We're at the Festive Gift Fair!

We're now exhibiting at the fantastic Festive Gift Fair at the NEC! 

This means our Stourbridge shop will be closed for most days this week (see the opening hours to the right).  Our websites will continue to accept orders, but we'll be unable to process them until we return.  We expect to begin shipping orders again from 26th November onwards, and they'll be  processed in the date order they arrived.

Thanks to everyone for your patience and sorry for any inconvenience!  We'll be posting updates on how we're getting on at the NEC on our Facebook page.

Christmas Events

It's the last weekend before we head off to our main Christmas events this year. 

Behind the scenes we've been busy working on loads of Christmas items (we're posting updates on our progress on our Facebook page this year).   Our thanks to our website customers for the increasing numbers of orders that are arriving - at the moment, we're still dispatching orders within 24 hours but this will become slower once we're away at Christmas events.

Our Stourbridge shop will be open today and tomorrow as normal, but after this we'll be closed for a few days while we attend:

 

The NEC event is lovely with a great Christmassy atmosphere!  We're on the stand B41 (same as last year), and are looking forward to meeting more website customers in the flesh again! 

 

We'll return from the NEC for a couple of days before heading off to the National Trust's Attingham Park (near Shrewsbury) for the Frost Fair.  We love attending this fantastic event, since there's always such a nice atmosphere and variety of things to buy.  This year it runs from 29th November to 1st December....and judging by the weather forecast it looks like it's going to live up to it's name again! 

 

Back at the Ruskin there's more going on with the popular Christmas Craft Fair running on the same weekend as the Frost Fair.  We're so grateful to our family helpers who will be opening the workshop while we're away!  On the 12th December there will also be another Candlelit Shopping Evening. 

 

Phew, after all this we're going to be shattered!

Busy with Christmas hampers!

It's been a busy few weeks at the Soapworks, as we get back into the swing of things.  At this time of year, it's all about making products for hampers since so many people love giving natural soaps and bathing items as fragrant Christmas gifts.  Our Stourbridge shop now has a lovely range of gift hampers ready to take away, and we're also busy working through the Christmas orders too.  As you can see, the Fizzing Butter Melts are coming along quite nicely!

We're also busy making loads of bath bombs too, since we know how many people love their Bath Crackers!  As usual these are available in 3 lovely fragrances:  Christmas Rose, Relax and De-Stress and  contain a standard bath bomb, a petal bath bomb, and an organic cocoa butter bath bomb.   They're a lovely small gift, and are great if you're having difficulty finding a suitable Secret Santa gift!    Again these are now available on-line and in our shop, and we'll be taking loads to the Festive Gift Fair (at the NEC) later this month...and possibly the Frost Fair at Attingham Park if we still have any left.

These types of bathing products are always at their best when they're really fresh.  So this is why we tend to leave the manufacture until quite close to Christmas - we think that newer bath bombs are really fizzy bath bombs!  So we hope that customers enjoy using them...and if our workshop is anything to go by, then bathrooms up and down the land are going to smell just lovely!