January 26, 1999

Well, I hope you'll pardon me being obnoxious here -- I'm excited because I have my new URL for my business!!!! www.eclipsebodyworks.com. One of my friends is doing web design -- she is really good at it, and she's not charging me hundreds of dollars an hour, so ya can't beat that -- and hopefully I'll be launching my site and business at the beginning of March. (I'm planning on getting my license in late Feb.) Way cool... I'm excited; I can't wait!

I made a new soap the other day for a milk soaps swap I'm hosting. (I'm excited about that too....LOL) I can't decide what to name it. I made it with coconut milk and coconut scented monoi oil. It smells kind of like toasted coconut. Maybe that's what I'll call it .. "Kinda Like Toasted Coconut." ROFL; that'd go over well. LOL

I also had a minor success with a lotion I made for a friend... he just got a new tattoo (outline for the tattoo; he has two more sessions coming up to fill in the colors) and he wanted me to make some moisturizer for him. So I made both a cream and a gel for him. The cream was a little too oily, he said it left a film that made the skin unable to breathe enough. I might try refining it a bit. The gel was a big hit though, he really liked that. It was basically rosewater and glycerin with a little corn starch to make it into a gel. I think I'm going to call it "Tattoo U." I'm excited; I have my own line of products!! What a neat idea. It's just so fun to come up with new things and have people say they really like them! I love this hobby.

Not much else in news... I have to go make labels for some stuff I am putting in a swap so I can send them out. I'm so lazy! LOL Just call me Amazing Wait Until The Last Minute Girl. Duuuuh. Well, I gotta go get on those labels if I want to get them done before I go to bed; it's already after 10. Maybe I'll add some more later if I get that done.