The health benefits of using Shepherds Cottage Soap
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Shepherd's Cottage blog
- Aug 22, 2022
- 3 min
Re-visiting the summer reading list!
I’ve been thinking a lot about censorship lately, and the power of words. Since I wrote about my summer reading list, I’ve read a lot more!
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- Aug 15, 2022
- 4 min
Working from home . . . with little helpers.
Lean into the chaos and challenge and delight that is working from home.
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- Aug 8, 2022
- 3 min
Top tips for running a business from home
Top tips for running a business from home! Running a small business from home is hard, but it is also manageable.
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- Jul 25, 2022
- 3 min
A staple soap making ingredient : Olive Oil
Olive oil bars are for everyone. Even those with the most sensitive skin. It is a staple soap making ingredient, found in most homemade soap
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- Jul 18, 2022
- 3 min
Traveling back in time is a brilliant way to be uplifted and inspired.
So we’re back from our holiday, just in time. It seems that summer has finally arrived in Scotland and as I write this the sun is beaming...
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- Jul 4, 2022
- 3 min
Summer Reading list
The Shepherd's Cottage Summer Reading List. None have anything to do with self-improvement, making soap, running a business or contemporary!
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- Jun 28, 2022
- 3 min
How to arrange a craft fair table or stand.
Last week was a busy one: with four days at the Royal Highland Show and all the time spent preparing, packing and travelling, I am so...
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- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
The start of show season!
Early, early golden mornings and late violet-sky nights – summer in Scotland. The weather hasn’t been exactly blissful so far, but the...
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- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min
Going Bespoke
Dunollie is just outside of Oban, and the ruined castle stands proud on a cliff overlooking Oban Bay.
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- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
Enriched with Rosehip Oil, but what is Rosehip oil?
Rosehips are the fruit of a rosebush. When roses die and are left on the bush, they leave behind bright reddish-orange, spherical fruit....
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- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
Sweet Almond Oil for body and mind
One of the key ingredients in my body whips is Sweet Almond Oil. Almonds are actually not a nut but the seed of the almond fruit, which...
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- May 23, 2022
- 3 min
Getting SMART about it.
Suddenly the business is very busy. And so too is every other part of my life – although maybe it’s always like that, and it just seems...
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- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
Five reasons you love our body whips!
It’s busy, busy here in the Shepherds Cottage kitchen, as I’m making up a large wholesale order of gorgeous body whips for an independent...
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- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
The Difference Between Compostable and Biodegradable
It was National Gardening Week last week, and I wish I could have caught it sooner because when I saw the lovely flower crowns people had...
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- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
Now we are six!
My girls turned six on Saturday, and we had a lovely party with a house full of people: big ones and little ones!
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- Apr 25, 2022
- 3 min
What did you do to mark Earth Day?
Ideas for change: to make every day Earth Day.
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- Apr 18, 2022
- 3 min
5 Craft Fair Essentials
I’ve learnt a lot since my first craft fair, and here are five things I always take with me.
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- Apr 11, 2022
- 3 min
Easter is nearly here!
Lambing is in full swing, it’s finally started warming up, and Easter is nearly here! Any future with chocolate in it must be a good one!
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- Apr 4, 2022
- 2 min
Spring on the Farm
April is finally here! Spring! A few days of sunshine and warmth, and then snow, below freezing temperatures and hailstorms. In like a lion,
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- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
Finding ‘normal’
It was a great weekend for family and community – getting back to ‘normal’ after Covid, or during Covid (the idea that we are past the...
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- Mar 21, 2022
- 2 min
Top five tips for setting up a table at a craft fair
I did my first craft fair of the year this weekend, and it was a wild ride of pulling everything together after the crazy run of fairs...
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 3 min
I’ve made it.
I’ve made it. The top of the career ladder: a corner office with great views, desk just how I like it. Coffee on tap. I can choose my...
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- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
It's that time of year again...
It’s that time of year again – a few brilliant days of sunshine and you think you can leave the house without a jacket . . . only to run...
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- Feb 28, 2022
- 3 min
Getting your glow back
Winter shows its face after Christmas. This year especially, January and February have brought gales, storms and ice to harden the earth...
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- Feb 21, 2022
- 2 min
Fancy a challenge? Know Thyself!
Next week, on the first of March, I’ll be starting a round of #MarchMeetTheMaker, a social media challenge run on Instagram every year...
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- Feb 14, 2022
- 2 min
Love is in the air...
Different ingredients result in a different final product, so how you incorporate them into a
soap recipe is important.
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- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
The benefits of using essential oils.
The benefits of using essential oils are well documented, and you can take advantage of these benefits by choosing natural products like the
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- Jan 31, 2022
- 3 min
52 books in 2022
I’m going to take a wee break from my series about soap making to write about something else: book club. I don’t belong to a book club,...
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- Jan 24, 2022
- 2 min
How do you make your soap?
“How do you make your soap?” is a question I’m often asked, and like anyone who loves what they do I can talk about it for hours. And I...
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- Jan 17, 2022
- 3 min
Getting started with your own soap making business.
We’re just over two weeks into the new year – how’s 2022 starting out for you? One of my #gardeninggoals this year was to take some good...
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- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
2022, I'm ready for you!
Happy New Year everyone from my family to yours! It’s great to be back. This morning I was up again for my morning meditation and yoga...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
The Last One...
So here it is! The last blog post of the year. It’s been a good one, overall. Even with all the challenges and heart ache, as I sit here,...
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- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
Gratitude
The last working weekend of the year. I came home from a morning running errands to a dining room table full of parcels. Okay, maybe not...
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- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Gardening and all its glory!
Both girls will be back at school tomorrow, and we will be able to start making plans for the next couple of weeks. We’ve been in...
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- Nov 29, 2021
- 3 min
The Shepherd's Cottage Christmas Gift Guide.
Lismore is undoubtably a beautiful place to visit, with breath-taking scenery that will uplift your soul in any weather. It is rich in...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
Lockdown, mark two.
I’ve said before that I am not a good candidate for a pandemic: if this were a dystopian movie, I would be the hysterical woman at the...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Back home from Crathes Christmas fair
After all the making, wrapping and packing up, on Thursday I drove to Aberdeen for Crathes Castle Christmas fair. It was time to get my...
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- Nov 8, 2021
- 3 min
Get set, go!
It’s all go here at Shepherds Cottage. Getting ready for my first Christmas fair is vastly different to getting ready for any other fair...
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- Nov 1, 2021
- 3 min
The Christmas Collection...
I’ve made my Christmas cake, have you? I never wait for Stir Up Sunday – the traditional day for Christmas pudding or cake making,...
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- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
Island Hopping
The girls and I spent the single sunny day we had during the school holidays having an adventure on Kerrera. It’s true that you seldom...
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- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Autumn on the farm
I’ve loved reading all the autumnal posts on Facebook and Instagram, indulging in the beautifully photographed leaves in streams, soaps...
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Talking about soap...
Last week I did an online course about Google, SEO’s and blogging with Maddy Shine Maddy Shine SEO Queen & Visibility Coach. Besides her...
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- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
Every cloud has a silver lining.
It’s been really wet and windy on the island, which on the one hand is lovely as it’s filling up our water reserves, but on the other,...
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- Sep 20, 2021
- 2 min
I’m home!
It’s been a week since I came back from Glasgow, having spent a week selling soaps in the John Lewis in Buchanan Galleries. It’s taken a...
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- Sep 6, 2021
- 1 min
Be right back!
All I did last week was hustle. And now, I’m hoping to see all that hard work pay off. The blog is going to have to wait a while – I’m...
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- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Getting it together...
I start most days with lists: a list of things to do that day, a list of things happening during the week, a list of affirmations!
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- Aug 23, 2021
- 2 min
New beginnings.
Last week was a week for new beginnings, for sure. The girls had their first week of primary school, their teacher had her first week in...
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- Aug 16, 2021
- 2 min
What's new?..
What’s new? In the Shepherd’s Cottage house, I’ve just put my girls on the school bus, and they’re away to “ask her (their teacher) who...
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