaves

This is the time of the falling leaves... and nature changing into such refined colours.

Time to put on some candles in the homes and thinking about warm apple pie with custard. Thinking about new things, going with the flow...

Summer soap cakes

Proud was I to make some summer soap cakes, for a special couple. Hope they will enjoy it.

Love this smell of strawberry smoothies with lots of other ripe fruit perfume oils. Love this smell of summer time ! Have a lovely summer time yall.

Whipped Coconut Body cream lavender/bergamot

This brandnew whipped coconut cream is lovely made with almond oil, coconut oil, cocoabutter, emulsifying wax , and stearic acid. Also I put some lovely flavours in it, a combination of lavender and bergamot. Not only a silky feeling on the skin, but great smell for this summer!

Secondly I made some garden bouquets for fun and customers to giveaway.

Romantic summer

During the last weeks I have been preparing some diverse things: smelling bags with lavender and rose petals. It brings summer so near to you :) Next week we will be having a fair on the farm so, then we will need them to smell and sell. But also ofcourse the traditional soaps who allways are favourite items for our clients.

Strawberry Vanilla Drizzle

The Stéphanie soaps are selling nicely! But it could be better.. so I started to make some summer soap like strawberry. Really love the smell of it. The vanilla cream drizzle on top is also smelling nicely.

this makes it a real summer feeling soap.

Donorsoap: Stéphanie ( Olympic Games)

There was a customer who ordered in my shop.She gave her website adress so I had a look at it. It appeared she had been given a new lung thrue transplantation. Again I felt so lucky , I only have astma and COPD lung problems, but I am much older. So I decided to send her this order freely and we both invented a sponsor soap to realize her plans to go to Australia as a topsport woman! The soap is nicely perfumed with fresh linnen and fragrant cream!Coloured by natural rose clay.

The Donorsoap is in the shop at this moment. So, Stéphanie, I hope we will sell them in a large scale. Stéphanie: YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!