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Soapmaking Class in Houston, TX on Sunday, Jan 18th

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Soapmaking ClassMy next soapmaking class is coming up this Sunday,  January 18th.

Soapmaking–Better than Store Bought

Discover the benefits and fun of making and using handmade soap. Not only is it better for your skin but it also allows you to be creative since you select the ingredients, colors, fragrances and shapes. Learn to overcome your fear of working with lye (an essential ingredient in all soap) as well as important safety precautions as you learn to produce a batch of soap. NOTE: Each student will take home one bar of soap.

Class Number: S1018A Sun 2-5pm Jan 18

To register, go to Leisure Learning Unlimited‘s Website:
http://llu.com/sdc/group_classes_llu.html?classgroup=3611

REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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I can’t make it Saturday to Market. Where else can I find your products?

Posted on by Lisa Chouinard

A couple people have asked, so I thought I’d list places I’ve recently stocked.

In Houston:
Te House of Tea 2402 Woodhead St, Houston, TX‎ – (713) 522-8868‎

Monday
Tuesday-Thursday		 Closed
11 am – 10 pm
Friday 11 am – midnight
Saturday 11 am – midnight
Sunday 11 am – 8 pm
Tuesday – Friday 2 p.m to 5 p.m [no kitchen]

Hello Lucky 1025 Studewood St, Houston, TX‎ – (713) 864-3556‎
New Shop Hours
Wednesdays Noon – 5 (throughout the holidays)
Thursday 11 – 5
Friday and Saturday 11 – 6
*Sunday Noon- 5*
and Christmas Week
Monday 11 – 5
Tuesday 11 – 5
Wednesday 11 – 2

Mutter Museum Store 19 SOUTH TWENTY-SECOND STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103-3097 | PHONE 215-563-3737 Open:  Sat – Thurs 10am -5pm Friday 10am-9pm

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Hey you last-minute holiday shoppers!

Posted on by Lisa Chouinard

Midtown Farmers MarketYes, I mean you! If you need a last-minute gift, check out the local crafts spree at the Midtown Farmers Market on Saturday, December 13th from 8am – Noon.  Choose from all kinds of soap at my booth! Come and see locally handmade cards, jewelery, clothing & pottery. I will be having a BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE on all of the items in my booth!

Since the Make Your Own Soap booth was so popular last week, I am bringing it back this weekend as a part of my setup! Only $5 to cover materials, you can create a custom bar of soap with the scent, color, glitter and toy you pick out. After you pour the soap, you need about 20 minutes for it to set, and you can use it that day, if you like!

The Midtown Farmers Market is located in the front of Monica Pope’s T’afia. 3701 Travis Street @ W. Alabama directions here.

Houston Craft Mafia

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Taft Street Coffee Tonight! 2115 Taft 8pm-Midnight (Houston, TX)

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Advent ConspiracyDecember 13th Taft Street Coffee 2115 Taft. St. 8pm – Midnight. A portion of our sales will go towards the Advent Conspiracy.

There’s a monthly swing dance going on too!:

8:30 pm till midnight… more info
Intro lesson included from 7:15-8:30 pm

$4.00 cover (for the dance only)

at Taft Street Coffee
2115 Taft St. – Houston 77006 – 713.522.3533
East of Montrose, between W. Grey/Welch & Drew/Fairview
These people have been great to us and they have the best Fair Trade coffee in town!! : )
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Handmade Soap, Cards, Jewlery & Pottery – Oh my!

Posted on by Lisa Chouinard

Midtown Farmers Market

It’s that time of the month! No, not that kind! I mean it’s time for the local crafts spree at the Midtown Farmers Market on Saturday, December 13th from 8am – Noon. The Midtown Farmers Market is located in the front of Monica Pope’s T’afia. 3701 Travis Street @ W. Alabama directions here.

Choose from 40+ kinds of soap at my booth! Come and see locally handmade cards, jewelery, clothing & pottery.

Houston Craft Mafia

If you can’t make it out this week, I’ll be back next month on December 20th, same time, same bat-channel. You can also order online with FREE SHIPPING until Dec. 13th and ship directly to your recipient. December 13th (This Saturday) is the deadline for holiday orders. The online store will close at Midnight and not reopen until January 2009.

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Spacetaker Winter Holiday Art Market at Winter Street Studios

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Winter Holiday Art MarketWe are happy to announce that we will be a part of the Spacetaker Winter Holiday Art Market! This year you will have the option to create your very own soap right in our booth! You’ll be able to customize the color, scent & toy in your soap (if you want a toy in your soap!) Here’s the skinny:

December 5-7, 2008 Winter Holiday Art Market at the Winter Street Studios, 2101 Winter St, Houston, TX

Seventy-five percent of sales go to the artist and the remaining twenty-five percent will go to Spacetaker. Patrons will have the choice to pick from everything from jewelry to soap to painting and will be able to leave with their art the day of sale.

December 5th, Friday night from 6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. with pre-shopping, a DJ, food and drinks.
December 6th, Saturday the sale will begin at 12:00 p.m. and continue until 8:30 p.m., food and libation will be provided for happy hour.
December 7th, Sunday, the market will be open from noon to 5:00 p.m. with a Champagne brunch.

If you can’t make it, no sweat! FREE Shipping from the feto soap website! https://fetosoap.com/shop

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Local Crafts Spree at the Midtown Farmers Market

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Midtown Farmers Market

It’s that time of the month! No, not that kind! I mean it’s time for the local crafts spree at the Midtown Farmers Market on Saturday, November 8th from 8am – Noon. The Midtown Farmers Market is located in the front of Monica Pope’s T’afia. 3701 Travis Street @ W. Alabama directions here.

Choose from 40+ kinds of soap at my booth! Come and see locally handmade cards, jewelery, clothing & pottery.

Houston Craft Mafia

If you can’t make it out this week, I’ll be back next month on December 13th and 20th, same time, same bat-channel.

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Te House of Tea

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If you live in the Houston area, you can now purchase Feto Soap products at Te House of Tea located at 1927 Fairview @ Woodhead in the Montrose area. They carry sandalwood vanilla, yuzu japanese citrus, white tea & ginger & lavender patchouli soap, bath salts, candles & dry oil sprays. They are the only place to get lavender patchouli candles – they are made custom just for them!

In addition to my soaps, they have dance nights on Friday – Tango and on most Saturday nights you’ll find me here dancing.  This teahouse also has nice dinner fare – the Chicken in a Blanket is my favorite!

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Maker Faire Austin Recap

Posted on by Lisa Chouinard

I loaded in on Friday and set up my booth. I ran to Maru, which is this Korean owned and operated Japanese restaurant for one of their famous J-Bombs (and currently my favorite thing to eat in Austin) and then headed back to Maker Faire. Like last year on Friday night they had an evening for the makers with food and a few exhibits set up so we could enjoy a little of Maker Faire before it opened the next day. I got to spend some time eating tamales with Jennifer Ramos of Textile Fetish, Claire Chauvin of Poopscape and their families.

On Saturday Maker Faire opened at 10am and my booth was set up right next to the life-sized mousetrap game. To give you a sense of scale – instead of a marble, they used a bowling ball to launch it. All day I was surprised by friends visiting from Dallas, Houston & Austin at my booth. I came to Maker Faire by myself this year so I’m glad I was set up next to A Punkin Card Company and her entourage. They watched my booth for me when I needed to take a break. I was interviewed a bunch of times by a bunch of people, and hopefully I didn’t embarrass myself or the mafia. I got to meet a ton of photographers – they all started taking pictures at my booth. Here are some shots that John Knox from Austin took of my soap at Maker Faire.

Cool Water with Kelp

Blackberry Sage

Sunday – I bartered with a bunch of people for cardholders, scarves, pouches, cards, earrings, sold out of a couple of scents/styles of soap… and Kai and Winnie (who were running around interviewing people about a new show Make: Television) convinced me to stay another night, so I ended up eating sushi off of a boat at yet another Korean owned and operated place, Korea Garden. They told me about Flipside which is something like a regional Burning Man close to Austin. I am thinking about going next year.

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Electricity has been restored to the Feto Soap workspace!

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Saturday afternoon the power came back on! I spent Sunday printing labels (for hours!) for all the new soaps that I have made for you, and will be taking pictures of them so you can see what I am talking about! I can’t wait to get back to work!

I’ve also been firming up my market dates. Here’s what I have scheduled so far:

Midtown Farmers Market Upcoming Events

October 11th Midtown Farmers Market
3701 Travis St. Houston, TX 8am-Noon
October 12th Soapmaking Class in Houston, TX
October 18/19th Maker Faire / Bazaar Bizarre Austin, TX
November 1st Midtown Farmers Market
3701 Travis St. Houston, TX 8am-Noon
November 8th Midtown Farmers Market
3701 Travis St. Houston, TX 8am-Noon
November 16th Soapmaking Class in Houston, TX
December 5-7th Winter Holiday Art Market
December 13th Midtown Farmers Market
3701 Travis St. Houston, TX 8am-Noon
December 20th Midtown Farmers Market
3701 Travis St. Houston, TX 8am-Noon
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Do you have power yet?

Posted on by Lisa Chouinard
yellow clay added to lye water
yellow clay added to lye water for Lemongrass Sage Shea Butter Soap

In Houston, instead of “How are you?” people are asking “Do you have power at your place yet?” I don’t. I don’t mind not having electricity personally (It’s been a week), but it’s hard to run an immersion blender (the thing I mix soap with) without power. I might have to move the soapmaking operation to another site, but I’m hoping it won’t come to that. 77006 is on the “might get power today” list. Yesterday I made a batch of lavender vanilla lotion bars on the stove. (double boiler) This afternoon I’ll be making chocolate bon bon soaps on the stove to restock the Indie Fixx Shop. Thankfully I have running water, gas and sunlight for a couple of hours when I get home from the hospital. My soapy intern Sarah doesn’t have power either (77098) at her house, but she’s coming in to work with me for a couple of hours. What a trooper! I am so thankful to have help in the shop.

As soon as I can, I will have pictures up of the new soaps I have made for you! Lemongrass Sage, Coconut Lemongrass, Oakmoss Sandalwood, Pearberry, Black Forest & Frasier Fir are just a few new soaps I have made that need pictures added to the site, but are in stock and ready to ship now.

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Post Hurricane Ike Post

Posted on by Lisa Chouinard

The Feto Soap workspace did not sustain any damage! We are without power, but still able to process orders, so if you were thinking about holding off on your order because of Hurricane Ike, don’t! The United States Postal Service has been running regularly since Monday so your soapy orders are still able to go out. I have a cell phone with internet and am able to charge it in the car when the battery runs low.