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Here is a link to what played on last nights news. I am loving it. http://www.wzzm13.com/news/article/274622/315/Made-in-Michigan-gift-Homebrew-Soaps Bruce P.

For those of you who have been around for awhile I had some time ago was keeping you updated on my wifes breast cancer journey. It has been too long but she is doing pretty good. She is still battling with some of the side effects from some of the drugs that she has to take but over all she is...

On my .com site I can see referring websites to where some of my sites viewers are from. Over the last 3 months or so I have had many of them from sites that do not have a .com extension but instead a .ru extension. They are written in something other than english and I was wondering if...

For me November was within 2% of what sales were last year so I figured Dec. would be the same. I was wrong, online sales this year for Dec. are going to be way up. I am wondering if this is the same for the rest of you soapers and how you have been doing? Bruce

These are pictures from my craft show I did this past weekend. This was a 2 day show with over 300 vendors. This was my 4 year doing this show and I for the first time ever I sold over 2K in product. Everything I had sold well. This is a picture of my beer soaps on the first shelf, beer...

Hi everyone. Last fall my wife and I got the word that she has breast cancer. I had posted in this section then and had given updates but it has been awhile so here is another update. Overall she is doing good. The chemo and radiation treatments are over with finally and have been for 6...

I have always looked for a different way to do things and here is my latest item that I have finished testing and is now up for sale. I do not know if I am the only one doing this but there can't be too many. Let me know what you think. https://www.etsy.com/listing/109814789/ ... candle-mtd...

I have booked alot of craft shows starting this weekend at a park in my home town. The link below is to my website that has all my craft shows that I will be doing. Do you think I over did it? http://www.homebrewsoaps.com/live-events.html Bruce

This is my latest project and if I am right I am the only one in the world who does this like this. http://www.etsy.com/shop/homebrewsoaps? ... d=11723355 This is a link to my etsy store where you can see the first 4 of them that I have listed. These are so much fun to make, now I hope they...

I think doing research and development for new items to sell is the funnest part of being in business. And I had alot of fun working thru all the issues of my latest project. I have not been able to find anyone who does this with beer bottles, I think I am the only one. Anyway here is what I...

What type of business do I need to go to if I want to have something made out of poster board material? This is part of product packaging for my soap business. I am looking to have them stamped out to my spec's and I will assemble as I need them. I went to a local printer and they were no...

All seems to be going well at this time. Chemo starts in about a week and a half so we will see then. Also I came across this youtube video that deals with the journey that my wife and I are going thru. This is well done. We had a hard time keeping a dry eye when we sat and watch this...

I am a big stats nut and chart sales in many different ways and one thing the numbers are showing me is sales since Oct. have been great. I am up over last years numbers by alot. I was wondering how everyone else is doing with online sales? I am wondering if it is the economy or some of the...

I thought I would take a minute to update everyone on my wifes brest cancer journey. She had surgery this past Monday (left side mastectomy) and all seem to go well. We came home on Tuesday night from the hospital. She is making great progress but is still sore and has restricted movement...

My wife and I did a 2 day craft show recently. On the 2nd day about 6 booths away I spotted a guy I thought I had seen before that helps his wife sell soaps at craft shows. I saw them first last year at a show in December and had not seen them again till now. We were a little busy but I...

You know from my last posting I have some rotten things to deal with right now but I have recived a double dip of good news from my oldest daughter. She called me this morning and said she is expecting. This will be her 4th and the oldest is 4years old. Then she calls me again and says she is...

My wife and I are doing better this week but we found out last week she has breast cancer. Surgery is in about 3 weeks. Please keep us in your prayers. Thank you. Bruce

I have used a liquid colorant to get purple in my CP soaps for a long time and have loved the shade of purple it produced. I made a batch of soap HP using the same recipe and it went blue instead of purple. Why is this? I let the soap paste cool to 170 deg. before adding fragrance or color...

I knew it would happen at some point but how it happened has made me mad. Yesterday morning a customer contacted me and was very mad and said 2.5 weeks is to long to wait for her order without an email explaining why. She said she wants her money back. So I looked into it and she ordered on...

I was featured in the Grand Rapids press this past weekend. This was a full page article in a smaller section and would be about 1/2 page of a normal newspaper. WOW did this make me busy. I am cleaned out, very little left. Below is a link to the online version of the story...