Today is Blogger Day! I’m thankful you’re here reading and I want to introduce you to another blog I read. Tisserand Institute is a company I trust for accurate information about essential oils. If you’re interested in information like the infographic below, then you’ll like the Tisserand Institute blog.
I’m offering you this graphic for my Science Saturday posts that I’d like to start doing. It’s important to know what your essential oils can do and what you can’t do or shouldn’t do with the oils. Knowledge is power! Here’s a little information about the popular Lavender essential oil and it’s effect on knee osteoarthritis..
So now you know! I hope you have a great weekend! If you have a favorite essential oil blog, put it in the comments below!
It’s that time of year again – back to school! Some teachers will return this week, some of you return a little later, and some homeschools never stop for the summer! Here’s my back-to-school gift to you: a diffuser recipe that will bring calm to your classroom. I hope all of you have a great school year!
I hope you are all enjoying your 2023 so far. This week (already!) is our first full moon of 2023 – the Wolf Moon! In the past, I’ve done limited edition bracelets for full moons but this year I’m going to do essential oil blends. These blends are also limited edition. In addition to the full moon blend, I have two new blends for Epiphany. I have both diffuser blends and perfume blends in a roller bottle.
Wolf Moon Blends
Blended to take full advantage of the energy of the Wolf Moon while it’s in the Cancer zodiac, this roller bottle has lavender to ground you, peppermint to uplift you, and rosewood to round off the scent. It’s a must-have for this month! I have 5 ml dropper bottles for your diffuser or 10 ml roller bottles for you to wear as a perfume.
The 5 ml dropper is filled with undiluted oils and the cost is $10.
The 10 ml roller bottle has premium Jojoba oil as a carrier base and the cost is $15.
5 ml dropper bottle and 10 ml roller bottles.5 ml dropper and 10 ml roller bottles for size comparison.
Epiphany Perfume
Whether you call it Epiphany, Twelfth Day, or Three Kings Day, celebrate it with a subtly spicy perfume blend. This is a calming, spicy scent that has Frankincense and Myrrh as the main essential oils blended with a third oil that tones down the spicy-ness of the main oils to produce a subtle perfume. The carrier oil for the Epiphany roller is Jojoba which is wonderful for your skin.
The 10 ml roller bottle cost is $15.
Blog/Facebook Exclusive!
Celebrate January with a unique scent for your home or yourself. These products are not yet on my website so if you’re interested, you’ll have to message me. You’re getting first dibs on my new, limited edition products! Last day to purchase these products is January 31st.
I hope you all have a great week! Until next time,
This past week I was fortunate to get a last minute acceptance as a vendor at the MidMo Strawberry Festival. It was a 4-hour event on Saturday afternoon in Fulton, Missouri at a beautiful little winery in the country – Serenity Valley Winery. The festival proceeds go to Central Missouri Honor Flight whose mission is to provide transport for Veterans to visit the memorials in D.C.. I love this cause!
I love the cause so much that from yesterday (yes, I’m including all my sales at yesterday’s festival!) through June 30, 2022, 10% of everything I sell will be donated to Oklahoma Warriors – Oklahoma’s Honor Flights program! PLEASE JOIN ME in thanking our vets for all they’ve given to keep America free! If you need to restock on Morphine Bomb or Allergy Buster- now is the time! I’m including every single one of my brand new products like Itch Stick (for bug bites), Leaves of Three (for poison ivy/oak/sumac), Migraine Blend for Women, and so much more!
Delivery Vs. Shipping
If you need help finding something just message me and I’ll help you. If you don’t want to pay shipping and you’re local to me, I can do deliveries on June 24th-27th and again July 1st-4th. You just need to message me and let me know so I can send you an invoice that doesn’t include shipping. If you don’t do credit cards, I can take CashApp – again, you just have to let me know because CashApp isn’t connected to my website.
Festival Bestsellers
Now that I’ve got the announcement out of the way, I’ll continue the tradition I started last year and announce my best sellers at the MidMo Strawberry Festival:
#2: Lava bead bracelets for use with essential oils (I don’t have everything up on my website and a quick search tells me I only have one or two bracelets up right now so if you’re interested, message me and I’ll send you back a pic of all the bracelets I have. Some are handcrafted, others aren’t. Some are for big wrists, some are for tiny wrists. All are $10.)
A few of HF’s essential oil bracelets.
Help the Vets Get to D.C.!
I’m looking forward to help a vet get to D.C. I hope you’ll consider purchasing this month so you can help, too! THANK YOU! Now go SHOP!
Sometimes in life we hang on to relationships we shouldn’t. Maybe we’re afraid to let go, afraid nothing better will happen for us…maybe it’s a “Better the Devil you know than the Devil you don’t” attitude.
Tonight I FINALLY got to chat with an actual human at Shopify. That’s like a minor miracle with that company. The discussion didn’t go well and they refused to help me fix the long-term issues I’ve had with my Shopify store. So, despite all the time and effort I put into trying to make the Shopify store work (and it was a LOT of time and effort over the last year) I finally reached the point tonight where it was obvious that more time and more money were not in the best interests of my business. So I ended my Shopify partnership.
What That Means For You
What that means for you is, there will be a few more days of a non-functional store while I migrate to a new e-commerce platform. I’m sorry for the mess that everything has become but I WILL get it all straightened out. I’m already migrating over to a new platform and hopefully in a couple of days this will all be a bad memory.
I hope your weekend is going much better than mine is.
As promised, I’m back and it’s even a day early. Unfortunately, my online store checkout system still isn’t working and I have some glitches to work out on certain pages. But I suppose I’ll get it accomplished eventually. If anyone happens to know code and knows how to get my Shopify checkout system to work on my online store, I’d love to have some help! Alternatively, if anyone knows how to get Shopify to actually respond to customers that would work as well.
I hope you all are having a good weekend. Here’s to year 2 of Honeysuckle Farm!
Just a quick note to let you know that I’m migrating over to WordPress.org. (We’re on WordPress.com right now). The reason is that WordPress.org will be able to host my online store without all the issues I’ve had for the last year…at least, that’s what they say. I guess we’ll see! My domain name should stay the same. I’m not sure how much of a difference you’ll notice in the appearance of the blogs. This is all new territory for me so I guess we’re in this together! The site may be unavailable at times as it migrates. It may take up to a week to migrate which means that the day before the 1 year anniversary of my business, we should be up and running on WordPress.org – I hope! As far as I can tell, it should be only a minor issue for readers, if it’s an issue at all. I’m looking forward to the transition and to the possibility of having an online store that actually works for you and for me!
Here’s a little freebie for your Easter weekend gatherings. It will keep your home smelling beautiful.
He Is Risen Diffuser Recipe
New Season, New Products
We’re two weeks away from Honeysuckle Farm’s one year anniversary! For me, that means I’m gearing up for summer events. I’m removing some products from my lineup and replacing them with new things. I’ve retired my Amazon Warrior special collection from year 1 and I’m replacing it with…..Cleopatra! Ancient Egypt and Cleopatra had such a huge influence on essential oils and aromatherapy. So this year, I’m paying homage to Cleopatra with a special line of products. My first Cleopatra collection item is a beautiful necklace made from some of Cleopatra’s favorite gems. Because I don’t have a current picture, I’ll include one from when I had just assembled the necklace but hadn’t yet finished it off.
Cleopatra Collection – The Scarab
The necklace and bracelet can be purchased as a set or individually. The pieces include carnelian and turquoise – some of Cleopatra’s favorite gems, plus a blue agate bead that I love. Lava beads are included for your essential oils. Each piece has a tiny Swarovski crystal scarab at the center. I will only make these through the beginning of August so there will be a very limited quantity in circulation. It will be a unique piece to wear. The necklace is 27.5 inches long. The bracelet is 6.5 inches (a small). Both are stretchy and have no closure so that anyone can wear them even those whose hands and fingers have limitations. As soon as my lapis lazuli beads arrive, future versions of this necklace will have lapis instead of blue agate. Additionally, I’m not sure how many of the future necklaces will include a scarab so if you love the scarab, you better grab him now! This necklace and bracelet were inspired by an ancient Egyptian necklace and I love that my daughter and daughter-in-law helped with the design of it. I hope you love it like I do!
Enjoy your Easter weekend and don’t forget to shop small businesses whenever you can!
I hope each of you reading this has a wonderful Palm Sunday weekend with your family. Family is so important! Here’s a diffuser blend for Palm Sunday to make your house smell wonderful.
If you want this scent but don’t want to buy all the essential oils to make it, I can mix up a 5 ml bottle for $7. It would be straight, undiluted oils not mixed with any carrier oils. You would use 3-5 drops at a time in your diffuser.
New Product
Also new for April, 2022 is Body Shimmer Spray. Get shimmery skin just in time for prom & wedding season! Your skin will sparkle under the dance floor lights! When ordering, I will need to know whether you want gold (standard) or a color that matches your dress. I will also need to know whether you prefer a floral (Honeysuckle $10 or Lilac $8), fruity (Sunshine in a Bottle, $5), or spicy (Egyptian Goddess, $5) body scent. The end product will be a 10 ml misting bottle with the shimmer spray in it. Prices vary based on the amount and cost of the essential oils included in each scent.
On Sale
Chakra roll-on bottles. I’m offering most of my current chakra formulas for $8 per bottle. They were originally marked $10. The 4 that do NOT have an ‘X’ marked through them are what is being marked down to $8.
The sale inventory includes:
Spicy Solar Plexus – Crushed Moonstone and Moonstone chips in a blend of Lavender, Tea Tree, and Black Pepper essential oils with a Coconut Oil base. Use it for insight and calm.
Finder of Lost Love – Use this one for the heart chakra to help you love and accept yourself and others. It has crushed Amazonite and Amazonite chips in a blend of Juniper and Geranium essential oils with a Coconut Oil base.
Muse Unblocked – Unblock your creativity with the synergy of crushed Amber and Amber chips in a citrus and spice essential oil fragrance. For use with your sacral chakra.
Red Hot Carnelian – Use on your sacral chakra to invigorate, motivate, and re-ignite your creativity. It has crushed Carnelian and Carnelian chips in a blend of Tangerine and Patchouli essential oils with a Coconut Oil base.
I’m marking the Third Eye Blind down to $6. As you can see, I didn’t get the lid tight enough and a little bit of it leaked out. (It’s the circled bottle below.) You use it on your third eye chakra for clearer thinking and for intuition. It contains crushed Turquoise and Turquoise chips in a blend of Lavender and Lemon essential oils with a Coconut base. It was originally marked $10.
Summer Schedule
A brief update on the summer schedule of fairs, festivals, and shows.
June 3 – I have applied for the Bentonville First Friday event. I won’t know if I’m in until sometime in May.
June 19-24 – I’m taking a break from the business this week. I will be checking in on social media occasionally and that will be the best way to connect with me this week.
June 25-July 1 – Cousin Camp. This will be another week I will be only minimally available as far as Honeysuckle Farm goes.
July 1 – I will possibly be applying for the Bentonville First Friday event scheduled for this date. I won’t know if I’m in until sometime in June if I apply.
July 2-3 – I will definitely be at the Huckleberry Festival in Jay, OK for this event.
August 4-6 – I will definitely be at the Tontitown Grape Festival in Tontitown, AR for this event.
Other News
My website remains inoperable. I’m exploring my options for storefronts. In the meantime, you can contact me directly if you need anything via the contact form on the website, by commenting on this post, or via text/phone call if you have my number. You could also contact me if you know how to fix my storefront since calling Shopify customer service doesn’t seem to be working for me!
Season 2 Theme
Each year I have a theme. This year’s theme starts on our 1-year anniversary on May 1st. I’ve chosen Cleopatra for this year and have had a lot of fun researching her and Egypt’s influence on essential oils and aromatherapy. Starting on May 1, I will begin introducing the new Cleopatra-themed products. These will be limited edition and only available from May 1, 2022-April 30, 2023. I can’t wait to show you what’s on tap for the second year of Honeysuckle Farm!
My storefront isn’t working at the moment. I’ve contacted customer support and am waiting to hear back from them. In the meantime, if you’d like to make a purchase you can always contact me through the website’s contact form or you can hit me up on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HoneysuckleFarmOK. If you know me personally, you can always call or text and let me know what you need. If there’s anyone out there who has Shopify embedded in their WordPress and you’ve been able to make it work, please contact me!
The Newest Product
The newest product was just released! It’s our Smudge Kit. If you have troubling or negative energy around you, you need this kit! For you, there is a 5 ml roller bottle with a blend of Lavender, Palo Santo, and Sage essential oils to ward off negative energy. It smells heavenly! For your home, the kit comes with a 4-inch bundle of Sage you can burn throughout your home. Together, the bundle is $10. I only have 10 kits at this price, so get one while you can.
Smudge Kit contains a smudge blend for you and a sage bundle for your home or office.
Closing Out Year One
I am approaching the one year anniversary of Honeysuckle Farm, LLC! I’m excited to have made it this far and I really appreciate everyone who has helped me get here! This summer’s show schedule is very light. So far, I have only committed to two shows – the Huckleberry Festival at the first of July in Jay, Oklahoma and the Tontitown Grape Festival in Tontitown, Arkansas in early August. I’m sure that will change as we get into summer but if not, I look forward to seeing you at the festivals! Bring on summer!
