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Check out Renea's website- its full of business tips and information.
All fun happy short videos :)
This weekend
Today is the official Macaron day! YEY!! So, if you are in Austin, you can get a free macaron from the lovely La Patisserie! The bakery will be giving out one free macaron to each customer Today from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information, click here.
La Patisserie! 602 W. Annie Street. Austin, Texas
Online Sale event
If you are not in Austin, you can still enjoy Macaron day with us!
Our Macaron items are on sale today!!! 20% off Macaron items no need for a coupon- the prices are already marked down! Click the pic to get your macaron day treat:)
The Austin Flea Weekend craft show.
We will be there with our Soaps, Bath bombs, Body mists, Bath milk and Bath tea.. And some sweet gift boxes!
Come on over and say Hi!
WHEN: This Saturday: 03/23/2013
11am-5pm
Where: Rattle Inn
- 610 Nueces Street
- Austin, Texas 78701
New Baby Gifts
Just posted to our online shop: Cute as a button baby shower favor package & New baby gifts.
We have been offering the button soaps since we started Latika, it has always been one of our best selling designs!
Now we just made it easier to give these sweet favors at your baby shower- with a party favor package:
"Ready to give" package of button soaps, wrapped and tied with a matching ribbon!
Too cute if you ask me :)
All you need to do is take them out of the box, and put them in a basket or bowl on the table. Done!
Your guests will love this!
Available in any of our five signature colors & scent: Pink, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple
Another new item is the New Baby Gifts - For your best friend who just had a baby, any Mom to be would like these gift sets.
The Blue set includes:
1- Oatmeal, milk & Honey bar soap
1- Baby blue Train engine soap - Scented with a beautiful Ocean breeze fragrance
2- Blue baby booties, just look at them- aren't they adorable?!
The Pink set includes:
1- Peony & Rose soap
1- Neapolitan Ice pop soap - scented with chocolate, vanilla & strawberry, just like the Italian ice cream. Yum.
2- Pink strawberry baby booties.
All these lovely soaps are placed in a kraft box with a clear lid, and tied with a matching ribbon. A perfect gift for a baby shower!
We can make these packages in any color you can think of, so - if you don't know if its a boy or a girl yet- shoot us an email and we will make you a yellow, green or mixed color package!
The packages are only $19.99 each, Great baby gift under $20!
DIY Rubber stamp
I love rubber stamps, they are absolutely fun.. I like the possibilities- you can easily customize any object with a simple stamp.
Since we use hand stamped muslin bags to package some of our soaps, I have a great excuse to stamp around all day..
Like the buttons, The pine cones and acorns, Our camera soap has one of my favorite camera pouches..
At one point, I was on the hunt for a matching stamp for each of our designs, I found ready-made stamps for most of them, but still had a few that I just couldn't find a stamp for. It was either the size or design that I didn't like..
Or maybe I just wanted to try carving a stamp from scratch on my own.. (Yeah, I think that's it).
Or maybe I just wanted to try carving a stamp from scratch on my own.. (Yeah, I think that's it).
We have these super cute Nautical Anchor soaps, and we make them in different combinations of white, red and blue. I decided to make an anchor stamp for their bag.
What you need to carve your own stamp:
Carving rubber - There are different types and hardness levels, I started with the blue, softer one which was really easy to work with. You can find video tutorials online as well.
Carving Tool kit- I bought a simple one from Hobby lobby, it was perfect for my little experiment. If you really carve a lot, you might want a more sophisticated kit. speedball kit
Paper & pencil
X-acto knife
X-acto knife
How to carve your own rubber stamp:
1- draw the design with a pencil on plain paper
3- start carving.
Tips:
Tips:
- Work carefully - the tools are sharp, so make sure the direction is from you - outwards.
- Before you go ahead and carve out the rubber with the tools- go over the edges of the design with an Xacto knife, the carving part would be more precise after that.
You can see on my first attempt- the stamp has a thin circle frame around it which I messed up. Learn from my mistake- Start with the blade before you get to digging out rubber :)
- It is a matter of practice, the more you do it the easier it gets.
I really enjoyed making a stamp from scratch, can't wait for a chance to make another one.
Have any ideas for a design to match our soaps? :)
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