The Elf Did It

You could probably tell by the advertisements and songs on television and the radio.  Or by the decorations at your favorite store.  Or, if you happen to live in Colorado like we do or in more Northern states, you could probably tell by the layer of snow melting slower than usual.  Christmas is upon us!

Blissology has been gearing up by restocking everyone's favorite things (like Footsie Bars - no matter how many I make, we always need more!) and cranking out our holiday edition soaps.  We already have some Cinnamon Spice Soap made (we stock that one all year now since you all love it so much!) and a lovely new one called Christmas Memories.  Both of those will be ready in a couple more weeks.

Pam is about to mix up another new holiday soap, but there's a slight problem.  We don't know what to name it!  She keeps accidentally calling it "Elf Farts" which is hilarious for many reasons, but one of which I should probably explain.

See, there's a popular tropical fragrance that is mostly banana called "Monkey Farts."  You know, since they eat bananas all the time, only I'm quite sure monkey's don't pass fruit-fragrant gas.  Our supplier calls our new holiday fragrance "Elf Sweat" for the same cute novelty effect.  Only Pam merges those two together and gets "Elf Farts."  I'm not sure that it's so cute then!

Anyway, we need your help naming the new soap!  It isn't made yet, so I don't have pictures, but the plan is to make it a white soap swirled with bright happy green and blue.  It smells like candy, sweet sugar, peppermint, and effervescent soda pop.

Over there on the upper left hand side of the page is a poll.  Vote and let us know your favorite!  Also, if you comment here on why you like the one(s) you picked, we'll enter you in a drawing.  The randomly selected winner will get a free bar of the new soap as soon as it's ready!  Share this on facebook or twitter and we'll enter you again.  (Make sure to follow/like us and tag @Blissology (for facebook) or @blissmistress (for twitter) so we can be sure to count all your entries!)

The poll and contest closes on November 20th at midnight so get going!

Wrapping up the Home and Garden Show

The Home and Garden show was great! We saw lots of previous customers and friends and had a good, albeit long day.

So many people commented that they can't wait for the Salida Farmer's Market this year and YES, we WILL be there this summer too. In fact, while we only did part time last summer, we'll be there EVERY Saturday this summer starting the third week of June. It's at Alpine Park again and I think it's going to be even bigger and better than last year. We're really excited!

But I'm jumping ahead of myself here. At the Home and Garden Show we did a "Spa in a Box" giveaway and tons of people signed up for it. The winner has been contacted and we're so happy to share our goodies! The box includes a Beautiful Life sugar scrub, a Vital Spirit Uplifter massage oil, and a bar of our Beautiful Life spa salt bar which happened to be our best-seller this weekend!

That reminds me - I still haven't added our Beautiful Life sugar scrubs online yet. Actually, I have lots of products begging to be added to our websites but I just haven't had time to take the pictures! So that's my goal this week. Look for new products online very soon! Of course, you can count on me updating here when I add them too. Oh! And goal number two - get the newsletter sent out! Now I feel like a huge slacker and need to get some work done!