The Official Blog of Sailor Mouth Soaps

I've just logged into my  Etsy  store and holey moley, I've reached 1000 sales! That's a pretty awesome goal to hit after only 18 months in business - thank you so much to all of my loyal customers <3 Even though I wasn't planning to do a sale this month, I've become overwhelmed with heart-swelly goodness, so all orders placed today in my  BigCartel  store using code 1000 can take advantage of 10% off all products in the  Halloween Spooky Soaps  category. Thank you again for your support, seriously, thank you!

Goooood morning! Well, I'm finally back in Australia after long delays with our flights. By the time we finally got home last night, I was far too knackered to hop on the computer and re-open the stores so I was up from 6am working this morning to get everything taken care of. I'm still working through updating listings so please bare with me for just a little longer <3 I just wanted to explain some changes I'm making to my online stores as it probably looks a little confusing from my customers perspective. As you might remember reading a few months ago, I opened up a new online store on Big Cartel  here at www.sailormouthsoaps.com . This was partly so I had a little more control over the design of the store and the information I could put onto the site. The largest reason was because it's becoming very expensive to sell on Etsy due to listing fees & commissions from each sale, plus the constant site and content changes that aren't being properly rolle...

Our trip is almost at an end, it'll be sad to go but we're dying to see our fur-babies again <3 This will be a big update, here we go! Brad went skiing again on Sunday but my bruises hadn't yet healed from the unforgiving ski boots, so I gave it a miss. Instead, I had breakfast in the park, feed the seagulls and indulged in a customised facial at  Body Sanctum  to help repair my dry & tortured cold weather skin. I treated myself to a fancy cleanser from  La Clinica  - it's really nice! Organic with no animal testing, gotta love that. Brad took a few tumbles while skiing so the next day, we went back to  Body Sanctum  for a float as they can help with minor injuries *and* an hour float is equal to 4hrs sleep. Have you heard of floatation tanks before? They're AWESOME! I had one years ago and it was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. I could hear myself blink, I heard my heart beating and the blood pumping in m...

Hi everyone! We got up to a few things over the weekend. First was a drive out to Glenorchy, a tiny little town on the northern end of Lake Wakatipu (the lake is massive, 291km square & up to 420m deep!) We stopped for brunch and as we've come to expect in many of the small towns we've visited, the only non-meat food available was chips. I used to like chips but now I'm not sure I can look a potato in the eye ever again. This was an old boat shed by (what appeared to be) the one and only dock in the town. You can't tell by the half-smile, but I totally dig nature walks <3 Check out these weird dead trees all lined up.  The trees look amazing against the perfect sky. Bad weather had been forecast almost the entire holiday but aside from one rainy night, it hasn't affected us at all. Lucky huh! Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get out and explore like we have. This was taken on the dock. I wanted to get th...

Just another quick update for today, we're about to head out for Brad to go Heli-Rafting! What's that you ask? Well, you take a helicopter up to the top of a mountain and then raft down. OMGs.... Anyhooo; Down by the lake, there are lots of cute sculptures. These are our friend's little ones, hugging each other while hugging a giant Kiwi. Cuuuute. How nice is the lake first thing in the morning? I love it. We took a ride on the Skyline Gondola. It goes straight up the mountain...amazing views. Up the top, it had been snowing! Looks like we just missed it, the picnic tables had fresh, powdery snow. It was about 0 degrees.  Everything is so scenic, I love the mountains. Lookit! SNOW! This is the view from the top of the Gondola lookout. On the way back down again, you get a feel for how high up you are. Eeek! Strangely enough, heights don't bother me too much. That has to be one of the few things I'm...

Hi everyone! Just a quick update today.... It was a beautiful drive on the way to Arrowtown. What we liked most about the town was the walk through the historic Chinese Settlement from the Gold Rush era. It was fascinating to see how small yet sturdy and well built the huts were. Check out the view from Arrowtown Cemetery. This was the oldest part, some of the graves were from the 1800's. Next stop was the Onsen Hot Pools. This lived up to the hype! The ceiling and walls fold up so you can get the fresh mountain air...it was super fresh. When you got too hot, you could add cold water which came down from the roof. It was about 9 degrees and splashed right into the hot pools. It's cold on your head, let me tell you :P Checking out the view... This is Lake Hayes. The wind coming off the lake was almost enough to knock you over and our face was numb after 5 minutes, LOL. A beautiful 3 legged dog came running over after I took this photo with a stic...