Too much traffic

We were featured on CTV last night, and all of a sudden our website crashed from all the traffic! So if you tried to log in yesterday evening or this morning, and it said that the account was suspended, it was because they had to close our website or it was going to take the whole server down with it! Yikes!

So, a big WELCOME to all our new visitors! Feel free to drop us a line if you have any questions, and if you are in the neighbourhood.. drop by our shop in either St. John's or Toronto! :)

Toronto store

Bobby's friend Lucky sent some pictures of the shop, so I wanted to share some of them and most of all the amazing before and after pictures! :)

So this is how the shop looked when we signed the lease: *gulp*
And this is what it looked like after some fixing up:This is what it looked like before on the inside: *double gulp*
And this is what it looked like last week: *aaaahh*
This is Bobby and his dear friend Kim (who has helped us tremendously! We can never thank her enough!). They are unpacking products we sent from St. John's, to start them off with. But they are also making products in the shop, just like we do :)

Bath Treats
Skin Smoothies

Goats galore

Our first two batches of goatmilk soaps disappeared fast as lightning, so Andrea went out to her mother-in-law's farm to get us more goatsmilk! So soon we will have more of the wonderful soaps back in stock! :)

Mail-order staff

Wonder how we get such good staff? We order them online! ;)

We got a big box of jar lids today, and Andrea decided to take the empty box for a test drive (after I sighed "What are we going to do with all the peanuts")

Three in a row

Today we got our third snow storm in five days! And I think this is the worst of the three.... Andrea and Annette had to go home at around three, when the storm had just started, so they could make it home before the really bad weather hit. Me and Fiona, who both live downtown, could stay a bit longer and fill orders. But at 4.30 we had to give up, or we would've had to stay over night! When we got out we noticed that we were the last shop still open! The thing is that it doesn't look so bad from our shop, because we are a little sheltered on Water Street, but when you turn up around the corner... oh boy! Was it ever windy! And the sharp little ice pellets called snow hits your face with such brute force it feels like it would fall off! Brrrr.... Now I will go smother my whole face with Buddha Eye Cream, to treat it from the blasting treatment it got from walking home! :)

Cupcakes and cutie pies

I have been a little bit absent from this blog, and the main reason for that is that I went home to Sweden for three weeks to visit my family. My sister had a baby last year, and I wanted to go home and see my niece again. They grow so fast! She is the cutest thing in the world (and I'm not saying that because I'm biased! :) Just look at those cheeks!



The pictures below we took when CBC Living Newfoundland came to shoot their show from the shop (I will post more pictures of when Bobby demonstrated how to make your own face mask when I can find them), so that is why we were all dressed up a little more than normal :) And the one of me posing with our adorable cupcakes was taken for a Swedish newspaper (Aftonbladet) that wanted to do an interview with me when I was home in Sweden. The article was printed the same day I flew back to Newfoundland, so I got the newspaper at the airport just before I boarded the plane in the morning! I will try to scan the resulting article, although it probably doesn't make much sense to most of you since it is in Swedish! :)

Ommmmm.....

Both mine and Bobby's favorite skincare item is probably Buddha Eye Cream, and we have a couple of tips for you if you happen to own one! Both are Bobby's ideas so I can't take the credit, I can only enthusiastically agree that they work! :)

1. Try applying a thick layer of the cream under your eyes and up around the outside corner. By thick I mean about 1 pump divided on two eyes. You don't want a layer that is so thick that you can't see your skin underneath, but you don't want the cream instantly absorbed either. Pat it on gently with a fingertip and then leave it. The cream will absorb by itself within a few minutes and really tighten up the area. I love it!

2. Try mixing Buddha with your mineral foundation for a perfect concealer. Since it absorbs so easily into your skin it is easy to work with, i.e. you don't have to work it so much, you just pat it on and the look us super natural. Bobby explained that the less you have to work with a concealer the better. When Bobby called me to share the tip (right away when he had discovered it of course! That is so Bobby! :) I tried it while we were still on the phone (that is so me!) and it was gorgeous even as a full face foundation. Soft, dewy and still good coverage.

Try it and let us know what you think! :)