Tuesday, June 26, 2012

We Had A Great Weekend...

This past weekend we were blessed with the opportunity to attend Aztec's Candle and Soap Making Convention.

This is actually my daughters department. I am 100% supportive of her.
She started tinkering around a few years ago making candles.
Then she moved on to making melt and pour soaps, bath gels and body lotions. 
She gives these as gifts, but... Now she is thinking of the possibility of making it a business.  This won't happen for a couple of years yet. For now, she's having fun making and testing her products to be sure she has excellent quality recipes for excellent quality products. 
She's been wanting to try her hand at cold and hot process soaps and will be able to start on that venture real soon.
You see, she entered one of her soaps into a contest at the convention. 
She won 3rd place!!!  WAHOO!!!  I am so proud of her! 
Her prize was a $50 Gift Certificate to Aztec's store.  She used that and some cash to buy supplies. 
Plus she won a Give-Away prize ... 1 lb bottle of fragrance! 
And besides that, Aztec handed out goodie bags at registration.  We were truely WOW'd by all the goodies inside.  Lots and Lots of stuff.  Fragrances ... 21 - 1oz bottles of brand new, not released yet fragrances, several bags of candle wax, wicks of various sizes, aroma beads, aroma crystals, lotion base, pens and pads, a mouse pad...WOW!
Believe me when I say we got our registration fees back and lots more just in the goodie bags alone!
We are very impressed!
We had a great weekend get-away.  Something we haven't been able to do in a long time.