Musings from the Sugar Bush: Etsy

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Monday, March 26, 2012

I am blessed to be on a team with such wonderfully gifted artisans!!

'OFG Team Treasury' by amadeus4313

Lovely creations featuring the works of the talented OFG Team members!

Wooden Votive Candle Ho... PaxtonValleyFo... $20.00	14 inch Rag Cloth doll,... 49pamela $17.00	Primitive Kitchen Handp... OakleafHollow $15.00
Sunflower Candle Mat an... YorkiesPrimiti... $25.00	E Pattern - Easter Egg ... PaxtonValleyFo... $5.00	16 inch Miss Wanna Dres... 49pamela $18.00
Primitive Rabbit Spring... OakleafHollow $18.95	Lazy Days Crow YorkiesPrimiti... $21.95	Primitive Daisy Bowl Fi... PaxtonValleyFo... $15.00
Petals the 16 inch Bear... 49pamela $25.00	Primitive Easter Bunny ... OakleafHollow $18.95	Prize Egg Easter Egg Bo... YorkiesPrimiti... $7.95
Spring Chick Nodder Mak... PaxtonValleyFo... $17.25	Bright Mint the 10 inch... 49pamela $8.00	Primitive Kitchen Handp... OakleafHollow $15.00
Liquid Soap Dispenser S... YorkiesPrimiti... $15.95

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

January 16, 2012 - Time to Celebrate!!

Click here and see all of the wonderful Valentine Themed Offerings. We have several items on sale in our Etsy shop. Come check it out!

Word of the day:
Monday of the Second week in Ordinary Time
Saint(s) of the day : St. Honoratus, Archbishop (+ 429), St. Marcellus, Pope and Martyr (+ 309)
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 2:18-22.

The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast. People came to Jesus and objected, «Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?»
Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Oh happy day! Stopped at Walmart on the way home from church and found Sugar Free Peppermint Mocha coffee creamer. Whoo hoo. Doesn't take a lot to make me happy.

Well, tomorrow is cyber Monday and our OFG team is gearing up for a sale in our shops.
Some of the team members of the Etsy Old Farmhouse Gathering team are offering discounts of 10% or more in their shops as a token of thanks to their valued customers. The offer is valid from Thursday, November 24 through Tuesday, November 29.

In order to take advantage of this promotion, you will need to add this code to your shopping cart when you check out, "OFGthanksyou2011".
Under the payment area in your shopping cart, it will say "apply shop coupon code", click on that and enter the code.

The percentage discount the shop is offering will automatically be deducted during checkout for all the items in your cart (except for shipping).

Make sure you do not place the code in the comments section - it will not work.
Here is the list of participating shops offering 10% or more discount on your order.
(Thank you, Barb at Barb's Heartstrokes for providing the above instructions)

Shop handmade this year - you'll be glad you did!

Word of the day:
First Sunday of Advent – Year B
Saint(s) of the day : St. Maximus, Bishop († 460), St. Virgil, Bishop († 784)
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 13:33-37.

Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when the time will come.
It is like a man traveling abroad. He leaves home and places his servants in charge, each with his work, and orders the gatekeeper to be on the watch.
Watch, therefore; you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning.
May he not come suddenly and find you sleeping.
What I say to you, I say to all: 'Watch!'"

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

I made a small batch of Lemongrass today. I am out of bars but I hate to make a batch of those because I have to make such a big batch. I just did a small loaf today because I am down to my last few ounces of sodium hydroxide. I have some coming but really wanted to do some soap. There's no "fanciness" in this bar as far as swirls. I did do a textured top with glitter. I put in some lemon balm that Clay and I collected from across the road. It's been dried and stored for several years. Clay doesn't remember picking it with me.

I got a facebook message from Diane Davis. Her goats are giving milk again. I really want to try some fresh goat's milk in the soap. I have heard that the homogenized stuff from the store reacts differently than the fresh. I am hoping to work out a soap or product trade with her.

We got a large soap order last night. That's good because my coconut oil is almost gone. We use 8 different oils in our soap formulation and I've often been tempted to scale down the number because of the cost, but I love the way this lathers and moisturizes and I really don't want to change the recipe.

I'm a little discouraged about my Etsy shop. I haven't sold anything but stockings (which is good, I'm not complaining), but I'd love to sell some of my other things. I think I put out a quality product, but at this rate no one's going to find that out. :( Oh well, it's not that expensive to list, it's more of an ego thing.

Wednesday of the Fourth week of Lent
Saint(s) of the day : Bl. Notker, Benedictine monk (c. 840-912)
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 5:17-30.

Jesus answered the Jews: «My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.»
For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.
Jesus answered and said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing; for what he does, his son will do also.
For the Father loves his Son and shows him everything that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.
Nor does the Father judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to his Son,
so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.
Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.
And he gave him power to exercise judgment, because he is the Son of Man.
Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.
I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Yesterday Harold and I celebrated our wedding anniversary. I drove home from church in a snowstorm. I guess it's not that uncommon because people drove home from our wedding reception, 35 years ago, in a snow storm. We didn't even know that until a few years ago.

Melisa and Claire were in the paper yesterday because Melisa is one of the co-ordinators of the Mom-to-Mom sale. Clayton did not want his picture in the paper. He's funny about getting his picture taken. If it's his idea, he's fine with it. Otherwise, not so much.

I'm planning to make soap tonight. I saw a cool technique where soapmakers put bubble wrap on top of honey scented soap and it looks just like a honeycomb. I'm making oatmeal, milk, and honey tonight so I can't wait to try it.

Sales have been non-existent lately - normal for this time of year, but it seriously puts a crimp in my soapmaking because my supplies are running low. I don't seem to be having much success on Etsy, except for Christmas stockings but I'm going to give it a while. It's only 20 cents to list and item - that's fairly cheap advertising.

Harold just told me that there is water in the basement. My stuff is protected, but I had hoped to put a pretty rug down there. All of the snow and rain yesterday and caused the basement to get wet again. Oh, well, thank God for plastic tubs. LOL!

Word of the day:
Monday of the Fourth week of Lent
Saint(s) of the day : St. Isidore of Seville, Archbishop (+ 636)
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 4:43-54.

At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon."
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe.
(Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

Monday, March 26, 2012

I am blessed to be on a team with such wonderfully gifted artisans!!

'OFG Team Treasury' by amadeus4313

Lovely creations featuring the works of the talented OFG Team members!

January 16, 2012 - Time to Celebrate!!

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Monday, April 4, 2011

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