Ok, I have just a few more singles left to pack, they are all pulled and sitting pretty in row. It took longer then I thought because there always seems to be some hiding. And I don’t want to print any of the International shipping labels till the morn in case you are wondering where your cns is, when I have half a brain back I will print them tomorrow. It would be a very bad thing if I made a mistake on the customs forms. And I will be invoicing tomorrow too, many people I have been shipping for the past few days got big boxes cuz most of these last singles are GINORMOUS ! And many many internationals have been going out and I have been just too busy packing to invoice for the extra shipping - so tomorrow as well , or your today or the next, depending on where you are:) Minimoo is in daycare all but Wed. so I have some quiet time this week to wrap this sale up - YES!!! ok- must collapse in a few, talk to you all soonish ~Moona
Please know how I am eternally grateful for all your patience. And only the coffee butter and Black Mamba have to redo batches to finish up the numbers, dry sprays came up short too, but they are easy to do so no problem and the black mamba had screwy numbers from my notes so I didn’t make enough. And the sixty lotions that got shorted- but thats only in the stone cold and Lilac & Hyacinths scent.The infusions are done for the Herbalist gold , so I aiming to make it today - I will try my best to do the complete batch numbers. Machine Oil is still being a pain, I may just ship with out and ship it when its done , don’t know yet. and I just got done with sending out a bunch of singles, I have approximately forty or less to do still. It should be going faster and faster now. The only prob is with Curl on vaca and Mooman got a gig, I am having the post pick them up on schedule. So I won’t be doing the multiple runs to the postie like I normally do in a day, it will be just one big pick on each day scheduled. Thursday being a huge pick up day. I should be onto the multiples this weekend- finally! And the count is only fifty people, now thats fifty people who ordered multiples not fifty orders- I wish :)- but still a really small number compared to the past and how many I have already shipped in singles. Multiple orders have anywhere from two -six orders each ( a lot because of the whoops-its stuff) so it really should’t be that much longer. And thank you all again~ Blessings Moona
I don’t have much time so this will be quick. All but three jars of white chocolate butters are done, all dark are done, Foot-balm done, Midnight Margarita Bath bombs done- BUT a bunch cracked, so they have to go out ugly so sorry, we remade them twice now and no more time, Bongo poppy cake BB’s done! Apple Brown Betty BB’s done!!!! ABB tarts done! The only bath bomb that still needs to made is Bali , a lot are left of the following , but will run out soon so they are being remade tomorrow to finish up the batch counts: bath bombs- Indigo Ice , Blueberry hill and stone colds- then thats it for BB”s yEa!!!!Still need to be made and remade buttery scrubs, ran out of Black Mamba, doing it tonight, and The Monoi cream- ran out again, and finishing up the counts for buttery scrubs in: BAli, Dr. Bombay, Orange cloud and sea witch . and need to finishing up counts before they run out of Indigo ice, Bongo and Duchess and coffee butter, then thats it for scrubs.We are currently finishing up the dry and wet sprays. And decanting Machine oil in the next few days, alcohol based perfume need between three days to a month to cure and everyone is different , Bettie went quicker then the Machine oil is going and also please remember a slight clouding at the bottom of the spray is normal, its due to the fact I use natural botanicals and EO’s as well as fragrance to make my blends, one made of all fragrance tends to not cloud.And then the hard and time consuming Herbalist gold!!! ugh and remember I told you I made poor Curl make 124 extra gels we didn’t need, well- um my big bozo nono, we are short on lotions by about sixty, but the base arrived today ( I don’t make my lotions base, I make everything else , but not lotion, thank goodness) and we will finish the counts, just short on Stone cold and Lilacs.And thats it, Curl is frantically packaging while I make batches and pack boxes. But soon it will be just a pack frenzy and that day will be a welcome one.Ok bye for now.
So a bunch of boxes went out yesterday , more and more and more and more and more to come.And OMG I am tired, but what a productive weekend- so I am also happy! the White and Dark Chocolate Cream batches are all done- Yahoo.!!! It took the entire day and I started at nine this morning and finsihed up about 9 pm. I have to temper the cocoa to make it come out right and it takes forever, and its hot here today so even longer then usual, but it was a fantastic excuse to crank the AC for a bit- darn:)They are setting up in the moona fridge as I write this and will be awaiting Curls delicate touch to be labeled and boxed in the morn. I intended on finishing this stuff up long ago, but there are so many batches and like I said before so many things have made me fight all the way and redo, so this weekend was a welcome change.MAny more bath bombs still to need be made - but also GREAT news, Minimoo has a spot in day care starting tomorrow- Hurray !!!! Just part time for now but we shall see. So the mooman is helping with the bath bombs tomorrow , he is so good at it, as well as packing more and more boxes. And we ran out of the Halloween bags and sample scrub but I made more scrub and we have tons of the little soaps made and already packaged - so thats no biggie , so new Halloween preview bags will be done tomorrow , and the Grapefruit Haven scrub is finished now too. I can’t believe how many batches it took to finish that up. Oh and I had purchased a new Pink Grapefruit oil for the grapefruit blends of EO’s, and it has turned the scrub a beautiful natural peach color with teeny specs of ruby grapefruit , so please no worries it is all natural- no color added.And speaking of which the chocolate and vanilla oils are doing their thing in the scrubs, you will notice the Duchess of Willowdale, Lavender chocolate and the Black Mamba all have their own unique shade of Cocoa , but its all the oil, no color added to any of these, so they may still darken as they are used. Still left to do: Decanting of the Machine oil spray, Footbalm, a few more buttery scrubs and more Monoi cream and scrub ( monoi has so much fat in it , the recipie doesn’t go as far as the others do, and I still need to make a bunch more and will also do that tomorrow)and Herbalists Gold creams and then thats it! And then I will be on double time with Curl and Mooman packing up all the orders. And then I can ca-lapse… oh but wait…then comes Halloween- dang! ;)I will report back in soonish- goodnight all~moona
Hey guys, sorry for the silence, but I have been finding very little time to post. We are still on the single orders, when I took a long hard look this afternoon as to why it seems we are just barely chipping away at this mountain of a pile of orders , it is because instead of my regular huge stack of multiple orders , it is in the reverse this time. And will take longer to get thru the singles then it usually does- and with the art show.. etc. Normally when I start the shipping process singles are done in about four days then on to compiling lists of multiples. So the only light I can se out of this is once all the singles are shipped the multiples should go MUCH faster then they have in the past. So please bare with us, Curl has been working over time all last week , and me , what is sleep anyway????- but I did see a wee dent today- I have also run into the problem of having to remake and make batches of stuff we either need or already ran out of. And that is due to the volume being even higher then normal , so I could make more people happy . and- I did what I hate , started shipping before I was completely thru with all my batches I need. So now is where I am kicking myself for doing so. BUT- I did know this would most likely happen since I was so behind, and why I have Curl. ( but now want to keep her:), and she said yes!!!)And she is just about comfortable packing on her own, …almost- well maybe its me thats not comfortable- its bloody hard to let go of the most satisfying part of the process for me- sigh, but I will. SO with Curl packing this week , I can be in the workshop making the last bathes we need to finish this puppy up! Ok~ bye for now
