New Holiday Gift Sets Give Away Contest

I have 3 new gift sets available in my Etsy shop. These are mix and match gift sets. You can customize them with the perfumes, soaps and lip balms of your choice. They range in price from $10-23 dollars and may include shipping direct to the recipient with a card if you wish.

Pictured above is the deluxe listing is for your choice of 2 all natural soaps, 2 lip balms, a home grown loofa slice, and a perfume of your choice wrapped as shown in the main photo in a clear gift bag with a ribbon.

For the middle sized gift set you have a choice of an all natural soap, lip balm and perfume of your choice wrapped as shown in the main photo in a clear gift bag with a ribbon.



For The small sized gift set you may choose an all natural perfume and lip balm of your choice wrapped in a clear gift bag with a ribbon. I will be giving away one of these gift sets on December 18th. There are a number of ways that you may enter to win before now and then.



Receive entries for the following activities. Be sure to leave your contact info in your post and let me know about your activities. This contest is open to US and Canadian residents.:
~ 1 entry for leaving a comment with your preferred choice of perfume and lip balm
~ 1 entry for becoming a fan of Aquarian Bath on facebook
~ 1 entry for tweeting this post on twitter include @aquarianbath in your message
~ 3 entries for blogging this post on your blog
~ 3 entries for adding the new Aquarian Bath badge to your blog or website
~ 5 entries for making a purchase from AquarianBath

A winner will be chosen on list randomizer and announced on the blog on December 19th.

December Blog Party! Call for Submissions Herbal Aesthetics: Using Herbs for Beautification

Hello friends! This is a call for herb lovers to contribute to the December Herb Blog party that I will be hosting here at Aquarian Bath on the topic of Herbal Aesthetics. This can be in the area of arts, crafts, dying and painting with herbs, natural beauty care such as how to use henna (pictured to the left), holiday decorating with herbs, etc. Last month's blog party was on coffee, stimulants and morning ritual beverages.

Here is how you can participate:
Write a post on your blog specific to this topic. In your blog post link to AquarianBath.blogspot.com. Send a link to your blog post (and a picture if you wish) to me by December 1st at aquarianbath@gmail.com. I will link to all the submissions with a new blog post December 2nd.

Please feel welcome to share this blog party invitation with others.

Arts & Crafts in the Fair Share Garden Saturday December 5th

Join us on the first Saturday of December 5th for a morning of Arts & Crafts at the Fair Share Garden in Daytona Beach. This event is being hosted by the Fair Share Garden in conjunction with the Art Consortium of Volusia County.

Activities:
~ Community mural creation with public participation.
~ Plein Air painting and informal plein air demonstration by Ruth Vines at 10 a.m.
~ Holiday Decorating with Herb Demonstration at 11 a.m.
~ Arts & Crafts for Sale including fine art paintings, functional art pottery, fair trade Peruvian & Nicaraguan pottery, fair trade African baskets, fair trade Haitian crafts, handmade jewelry, artisan soaps and balms, natural perfumes, wine glass accessories, and framed art photography

This is a fund raising event for the Fair Share Garden. Nominal cash donations are appreciated, but not required for entry. Donations of used gardening equipment are also appreciated.

Please RSVP with us on Facebook and invite your friends!

Weekend Production Streak: New Veggie Soaps, Balms & Perfumes

I had an extra looong weekend which started on Wednesday. It was so nice to be home working on restocking and making new products. First here is a little peak of what is put up to cure for December. The white soap at the top of the blog is a Lavender essential oil veggie soap. I used the same veggie oil formula that I use for my pumpkin poppy seed soap. That soap has a lot of repeat purchases and raves about it's very creamy and bubbly lather. So I decided it was time to make a few more soaps with this oil combo. Yesterday I also made a batch of veggie patchouli soap. I just cut it this morning. It has a pretty in the pot swirl made with cocoa powder as a contrasting natural colorant.


Rosemary mint was the second batch that I made yesterday. I decided to practice my bicolor layering, because I had a special request for 100 bilayer soaps over the weekend. Most of these green clay top layer soaps were perfect, but a couple like this one had a little dip into the white. Good thing I had a practice run. It's been a little while since I've made layered soaps.


Okay enough of what is curing and not ready to ship. I also made and listed some lip balms and perfumes over my long weekend. I was getting low on Sweet Orange and Licorice lip balms, so those are back in stock. Also brand new I have a Lavender Sweet Orange Lip balm. This is my first vegan lip balm made with Candelilla wax instead of Beeswax.


In the perfume department I added a single note Jasmine sambac perfume to the mix. It is strongly aromatic and long lasting.


A couple of more perfumes I actually added last week but haven't posted about yet, so I will mention them as well. The first is a single note Fine French Lavender essential oil roll on Perfume. The highly volatile Lavender is anchored with a small amount of vanilla-like Benzoin.


The second is a Spearmint roll on perfume also with Benzoin. The natural green comes from herbal Isatis tinctoria powder and alfalfa.


Lastly this beautiful Mandarin perfume is colored naturally with annatto seed and is a blend of Mandarin, Sweet Orange, Litsea, and Patchouli essential oils.

The Vibrant Photography of Anissa Designs

I met a great photographer Friday night on Beach Street at the First Friday Festival in Daytona Beach. Anissa Manzo is quite the out and about traveling photographer, with photos from France, Hawiaii, Thailand and more. She had a lovely display of art photography and jewelry pendants from her travels, which she also sells on Etsy.



She resides part of the year in Palm Coast as well as Savannah, Georgia where she has studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Anissa's photography style is bold and vibrant. She has a knack for capturing the beauty in everyday scenes and objects. You can find Anissa's work on her excellent photography blog.



In addition to photography Anissa is also interested in singing, chanting, drums, soccer, meditation, bikram yoga, saving bees and other forlorn insects. coffee, the beach, the mountains.