Just so you know...

When I'm not making stuff here in my studio ~

I'm staying busy making soap!!!

I'm cleaning, finishing, packaging and getting soap

ready to go out our door.

And I am happy to report...

our sales have been GREAT!!!

And I am so, so very thankful ~

We have learned so much in just a few months.

So many different color formulas...

and how to make our product be the best it can be.

If you're having a shower,

bridal or baby,

we can create beautiful egg soap

for you to use as favors in the color that

is PERFECT for your event!

Just check out our Etsy store

and convo us about your needs ~

we will be happy to create something

absolutely beautiful for you!!!

Wishing you a wonderful Friday dear friends!!!

hugs and love,

Dawn

He shall give His angels charge over thee...

I have to share with you my latest tattered angel that a friend wanted ~

I finally finished her and wanted you to see.

She's wearing a very old baby dress that has been sculpted and pinned

to fit the dress form...it drapes so beautifully!!!

I added wonderful old millinery around her waist.

And I also printed out one of my favorite Bible verses that I love to tie around her waist.

Her necklace is a part of an old rhinestone earring...

The wings were purchased at hob lob but I added layers and layers of

white feathers to embellish them.

On the front AND the back.

A side view ~

I truly love how this angel turned out and can only hope that

my friend loves her too!!!

I thought I would share a quick photo of our beautiful egg soap

from our General Store Soap Etsy shop

BEFORE it has been cleaned and readied for shipping!!

This soap truly IS handmade ~

Here is the AFTER...each one trimmed, cleaned and ready ~

I never, ever tire of making pretty things!!!

Wishing you a beautiful Monday precious friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

A giveaway for you!!!

I have to share this with you dear friends because

I want YOU to have a chance to win

some of our beautiful egg soap!!

Barbara of The Everyday Home blog is sponsoring

a giveaway on her blog for our robins egg blue egg soap!!

Just click HERE to be taken to her giveaway post

to simply comment to win ~

Thank you so much Barbara for hosting this giveaway for us!

Plus...I don't think I've shared these cute new soaps with you yet!!

They are the most adorable, chubby worms!

They are sold in pkgs of 2 and are about 4" long each...

Clara LOVES them so I know they must be a good thing!

Thank you always, always for stopping by to see what I'm up to!!

I hope you have a beautiful Tuesday sweet friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

Our wonderful hands ~

I often look at my hands and see my mama's hands...

And lately, mine have been aching terribly!!!

I guess after you hit fifty and are still a crazy girl like me

and love using your hands every day,

it's a given.

We've had a good many soap orders lately and being the perfectionist I am,

I've worked tirelessly on making sure they are beautiful!

You have to release them from our custom mold then

gently clean the excess soap from each one with a tiny paring knife...

making sure you don't ruin the beautiful egg shape.

We've created over 200 egg soaps in the last few days and

filled many orders! I'm so very thankful...

I even squeezed in a little time to create a new

business card for General Store Soap too!

Please take a look at our soap Etsy store if you have a moment....

just to see all that we have!

We are so blessed with our two hands
we use them to help others, our precious family,
to cook, clean, caress, wash, massage, fold and
even to make beautiful things.
And I am always, always

so thankful for the use of mine ~

I hope you have a great Tuesday sweet friends!

hugs and love,

Dawn

Sweet speckled eggs ~

So....I've been working quite a bit lately!!!

And on what you say?

Creating these wonderful, speckled soap eggs ~

Each little one is hand-poured...hand-cleaned...then thoroughly

inspected before we package them up for shipping!

Being the perfectionist that I am, I've learned quickly

how to clean them, smooth out any imperfections and

of course, you know I love the packaging part!!

I made these robins egg blue soaps just yesterday ~

don't you love the pale blue shade?

Each one is approx. the size of a quail egg,

a perfect size to me!!

We're creating them in other shades now, pale green and pale yellow too ~

But the blue, pink and of course, ivory are still my favs.

If you like to peek at our soap shop

just CLICK HERE!!

I hope you're having a great week....

wishing you a beautiful Thursday precious friends ~

hugs and love,

Dawn

Sweet, sweet friends!

I've made so many amazing friends over these past few years.

And the neat thing about having a blog, sharing so much and what you create

folks tend to get to know what you love, what you're attracted to and

simply more about you!

Julie at Red Hen Studios has been a friend for years and messaged

me on Facebook and said she just left a yard sale that had the most

amazingly old glass glitter that made her think of ME!

She left it behind but wanted to know,

"Did I want her to go back for it?"

I replied as fast as I could, "YES!!!"

The whole bundle was only 10 bucks!

But isn't it wonderful how we all get to know each other?

Knowing that someone would love this...

could use that in their artwork, etc.

I love blogging. I can't help it. I just do!

It's such a wonderful, supportive community ~

you all have lifted me

you have encouraged me

and you have always, always cheered me on!

Makes me cry and makes me wish I could meet you all in person!

Here's the wonderful glass glitter Julie mailed me ~

My camera is getting old and simply

can't capture how beautiful it is but

maybe you will get an idea?

Isn't it AMAZING???

Now.

To think of something beautiful to make

to use this goodness on....

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With our new soap store all fresh and new to us,

I've been trying to think up a few ideas

for our tiny speckled egg soaps!

Here's something that I came up with ~

I found this wonderful package of 25 white tulle circles at w-mart

and gathered three little eggs inside each circle

then used a few pieces of coordinating seam binding

to cinch each one up!

What beautiful party favors!!!

For showers, for luncheons, for bird lovers...etc.

And can't you just see the beautiful speckled ivory soap

gathered up with ribbon for wedding favors?

We're having a 20% OFF SALE on your entire purchase

for just a few weeks...just type in the coupon code "SUMMER"

when checking out if you should order any!!!

And we did add a few more goodies to the 1925 Farmhouse Goods shop too

if you want to take a peek! 

I hope you had a wonderful July 4th weekend!!!

We were covered in rain, rain AND MORE rain here in Georgia.

I do believe we have mosquitoes the size of small birds right now!!!

Wishing you a wonderful Monday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

I've done nothing.

I mean it!

I haven't even been able to TOUCH my assemblage!

I've been shipping out orders from our

1925 Farmhouse Goods shop

and....

we now have full ownership of the soap business!!!!!

Yes, we were involved with the soap creation for a while

but NOW...it is totally ours!

If you were a former customer and dissatisfied,

please give us a new chance ~

I'm just so glad that it is all finally OURS!

Take a peek at our new shop if  you can!

Me and my sweet hubs will be creating each and every piece ourselves now!!!

Just think

party favor

shower favor

wedding favor!!!

Thank you always, always for visiting me here and

being so precious to me with all of my endeavors!!!

Wishing you a beautiful Friday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

I just love tiny things!

This is a terrible pic...the lighting is bad...the color awful....

and it was taken with my cell phone BUT.....

I just had to share it with you!!!!

My granddaughter is so precious and loves animals SO much ~
just look at her kissing my little bunny statue!!!!

I also had to show you how tiny these little fairy shoes are.

I've sold one pair to a dear friend but just to give you an idea...here's a photo of the other pair:

I also had to show you how incredibly tiny the magnolia petal fairy shoe ended up being!!!!

It's now on its way to its wonderful owner but just to give you an idea of

how these things shrink.....just look:

Making things from organic materials is an incredible thing...I didn't realize the shrinkage factor but thank goodness I had it a few days as it dried and realized that I'd stuffed way too full with moss!!!

I took out about half of what I'd stuffed in and it worked out wonderfully.

What do they say, "live and learn"....well, I say "create and learn!"

Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday dear friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn

So, what are you up to?

Me?? I've been really busy!!!

I'll try not to bore you with more soap talk....

but we are still prepping for the Atlanta Market.

A few images that I so love ~

Here are our naked display shelves.

They may not seem like much but truthfully?

This is a WONDERFUL display in the showroom we are in ~

And don't you worry, you know I'll have to share photos as our display comes to life!!!

Have a beautiful Friday my sweet friends,

hugs and love,

Dawn