I love testimonials… a customer from France just wrote about us on her blog.  Since I don’t read French, I had to turn on the Babel Fish from Yahoo.  It helps but wasn’t perfectly translated.  So I ask Ludyvine(the customer) and she was so sweet to send me the English version of her post…

“What’s better than being pampered at the end of pregnancy???
I am crazy about natural cosmetics, unfortunately in France I haven’t find something that smells real good.
When I say « smell good », it is to find something else than the basics smells we have here, mostly olive scents or Alep’s bread…which I’m a not a real fan…
I love Lush’s products, I enjoy the originality and the colors, besides the scents are absolutely great! Even if these products are fresh handmade cosmetics, they are made with loads of chemical products such as Paraben…So that is why I was looking for something more natural.
While I was surfing on the web, I have found a link to this shop :
« mi SPA » , it is all natural product, guaranteed « Paraben Free » and all the ingredients are listed on the website…no surprises if you want to order.Mimie Wong is the creator of these cosmetics and I really felt in love with the design of her website, the pictures of the products…I just wanted to try them…
All the scents are quite unused here in France, and reminds me of flowers and Japanese’s touch. On its site you can find all the products and especially the origin of plants that Mimie Wong uses to manufacture her cosmetics.
I would add that the design of its products is very pleasant.The price is more than affordable a 4oz soap costs around 4 € which is less expensive than our “awful  scented soaps”. The shipping cost is a little high, but there’s insurance included and the package was sent on the 18th of July and arrived home on the 23rd (19-20 was weekend) so very fast delivery from California. I’ve also had a sample with my package, a nice pen plus a list of coupons from www.totallyindiecoupons.comIn this post I’m talking about natural products and in the French version about ecology, of course if you have a deep thought what would you say? Okay she buys natural soaps & products, but they they come from USA…all this pollution (transport by airplane etc…)
I agree it might not be the best thing…but have you ever questioned yourself about the origins of the plastic bottle you are using with your everyday shampoo???
That is why this year I have decided to make a donation to http://www.actioncarbone.org/ which will  compensate all the pollution I have consumed this year, because yes, I consume, you consume, they consume…but what do we do????”

Here’s another sweet note from her email…
“Last night I couldn’t sleep, so I took a hot shower used one of your soap bars, which relaxed me a lot and then I used the sake lotion sample, the smell was so good…I felt great and went back to bed and finally slept.
Have a wonderful day,
Ludyvine”

And ”NEAR” - back home in the states, I recently received this message from Holly (decor8) …
“I am so happy to hear from you. Your package arrived recently and I LOVE EVERYTHING. Thank you. My husband took the lip balm and soy candle right away, and the bar of soap, and ran off with it. He loves your products and will not give them back to me. Oh well.
Best,
Holly E. Becker
decor8″

AHH~!…It’s always wonderful to hear feedbacks directly from the customer.  So glad I can make a little different to their lives. ^_^

.. is OVER and I’m exhausted!!  It was a great show and I felt so LOVED with everyone who came to say hi.  Laura & Rena, Liana, Nicole, Michelle, Jenifer, Christine and the totally-glowing-&-cute-expecting Natalie, also Karrie, my friend Kerry and of course my most-awesome booth partner - Joanna(hope that includes everyone, sorry.. if I have missed you) — thanks for all of your blessings & supports.  And thanks to everyone who came to try out my products. You all gave me the best feedbacks.. all of what I needed to know about.

Thank You Renegade Craft Fair! Hope you come back to SF again & SOON! ^_^

…as for now, I’m ready to chill-out and enjoy my easy rest-of-the-day! I’ll be back tomorrow to post the winner of the linen tote bag from the show sign-ups.  Stay tune!

a sneak peek of our special # for the show - our “live green with mi” linen shopping tote, limited edition!

Come say “HI” if you are coming to the show. If you aren’t local, don’t worry, I promise something SWEET will be coming soon! I’ll also post the show pictures after the weekend! ^_^

Our shipping & order processing has resumed. Current in-house processing is up to 4 business days.
All orders placed between 3/3-3/16 will be process & ship by 3/20.

You can now get these lovely bonbons at our shop, limited in UME.  Other scents will be adding soon.  Learn more about now YUMMI they are for your body here… Get some before the end of Feb to receive a free UME photo card.

For a after-Christmas customer-appreciation special, we are now running a Butter Stock Sale, 20% off for all whipped body butter until Jan 15 2008, while supplies last.  These are all brand-new stocks of whipped shea butter, whipped coffee butter and whipped monoi butter made fresh for the holidays. Great for stocking-up for this winter & dry seasons.  Use code: “butterSale” at checkout to receive the discount.

Hurry to shop, before they are all gone.

 Thank you everyone & hope you all enjoy the holidays! While our webshop remain open, our shipping dept is now closed for a much deserved time off from 12/24-1/3/08.  

We have extended our holiday shipping schedules.  You still have a few more days… but hurry up, our stocks are running out soon.

US shipping
Limited Time Holiday Flat Rate Shipping ($6.95) - Ordered by 12/17 (NEW EXTENDED DATE)
USPS Express - Ordered by 12/19 (NEW EXTENDED DATE), additional fee will be billed

We can still ship to Canada/International
USPS Express - Ordered by 12/14 (NEW EXTENDED DATE), additional fee will be billed

Our Gingerlily finally decided to bloom sparingly, so we made a new batch of soap with limited petals and another batch of Osmanthus.  They are now sliced and in curing…  They’ll be listed shortly and we’ll probably have to shipped them after Sun 12/16, to give them a few more days for curing.

The Wishlist Sale was a blast yesterday.  Here’s a snapshot of our little table at the corner.  Thanks to everyone who came by to say hi.  It was so nice to hear things like: “oh, I wear your perfume that I got from xx store… ” “oh, I love your soaps & scents… ” or “oh, I finally meet you…”

So now that the show is done and we are full swing into our holiday shipping.  All pre-sale orders are already in process.  Our holiday shipping schedules can also be found here.  Oh.. and hurry up, shop before the 11th to receive our FREE birthday goodie bag and FREE gift with purchase.

We have a limited supplies of Kauai Gingerlily Soap just arrived at the shop now due to the high # of requests.  This batch is still w/o the petals… unfortunately =( …. our gingerlily in the garden is still not blooming yet due to the cool weather this Summer and early cold Wiinter. 

All other soaps are now well stocked but they are also going fast.  Osmanthus is already all sold for the season.  Send us a request if you like some soon or we will most likely bring it back next Spring.  It’s a lovely & different floral scent.  You can still get it in the Dry Perfume if you like to try.