I started Soap Sushi in 2007 after closing another online business, LuNa Beads. I had been making glass beads and selling them online since, oh, about 1998. I did this full time beginning in February of 2000. Beads were fun, but over the years I began to feel burned out. The creativity just was not flowing to me anymore. 

 
Soapmaking has always been something I loved. I finally gathered up my courage to make real soap (with lye!!) several years ago, and was hooked! I find myself coming up with new soaps, bath fizzes, lotions, lip balms, candles, (the list goes on and on and on....) anytime I have free time. This is usually only right before I go to sleep! I have been known to snap on the light and scribble in the notebook I keep beside the bed at all hours of the night.
 
I am so happy I have finally found my passion. (It seems we are all looking for it these days, doesn't it?) I know that this is it because I have such FUN while I am creating and one idea just leads to another. My husband told me the other day: you're just TOO good at this! All I could do was exclaim I'm having a BLAST! I have never been busier! The laundry is always piled on the kitchen table, there are always dishes in the sink, the living room rug always has crumbs on it, and my office? Do not even go in there! But, our house smells GREAT, my daughter has a fabulous time helping, and we even earn a little money (so we can buy MORE SUPPLIES) to boot. What more could I ask from life?

 

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