Why am I so slack at doing these blog posts????? I don’t know, the days and weeks just seem to go by till I get an email from my web team saying……”Samantha, do you think you should maybe do a new post?” I know I’m in trouble when they call me Samantha. Only joking – well I do get the email, but I’m not in trouble.

Do you find that life just gets in the way of everything? I know I do.  By the time, I work my day job, run my business, be a single mum and well try to have some interests I’ve run out of time.I’ve spent some serious time this weekend working out a more efficient schedule for myself. I know my most productive hours and I need to use them!!!! I currently have 3 blogs that I need to be active on, including this one….so I am scheduled in 30min a day for blogging.  I’m not making any promises about how often you will get updates, and I may share the same posts between blogs, but I am trying to do more.

So what is going on with Some Kind Of Bliss??? Well, I have shut down the retail space.  I had one year to go on the lease, but as the other shops around me had all ready gone, I was finding it unsustainable.  So we finally found someone to take over the balance of the lease – it cost a fortune, but it means that as of January 2011, I will have my weekends back.  I am still operating till, Xmas, especially as it’s bus season – but I am doing so from the warehouse at Dickens and Hawthorne. Online is picking up pacemaker which is great, and I’m starting to get orders for Xmas hampers and corporate gifts which are fantastic.

So now for some content…….

I have some AMAZING bargains at the moment.  6 soaps for $5!!!! I will add it to the website tonight.  The soaps are assorted soaps from 60-100gm.  They are all triple milled, and come in fragrances like milk & honey, lavender and peppermint & Agra shell.

The current Drenched packaging is on it’s way out, so over the next few weeks if you place an order the packaging may vary, but as usual I will send a little gift if it’s not exactly what you ordered.

I’ve just put the Infused Lemongrass and Lime in my lounge room and I am sososo in love with it.  Wow, it’s like a burst of summer every time you walk past.  I wish I could invent scratch and sniff web screens so you cooed experience what I am talking about….memo to self, look up some fragrance sample cards to send with orders.

Now to stuff I find really interesting (non work related).  There has been a recent discussion about if social media can influence social change. Well I say yes it can!!! It may not be the same as 50,000 people appearing in a march somewhere, but I for one am more aware of many international issues because of social media.   I find the news here in Australia can sometimes be so limited, that I take time to catch up on international events and issues online every day.  I have a rss feed app on my iPhone and iPad so that when I have ghat spare 5 minutes I can catch up on blogs I subscribe to, and news pages I prefer instead of wading through garbage.

There are many examples of the power of social media.  I ask you to look at this one clip.  It was Oprah and the Black Eyed Peas doing there thang…..the whole things was organised via social media. Wow!!!!

Don’t forget if you or someone you know is after some corporate gifts, or some own branded products send me an email sam@somekindofbliss.com