Etsy Finds Friday- super soap interview!

It's another Friday- Hunger Games here I come! :D and another Etsy Finds Friday! I contacted the owner of a bath and beauty shop for this feature and she agreed to answer a couple of my questions! :) I haven't had the chance to buy any soap from this shop but everything looks amazing and I hope I can try some soon! :) 

So without further ado, my interview mixed with beautiful pictures with Ms. Angel of SymbolicImports:

1. Tell us a little about yourself and your shop please!

 My name is Angel. I am first and foremost a wife (married to my high-school sweetheart) and mother of three beautiful children. I am a nurse and soap making is my full time job (it really does not feel like a job, because I love doing it so much) :) Outside of my business, I love to spend time with my family and friends and I love to travel! 

2. What made you decide to make soap and other beauty products? :) 

After researching how most of the store bought brands of bath products I was purchasing contained such harmful detergents and ingredients, I then decided to make my own skin care products. I have been creating handmade products for 7 years - it has become a positive obsession and a devoted passion in my life.

3. How do you come up with the scents for your products?

My scents are mostly based on what my customers like or have requested. I like to explore what is "in" at the moment. I also create many seasonal scents. 

4. What are your future plans for your shop?  

 I have so many future plans and goals :) I am hoping to bring out more lines of bath and beauty products. I want to add more items and scents to my etsy store. I would love to also branch out into the physical world one day and own my own soap shop in downtown Asheville, N.C. I would also like to start attending big craft shows in the future, but most of all, I am living in the here and now and having so much fun doing it! 

Most of my handmade products contains natural ingredients and most are handmade to order, which means that our customers receive the freshest product possible. I also believe that my customers are #1 priority! I try to go above and beyond for special circumstances or requests.
I enjoy accepting custom orders for our soap favors. We create soap favors for weddings, bridal showers, baby showers, parties, anniversaries, etc… I will also be glad to work with anyone on a custom fragrance or if you see a product in my shop, but want it in another fragrance, I can make it happen!

Where you can stalk me?

Store: SymbolicImports.etsy.com
Blog: symbolicimports.blogspot.com
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/SymbolicImports
Twitter: twitter.com/#!/SymbolicImports
Flickr: flickr.com/photos/symbolicimports
Email: SymbolicImports@gmail.com

We welcome you to browse our beautiful shop on etsy, SymbolicImports.etsy.comFor your first visit we would love to offer you a small token of our appreciation for visiting our shop.

Please use coupon code SMELLGOOD for 10% off your first purchase. Coupon expires on 3/24/12 (this was the original end date for this coupon because I was supposed to have this up last week. stupid internet. Since Ms. Angel is amazing she agreed to let me extend the coupon 1 week so now it ends 3/30! Thank Ms. Angel while you're at her shop.) and cannot be used on our soap favors, thank you so much ~Angel

This is also the 1 year anniversary of SymbolicImports so Ms. Angel is also offering her customers a 30% off coupon code for tomorrow! :O We're super lucky! You can use the code 1YEAR at checkout to take 30% off!

Thank you so much Ms. Angel for agreeing to this feature. I had a great time looking through your shop and picking out just what I want to buy and that coupon code is great! :)

Etsy Finds Friday- with Giveaway!

As promised, here is my first Etsy Finds Friday and yes, there is a GIVEAWAY! :) In this weekly, or bi-weekly post I will (hopefully) be featuring an Etsy shop I found that I think looks super cool! (Book lovers have to eat, sleep, and get dressed just like everyone else)

For my first post had the pleasure of asking the great shop owner of Honey Tea Thyme some questions about her delicious honey! I won some of this honey a while ago and I didn't know what to do because I'm not a honey fan! Well, the honey got to my house and my grandpa opened when I wasn't there and called me telling me it was really good. I tried it when I got home and I LOVED it! 

I literally hoarded this honey, eating it off my fingers straight out of the jar (I know, maybe a little gross but it was THAT delicious!)  I showed my friends the honey and let them get a (little) spoonful to try and they loved it too! I loved this honey so much I had to message the owners on Etsy and let them know how much I loved it- I also asked if I could do a feature of their shop and they offered to do a giveaway too! I asked the owners and couple questions about their shop:

1. Tell everyone a bit about your etsy shop please. What can we all find there?

We love what raw honey can do for the overall health of the body. For many years I have made this Honey Tea as a way of helping my family stay healthy. We created this product as an instant tea, to begin with to save this busy mom of 10 time, which is especially valuable when little people are not feeling well. We sell 100% Pure Raw Honey, Organic and conventional flavors of Honey Tea Thyme. We also sell handmade Baby blankets and Muscle Salve.

2. What made you decide to start your etsy shop? 

 After lots of years of providing honey to family and friends and going to farmers markets, we decided that it was time to go online. You can find us at www.etsy.com/shop/honeyteathyme?ref=si_shop

this is the apple honey I tried and it was AMAZING!

3. Your honey is amazing! Is there a process you have that makes it like this or why is it so amazing? If you have a process, what is it?
Thank you! We are careful to preserve the natural enzymes that the bees put in the honey in the first place. We infuse Organic Herbs or natural essential oils into our 100% Pure Raw Honey. I believe that when you taste something that is pure and natural with no added chemicals or preservatives that you body goes, Wow! I need some more of that. We are as a country I believe, starved for something wholly nutritious.

Thank you so much HoneyTeaThyme for taking the time to answer my questions and even offering to do this  giveaway for us! :)

Etsy Finds Friday!

I think I'm going to start something new for Fridays! I love Etsy so much and I'm on there all the time looking at different things so I thought, why not have a post for all the great things I find. I know I'm a book blogger mostly but book lovers have to do mundane things too- like eat, get dressed, cook, etc. :) So I have one shop already that I'm talking to about a post this Friday- you're going to want to look for this because there may be something starting with a G and ending with away, if ya know what I mean. :) I've sampled something from this shop and I loved it! I can't wait to tell you all about this shop! :) Leave me a comment letting me know what you think of this! Are you cool with me not being a strictly book blogger?