The past couple of week ends I’ve had the new handmade soap displays set up at the outdoor market I attend most weekends.    This market is the Portland Saturday Market which is gigantic and keeps me pretty busy.   I get to meet and talk with retail customers but also potential wholesale soap customers too.   Handmade soap is very, very heavy and so it was really important to try to come up with a display system that would allow me to fill it in the shop and just set up at the market.  Reduction of tubs of inventory was the main motivator in order to save my back every week end.     Every outdoor market, fair or special event that I’ve attended  to market my handmade soap company at has always had 10 x 10 booth spaces.  Trying to condense things into a 8 x 8 space is no easy task.   We are almost there but not quite.  I love how the handmade soap bars are displayed in their new do but the booth is still too stark.  We will need to jazz things up a bit.  How?  Well…now, guess I’m going to have to figure that out.  

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Yes, River County Soapworks is a handmade soap company which should have been on Facebook a long time ago.  Unfortunately, the soap maker who makes all the handmade soap around here is not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to all this social networking stuff.   Yes, I’m really, really good at making handmade soaps but really lacking when it comes to computer stuff.  I mean, REALLY lacking.   You wanna see a blank face.  Just say blog, facebook and twitter.  Not to mention, upload, download and photoshop!   Please join me in my new adventure.

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For those that like to buy handmade soap it’s always fun to try something new.   I am gradually adding to my goat milk soap line and have a new handmade soap to introduce.  I’m calling it Summer Solstice because it reminds me well, of warm summer days.    Anyone who lives here in Washington this year will appreciate that I need something to bring summer back into my life.   The weather just hasn’t been cooperating.  Anyhow, this handmade soap is scented with Litsea Cubea, Lavender & Patchouli.   The resulting fragrance is warm, sunny and bright.  Just like a bright summer day!

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