Fairs and Lotions!

Lake Superior Ice - Tingle Mint

I have been very busy with Kiyi Kiyi things!  Here are a few of my newest creations.

I will be selling  displaying (Hopefully selling, but let's not get cocky LOL!) at the Farmer's Market for the first time this next Saturday.  I thought it would be fun to do a series of posts about how I designed my booth with vintage/up cycled items, so look for those posts in the next few days.

I'm getting a real professional web site made - yay!  So excited about that :)  I'll post a link when it's up and running.

Kiyi Kiyi soaps will be for sale at The Indiana Blueberry Festival - here.  What?!  Indiana?!  Yeah!  I'm participating in a fun Soaps Across America group.  So if you want to see Kiyi Kiyi soaps live and in person (and you live in Indiana!) go check out the Blueberry Festival the last week-end in August. 

Acai and Mangosteen

Herbal Essential - smells EXACTLY like herbal essences shampoo

  

Lotion!  

Yes it's finally here!  I will stop hording it all and finally put some up for sale.  Hopefully some will make it onto the Etsy site - if my local people don't buy it all!  I love making lotion, I LOVE using my lotion, but I HATE making labels for everything.  I'm a perfectionist freak and label making drives me crazy, because I can't control everything!  I should go sniff some soap and calm down!  :)  LOL!

Garden Then and Now

What a difference a few warm months can make in the garden!

This is a before and after tour.

Before:

My veg. garden last spring with newly placed raised beds.

Now: Veggies galore!
Squash and tomato explosion.

Before:

Another view of the veg. garden.

Now:

Same view.....well, a little different!

Before:

View of the veg. garden before it was planted.

After this pic we had another 6 inches

of snow.

Now:

Same view.

Squash, tomatoes, ect.

Then:

Overall view of garden from the

East to the West.

Now:

Same view.

What a change!

Then:

Flower garden with raspberries in the back.

Now:

Whoa!

Flower garden and raspberries

gone crazy!

Then:

Flower garden.

Then:

View of garden from my porch.

Now:

Garden jungle.

Now:

There is a pond somewhere in there.

Then:

Flower garden with newly placed raised beds.

Now:

Same garden beds.

But where are they?

Then:

Pond.

One of my first efforts with the pond.

I moved it (and re-dug it 6 times).

And it grew to 10x its original size.

Those poor phlox in the foreground were

moved over and over again.

But they are blooming now!

Now:

Pond.

With flowers!