The Kentucky State Fair

Because we have a family business, we go to lots of festivals and craft fairs. We have found that the shorter craft shows work better for us, because then we can do them without all of us crashing at the end of the show. Unfortunately, we learned this lesson the hard way. In 2009, we did […]

Packing the Hulk

Jim packed the Hulk for our trip to the Pennsylvania Christmas Show. It’s a very large holiday show and we have two booths.  So we needed to pack a LOT of stuff.  By the time he was finished, there was no empty space in the Hulk. Actually, Colter found a little nook to stick his sneakers but […]

Bright Lights

We’re continuing to grow and run out of space.  We just took over what used to be our “festival room” (where we stored all the stuff we took to set up at festivals). One side of the room is now used for making lotion sticks and lip balms.  The space is great, but it was really […]

Gift and Hobby Show

We are selling our soap at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds at The Gift and Hobby Show.  We are in booth #573 from November 10th to the 14th.  Because it is a five day show, we decided to do it in shifts. Jim took Emery, Greyden, and Hewitt to work with him for the first several days. Today, […]

Top Ten Reasons to Like GMS

Several weeks ago, we worked with Dustin at Cool World Productions to put together a video in front of the green screen.  It is finished and you can see the final video!  We made a similar video specifically for Facebook. We’re all really pleased with how it came out and have already watched it about 100 times. […]

Autumn on the River

One of the first festivals we ever sold soap at was Autumn on the River in Bethlehem, Indiana. It’s this little town right on the river filled with very friendly people. It’s our last outdoor show of the season, so sometimes the weather is nice and sometimes it’s not so nice. Fortunately, we had a […]

A Bagging Party

We needed to clear some soaps off the curing racks because Jim was making a bunch of soap. Normally the bagging tables are spread throughout the soap room, but the children decided to bring them all together for a bagging party. They set everybody up with an individual station, put on music (Disney songs and […]

Fall Festivals

We love selling our soap at Fall festivals.  Not only is the weather usually beautiful, but the people are happy and enjoy shopping.  The children have a lot of fun working and playing at our soap shows.  These photos are all from our local Madison Chautauqua where the girls were hard at work: Jim was the […]

The Hulk

We get lots and lots of deliveries at our house. The other day, the Fed Ex guy pulled up with a delivery, and as he was leaving, said, “The carrier service is headed your way.” Wow – even the Fed Ex guy knows that we get lots of deliveries. Up pulled the delivery truck: Then […]