Soap for Christmas

Halloween soap slime

 We all love a bit of good clean fun and why not extend that into the Halloween holiday with some fun soap slime with lots of scary creepy crawlies for your little darlings to enjoy in the tub and encourage them to wash and get clean.  This is a great soapylove recipe and is so easy to do and doesn't take many ingredients you can let your little ones make it.

Halton village fair

Moongazer beer soap in stock at Dunsley farm shop

The lovely Dunsley farm shop and tea rooms in Tring which is still a working farm, as you will see from all the ducks, chickens and donkeys you will see as soon as you step out of your car, which is great for the little ones.    The farmers wife prides herself in being family friendly run and selling a wide range of home produced preserves and locally sourced gift products, well as fresh produce, vegetables, eggs and meat. It also has a fab little tea room attached to it as well making it a well worth visit, for ladies that lunch and men that love cake, and that is just the some of what it has to offer as there is also a working brewer attached to the farm which is a sure fine way to tempt your man into a bit of shopping. 

Red nose day raising funds

Red Nose day is this Friday the 13th and to raise funds for such an important cause i am donating 50p off each bar of soap sold from Mon 11th - Sun 17th March. So if your looking for a nice treat or present make sure you buy this week and help raise money for RED NOSE DAY!

Sale on my online shop

 Well i have my online store off and going now and as i am pregnant this means i can not do any craft fairs as my boxes are way to heavy and i have the bladder of a grape.

So I am having a bit of a clearance sale on my online shop http://www.bathfood.co.uk/ Not only that as Mothers day is coming i have a few Gift bags of some lovely products to buy and give to your mum. They seem to have been received very well. Also check out my Facebook page to see the products.

Beer Soap

One more mix from my soap kitchen this is a big block of beer soap i have made for Tring Brewery which i made from their Moongazer beer and dark and fragrant beer.  I also spent a few weeks infusing the olive oil in their very own hops making all of the mix smell amazing.

Also on the same day we were larking around with some melt and pour after Ali made me my own latex robot mold and we made this fun lime fragranced green character plus a starfish embedded bar which was a mish mash of cherry and tangerine fragrances from all the left over scraps of soap.

My Online shop

I am feeling very happy to be able to open my own online shop today Bath Food Online store and although small, it is a start and a good way to keep my hand in on my little business while pregnant, as i have no plans to be lugging heavy boxes of soap around the county.  Sales are to the UK only as i am just beginning and i hope to bring out new lines as and when i have any energy from the bump.  I even have a special offer to my first 20 purchases, check out my facebook page to find out more.  Bath Food facebook page

Cherry cupcake soaps

Exclusive for Valentine i have made these mini cherry cupcake soaps topped with lots of pretty hearts for a love token gift for the one you admire. Now Stocked in a new outlets the beautiful and exquisite gift store Agora in Wendover.

Kingsbury square fair

 December and I'm doing an outside Christmas fair i must be mad !! i did this one last year and i was cold this year was a lot colder even though the sun was shinning and by the mid morning i couldn't feel my toes and fingers even though i had brought a hot water bottle with me.

Venturing slowly into retail

Well im starting to slowly venture out into retail and i am so happy to have met a wonder lady from the Waddesdon Deli company Wesscot i was really taken with her kindness as she let me stock my items foc as she explain she knew how hard it was for small business to get going and she did me a lovely display in her tea room and loved my cupcake soaps, she even placed once on her main counter to trick her regular customers into thinking it was real, What a Hoot!

Renaissance Christmas fair

The weekend passed and i was at the Renaissance Christmas fair, which is a charity day care centre for adults over the age of 18 with mental health diagnosis, the fair was helping to raise funds for the centre. It was a good day trade was a bit slow i think this was down to the weather and perhaps the location but it was not down to advertising as these guys did a great job at putting the word out, how cool i made second billing! It was was lovely to see familiar faces holding stalls and coming to visit.

Friars Square Craft market

Saturday saw the first of the Craft fairs kick off and what a great start for a great cause, one of my crafty buddies did a pop up craft fair for CLIC Sargent and raised over £700 for the charity how wonderful.

Banoffee Cupcake soaps

My latest creation drying on the racks waiting to be ready i am feeling happy as i have a few orders in from a gift shop as well a potential celebrity chef who i am seeing next week and i have made these especially for her.

Blackberry and basil soap

The house is smelling lovely as i made a batch of Blackberry and basil soap i tried a swirling on the bottom part of the soap but i think i need more practice apart from that i am happy with my soap blackberries i made and i'm loving playing around with colour.

Strawberry cupcake soaps

Afternoon tea ..... well with a twist these are my new creation soaps which are a strawberry cupcake and i have made realistic strawberries to sit in the whipped cream on top of the cup cake base and of course a good twinkling of glitter.

Dessert anyone?

Feeling pleased as punch with my new creation curing on the racks, Cookies and cream soap.  This has chocolate chip cookie dough base piled with whipped cream and topped with chocolate cookie and a touch of fairy glitter for some sparkle.  Looks good enough to eat but i wouldn't recommend it.  I really need a particular mould as any soapers out there will notice im suffering from a bit of spread, but for my first attempt with a mould i knew would do this it isn't to bad so ill have to save some pennies and get a better mould.

Bucks County show and the Halton Vintage Fete

 Well we have been very busy recently doing a few fairs and other family events so i have not had much time to spend writing but i hope things will settle back into an even pace again.

Aston Clinton horticultural show

 I was at the Aston Clinton horticultural show at the weekend and the weather was hot hot hot !

Jansel Square craft fair

 Today i was at Jansel square craft market a busy parade of shops in Bedgrove, the fair was run by a very talent and organised lady called Jo and was on from 12 -4pm