***NEWSFLASH*** -- New store

Hey ya'll!!!

Things are coming together... We're SCRAMBLING!!!

And...

***DRUMROLL***

We have our open house this weekend! If you're in the area, be sure to stop by!!!

CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE

at

Master's Hand Candle Co. & Gift Shop

(Just south of Tekemah on HWY 75-- Old Nordstrom Bldg)

Saturday, Dec. 6th

2-6 pm

Door Prizes... Refreshments... Live Music... and Amazing Sales!!!

We'll have Face Painting and Balloons from 2-4!

Come see first hand how things are looking around here!!! I'll be posting pictures of everything after it's all over!

*** Hobby Lobby NEWSFLASH ***

Yesterday afternoon Hooby Lobby went 90% off on all fall/Thanksgiving stuff!!!!

Don't walk... RUN! :o)

Want a tour??

Alrighty! I'm in Branson MO this week.... but thought I'd post this quick!

So... if you find yourself in the unfortunate position of being bored to death... And if ya have 12 minutes to kill... And you want to spend it checking out our new building.... Here's a "tour" Gracie recorded the day we closed on the building! :o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaIwzrabpq8

September 9th...

Okay... I looked... **gasp** September 9th was the last time I posted. That's almost 2 months ago.

TWO MONTHS!

May I beg your forgiveness? Plead, perhaps?

In my defence, a LOT has happened since September 9th!!!

Namely... WE BOUGHT A BUILDING!!!!

A GI-NORMOUS building!!! In fact... At home, we had our candle stuff in several rooms. The combine sq. footage of those rooms was approx. 800ish. Want to know how big our new building is??! OVER 10,000 SQ. FEET!!!! Lots and lots of room to grow!!! No more carrying 60 lbs. boxes of wax dooooown the stairs.... And no more carrying the finished candles uppppp the stairs! We're all on one level and can roll pallets of stuff around... Back around to the back door and load the truck right there... It's fantastic!

We'll have a storefront where we can sell our candles, my JUNK, ect... (It is in the process of bring completely gutted and redone! LOTS of fun but I'm supposed to have it done by the weekend before Thanksgiving! Besides pouring thousands of candles! TONS of fun... but... YIKES!!!)

A WHOLE room just for my workshop and beloved tools! Yeah baby!

WE'RE EXCITED AND LOVING IT!!!!!

More details to follow! :o)

P.S. Sorry Rachel.... I know I said I'd post last week, but my computer charger diiiied!

Just got it fixed! YAY!

Want to see our babies??!

Our spring babies sure have grown, haven't they??

Brandy's 'lil one!

Gypsy's Baby!

And my favorite... Maggie's colt.

All boys!! Go figure!

I'm back!

After a brief reprieve... (And not one that I wanted... the camera just wouldn't upload the pictures for me! And who wants to read a blogpost of mine without pictures??!)

Want to see a bit of what Caleb did for the fair??

Remember these bottles?

Well... Caleb made a "bottle bug!"

Isn't he cute??! Oh what you can do with a bottle... a little copper wire... and a few beads!

And... Do you want to see what he made for the "Recycling" class??!

The thing that got wow's everywhere it went??!

The thing that the judge said was the most creative thing she had ever seen entered in the class??!

The thing that won RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION??! (Yay Caleb!! 2nd year in a row, baby!)

Prepare to be amazed here people!

So what do you do with...

A spindle....

A cast from an unfortunate event this spring...

A very thick medical book, drill, gorilla glue...

And a sock and some stuffing?

Why, with a little imagination and work...

Make a LAMP of course!!!! :o)

Way to go Caleb!!

What exactly do I do, anyway??

Okay... someone asked what exactly it is I do at the fairs on weekends? Well... here goes... A look into my summers!


Our family owns and runs a "family entertainment buisness" called Sonshine & Company. We do...

SHAVED ICE

CAPPUCCINO FREEZES

FRUIT SMOOTHIES

WILD ISLAND SLUSHIE DRINKS

BLOOMIN' CARAMEL APPLES

MINI MELTS (Kinda lke Dippin' Dots only better! :o) lol!)

COTTON CANDY

And we also have a moonwalk bounce house... train rides... baseball radar throw... face painting... occationally balloon animals... ummm... I think that's it. I loose track! ;o)

So there's a reader's digest version of what we do!

What else have I been up to this summer?

Well... as you may haave guessed... Fairs pretty much summed up my summer. However last week, Grace, Alatheia, and I all went down to my Grandma's to teach a Bible club.


It. Was. A. Blast.




We had WAY too much fun!



We went from 7 kids to 14 kids. The water balloon fight the last day really upped attendence. ;o) lol! Sadly, **cough cough** I had a wedding shower afterwards, so I couldn't get wet. Aww! lol!

Aaand... we had a blast on our "off time" too!

The mighty headhunter!

The bearded women!

Yeah! We had a blast!

Oh, what I'll do for my brother and a few bottles!!

Okay... So Caleb and I have spent the last 2 days getting ready for his 4-H fair. He's been brainstorming and coming up with brilliant ideas! Well... a few of his projects involve bottles. Oh yeah... bottles. I love bottles!! :o) (I know, I know... call me weird!)

Anyway... He found this spot down by the creek last fall where someone dumped a bunch of bottles. So we got the brilliant idea to got get some. I didn't account on 2 things.

Mosquitoes and nettles.

OUCH!!! By the time I got down the creek bank and was looking for them, I didn't want to go back. So... I thought I'd just keep going. That was a mistake! As much as I love bottles... It wasn't worth it!!! lol! By the time I got back, I was itchy all over and had over 50 bug bites!

But that all said and done... Caleb and I found 48 bottles. Some are cooler than others... But oh the memories we'll have of them!

And yes... We got them all cleaned up... They look so much better now! :o)

I'll post pictures of what we did with them later! :o)

TOP 10 REASONS WHY I DIDN’T POST DURING THE MONTH OF JULY:

I know... I know... Excuses, excuses!! But here's mine!!

Remember… In July there are 31 days. Out of those 31 days:

1. We had events booked every single weekend.
2. Actually… We had only 11 days in which didn’t have any events scheduled.
3. Each one of those 11 days at home was spent preparing for the next events.
4. We had 16 separate events ranging from 2 hours to 6 days long.
5. Which makes an average of 4 events per weekend.
6. We had 3 county fairs. (They’re harder as they generally last 5-6 days each)
7. I got to wear the Sonshine & Co. red t-shirt and denim 20 times this month.
8. We had events ranging from Kansas to Nebraska to Iowa to South Dakota.
9. I’ve been stretched WAY out of my comfort zone! Nearly every weekend I took a trailer by myself to talk to the big person in charge at the event, find out where to set up, get everything ready to go, and work it all weekend with some great helpers. Not my usual cup of tea!
10. So therefore… To summarize… I’ve been too busy!

Don’t feel unimportant though! There are other things that got pushed to the wayside this month along with my blogging. Vital things like cleaning the house, pulling weeds in all the flower beds and gardens. (I actually just got done with weeding some of the flower beds. Some of the weeds were as tall as I am. Amazing how fast they can grow!) taking care of my poor herb garden, (Haven’t spent much quality time with “Herb” lately) Cooking any “real” meals, riding horses. (Haven’t done that all summer come to think of it! Want to come out to my house, anyone??!)

But on the upside… I now have a new perspective on what “busy” really means!!! :o) lol

Hopefully I can start blogging a little more now that July is over! July was the INSANE month… August is just BUSY! :o)