nne

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nne

That's great about your soap and sad about your job. Can you

collect unemployment or weren't you considered a full-time

employee? Are you going to look around Latham or Albany

for a job or just take it easy for a while?

RE: I might have done it/olive oil

and Everyone,

The olive oil soap (castile) that I tried making today is turning out

AWESOME!!! :-D I'm very happy. I actually colored it a soft red and scented

it with winterberry FO from Lebermuth. It'll be a Christmas soap. It smells

yummy ... can't wait to try it! Just have to be patient!

In other news, I just got laid off from my job. My supervisor phoned me this

morning to let me know. They are keeping me as a freelance editor, so at

least that's *something* ~ but it was a total shock in many ways and

completely expected in others. *sigh*

~nne in Albany

[Guest guest]

I would definitely check into Unemployment Benefits. That's what

it's there for. The only thing with that is you couldn't collect checks

if you also sell your soaps and things. They would consider that

being self-employed.

RE: nne

Nope, I was a full-time, salaried employee before. I have absolutely no clue

what I'm going to do. Jeff is in New Jersey for a conference for work right

now, and when he gets back tomorrow we're going to formulate a game plan

together!

Thanks for your good wishes!

~nne

[Guest guest]

I might check that out, . Thanks. I don't sell my soaps officially.

~nne

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your message, Kae! God, that sounds like AWFUL traffic!!! I don't

think that my inlaws know what they're getting themselves into! LOL!

I have a job interview this morning. I'm nervous! Everyone hold good

thoughts for me, OK? Send your prayers eastward toward Albany! hehe :-) It's

at 9 a.m.

~nne

http://lvjensen.blogspot.com/

[Guest guest]

Good luck nne.....

Kim

-- RE: nne

Thanks for your message, Kae! God, that sounds like AWFUL traffic!!! I don't

think that my inlaws know what they're getting themselves into! LOL!

I have a job interview this morning. I'm nervous! Everyone hold good

thoughts for me, OK? Send your prayers eastward toward Albany! hehe :-) It's

at 9 a.m.

~nne

http://lvjensen.blogspot.com/

[Guest guest]

nne

It's an hour past your job interview but here's a " good luck " to you

anyway. Hope it pans out for you.

RE: nne

Thanks for your message, Kae! God, that sounds like AWFUL traffic!!! I don't

think that my inlaws know what they're getting themselves into! LOL!

I have a job interview this morning. I'm nervous! Everyone hold good

thoughts for me, OK? Send your prayers eastward toward Albany! hehe :-) It's

at 9 a.m.

~nne

http://lvjensen.blogspot.com/

[Guest guest]

nne,

Good luck on the job interview!! Sorry I'm so late but I was busy

cooking down tomatoes instead of reading email. Let us know how it went!

H.

[Guest guest]

nne

I haven't been on the computer for days so playing catch-up here.

I know you're not home yet but if I don't reply to emails as I read

them sometimes I forget.

I just wanted to send my condolences to you in losing your

grandmother. I know how that feels, believe me. I was real close

to my Gram, too. I even lived with her for a year or so when I

was 19 yrs old. I hope your trip goes safely and smooth. Let us

know when you get back.

I also want to hear about your new job. Congratulations!!

I'll be away for a while ...

Hey guys,

I'm going to have to go " no mail " starting at the end of today through

probably October 16 (not sure about that date quite yet, though). Yesterday

afternoon, around 1:10 p.m., my grandma passed away at the hospital in my

hometown (Columbus, IN). She was my dad's mom, and to say that we were super

close is quite an understatement. I'm in such shock, and it almost just

doesn't seem real to me yet. It's so very hard being so far away when things

like these happen. Jeff and I are driving to Indiana early Saturday morning

and arriving sometime on Sunday. Her service is on Monday. I hope that

everyone has a good weekend, and if you could hold good thoughts for my

family, I would greatly appreciate it. We'll wave to everyone we know along

I-90 as we're heading to Indiana. :-)

Best wishes, everyone.

~nne in Albany

[Guest guest]

My God, I'm tired just from reading everything you've

done so far. What'd you do....stay up all Saturday night?

I HATE doing labels!!! That's the worse part of the job

for me. What program do you use to make yours? Do you use

any kind of decoration on them or just text?

Thank you,

Dear ,

I've never bought any of Kae's FOs, so I'm really not sure that I can

answer

your question. Good luck with that ~ vanilla musk sounds lovely!!! I

totally

love anything musk (especially when my husband wears it!). *grin* I

bought

some white musk shower gel from The Body Shop a few weekends ago, and

it's

AWESOME.

Yeah, this lady sure didn't leave me much time ~ whatever I don't get

done,

I'm just going to be up front with her about it and let her know. I

don't

think that she'll be upset ~ I mean, she knows that she didn't call me

much

in advance! I'm done with the bath teabags, glycerin soaps,

peppermint/tea

tree soaps, bath salts, half of the lip balms, six of the lip gloss

bottles

(I have 20 of those to make), the Christmas potpourri is done, and I

have

glitter body powder and lotion bars left to make. Those will take a

WHILE.

But thank goodness the glitter body powder doesn't take long to

assemble! I

just need more baking soda. LOL!

Whew, I hope that I get everything done soon!!! I'm working on lip balm

labels right now ...

~nne :-)

[Guest guest]

,

>>My God, I'm tired just from reading everything you've done so far. What'd

you do....stay up all Saturday night?<<

hehe! :-) Well, no, but I was making things up until 9:30 p.m. that night. I

had ordered some supplies from From Nature with Love, and they didn't arrive

on time yesterday. *sigh* So I couldn't make the rest of this lady's order.

I hope that she's not upset. I e-mailed her about it, and we'll see what she

says. I had my supplies sent via second-day air, too, and they still didn't

get here. And FNWL is in New York!!! I don't know what's up with that.

Anyway, I guess that I'll have to keep more supplies on hand when this lady

orders ~ she has a show in February, and I will be making a lot of

Valentine's Day/spring things for that show. I'm so excited that this lady

wants to order my stuff! It's just hard getting it all done, though!

>>I HATE doing labels!!! That's the worse part of the job for me. What

program do you use to make yours? Do you use any kind of decoration on them

or just text?<<

The labels are the fun part for me! hehe :-) I use Microsoft Publisher for

mine (I want to convert everything to QuarkXPress, but that will take some

time). We just need a new printer ~ ours is printing things out in a really

crappy way. :-( Yes, I have decoration on them ~ a leaf in the middle that

kind of looks scrolled, and then there are multi-colored bars behind the

text. Hard to describe. I'll have to send you something in the mail so that

you can see. :-)

Take care,

~nne :-)

[Guest guest]

Oh, so you use Micro. Publisher.

I got a new computer a month ago and I have that on

here but don't know how to use it. I guess now I know

who I can go to for questions. (hehe)

RE: nne

,

>>My God, I'm tired just from reading everything you've done so far.

What'd

you do....stay up all Saturday night?<<

hehe! :-) Well, no, but I was making things up until 9:30 p.m. that

night. I

had ordered some supplies from From Nature with Love, and they didn't

arrive

on time yesterday. *sigh* So I couldn't make the rest of this lady's

order.

I hope that she's not upset. I e-mailed her about it, and we'll see what

she

says. I had my supplies sent via second-day air, too, and they still

didn't

get here. And FNWL is in New York!!! I don't know what's up with that.

Anyway, I guess that I'll have to keep more supplies on hand when this

lady

orders ~ she has a show in February, and I will be making a lot of

Valentine's Day/spring things for that show. I'm so excited that this

lady

wants to order my stuff! It's just hard getting it all done, though!

>>I HATE doing labels!!! That's the worse part of the job for me. What

program do you use to make yours? Do you use any kind of decoration on

them

or just text?<<

The labels are the fun part for me! hehe :-) I use Microsoft Publisher

for

mine (I want to convert everything to QuarkXPress, but that will take

some

time). We just need a new printer ~ ours is printing things out in a

really

crappy way. :-( Yes, I have decoration on them ~ a leaf in the middle

that

kind of looks scrolled, and then there are multi-colored bars behind the

text. Hard to describe. I'll have to send you something in the mail so

that

you can see. :-)

Take care,

~nne :-)

[Guest guest]

Congrats to you!! It sounds like you've got the labels done correctly

even though I'm no expert. If you've got the labels done or when you

do get them done, why don't you take a picture and post so we can

all see your great work!! Like I've said before, that is the hardest

part

of my job for me. I hate doing them.

RE: Private Label

I didn't think about this, but my hometown visitors' center (in Indiana)

has

contacted me about selling my bath and body creations, and the lady was

really happy with my things and ordered 20 of each thing I sent her as a

sample! So I guess that's private label, huh? Because she wants me to

use

the logo of my hometown's skyline on all my labels. I didn't think about

charging her a one-time fee to create the special labels for them.

That's a

good idea. I have a line on those labels that says, " Handcrafted

especially

for the Columbus, IN Visitors Center by nne Jensen, my address, blah

blah blah ... "

~nne in Albany, who is VERY glad that it's Friday!

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

>>Congrats to you!! It sounds like you've got the labels done correctly even

though I'm no expert. If you've got the labels done or when you do get them

done, why don't you take a picture and post so we can all see your great

work!! Like I've said before, that is the hardest part of my job for me. I

hate doing them.<<

How funny ~ because labels are the easy part for me! hehe I guess it's

because that's largely what I went to college for (journalism) and am doing

now in my current job (graphic design). I've always enjoyed stuff like that.

The packaging part is so much fun!!! I'll definitely take some pictures

when I get this " private label " order made up ... the lady has yet to send

me the logo that she wants me to use, though, so it might be a while.

Thanks for the congrats!

~nne

[Guest guest]

That is awesome nne! Much better than consignment. :-)

Lorrie

> So she is buying my things outright. I'm so

> pleased!!!

>

> ~nne

>

[Guest guest]

,

I thought that the lady was going to do a consignment-type arrangement with

me, but the other day I sent her a list of my prices (not discounted or

anything ~ just regular prices that I usually sell to people!), and she

said, " OK, that's fine. " So she is buying my things outright. I'm so

pleased!!!

~nne

[Guest guest]

nne, that is soo cool!!! You go girl!

RE: nne

,

I thought that the lady was going to do a consignment-type arrangement

with

me, but the other day I sent her a list of my prices (not discounted or

anything ~ just regular prices that I usually sell to people!), and she

said, " OK, that's fine. " So she is buying my things outright. I'm so

pleased!!!

~nne

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That's great news. Let us know how it goes.

RE: nne

,

I thought that the lady was going to do a consignment-type arrangement

with

me, but the other day I sent her a list of my prices (not discounted or

anything ~ just regular prices that I usually sell to people!), and she

said, " OK, that's fine. " So she is buying my things outright. I'm so

pleased!!!

~nne

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Check out these great Molds!!

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http://www.olivetreesoaps.com/

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[Guest guest]

Hi nne

I think you're right about the HTML problem.

Yup, been busy. Some personal orders, wedding shower soaps,

stripping wallpaper from the kitchen and doing all the painting and

prep work to put new wallpaper on. I also spent a couple of days

cleaning out my files and putting 2002 records away and getting

figures together to take my income tax junk to the accountant.

I HATE that every year. But we made out real good. The accountant

called to day to come pick them up to sign and mail out and found

out we're getting $3800 total back.

Oh, by the way. I checked out your new house pictures the other

day. Boy, it's coming right along. Now that the weather has gotten

better I bet you'll see it REALLY come together.

RE: Didn't work

Dear ,

I think that our list owners have our e-mail list settings on " plain

text "

rather than " HTML " mail. That's why it didn't come through. Sounds

lovely,

though!

How are you doing? What have you been up to lately?

~nne in Albany

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

>>wedding shower soaps<<

Sounds really fun and neat ... what do they look like? What scent did you

make them? I sure enjoyed doing the bridal shower favors for my friend's

sister-in-law ... made me remember how excited we were when we were engaged!

*smile*

>>Oh, by the way. I checked out your new house pictures the other day. Boy,

it's coming right along. Now that the weather has gotten better I bet you'll

see it REALLY come together.<<

Yeah, it's just *amazing* to walk through our house and really be able to

envision the rooms now. We can walk through and see where we might put our

furniture. We are *so* excited beyond belief ... I still can't get over the

fact that I'm going to have a CRAFT ROOM!!! I mean, I don't think that it

has sunk in yet! Our builder says that our house will be done in mid-May but

that estimate is tight ~ I bet that we'll be able to move in late May or

early June. Just in time for our third wedding anniversary! I can't wait to

plan a romantic dinner/evening in our new house! Thanks for checking out

our house site!

~nne in Albany

[Guest guest]

Hi nne

The wedding shower soaps are heart shaped full size bars with a design

on top that's a bow with intertwined wedding rings hanging from it. I'm

doing

the bow and rings in platinum mica because their rings are platinum.

They

wanted the scent to be Lilac because they're having lilacs at their

wedding.

I love that fragrance. It smells just like you're sniffing the real

thing.

I'll be making at least 50 soaps for my daughter's baby shower in June.

Boy,

That will be a job. I already have the mold picked out. In fact I have

two of them

(a total of 6 cavities) I had ordered in case I needed them but I think

I'll order

more so I can make them faster. They're large oval bars with a stork on

top.

I'll have to test one out soon and see how it comes out.

RE: nne

Dear ,

>>wedding shower soaps<<

Sounds really fun and neat ... what do they look like? What scent did

you

make them? I sure enjoyed doing the bridal shower favors for my friend's

sister-in-law ... made me remember how excited we were when we were

engaged!

*smile*

>>Oh, by the way. I checked out your new house pictures the other day.

Boy,

it's coming right along. Now that the weather has gotten better I bet

you'll

see it REALLY come together.<<

Yeah, it's just *amazing* to walk through our house and really be able

to

envision the rooms now. We can walk through and see where we might put

our

furniture. We are *so* excited beyond belief ... I still can't get over

the

fact that I'm going to have a CRAFT ROOM!!! I mean, I don't think that

it

has sunk in yet! Our builder says that our house will be done in mid-May

but

that estimate is tight ~ I bet that we'll be able to move in late May or

early June. Just in time for our third wedding anniversary! I can't wait

to

plan a romantic dinner/evening in our new house! Thanks for checking

out

our house site!

~nne in Albany

[Guest guest]

Your house plans sound so exciting! And a craft room!!!! I'll bet you've

already dreamed about where the shelves, tables, lights, storage, etc will

be!!! That's great-I'm very happy for you!!!

:-)

Carol J

[Guest guest]

Oh, Wow, nne! Those are so cute! So the duckie is soap too? I bet kids

would just love those!

Katy

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Yep, the yellow duckie is also soap.

~nne

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Very very cute, nne.

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