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Behind the Scenes: Designing Unique Soap Labels
Meet the Maker March Challenge – Talk about design details There is a lot of thought and detail going into every bar of soap. Steve spends time determining the formula for each recipe of soap. The chemistry is a delicate balance of the various oils with botanicals, clay, and lye. Once the formula is determined the soap is made, and put into molds to harden, and cure. But the next step is to…
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The Purpose Behind Our Soap Business: A Community Connection
Today’s Meet the maker challenge asks “who is it for?” The answer is easier listed out than explained: Our work, and our business is for us. We are both retired from corporate America, and the business keeps us in a routine, keeping regular hours at the studio as well as staying out there in the public space. The secondary component is the financial aspect – keeping a revenue stream going. Its…
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Why We Make: The Passion Behind Our Craft
Today’s March Meet the Maker Challenge question is Why do you make? Our initial response to that questions was we created the business to create revenue streams when we were between jobs. If you have followed us for any length of time you will know that in 2010 both of us lost our career jobs to the economy and went from 6 figure income to $10K the next year. Fast forward to 2026 we view this as…
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Starting Point
We all start somewhere. In this episode of Meet the Maker March 2021 we are reflecting on our humble start of a soap business in 2010. And we are reminiscing back to those first thoughts on how we began.... join us in the journey
We all start somewhere. In this episode of Meet the Maker March 2021 we are reflecting on our humble start of a soap business in 2010. And we are reminiscing back to those first thoughts on how we began…. join us in the journey: The economy was in upheavel after the 2009 great recession. Businesses were tightening up their belts, downsizing staff, reducing spending, and trying to batten down to…
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Hands on!
Meet the maker march continues with the topic of “Hands On”. Being a creative, a maker, an artist requires an ability to translate what is in the imagination into a physical result. Translating ideas of sketches into surface designs on silk takes time to get it together. Our hands have to be trained to follow the dream, the vision, the inspiration. When you look at a hand painted silk scarf you…
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Why have a business?
Businesses take work and a lot of skill sets, willingness to learn, willingness to risk. And risk sometimes goes south. So why have a business? What attracted us to what we do, and why should you consider starting one? In today's blog we are looking a
Businesses take work and a lot of skill sets, willingness to learn, willingness to risk. And risk sometimes goes south. So why have a business? What attracted us to what we do, and why should you consider starting one? You guessed it. this is the next installment of Meet the Maker March. Our story started unexpectedly, with the economic reversal of 2010. For us we began the year working at our…
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We love Color!!!!!
We love Color!!!!! Years a go when both of us were finishing our college education we learned that color plays a role in city living. Pops of color can lift the spirits. In this blog we discuss the use of colorants in soap making, and silk painting.
Years ago when both of us were finishing our college education i took class on the sociology of city life, and that is when i discovered an interesting concept. Color plays an integral role in improving the spirits of city dwellers. Living close together in a dense urban space often the colors are grays and dull. Pops of color lift the spirits and brighten up the space. We loved that idea, and…
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From our Archives
Meet the Maker March continues with a look back at our archives. We found a few photos of our first art shows, and the not so sophisticated display we offered back there. We love to see how far we have come from those first days, and how exciting it is to keep on growing. Our very first art shows used baskets or clay pots on tables so that you look down to view what is on the table. We learned a…
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