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        Thank you for your web orders! With your help we were able to double our donation to Angela Jackson and AFSP. Angela reported that the walk in Seattle was a little rainy and AMAZING! She and Kayla's Godmother walked to honor Kayla on June 14th. Angela raised almost $2,500 for suicide prevention and awareness. We are so grateful to Angela for walking and to our customers for supporting her! Grateful that these baby robins survived our recent storms.

     I was grateful when a friend gave me a Barnes & Noble gift card and had a book in mind, one that I had given my sister Brittany, several years ago. 'Encyclopedia of an ordinary life' by Amy Rosenthal is the book I was looking for. Not in the store but they were kind enough to order a copy and ship directly to me at home (no additional charge for this valued member).      When the book arrived I was excited to start reading it. The author had carefully put all of her unique thoughts, ideas and...

      When I was a kid, most weekends my mom would pack all four of us kids in the car and drive to my grandparent’s farm in Arndahl, Minnesota. We would spend hours exploring outside, crafting groovy Barbie outfits out of grandma’s quilting scraps or shooting billiards with grandpa. No matter what grandma prepared for us it was always special and delicious, she was an amazing chef and baker. Maybe that is where my daughter Zoe inherited her mad baking skills. I treasured my time with Ben and Ev Swiggum, I knew my grandparents were very special. They...

    I reclaimed an ACID (brand) cigar box and adorned it with an image of Maud Stevens Wagner (1907). It was one of the first cigar boxes my sister and I customized. I wanted to keep the special box for myself. Maud was the first female tattoo artist in the United States. She learned the art from her husband, tattoo artist Gus Wagner. Maud pulled off her look quite beautifully in the early 20th century as a circus performer. I thought she was stunning on the lovely cigar box of sturdy dove tail construction. Sometimes the cigar box lids warp...

The Great Soap Company would like to thank our awesome customers and wish you a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year. We are looking forward to introducing new products and fabulous new scents in 2014 and we can’t wait for you to try everything we are working on. Thank you for a Great year. Happy Holidays from The Great Soap Company