The original website looked very pretty and elegant, was set up by the web designers building my site, BUT.... it just didn't fit my style much.

So, today I did a little tweaking with it and came up with some graphics I like and seems to be more "me".

I took pictures of my own products and tubed them and created some cute little bubbles and what not, I'm happy with the way it's turning out so far. Feels more like my website and not a computer generated website.

Been working out the bugs and glitches for grand opening. The other day I signed on and all of the key words the marketers generated showed up at the top of my home page and some of the key words were a strange mix that made no sence. Had to call and get that one straightened out. No biggie.

Some of my slide shows aren't behaving yet, but they are coming together.

I'm just really happy with the over all outlook of the whole site, and since I kinda took over and created my own graphics and started designing it my way, I feel more comfortable with it.

Only thing that bugs me, is I can't change the layout of the store on my own, I have to have some one do that for me. I know little CSS and NO SSI, what so ever, I am strictly on old school HTML and JAVA girl. So all of that is foreign language to me. I don't have any time to learn that extra stuff anyway.

I have three shelves FULL of soap and more to make as soon as I get more coconut oil. You simply cannot make a nice fluffy lathering bar of soap without coconut oil. You can but won't be as fluffy... just boring old lather.

I had a nice compliment on the Lotion I made for Roc. His hands were in horriable shape, and I created a lotion that overhauled his hands completely. They look 100% better and everyone else who has tried it fell in love. It's more expensive to make, but he said he has tried everything on the market and nothing worked. YAY! A new Signature product to add to my line.

Sales are good on ebay and etsy, it's what is keeping my money coming in for me and the kids right now. It's steady. So, I hope and pray that the site will take off better so perhaps I can eventually leave ebay all together and stay with my site and etsy only.

I like the idea of working at home and being my own boss, but I love the idea of being home with my kids more and having the opportunity to raise them and watch them go . I've really missed them the last few months. Working for someone else is alot of times the only way, but if I can do it for myself I will. With God's help, it will all work out.

Ecstatic -
Rachel