This Week's Etsy Features!

I was lucky enough to have been featured in two treasuries this week, both were created by my fellow wonderful EtsyVeg members in order to promote our Earthly Riches Giveaway!

The first was created by Lisa of PandaWithCookie, featuring spring favorites!

The second was created by Julie of Julie Webb Photography + Design, it was a Hidden Treasure Treasury :)

The Earthly Riches giveaway is, sadly, now over. But now we get to the fun part of picking prizes - the grand prize winner will be notified tomorrow! I can't wait for them to find out!

Happy Birthday to Zazu!

My Zazu kitty turned 8 yesterday! He had a great day, first off because he's at his Grandma and Grandpa's where he's always spoiled rotten! Secondly because he did have a few special birthday treats. I had to run errands yesterday and go to the post office so went to the pet store to find him a special toy/treat. And, once again, I realized how difficult it is to buy something for a cat that needs nothing! I did find the cute magenta chicken and got that for him, he thought it was quite fun! So did Shenzi. And like all of their other catnip toys, it will eventually go in the basket and be ignored :) He also had just a bit of cake to celebrate his day. And of course LOTS of snuggles with mama!


Zazu also wanted to remind you that it is the last day to enter the EtsyVeg Earthly Riches Giveaway! The contest ends at 11:59 PM tonight. If you don't have time today to search for all the hidden earth images you can also enter via the extra entries - a $25 purchase from a participating shop (mine included!) earns FIVE extra entries to the grand prize, and a $10 purchase earns FIVE extra entries into the first prize drawing.

Sneak Peek - Valencia Musk

Time for another sneak peek! Valencia Musk has a very peaceful, zen aroma - it's scented with a combination of Orange, Eucalyptus, Patchouli, and Ylang ylang. Now, before you Patchouli lovers get all excited (I know you're out there...), the patchouli note in this bar is not discernable and just offers a nice deep base to the scent. So, for those of you like me who don't care for the smell of patchouli, not to worry! The scent has got some high notes of citrus with a great musk aroma. It's just lovely!

I added some ground egyptian chamomile to this bar, the "in the mold" photo looks a bit yellow but that was due to the lighting (I made this batch on a rainy day with no nice natural light, sigh) - it's a creamy ivory color with flecks of brown from the chamomile now that it's had almost a week to cure. All in all I'm extremely pleased with the outcome!

Valencia Musk will make it's grand appearance on my Etsy site during the second week of May!

Happy Bunday!!

"Hi, my name is Panda! My mama is Kelle from Kelle's Kitchen! I am taking over this blog for the day, I figured I was entitled it being Bunday and all."

"So, she's been telling me about this EtsyVeg Earthly Riches Giveaway. She said, 'Panda, you won't believe it! There are 8 prizes, and the grand prize is worth over $100!' I don't know what dollars are, but she told me it's a LOT of carrots."

"And I like carrots."

"Anyway, I thought I'd remind you that you should enter the giveaway! It's pretty fun - you get to go to all of these shops and find the hidden earths! Kind of like the game we play at home except I hide the little poopies and Mama gets to find them later! She doesn't like that game. I think she said the giveaway ends April 28 so you'd better hop to it and enter! Well, back to my hay!"

Sneak Peek - Sonoran Sunshine

I've been a busy soaper this week - I made 5 new batches and another batch of my most popular creation, Spa Clean!! I'll have more sneak peeks coming this week, but for now here is the first new batch I created!



I used a lovely bergamot and grapefruit blend of essential oils that is perfect for summer! I also added calendula and orange peel powder into the soap for a bit of yellow-orange color! I was just going to call this one "Bergamot and Grapefruit" but when I poured it in the mold I thought it looked a bit like desert sands! So, I created more of a sand facade to the top of the bars and it earned the name Sonoran Sunshine as a tribute to where we're going :)


Look for this bar in my Etsy Shop the 2nd week of May!

Treasuries I created recently

One of the best parts about vacation is that when I'm not halfway across the country house-hunting or frantically trying to unpack a few things in our sublet so it feels a teeny bit homey, I am pretty much always available when the Treasury opens on Etsy!

I made two treasuries last week, one this week, and yes, I've got another ready to go on Poster Sketch :)

Arizona, Here I Come!


This is the second treasury I created in excitement over moving to AZ :) Plus, it's not every day that you see a cactus treasury!!

Good House Karma


I created this treasury the day I found out that the primary offer for the house we have a back-up offer in on was going to the bank (where it would either be approved or denied). Nerves were skyrocketing and I felt the need to do something to create positive energy around the situation. Enter my "spanish style house" treasury.

Our Earthly Riches


This may be surprising (or not) but this one actually took me so much longer than a normal treasury does to create, even though I was pulling from a list of people! I wanted this treasury to be extra special as it was geared toward raising awareness of our EtsyVeg Earthly Riches Giveaway which started on Earth day 4/22/09 and runs through 4/28/09. It's a collection of items from sellers/team members that made donations. I wanted to showcase all the talent and amazing creations that people could win! I think it turned out rather nicely :)

Earth Day Fun!

To celebrate Earth Day yesterday, Kermit and I took a walk in the woods across the street from my parents house. Well, I walked - Kermit bounded and leaped and sprinted! He was SO ecstatic to be in the woods, it was adorable.


I took my camera with me and snapped a lot of photos - some of places that have been special to me since I was quite young, some of interesting finds in the woods and some just of "nature". I was lucky enough to grow up immersed in the natural surroundings and "the woods" was one of our favorite places to be. We played there for hours every day. "The Stream" was a big draw, we had "Table rock" and we were always cautious to avoid "the ant hill" which is really a giant mound of rocks that red ants took over and built a fortress in. I will never forget the day that my brother and I went on the ant hill and ran back to the house with hundreds of ants crawling all over us and biting us...it was not pleasant.


One of our finds was a deer skull. Well, I found it - Kermit was lost in scent land and walked right by it! But after I found it, he found it. I posted more photos on my Flickr page, including the slightly disturbing, "Kermit discovers the skull" photos :)