PJ Jonas

Category: Goat Milk Stuff

  • 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…

  • Merry Christmas, Pennsylvania!

    Merry Christmas, Pennsylvania!

    Jade wanted to wish everyone in the Pennsylvania area a Merry Christmas filled with lots of good soap!  And Merry Christmas to everyone else too!  

  • My Interview with Bev Smith

    My Interview with Bev Smith

    I absolutely love radio interviews.  All I have to do is call in (or wait for them to call me) a minute or so before I’m set to be on the air and talk into the telephone – piece of cake! Don’t have to worry about what outfit to wear. Don’t have to worry about…

  • Packing the Hulk

    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…

  • Lots of Help in the Soap Room

    Lots of Help in the Soap Room

    We took Thanksgiving off from the soap room, but come black Friday and Saturday it was work as usual at Goat Milk Stuff.  Only this time we had LOTS of help. Cousin Rachel learned to pull orders:  Aunt Heather learned to box them: I sat in my office and printed postage and sent emails to…

  • Bright Lights

    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…

  • Terry Meiners Interview

    Terry Meiners Interview

    A couple of months ago, Jim and I got to be on the radio with Terry Meiners. Although we’ve done a lot of radio interviews, this was the first one we did in an actual studio. Most of the time we just call in on the phone.  It was a lot of fun seeing the…

  • Gift and Hobby Show

    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

    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

    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…

  • The Green Screen Clean Team

    The Green Screen Clean Team

    We met today with our videographer to work on our facebook video. It was the first time the children (or Jim and I for that matter) have ever worked with a green screen. It was really fun watching the children “act”. They’ve all been on camera and tv before, but it was always just doing…

  • 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

    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

    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…

  • Soap Selling at the Flea Market

    Soap Selling at the Flea Market

    Almost every month we sell our soap at the Stewart Flea Market in Louisville. We bring a tent for the younger children: They get to chill out with their toys and occasionally watch a movie: They take turns selling soap while they knit washcloths: They let people sniff their favorite soap: And they watch other…