Patchouli Lavender goat milk soap

It's here! All natural goat milk soap, with patchouli essential oil and lavender essential oil, an enticing combination! Made with high quality vegetable oils and shea butter, and of course milk from my wonderful dairy goats! I colored this soap with aquamarine violet, which turns it a grayish purple. Each bar is approx. 3.5 oz and each has $1 worth of patchouli oil! Limited quantity. They sell for $4 each on my website: www.maplehillsoap.com
Happy Holidays!

Fall Festival Wine Market

Wow, I've been busy getting ready for the holiday season! I've made lots of great seasonal soap. It's already in Linds and Local Grown, and will be in Island Drug soon too. My next upcoming market is:

Nov 15-16
Festive Fall Wine Market
Greenbank Farm
Fall is in the air and the holidays are just around the corner. Taste and select local and regional wines for your holiday celebrations from North Puget Sound wineries. We have created a gourmet gift market that will entice the senses. Shop for special items, unique gifts, all while tasting your favorite wines. This is a weekend you don't want to miss!

This market is held annually on Veteran's Day weekend, coinciding with the Winery Loop Association's fall wine tour. The market features local artists and craftspeople in a pre-holiday season gift market. Taste late-season wine varieties and stroll this indoor heated market as part of an adventurous weekend getaway.
Information contact 360/678-7710 or http://www.greenbankfarm.com

Whidbey Island Farm Tour

This year I will be participating in the Farm To Home Fair at Greenbank Farm during the Whidbey Island Farm Tour. A FREE self-guided tour of 18 working farms on beautiful Whidbey Island featuring locally grown food and products.

Saturday & Sunday, October 4th & 5th, 2008

eBay ART AUCTION

Lavender Lunch On Whidbey

An original painting by Stacey Neumiller will be auctioned on-line on eBay beginning Saturday, October 4th at 8:00 pm. The auction will run for 7 days.

Come visit the farms on our beautiful island!

end of summer happenings

Wow, it's been a busy end of summer! We spent ten days cruisin' up to Banff, which was amazing! We saw an incredible array of wildlife (grizzly, black bear, elk, big horn sheep, beaver) It's going to be hard to top that place... unless we go to Alaska, or Thailand, or Pluto.

We got back, and I made up for lost time at the farmers markets. Both Coupeville and Greenbank had such a great crowd of visitors. Now I'm at work making Christmas soap (Can you believe it???) We need to get the holiday soap into the stores the day after Halloween. It's creeping up on us!

So, end of summer vacation, kids back in school... what do I do? I get a new PUPPY! "Nicey" is so awesome! She's a smart little border collie, just two months old, and from a socialized family. We took her to soccer practice today, over a hundred kids, balls, other dogs... she wasn't even fazed, she loved all the attention! Our other dogs are actually OK with her (they get lots of love.) Nicey's favorite thing, among many, is the kids TUNNEL! She runs through it and rolls it like a hamster wheel, it's hilarious! Agility anyone?

more soap delivered to Linds & Local Grown

Linds just stocked up, as did Local Grown.

So, since I will be taking a vacation for a couple weeks (Canadian Rockies, eh?)... you can still get some nice and fresh goat-milk soap, locally.

Coupeville is having the Arts & Crafts Festival this weekend: http://www.coupevilleartsandcraftsfestival.org/
Should be beautiful!

Orca Network is having the annual Penn Cove Orca Capture Commemoration Friday, in Coupeville. I donated a couple orca-soap gift packs for the silent auction. They have a GREAT website: http://orcanetwork.org/

I'll be back for Labor Day wknd.

In the meantime, here's a pic of Cookie doing her thang:

maplehillsoap.com updated

I have some new pics of my summer selection of soap on my website: www.maplehillsoap.com

The new cucumber melon is ready, it's beautiful! And here's my latest favorite, Blackberry Sage, just in time for late summer:


And here's my Berry Verbena:


Plus more on the site!
I'll be at Coupeville Farmers Market next Sat. Aug 2, and Greenbank Market Sun. Aug 3.

the painted pig

This is what we've been up to lately. No soap. Just crazy "pig" fun. Actually the boys are responsible for most of this, I just wielded the knife. You get bonus points if you make it through the nose. Yes, you can see the artistic blood running through our veins.