Many of you know that I participate in a historic re-enactment group called the Society for Creative Anachronism, or SCA. We try to recreate the middle ages as they "should have been", without actual death and disease, just the fun things. I really enjoy learning about history this way.
Every year in March my husband and I head south to an event called Gulf Wars. (www.gulfwars.org) We are merchants there and sell soap. This is from last year.
This year I was more ready than ever. I had over 600 bars of soap made, dozens of beard oils and balms, rollers of essential oils, wooden combs, woven inkle bands and nalbound wool hats. It was going to be our best sales year ever! We were even packed two weeks before and Thursday morning we woke up excited to head to our favorite event. We hooked up the trailer and headed out on time, planning to have dinner at Lamberts "Home of the throwed rolls" in Sikeston, MO and had a hotel room waiting in Batesville, MS.
Not an hour down the road the truck started getting loud and it was obvious we had a problem. Greg got out and looked, sure enough, we were missing a muffler. We backtracked and found it; it didn't look good. We found a nearby muffler shop who agreed to replace it immediately and so dropped off the truck and walked down to Wendy's for lunch. While we waited I kept monitoring Facebook and the signs the event would be cancelled kept becoming stronger. Sure enough, just as our truck was fixed, we got the word; Gulf Wars 2019 had been cancelled.
Well, glad that we weren't farther down the road, but sad about missing our spring vacation and concerned about how the income loss would affect us, we headed back home. Once there we began to unpack.
Not an hour down the road the truck started getting loud and it was obvious we had a problem. Greg got out and looked, sure enough, we were missing a muffler. We backtracked and found it; it didn't look good. We found a nearby muffler shop who agreed to replace it immediately and so dropped off the truck and walked down to Wendy's for lunch. While we waited I kept monitoring Facebook and the signs the event would be cancelled kept becoming stronger. Sure enough, just as our truck was fixed, we got the word; Gulf Wars 2019 had been cancelled.
Well, glad that we weren't farther down the road, but sad about missing our spring vacation and concerned about how the income loss would affect us, we headed back home. Once there we began to unpack.
Here are all the bins of soap sitting in my shop waiting to be unpacked. There are over 40 different fragrances, plus beard products, combs, soap dishes, beard kits, nalbound hats, inkle bands and more. I am now working on photographing each one and putting them up on the website so people can buy them. I am hoping to have a "porch sale" next weekend as well so local people can come and buy!
I figure it will take me about 25 hours to upload everything I have, so please be patient as I get it all up and then get orders filled. Thanks to everyone for supporting me!
I figure it will take me about 25 hours to upload everything I have, so please be patient as I get it all up and then get orders filled. Thanks to everyone for supporting me!
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