been a frustrating week so far...

I'm switching some of labels over to waterproof labels and I finally got them on Friday. Sunday I turned my pc on to work on printing them up and was greeted by this lovely message...

no boot device available-
strike the f1 key to continue, f2 to run the setup utility

After an evening of frustration and a lot of worry that my hard drive had died on me, Monday morning I called an IT guy I know who took my machine and determined that some connection on my motherboard had gone bad and needs to be replaced. I was able to find and purchase one online but it won't be here until Monday... of course this had to happen during a holiday week, right?

In the meantime I'm stressing because I have a bunch of products that need to be labeled and I'm out of business cards and need to print them up. So, the IT guy was nice enough to put my soap stuff on a CD for me, I figure I can print from my laptop... yea, no.. my laptop had other ideas. I went to turn it on yesterday it somehow had picked up some nasty spyware or virus that was completely messing up my hard drive, I couldn't open any programs and couldn't uninstall this nasty guy. Finally I was able to boot into Safe Mode and did a system restore to the previous day then ran various spyware & virus removal programs to make sure it was all gone.

ok, problem solved, ready to print labels, right?     yea, no... my laptop doesn't have the fonts installed that I'm using on my labels and business cards... d'oh

My new motherboard should be here on Monday, hopefully the IT guy can install it same day and I can get back in business.

Until then, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday, I have a couple new soaps to take pictures of and post... both turned out really great, they smell and look great. I may even have more made by Monday.

Happy Turkey Day tomorrow!

New Soaps!

finally, right! The weather has been cloudy for a while which doesn't make for great soap pics so I took advantage of today's beautiful weather and finally got some done!

From top to bottom we have Pumpkin Spice, Christmas Tree and both rectangle & round Castile Soap. The Pumpkin Spice and Christmas Tree smell fabulous, the Castile is made with 100% Olive Oil and has no added color or scent.

Keep an eye out, all of these will be available for purchase soon!

It was a spicy day today!

Made two batches of soap today... some more Summer Spice and a new fragrance, Pumpkin Spice. I'm really excited to see and smell how the Pumpkin Spice come out. I used a new orange mica that I have and I'm curious to see if it holds its color through the cold process.

I put together a couple of gift baskets for a customer that I'm considering selling through the holidays... Doing the shrink wrapping was not fun but I figure after I do a few I'll get the hang of it.

Here are pics of the medium ($25) & large ($35) basket... if you are interested in one please email me tranquilelements@yahoo.com