Hi There!
Making soap and natural skin care products is a labor of love. It all started when we first moved to Fallbrook, California, a small town in San Diego County, in 2005. So many beautiful local farms, my crafting curiosity was in high gear. I always wanted to learn more about making luscious, natural soap. Now, I am having so much fun not only making the products, but selling them at local farmers markets and artisan craft fairs. I really enjoy meeting all of you that come by and say hello.
I started this website as a cooking and gardening blog, but now it’s evolved into mostly a shop for online sales of soap, soap related products and mostly natural home care products.
In addition to almost anything crafting, I love to cook. I follow traditional recipes and conjure up some originals as well. I am an “experimental” gardener 👩🏻🌾 and a “wanna-be” farmer.
I was born in Chicago but I grew up on Los Angeles. When I was younger, I loved the chaos of the city. I spent all of my adult life working inside an office building. When I started working from home In 2005, my husband and I decided to move away and live the “country life”. And so, the adventures began. I’ve learned things I tell you….dirty things that happen in the country, and I love it. Since then I’ve helped birth goats, milk them too. I keep chickens, wrangle a rattlesnake or two every year, catch and release rogue scorpions I find wandering in my house. I hunt gophers like a wilderness trapper in Alaska.
This is a long way from the little kid who was so afraid of a few little farm animals when I visited my relatives in rural Illinois.
(He’s shy, not in the witness protection program.)
I have a habit of starting hobbies and projects I know little about and learn as I go. However, it worked well for me when I grew my first 700-pound giant pumpkin! 🎃 Don’t even get me started on pumpkins!
I hope you enjoy this website and try some of our products. If you do, I’d love to know what you think!
All my best to you,
Karen
