New Work Space!!!

I promised those pic's of the new and yet, old office space! Hubby built it in the kitchen to free up a corner in the hallway for curing space!

Update

Wanna a business update? Well, you're gonna get one! Haha! Hubby is working on a built-in computer/office area in our kitchen. Currently our "office" (understand I am using this term lightly) is tucked away in it's precious little corner in my hallway. By moving the office to the kitchen, we free up space, floor to ceiling space for soap curing racks!!! What you may ask does this mean?? Well, I hope it translates into more production+more space to cure soap= inventory always being available for you guys!! Yes, pic's to follow.....when it's all done.

This quote means a lot to me as I feel it personally describes the opening of my Etsy account this month!

Light it up!

Hey All! Check out the wonderful, wonderful light box my hubby built for me! Yaa! Everything I've read says when you sell online you need excellent photographs. As a visual learner myself, this makes perfect sense to me! If I can't taste it, smell it or touch it than it had better look good! So that is my business tip for "Tip Tuesday". Make a light box and photograph your stuff well! We used PicMonkey to edit or "touch-up" our photo's for that professional oomph. It's free and priceless! Our light box is made from foam board and freezer paper and one sheet of poster board. All from Walmart. It costs us less than $10. Pretty cheap for expensive looking photography! So worth it!

The Ranchers Wife Pop-Up Shop!

Hey All! If you saw the post on Dec. 17th than you have a good idea where we stand on the issue of debt. You should also know our conviction is to grow our business solely on it's profits without the need to get a business loan. For that matter, the last 3 years we have used portions from our own paychecks to fund our fledgling soap making business. Everything I have read has backed up the fact that the first several years of ANY business are spent putting money into it to make it grow. So why am I seemingly on a tangent? I'm not! I am absolutely thrilled! Grateful to have been invited to be a part of "The Ranchers Wife"! So grateful that it turned out to be so profitable for us! The year 2014 saw our business go "black". That is, we finally started to see profit. With the end of 2014 came a blessing beyond what we had expected. We now have the funds we need to purchase some much needed items that will allow us to take our business to it's next level of production. Stay tuned for pictures of all the purchases we will be making to grow our dream of owning a small family business that will establish a legacy for future generations and sustainability for our family! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to all of our old and new customers who made this possible for us! We'll be coming up with something to show our appreciation soon! Sincerely, Shack on the Rock