NancyJo

Fillmore has a shipping calculator on their shopping cart to give you an amount for shipping

I think there was more talk of brochures in the archives

Do you have the tubes that newspapers are placed in? My BF and I have placed flyers in those for his business with no problems.

Are you reusing the jars? I found that if I reuse the jar to test, I sometimes have a hard time with the tabs sticking due to a light wax film on the bottom of the jar...just a thought

I use these colors also and just a note about the color charts-- Make sure you choose the correct coloring chart--one is for less olive oil and one for a high content of olive oil. If you use the wrong coloring chart, the colors will turn out icky and not what you are looking for---ask me how I know!!!!

Terri--I emailed New Directions about picking up shipments in Cheektowaga and this is the email they sent me: Hi Nancy We are so happy to hear you found us and like what you see so far. We look forward to supplying you with all you product needs. As for picking up your order, I am afraid unless you want to come to our Toronto warehouse that won't be possible. All of the orders ship out of our Toronto warehouse at this time. We are looking at shipping from the New York area, but that is a little further down the road. I hope you will order from us even though it is coming out of Canada. You don't have to worry about any extra fees being added to the order other than what is quoted as the shipping fee when you place your order. We absorb all brokerage etc fees. The orders ship from here within a couple of days and usually once they leave our warehouse they are in New York within a couple of days. Thanks again for your interest in our company. Vicky I don't know if they can pull the orders and set them aside or if it just used to get a large shipment thru customs. Let me know, it would be great to do pick ups!!!

What I did after whipping my wax was take a fork and starting around the wick, place little dollops around and working out. I don't know if this is what you are looking for but here are how mine ended up

Where in the state are you? I am by Niagara Falls and get my wax from Wholesale Supplies Plus in Ohio. I usually try to pick it up from them to save on shipping.

Ok, one of my projects for 2007 is to start selling pillars. I have been playing around with them to get the feel of pouring but now I am looking to get serious. I think my basic question is when do you feel comfortable selling them? Do you test X number of them and then feel comfortable? I think I am more concerned about pillars being a free standing candle as opposed to a container. I am not sure if I am asking this question correctly but I would appreciate any advice you guys can offer! Thanks

Your labels are AWESOME!!! Those look great!

I do not feel this thread is embarassing at all. I find it very informative. Everyone has a different opinion of what good customer service is, some customers are more demanding than others. If Jenny feels she needs help or ideas on how to better serve her customers to imporve her business, good for her. I feel this is no different than asking on how to sell your product, securing accounts, etc. I for one appreciate threads like this, because I appreciate everyone's constructive input. I feel this improves my business as well as everyone else.

Caught this on the morning news... http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061211/6040805.asp

Now that is funny because I just got my first shipment from them yesterday. I think your box was oversized. I was playing around with ordering different jars and discovered that 2 separate orders were cheaper in shipping than one order for the whole thing. Call and ask if their freight charges on line were correct and the girl said yes. The difference was $20.00. So being 15 minutes away from you, that is what it sounds like!!!

I am testing this jar and yes it needs to be double wicked. With a heavy oil I used (2) LX 14. I am thinking of dropping down to LX 12. HTH

What I do is print the labels I make on a plain sheet of paper and then put the plain sheet over the labels, go to the window and see if they fit. I do a whole sheet to see if they all line up and what needs to be tweaked. A little more time consuming but saves on labels!!!

I just went thru this. I also have Print Shop and make custom labels. I first printed the template on the Labels by the sheet website--the one with the spacing. I think if you click on the picture of the label, it will give you the spacing. Then in Print Shop, go to Tools then custom label wizard. I found the template the closest matched the format I was looking for. Just go thru the wizard and it will take you step by step. **Remember to rename the labels when it asks for it** It still took some tweaking, but that is how I did it

I prefer liquid over chips, more control for creating colors I feel.

That is so totally awesome!!!

Not sure what you are looking for but if you search on gift boxes, there are a number of sites that show up. Some are http://www.americanpaperandplastic.com/Gift_Boxes/home.shtml http://www.packagihttp://www.fetpak.com/whstore/main.pl/slist?15ngsource.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=10 These might get you started. I also found this site for a list of distributors http://www.retailpackaging.org/packaging/distributors/index.asp

Thanks for the sites, I'll have to try some of those techniques

Just wondering, I am looking into doing favors with soap and even though I am not opposed to using MP, I was trying to look for some consistency with my soaps. I wanted to use the same ingredients in my favors as in my regular soap. When rebatching, is it as versitile as MP? Are you able to do the "details" as with MP, such as outlining or detailing in a different color? I tried using individual molds with CP and could not get the hang of it. I was looking in the gallery and all I could find were pictures of log or slab molds. P.S. All the soaps look really great but not what I was looking for!!!!!

Is this something like you were looking for? http://www.packagingsource.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=10_562_563 There are alot of places, I think I searched on "gift boxes"

Now I don't feel so bad, having the Queen of the Bath Bombs getting warting!! LOL I used less liquid than usual, don't know what happened. Thanks for all your help, will try again at a later date.

Lately I can't make a bath bomb without them "worting". Is it possible to place them in the oven on the lowest setting for a while to try to "dry" them out? Thanks

Ok, I am no where near you but I am trying to get something in place. I don't know how you get your orders, thru website only, phone, etc. or how you handle your operations, who will do what orders. You should probably have one person in charge of passing out "work orders" to keep better track of inventory, what is on hand, etc. Very simply, have a beginning amount and subtract what was used for a job. This would also give you a better idea of how much of raw materials you are going thru and if it would be more advantagous (sp?) to order the next bulk size.