I began making soaps about 2 years ago because everything seems to bother my skin and I ended up making my Lucky Lather Soaps (luckylather.etsy) first. They are so pretty and yummy. My husband and I both have a pretty naughty/wicked sense of humor...one night we wrote up about 3 pages worth of funny/insulting soap names and said we should try to make some. I came up with the "Septic Soaps" name when our septic tank at home exploded (fortunately outside of the house and not in)...it seemed very appropriate for what we wanted to do. It took me around a year of procrastination and unhappy packaging problem solving that was holding things up...then BAM! I figured out what I wanted to do and did it. (Standard creative process for me with both soaps and my jewelry shop: cherrymatador.etsy) I am always doing things in bursts, leaps and bounds.
My husband helps with the creative, brain-storming, back-seat driving part of our business but I am the one-person workforce cooking, pouring, wrapping, designing, selling and all the other nonsense that goes along with this business. [He has the 'real' job...I used to work for attorneys but, once my two kiddies (8 & 5) got big enough for school, the hours were murder on our household and I was forced to make some changes.]
My soaps are currently in two local boutiques and I plan to try to expand that number by the end of the year. Cooking is probably my most favorite thing in life (aside from my family). Soaps fall into that same category...I get to cook/create, mix and sniff (instead of tasting) and try to get the color and texture 'just-right'. I am all about a good laugh, too...and I hope that our Septic Soaps give people a good chuckle or a blush with a "oh, my!" or something that takes away from the monotony of the everyday for them. We will have many more coming very soon!Lori has generously offered her OCD 3 bar set of soaps to be given to someone with a wicked sense of humor! The set will include lonely loser, childhood trauma, and lawyer lather.
In the 80's it was all about peer pressure and I had to have tapered jeans from County Seat . At the time, County Seat was a younger version of its rival, The Gap.
[M, I guess this would be the equivilent of your desire to shop at Abercrombie.]
They sold all the hot names: Levi, Girbaud, and Guess. These jeans were meant for teenagers with developing hips. My hips didn't develop until college (then, they became "birthing hips." See above). The jeans looked a bit like riding judphurs on me as they slightly ballooned at the top, but I loved these pants so much I wore them constantly.
I loved my 90's fashion sense (someone had to). That was when I went kinda glam/goth/grunge in college. Ever trendy, I mixed my "grunge" style with a glam elegance: black tights under ripped (shredded) jean shorts, tailored suit jackets, and my favorite army boots (seen here in this earlier post). Katie Holmes is bringing back the trend seen here. Do I dare?
[I'll look for some hot 90's pictures of me to post later. I think I have one where I'm wearing my dad's army trench coat. Man, I was rock'n!]
My jean of choice during this entire decade was boy jeans...real boy jeans. I literally bought them from thrift stores because I loved how they sat low on my hips. Of course, this was before "boy jeans" fit became available for women in stores. I actually still prefer to wear my jeans this way!
Today, I own many different types of jeans: boot cut, skinny, straight, dress, etc. It has always been hard for me to find a pair of jeans that fit, so when I do, I grab them.
photo of old cash register by moi
