Happy New Year and I really hope the first part of January has treated you great. I know I’m a little late, but better late than never.
You may or may not have noticed, but I’ve been missing for a few months. Sorry about that. The end of the year stuff gets crazy.
We had family stuff and home stuff and grandkids’ stuff and on and on. I’m sure you all did too.
What’s been happening?
Let me know what’s new and good in your life. I’d really would love to hear.
Let me tell you what I’ve been up to recently.
So, I’m starting this business.
I’m making handcrafted skin care products as well as handcrafted herbal tea blends and spice blends. These products have the least amount of ingredients to make an excellent product for your skin.
Right now I’m making lotions and creams, salves and infused oils, facial scrubs and body scrubs. I have ideas of adding more products later.
For the lotions and creams I’m starting with the basic lotion/cream recipe I’ve posted here. I’m boosting it by infusing oils with specific herbs and infuse the water portion with those herbs too. I guess you could call it a kind of turbo cream.
Those infused oils will make the salves and be the oils as well.
I’m consigning my stuff out of a local shop in a small town near where I live right now and will try and find a few more local shops for that as well.
I’ll start going to the local farmer’s markets and craft shows and such when spring starts. The markets and craft shows are what scare me most.
I’m kind of a home body, not a real fan of busy public places. While I love to teach, I’m just not real great around a lot of people. So the thought of that much interacting is a bit scary for me.
I’ll get over it and do okay, but I’ll have to work at it.
The up side is I have a niece that loves social media. Social media is not my forte. So she’s volunteered to help me. YAY!!! I love my niece.
She’s created an Instagram page and Facebook page so I can write stuff and put it together and then just put those things where she can get to them. Then she can post pick and choose where and when to post something. That works for me.
I’m excited to see where this takes me.
Plans for the coming year.
My plan for the year is to get back to this website more. I’m terrible about taking pictures. I’ll start a new project and get half way through and realize I haven’t taken any pictures. My goal is to get better with that.
I have some stuff in mind I’d like to get together for later. Admittedly, most of it is cooking. That’s because I’m cooking more than doing anything else right now.
My grandkids come over and we do crafts, but because most of my cooking is from scratch, I still do a lot more of that than anything else.
I’d like to add some gardening stuff. My plan is to grow as much of the herbs for this business as I can. So there will be a lot of that.
And my husband and I would like to grow as much of our own food as we can. My goal, in time, is to grow and can all of our own veggies. That goal will probably take a few years to get to, but we’ll be working on it.
I’d like to ask a favor, please.
Let me know what you would like to see. Is there anything specific you would like me to try? Any specific recipes, or canning or anything else. Your suggestions would really help me see where I need to go with this to give you want you want.
I’d love to hear from you.
What are your plans and goals for 2020? Do you have some fun things happening? Are there big plans for your new year?
I look forward to hearing from you and having conversations with you about your plans for the new year.
So, here’s to 2020!!! May it be the best year yet for all of us.
Until next time.
Health, Wealth & Blessing~
Tracey