Holiday Store is Open
I finally finished up all the products for the holiday season and they are all listed at my store. Click here to be redirected there and thanks for looking!
It's Here!
We finally have a store open. We only have a few different soaps for sale right now but there will be lots more variety coming soon and we will be making more specialty soaps too. Click the store link at top of this page or click here. Thanks!
A long awaited dream
As most know I grew up on a secluded farm/ranch in southwest ND. It was the real deal and we not only made our living solely off it, us kids always made fun of what we called 'hobby famers' who we thought didn't have a clue. Well here I am today, a hobby farmer, and loving every minute of it. It's funny how things change.
Anyway, amongst other things, we had a flock of sheep that usually numbered a couple hundred head, and from the time I can remember they captured my heart. I don't know if its cause we not only lived in the middle of nowhere with no decent towns within a hour drive, but we also had no TV, internet, nintendos and other such things. So our entertainment was the animals. Horses and sheep were my big loves (and my milk cow, Daisy) and if I wasn't riding horse I was in the sheep barn. Us kids pretty much lived for lambing. And I guess once sheep are in your blood they never leave, cause from the time I left home I knew I was gonna someday have sheep again. Preferably sooner rather than later! Like they say you can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl. (corny but true) And its not just me, my younger sister would love to have sheep someday too and she also has the strong forever kind of love for sheep.
But life happens and it doesn't always work out exactly as you planned and sheep become a more distant dream each year. And instead of marrying that cowboy you planned on marrying, you marry a town boy who doesn't even know the proper sheep terminology! horror! But little do you realize that someday he will make the best darn farm asset you've ever met and will spend countless hours building you fences and barns and dehorning your goats and pretty much all the gory parts of farm work possible....with NO complaints.
But you have other fun endeavors including building your dream house together and starting a family. Eventually one day you sell your little dream house that your husband built you and you are looking at building another but then you stumble across a delapitated old farmhouse on a couple acres on the edge of town. And you make the decision to buy it instead of building another dream house. Why? Because I knew someday I could have the sheep that I waited so long for. So I squashed one dream to pursue another which is something we are all familiar with I'm sure. You could say that we are living where we are today because of Sheep. And some days when this house literally is falling down around us, I wonder if I made the right choice, but then I just have to step into my backyard and I know I did.
Well as soon as we moved in, I had Rye building fences so we could get some sheep. I had waited almost 20 years and couldn't wait a day more. But then my little baby boy started getting sick and we eventually found out he had a dairy allergy so my practitioner suggested he go on goat milk. Since we can't legally purchase REAL goat milk here in the state of Montana, I decided to buy my own goat. And there rest ,as we say, is history. I was smitten by goats and sheep were put on the back burner temporarily but they were still always in the back of my mind. Don't get me wrong, I will always be the goat lady and they will always be my first love, but I just couldn't ever forget about those sheep. They were becoming a nuisance, frolicking around there in the back recesses of my brain. I stalked Craigs List and papers reading the sheep ads and following sheep blogs and watching sheep shows and...... you get the picture. I tried in vain to convince myself that now that I had goats I didn't need sheep. But finally one day I decided I just needed to do it, you only live once, and I just wasn't going to get over those sheep no matter how many goats I had. I just had to get Rye on board which was shockingly easy.
But what kind should I get? We raised Rambouillet sheep which were a dual purpose sheep but were mostly known for their wool. We used to get our wool judged based on density, crimp and other factors that I don't remember now and we even joined the ND wool growers association. Mom and I entered their wool contest where we made our own outfits out of wool and were judged on it and my mom even won! GO mom! So wool was a big part of our sheep raising experience and on shearing day we were even allowed to SKIP SCHOOL to help out, which was another highlight of our year.
So I knew I wanted a sheep known for its wool and I knew I wanted a heritage breed. That word is passed around today like candy but it really does mean something to me. Commercial sheep have been purposefully bred to be larger, faster growing, and more 'improved.' Yes, they are bigger and better in many ways but theres so many things you lose along the way. A lot of their natural hardiness and breed characteristics are lost along the way. Heritage sheep as a rule have an easier time lambing, are not plagues by sickness and are true to their ancestoral lines. Theres VERY few true heritage sheep breeds left that have retained their primitive instincts and qualities. Now yes, commercial sheep are great for those who need to make a living at it and they are still awesome and I still love them and would take them in a heartbeat. Targhees, Rambouillet, Suffolk, Hampshire....those are just a few and they can be found around every corner in America. But no.... I had to have the hard to find more expensive breeds. See how lucky Rye is.
So in my quest I decided I wanted Shetlands and babydoll sheep or Southdowns. Shetlands are a true rare heritage breed that have been around for 1000's of years and they originated on the Shetland Isles and were transported later by early Vikings. As we all know based on my previous writing, I take great pride in being a Viking descendent. Haha!! But really since I am pretty much 100% Scandinavian, its fun that these sheep were from my ancestors country and they likely raised them at some point! They are known for being one of the smallest breed of sheep with some of the very best wool. According to some, only the angora can pass them in wool quality but I'm sure that is highly debatable by many people. ;) They come in many many different colors and combos and are very colorful.
They are incredibly hardy and can withstand very cold temps with no problems. They were used to the highlands of Scotland after all. They are very docile, friendly and much more intelligent than their overbred commercial cousins. They will even wag their tail when petted and will actively seek out human companionship. This is not normal behavior for most sheep as any sheep breeder will tell you. Even my tamest bum lambs would eventually lose all interest in me after they were sent out to the flock with the exception of Orphan Annie who remained tame her whole life.
Shetlands almost never need help lambing, their tails are naturally docked, they are not as susceptible to hoof rot, sore mouth and many of the other common sheep ailments. They will even start slowly shedding their wool and don't need sheared as much as commercial sheep. So you see why I became convinced!? I read blog after blog about them including the one of the breeders who brought some of the first Shetlands over here. The more I read the more obsessed I became. (Baby doll sheep I wanted cause they were just so stinking cute!)
So anyway here we are in Montana far away from any Shetland breeder and no closer to getting my sheep. The years are passing but I decide to be patient and wait and someday something will turn up. I scoured CL and papers weekly but to no avail. I find a few breeders in MT but they are hanging on tight to their sheep. Patience is NOT one of my virtues but somehow I prevailed. And then one day I spot some shetland sheep on CL. Be still my beating heart. My husband thought I won the lottery when I called him! So this week we added 2 white (I wanted color but that didn't stop me) Shetland ewes who are one year olds and one beautiful Shetland Ram. They need shearing soon and I can't wait to card and spin the wool so we can knit with it even though I don't remember how to do that at all.
We can't find a shearer who is willing to do 3 sheep, no small time breeders can, so good ole Rye gets to learn how to shear sheep. He needs some kind of medal or something for putting up with all I throw at him. It should be interesting and highly entertaining to watch! He also had to get up at 5 this morning to go pick up my heritage breed turkeys to from the PO this morning. This poor guy.
We picked blue slate turkeys for the same reasons. They are heritage breed which means they are hardier, healthier, smarter, stronger, and slower growing. Not only are commercial turkeys, (even the beautiful broad breasted bronze that you see everywhere), fast growing, apprarntly they are so dumb they can't even learn how to eat as babies without you showing them how! What? What have we done to these poor turkey breeds?! The beautiful broad breasted bronze turkey (the kins you see in all traditional pictures) are so overbred that they can't live more than a year or so due to leg and heart problems. They are lacking natural instincts including reproducing, they can't and won't hatch or raise their own young. Many breeders of commercial turkeys raise chicks with them so the chicks can teach the turkeys how to eat and drink and the hatchery recommend we buy chicks with our turkeys for this very reason, unless they were the heritage breeds. So although big and beautiful sounds fun we chose smart and smaller and I'm very excited for our blue slate turkeys, also called Lavender turkeys. Since they can reproduce naturally without human intervention or incubators, we are hoping they will build up a little flock for us since I could only afford 5 of them. And our thanksgivings will hopefully never be the same!
So my mothers day this year is the best ever, having received 3 sheep and 5 turkey poults! I got a goat for my anniversary in February. The lady I got the shetlands from is considering selling me a few babydoll ewes so I'm thinking that might be the best birthday gift ever! wink. wink. I just even love their smell, brings back so many memories.
Sorry for such a long post about a few sheep but when you wait over 20 years for something, its a very big deal! Rye has had to listen to me talk about getting sheep from the day he met me. He always teases me that I'm the only person in the world who went to Sheep Camp in high school when most girls my age were going to volleyball camp. But hey, I learned a lot at sheep camp and even though he thinks thats not something I should brag about....I brag about it. I was busy learning to AI sheep while my friends were going on dates. But I'm pretty sure their were a few cute country boys at that sheep camp if I remember right.....
So here they are....
The Ram
The blue slate turkey poults
Anyway, amongst other things, we had a flock of sheep that usually numbered a couple hundred head, and from the time I can remember they captured my heart. I don't know if its cause we not only lived in the middle of nowhere with no decent towns within a hour drive, but we also had no TV, internet, nintendos and other such things. So our entertainment was the animals. Horses and sheep were my big loves (and my milk cow, Daisy) and if I wasn't riding horse I was in the sheep barn. Us kids pretty much lived for lambing. And I guess once sheep are in your blood they never leave, cause from the time I left home I knew I was gonna someday have sheep again. Preferably sooner rather than later! Like they say you can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl. (corny but true) And its not just me, my younger sister would love to have sheep someday too and she also has the strong forever kind of love for sheep.
But life happens and it doesn't always work out exactly as you planned and sheep become a more distant dream each year. And instead of marrying that cowboy you planned on marrying, you marry a town boy who doesn't even know the proper sheep terminology! horror! But little do you realize that someday he will make the best darn farm asset you've ever met and will spend countless hours building you fences and barns and dehorning your goats and pretty much all the gory parts of farm work possible....with NO complaints.
But you have other fun endeavors including building your dream house together and starting a family. Eventually one day you sell your little dream house that your husband built you and you are looking at building another but then you stumble across a delapitated old farmhouse on a couple acres on the edge of town. And you make the decision to buy it instead of building another dream house. Why? Because I knew someday I could have the sheep that I waited so long for. So I squashed one dream to pursue another which is something we are all familiar with I'm sure. You could say that we are living where we are today because of Sheep. And some days when this house literally is falling down around us, I wonder if I made the right choice, but then I just have to step into my backyard and I know I did.
Well as soon as we moved in, I had Rye building fences so we could get some sheep. I had waited almost 20 years and couldn't wait a day more. But then my little baby boy started getting sick and we eventually found out he had a dairy allergy so my practitioner suggested he go on goat milk. Since we can't legally purchase REAL goat milk here in the state of Montana, I decided to buy my own goat. And there rest ,as we say, is history. I was smitten by goats and sheep were put on the back burner temporarily but they were still always in the back of my mind. Don't get me wrong, I will always be the goat lady and they will always be my first love, but I just couldn't ever forget about those sheep. They were becoming a nuisance, frolicking around there in the back recesses of my brain. I stalked Craigs List and papers reading the sheep ads and following sheep blogs and watching sheep shows and...... you get the picture. I tried in vain to convince myself that now that I had goats I didn't need sheep. But finally one day I decided I just needed to do it, you only live once, and I just wasn't going to get over those sheep no matter how many goats I had. I just had to get Rye on board which was shockingly easy.
But what kind should I get? We raised Rambouillet sheep which were a dual purpose sheep but were mostly known for their wool. We used to get our wool judged based on density, crimp and other factors that I don't remember now and we even joined the ND wool growers association. Mom and I entered their wool contest where we made our own outfits out of wool and were judged on it and my mom even won! GO mom! So wool was a big part of our sheep raising experience and on shearing day we were even allowed to SKIP SCHOOL to help out, which was another highlight of our year.
So I knew I wanted a sheep known for its wool and I knew I wanted a heritage breed. That word is passed around today like candy but it really does mean something to me. Commercial sheep have been purposefully bred to be larger, faster growing, and more 'improved.' Yes, they are bigger and better in many ways but theres so many things you lose along the way. A lot of their natural hardiness and breed characteristics are lost along the way. Heritage sheep as a rule have an easier time lambing, are not plagues by sickness and are true to their ancestoral lines. Theres VERY few true heritage sheep breeds left that have retained their primitive instincts and qualities. Now yes, commercial sheep are great for those who need to make a living at it and they are still awesome and I still love them and would take them in a heartbeat. Targhees, Rambouillet, Suffolk, Hampshire....those are just a few and they can be found around every corner in America. But no.... I had to have the hard to find more expensive breeds. See how lucky Rye is.
So in my quest I decided I wanted Shetlands and babydoll sheep or Southdowns. Shetlands are a true rare heritage breed that have been around for 1000's of years and they originated on the Shetland Isles and were transported later by early Vikings. As we all know based on my previous writing, I take great pride in being a Viking descendent. Haha!! But really since I am pretty much 100% Scandinavian, its fun that these sheep were from my ancestors country and they likely raised them at some point! They are known for being one of the smallest breed of sheep with some of the very best wool. According to some, only the angora can pass them in wool quality but I'm sure that is highly debatable by many people. ;) They come in many many different colors and combos and are very colorful.
They are incredibly hardy and can withstand very cold temps with no problems. They were used to the highlands of Scotland after all. They are very docile, friendly and much more intelligent than their overbred commercial cousins. They will even wag their tail when petted and will actively seek out human companionship. This is not normal behavior for most sheep as any sheep breeder will tell you. Even my tamest bum lambs would eventually lose all interest in me after they were sent out to the flock with the exception of Orphan Annie who remained tame her whole life.
Shetlands almost never need help lambing, their tails are naturally docked, they are not as susceptible to hoof rot, sore mouth and many of the other common sheep ailments. They will even start slowly shedding their wool and don't need sheared as much as commercial sheep. So you see why I became convinced!? I read blog after blog about them including the one of the breeders who brought some of the first Shetlands over here. The more I read the more obsessed I became. (Baby doll sheep I wanted cause they were just so stinking cute!)
So anyway here we are in Montana far away from any Shetland breeder and no closer to getting my sheep. The years are passing but I decide to be patient and wait and someday something will turn up. I scoured CL and papers weekly but to no avail. I find a few breeders in MT but they are hanging on tight to their sheep. Patience is NOT one of my virtues but somehow I prevailed. And then one day I spot some shetland sheep on CL. Be still my beating heart. My husband thought I won the lottery when I called him! So this week we added 2 white (I wanted color but that didn't stop me) Shetland ewes who are one year olds and one beautiful Shetland Ram. They need shearing soon and I can't wait to card and spin the wool so we can knit with it even though I don't remember how to do that at all.
We can't find a shearer who is willing to do 3 sheep, no small time breeders can, so good ole Rye gets to learn how to shear sheep. He needs some kind of medal or something for putting up with all I throw at him. It should be interesting and highly entertaining to watch! He also had to get up at 5 this morning to go pick up my heritage breed turkeys to from the PO this morning. This poor guy.
We picked blue slate turkeys for the same reasons. They are heritage breed which means they are hardier, healthier, smarter, stronger, and slower growing. Not only are commercial turkeys, (even the beautiful broad breasted bronze that you see everywhere), fast growing, apprarntly they are so dumb they can't even learn how to eat as babies without you showing them how! What? What have we done to these poor turkey breeds?! The beautiful broad breasted bronze turkey (the kins you see in all traditional pictures) are so overbred that they can't live more than a year or so due to leg and heart problems. They are lacking natural instincts including reproducing, they can't and won't hatch or raise their own young. Many breeders of commercial turkeys raise chicks with them so the chicks can teach the turkeys how to eat and drink and the hatchery recommend we buy chicks with our turkeys for this very reason, unless they were the heritage breeds. So although big and beautiful sounds fun we chose smart and smaller and I'm very excited for our blue slate turkeys, also called Lavender turkeys. Since they can reproduce naturally without human intervention or incubators, we are hoping they will build up a little flock for us since I could only afford 5 of them. And our thanksgivings will hopefully never be the same!
So my mothers day this year is the best ever, having received 3 sheep and 5 turkey poults! I got a goat for my anniversary in February. The lady I got the shetlands from is considering selling me a few babydoll ewes so I'm thinking that might be the best birthday gift ever! wink. wink. I just even love their smell, brings back so many memories.
Sorry for such a long post about a few sheep but when you wait over 20 years for something, its a very big deal! Rye has had to listen to me talk about getting sheep from the day he met me. He always teases me that I'm the only person in the world who went to Sheep Camp in high school when most girls my age were going to volleyball camp. But hey, I learned a lot at sheep camp and even though he thinks thats not something I should brag about....I brag about it. I was busy learning to AI sheep while my friends were going on dates. But I'm pretty sure their were a few cute country boys at that sheep camp if I remember right.....
So here they are....
Store opening soon!
We have made several batches of fresh goat milk soap and will be offering it for sale in a few weeks! I will be opening an online store to make it easier to order. I will post a link to it as soon as its ready. Thanks for being so patient with me. I will also start blogging again on here every once in awhile. If I can remember how to! :)
Mothers Day Gift Packs
The mothers day gift packs are here and they smell divine. A Montana inspired huckleberry scent is the new soy candle and it comes in the limited edition purple mason jars. Also includes a lavender sachet with embroidered lavenders on an antique feed sack from Europe. It wouldn't be complete without the very popular sweet bee lip balm in the small tubes. The deluxe pack also has the famous honey butter. Matching labels adorn these vintage goodies. So surprise your mother this year with these delicious smelling Montana made products. Can be shipped directly to your mother (or you) or picked up in the Kalispell area. Alas, the honey butter can not be shipped. See picture captions for more details and as always email me at goatladysoap@gmail.com to place order or ask questions. Very limited quantities. Not sold separately.
The deluxe gift pack which also includes a half pint of honey butter along with all the other products in the standard gift set. $36 and can not be mailed, only picked up locally.
This is the gift pack and includes a pint candle, sachet and lip balm. $30 and can be mailed for additional $7 or picked up locally.
Sold Out
Thank You so much for all the orders and support. I am now sold out for the holiday season and I wish you all very Happy Holidays and I hope you enjoy your products!!
Christmas
Well I got my act together and am able to offer some limited edition gift packs. I sold out of all of these soaps by Thanksgiving so these are a whole new batch! I tested the soap and its cured and ready, so much so that we are using a bar of it right now. I have a very limited quantity of these packs and once they are sold out that is it. I might have a few bars of soap or lip balms left after the packs are sold but no promises. I am only selling this as a set and will not separate although you can add on a few bars of balm or soap to your gift pack. Limit of 3 soap add ons per customer(and they will not come packaged as I need to save what I have left in labels and bags for the gift packs) Candles will not be sold separate.
The soap scents are almond and lavender pine. We would have to live under a rock not to know the amazing skin care benefits of lavender but I would like you to click here and scroll down and read about the benefits of pine oil in skin care to see why I included it. The almond (like my previous lavender vanilla pine) can discolor in the soap but that is normal and harmless. The color will stick to edges of the soap and so the soap can get lighter the farther into the bar you go. All soap has calendula petals in it which may also discolor to a black and that is also normal. This batch of lavender pine is mostly lavender essential oil with some pine essential oil so it will smell mostly like lavender. (no vanilla like last batch)
Candles are Vanilla Pine Cone or Christmas Citrus and are 100% soy wax. More info on my candles here. Email me to order (don't forget to include scent requests) and I will paypal invoice you. Shipping will be $6 for the set and the set itself will be $15. If ordering more than one set I will do my best to keeps shipping as low as possible. No pick up this year but will offer free delivery in the Kalispell area on orders of $40 or more. All orders over $50 will include a free gift. Email goatladysoap@gmail.com to place order. Thank you!!
*If your looking for honey butter please email me. Butter is so expensive right now that I will have to raise my prices but if you are willing to pay even more you can email me and we can work something out. Will only do honey butter orders in large quantities. $50 minimum.
I personally love the christmas citrus but I have always loved the smell of lemon tree blossoms and citrus trees in bloom.
All the goat milk in these batches was hand milked by myself or my daughter and was provided by either Ginger or Willa. A big thank you to these ladies for putting out gallons and gallons of milk a day all year long. Ginger is on the far left of this picture and Willa is on the far right in the back.
The lavender soap will come with fresh lavender buds in the muslin bags.
The soap scents are almond and lavender pine. We would have to live under a rock not to know the amazing skin care benefits of lavender but I would like you to click here and scroll down and read about the benefits of pine oil in skin care to see why I included it. The almond (like my previous lavender vanilla pine) can discolor in the soap but that is normal and harmless. The color will stick to edges of the soap and so the soap can get lighter the farther into the bar you go. All soap has calendula petals in it which may also discolor to a black and that is also normal. This batch of lavender pine is mostly lavender essential oil with some pine essential oil so it will smell mostly like lavender. (no vanilla like last batch)
Candles are Vanilla Pine Cone or Christmas Citrus and are 100% soy wax. More info on my candles here. Email me to order (don't forget to include scent requests) and I will paypal invoice you. Shipping will be $6 for the set and the set itself will be $15. If ordering more than one set I will do my best to keeps shipping as low as possible. No pick up this year but will offer free delivery in the Kalispell area on orders of $40 or more. All orders over $50 will include a free gift. Email goatladysoap@gmail.com to place order. Thank you!!
*If your looking for honey butter please email me. Butter is so expensive right now that I will have to raise my prices but if you are willing to pay even more you can email me and we can work something out. Will only do honey butter orders in large quantities. $50 minimum.
This is the gift pack with the special edition jar with red butchers twine and a jingle bell. Easy to add a personal gift tag. These jars are expensive and hard to find and will likely not be offered again so if you like them, get the while they're hot. ;) I ordered them several years ago and have been waiting for a special occasion to use them. The lip balm label may vary depending on what I have left as will the stamp and tag on the soap. But they will all come with a label! By comparison here is my same jar sold at a website I drool over. Please compare price!
All the goat milk in these batches was hand milked by myself or my daughter and was provided by either Ginger or Willa. A big thank you to these ladies for putting out gallons and gallons of milk a day all year long. Ginger is on the far left of this picture and Willa is on the far right in the back.
And December comes
December came in like a bang, cold and snowy, and made us feel like winter is truly here. The animals (and everyone) are over it already. And I listen to everyone around me complaining about the weather or roads nonstop but I have always loved loved loved the quiet and majestic beauty of winter but maybe thats because I don't have to work in it. I texted my husband the other day asking what he was doing and got this picture (scroll through this post) back so I decided to have more sympathy for those who have to work on roofs in the snow and ice and to also not ask what he's up to anymore. I think I'm better off not knowing. Part of my quest to be a better wife. hardy har har.
He never complains though cause he's just not that way but I also think thats he's grateful not to have to spend this winter in the oilfields of Dakota loading trains with oil while freezing his butt off and missing his family something fierce. So its all perspective. I just cross my fingers that he doesn't fall off the roof again and end up in a wheelchair again. By my count he's fallen off a roof 4 times since we've been married but only seriously injured on one. Ive also lost count at this point of how many nails he's shot through various parts of his body that he usually never even bothers to tell me about until later. All I can do is make sure he is always current on his tetanus shot. So we've come a long way now, I'm more relaxed about his work and he's still a klutz.
Picture I was talking about earlier. Sometimes I wish he had a nice boring desk job. But when I mention that he tells me how much he loves being outside everyday and working hard and so I roll my eyes and pretend not to be proud of him and all his hard work. He has a great view this winter, he's building a cabin on Flathead Lake and I often get pictures like this from him.
or this....the steam coming off the lake on a subzero morning
or this.....
or this....
Or this time when he saw a huge bald eagle come and carry away a duck in his talons. Kind of blurry pictures as he was zooming with his phone. But how many desk jobs get a up close view of this?
now on to winter decor
A white xmas. Notice quilting iron in background. oops.
There will always be mason jars with lights around them I don't care what season it is. One day I got it not my head to try to put lights in the jars and that ended up not working so then I tried the lights twined around them and a tradition was started in this household.
the goats are for sure over winter already.
I have never liked holiday colors of green and red and my winter decor is white and vintage. I know its wrong but it works for me.
Luna was the only baby willing to brave the cold and come say hi. The others just peeked out from their warm little barn.
The milk barn is looking festive for christmas.
The backyard swing is looking forlorn. Its missing all its kids.
Poor patches still follows us around through all the chores hoping we are milking so she can have fresh goat milk. She hasn't figured out the goats are all dried up now and milking won't start again until February.
The garden looks desolate and dead but I love thinking of all those roots alive under that snow just waiting for the warmth of the sun in the spring to awaken them again and turn this into a lush paradise. I love the changes each season brings.
These are some of the quilts (for baby girl) and other projects Ive sewn in the last 2 weeks.
My first low volume quilt. I still love simple patchwork and vintage and muted quilts the most.
My granny squared quilt using vintage 30's rep fabric.
My quilt for the wallflowers quilt a long. My first quilt along and not my last.
Thought I would make some of thee runners with candles to sell but just don't like xmas colors in quilts. Or anywhere else for that matter.
Closer look at the low volume quilt.
The beautiful sweet girl of mine had a bday and I couldn't be more proud of her gentle, sweet shining spirit. She really is the sweetest thing.
Pictures of the recent soap.
He never complains though cause he's just not that way but I also think thats he's grateful not to have to spend this winter in the oilfields of Dakota loading trains with oil while freezing his butt off and missing his family something fierce. So its all perspective. I just cross my fingers that he doesn't fall off the roof again and end up in a wheelchair again. By my count he's fallen off a roof 4 times since we've been married but only seriously injured on one. Ive also lost count at this point of how many nails he's shot through various parts of his body that he usually never even bothers to tell me about until later. All I can do is make sure he is always current on his tetanus shot. So we've come a long way now, I'm more relaxed about his work and he's still a klutz.
or this....
Or this time when he saw a huge bald eagle come and carry away a duck in his talons. Kind of blurry pictures as he was zooming with his phone. But how many desk jobs get a up close view of this?
now on to winter decor
These are some of the quilts (for baby girl) and other projects Ive sewn in the last 2 weeks.
Pictures of the recent soap.
The soap
Every year it just gets better and better. This year I put my soap on Facebook and then opened my store (via this page) for about 2 days and am almost sold out of soap. I still have lip balm but soap is down to just a few bars! I love my customers, I love christmas and I love goat milk soap and am so thankful that my repeat customers do too! Please email me if you want the last of the soap. $4/bar and the jumbo lip balm is $5. Thanks so much my amazing customers. I guess I will just get the holidays off now, all my work is done. (unless I get motivated and make another batch) ;)
The lavender pine comes in this bag with matching stamp and tag and the muslin bag also has fresh lavender buds in it.
The oatmeal milk and honey bag, stamp, and coordinating lip balm.
*recipe, bags, designs, and all packaging are original goat lady soap designs and ideas. Please respect the authenticity and do not copy. Thank you.
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