day 57
Week in Review


SKIN SIN!  River Girls New Sugar Scrub is in....Happy Birthday Blackberry Sage Soap....Lightbox Completed & Used to the Hilt!

This week marked the 6th Birthday of River Girls Blackberry Sage Soap! Lush, juicy and very berry, Blackberry Sage sits among the Top 5 Best Selling soaps throughout the year. It is the perfect blend of sweet and tart with the subtle addition of Sage.

The Light Box experiment was a champagne popping success. After initially floundering because the box was too small, the project fell into place when I chose a large priority mail box.  I still could go even bigger. But for now, it works brilliantly for a small number of items. The Sin Skin sugar scrub seen above was shot in the light box as was this pretty duo of This Bliss soap!

Finally! Drum roll please. Welcome to 

Sweet, Soft, YUMMY You!

River Girls introduced "Skin Sin"

today, a new line of sugar scrubs that cleanse and moisturize. Whipped soft soap meets decadent oils and sugar  to create a scrub that exfoliates and leaves a polished soft skin that smells divine. A lovely aroma will linger on your limbs afterward!

Skin Sin begins with a paraben-free foaming butter packed with a trio of sugars cured with vanilla beans.  Fruit and nut oils of Avocado, Macadamia, and Apricot highlight our luxury blend, all leading to a big fat yum but without the pesky calories!

Available first in Pastry, a private in-house blend of Italian Orange, Vanilla and Cinnamon Iced Bun scents.The fragrance reflects the Skin Sin emphasis on speciality ice cream and bakery scents. Coming very soon: Lemon Poppyseed Cake and Lime and Pink Grapefuit Sorbet!


Good night,
Wanda

day 4

Courting Silence While Pouring Soap

 Blackberry Sage Soap, Made May 24

When I was younger, much younger, I worked with other professionals in think tanks and a foundation. Often, I was researching, writing or speaking for others, all with the wonderful urgency and belief that we could diminish societal ails. We could make the uneducated and alone less isolated or more whole.

Sometimes, a colleague from that life will ask, "Don't you miss the daily interactions?" The truth is-- a bit-- but not entirely. In most places I would invariably slip into the role of listener. Even when the pay became loftier and I was rendering judgement on someone else's thinking or policies, I was still the listener, the watcher of body language and the tones of voices. 

With parenting and children comes years of what I call "V Talk", voluminous, vociferous, vomitous talk. Sure, you're listening. You're watching their tone, their body language, their temperature--literally and figuratively, but frankly, you talk constantly. Then one day, when you are confident enough, and the hard work truly has been done, you simply turn and say, "I'm not going to repeat this again." And you do not.

In soaping and narrative writing, both which demand a degree of creativity, silence is  the jewel that dazzles. The quiet allows the push asunder of the blah, blah, blah, blah.

How about a wee dose of  Shut the Hell Up"?

I was recently brought back to that belief while watching one of the young children in the bridal party of Prince William and Kate Middleton. As the  jubilant throngs cheered below the balcony, she raised and cupped her small hands to her ears as though to say, "Enough with this bloody ruckus. Get me to a quiet place."  

Whatever you do, find yours.

~Wanda


wanda fleming, 2011
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