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It’s Party Time!!!

That’s right its that time of the year again where I celebrate MY birthday with SAVINGS for you! And its a big birthday so we are talking HUGE savings!!! Yes I know its the same cupcake from last year what can I say I REALLY like red velvet! Oh right you want to know about [...]

Rory’s Rainbow Spectacular

The planning for this party seemed to start forever ago! I asked Rory what kind of birthday he wanted this year and he excitedly told me a rainbow and unicorn party. I think easy enough and plan on a few decorations and to make the same strawberry cupcakes (note: I alter the recipe to have 1c [...]

February Recap

Woo Hoo this is the last monthly recap post tomorrow I’ll have just a regular concise post for you aren’t you excited? Early in the month I decided to restock our freezer with pancakes. What started as a couple batches of pancakes turned into making 125 pancakes 3 at a time in a pan [...]

January Recap

I didn’t take a ton of pictures in January so you are saved from a post with eleventh billion pictures in it again. Lexi got a kindle and this was how we found her (and often still do) for hours on end. Then I spent [...]

December Recap

For as busy as November was December was even busier! I hope you enjoy pictures! December started with a revamp of all the body butter packaging. Then came my last show of the year with the West Elm + Etsy event. I had a blast stepping outside my box display wise and using props from [...]

Recap of November

Remember when I was posting how thankful I was for my kids at the beginning of November because I got really sick. Yeah well STAYED really sick for about 3 weeks. During that time some of my children got sick thankfully not as bad off as I did. I got really behind on orders in [...]

Hey Remember Me?

Hi I’m Jenni remember me? I know just as I got into a good routine of blogging I all up and disappeared. I’ve been here I’ve just been extremely busy with the kids and life and making stuff and crafting. I’m going to do my best this week now that I have a moment in [...]

30 days of thanks… day 3

Today I am so thankful for the beautiful weather we have been having here in Miami. So that my children have been able to go play at the park in the afternoons to run some of their crazies out! I am grateful for UNschooling in showing me it is possible for 4-5 children aged 2-12 [...]

30 days of thanks…day 2

Ha ha sneaking this one in there! Unfortunately for me I’m still very much thankful for Lexi and tea. I am also thankful today that salves can be made in a drawn out process giving me time to rest in between. I was so lucky to have lexi measure out the beeswax and cocoa butter [...]

Geography

WOW so I was looking though all my old sales today while having a coughing fit and drinking a cup of tea curious to see how many states & countries I’ve shipped products to over the past few years and I was pleasantly surprised! 45 of 50 states have been covered and lets try to [...]

30 days of thanks… day 1

Yes I know two posts in one day. I just wanted to say even though today I feel quite under the weather and have a to do list 84,000 things deeps that will never get finished I am thankful. I am most thankful today for hot cups of tea with herbs thoughtfully added by my [...]

Wordless Wednesday

Moments around our house on this rainy afternoon.

Menu Plan Monday … September

Yes I know most people just post what they are eating that week but well there are many kids in our house and because of the dynamics of a military budget I plan for about a month at a time. I will link to anywhere I can for a recipe though I do tend to [...]

Packaging Revamp…Soap Bars

Well last we spoke I had a few ideas I was pondering. I bit the bullet and headed over to Etsy to hire someone to do the job after I realized it was beyond my skill to get it the way I wanted. After a couple hours of looking and getting sidetracked the way I [...]

New Small Body Butter Jars

I’ve been waiting patiently since December when I started getting low on my stash of the cobalt blue glass jars I use in my body butters to come back in stock. THREE different suppliers have told me they would be in as early as this past March so I waited… and waited… and waited some [...]

Why I’ve been so quiet

So as I had posted previously I had run a second Heartsy deal to try and offset the oversupply I had from Artscape. In about 48 hours I had around 135 orders between Heartsy and my regular orders. This is the second and smaller batch of orders awaiting pickup. I still have about 20 more [...]

Wednesday Wishes

I have to honestly say a major wish of mine has come true. We have all six of our kids living full time in our house. The last of our kids to come live with us was my oldest daughter Brenna, who arrived Monday afternoon. Meet Brenna. This post can be a bit of a [...]

Recipe … Red Beans & Rice

In keeping with sharing our menu for the month last Monday I’ll share one of our recipes with you today, or at least the way I mostly do it anyway. I tend to improvise in the kitchen a lot. I also had intended in getting lots of step by step instructions for the recipe but [...]

House Tour … Lexi’s Room

I know we’ve seen all the bits and pieces of this one. The quilt, the curtains, bits snuck in now you can see it almost all put together. Here you can see the quilt & the curtains on her bed. To match the embroidery work on her dresses Wendy also cut some little dresses in [...]