Awesome Soaps and more candles on the way

Yesterday I made amazing goat's milk and oatmeal soap. There are 2 different fragrances and both are amazing. Oatmeal, milk and honey and warm vanilla sugar. Both smell wonderful! I just love the way oatmeal feels and how it softens and helps your skin. This is great for a winter shower or bath. I made several different guest size soaps for our Bed and Breakfast Guests to use. I put them in our complimentary ammenities baskets. Everyone loves our soaps and many guests purchase some from our gift shop to take with them when they depart. They make wonderful gifts and they are a nice addition to any bathroom or kitchen to add that special touch.

Valentine or anytime....Spa Bath Basket

Here's a really nice valentine or any time spa bath basket. I always leave compimentary soaps for our bed and breakfast guests. I'd like to offer a spa package and I'm working on putting one together. Part of that  involves a Spa Bath Basket similar to this one. In this basket there's a Basic Bath Tea,

a 4 oz. bar of "Beneath the Stars" sweetened honey soap with an all natural goat's milk, heart shaped emed.

there is a nylon suds maker soap bag,

and a bag with 6 unscented, heart shaped pink and white bath fizzies.

A very nice and very enjoyable basket all for a very resonable price. Go to http://www.northforkgifts.com/ or http://www.northforkgifts.etsy.com/ to see this new basket and make your purchase before we run out! I'm also working on lotions and made quite a few new candles yesterday so check back often to see what's happening.

Peppermint Candles

Last night I made peppermint candles. I'll be making more today. They smell wonderful. There's nothing like that fresh clean smell. We have lots of different fragrances to choose from. Frazier Fir is on the list for tonight's candle making session. You can take a candle making class when you stay at our B&B just let me know when you book your room that you'd like to take a class and it can be arranged for you.

So much fun in the woods today skiing

We had so much fun in the woods today skiing. This is the first thing we saw. It is what remains on the ground after the pileated wood peckers have made holes in the trees.

Here's what the holes look like. I apologize for the blurry picture. This is what happens when you take your glasses off to ski because of the freezing drizzle. You can see the huge holes in the trees. The wood peckers had quite the feast by the looks of it.

We checked this out for a while and then headed over to Petey's loop. As you may remember, we saw 4 porcupines yesterday but I had forgotten to take my camera. Today, we weren't so lucky. We only saw one.

The big dark lump in the middle of the two tree trunks is a porcupine.

You can see him even better in this picture. Basically he looks big and black. They don't move or anything. They look like they are sleeping. They are quite cute.

These are some close up shots of a set of single porcupine tracks. It's such fun to go through the woods and see who has been there. I find it all so very interesting. I couldn't wait to get back and share these pictures. Hopefully, the next time I'll have my glasses and more porcupines to take pictures of.

4 Porcupines and No Camera!

If you've read my blog before you would have noticed the porcupine trail I pointed out (literally) with the tip of my ski. Well today my daughter and I went skiing and we took what we call Petey's loop. For many years now, we've seen a porcupine in this one particular white pine tree. We have come to call that porcupine, Petey. Today, as always, we looked again for porcupines. Up until now, we haven't seen any, just tracks. Today there were four! They were hanging out at various points in the tree. My daughter showed me where they had chewed the bark off of a nearby pine tree. I just kept saying, "The one time I come out here with no camera, and look what happens!" It was too late in the day to come back and get my camera. My daughter said they will often gather before bad weather comes. She said that was probably a female that had kept her babies with her as they often do. I'm hoping that tomorrow I can head back out and hopefully get some pictures of all of this. For now, it just has to be what I described. Here's hoping that tomorrow we can get some picutres.

Some nice soaps

These are sweetened honey soap with a goat's milk embed and perfect pumpkin fragrance. They have a raffia bow. These are wonderful soaps for a guest bathroom or to have in your kitchen. They have a wonderful spicey smell and the colors blend in just abut any kitchen decor.

The are my favorite! Shea butter snowflake soaps with either sparkling snowflake or first snow fragrance. These smell wonderful and make your skin feel fabulous. I also package them on a nice wooden soap holder. These are very useful and very nice looking soap holders. The soap does not get soft and mushy on these holders. The air can circulate and preserves the life of your soap.

I love using shea butter soaps, especially in the winter. Look for more items coming soon!

Had a great ski....

Tonight I had a great ski. Getting ready for guests this weekend. Working on linking and continuing to build the gift shop website. Things are slowly coming along. My first ever fund raiser starts tomorrow and I have a music festival for work this weekend. I'm co-chairing the festival which at times has been a huge amount of work. I'm glad I had a partner to work with. It makes things much easier. Tomorrow will be rehearsals with the concert on Saturday. It's all very exciting. I'm sure the concert will be as wonderful as ever. I'm going to be creating some new things within the next few days. I'm very excited about making them and then sharing them here. Time to finish the chores for the day and hit the hay. Tomorrow and Saturday promise to be very busy.