Saturday, August 30, 2008

HURRICANE GUSTAV!

Hi Friends!

It seems that I just posted this same urgent message a few weeks ago! Ah, living in the Gulf Coast Region and Hurricane Season = what a mess!

We are under a weather advisory at this time - Hurricane "GUSTAV" is headed our way! We are going to be working orders up until the storm hits us. We are preparing for the storm, but will not be evacuating.

We may be without electricity so we have stockpiled gasoline and prepped the generator.

(fyi - we are 60 miles north of Houston - we are pretty close to the Gulf so we get a lot of the crazy weather!)

Please keep us in your thoughts! I am praying that we won't have any damaging winds to knock our electricity out, but with these crazy storms you just never know!

So, if you do not hear from me ... this is why! Bad weather = no electricty!

For all the folks in the path of the storm - STAY SAFE!

Thank you!
Stacy & the Day-Star Crew

Friday, August 29, 2008

LET'S CELEBRATE WITH A SALE!

HiYa Friends!

Let's Celebrate our Good Fortune!

As many of you know: Day-Star Candle & Soap Supply, llc will now be the new home for Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils.

To make it easier for you, we will have a page on our website clearly indicating "Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies" to help navigate quickly and efficiently to your oil needs.

We have personal experience with many of Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils from use of our candle line ~ we know that the oils are high quality! We know that you will be just as excited once you have a chance to sample these oils!

Our oils are arriving daily! Below is the list of Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies oils we now have IN STOCK NOW and ready to go:

[i]Please Note: These are also available in our Regular Sampler Packs ~ look at the dropdown menu for the Soap Silly section!![/i]

Amande Coco (compare to Almond Coconut type)
Bamboo Sugar Cane
Cafe au Lait
Chocolate Covered Marshmallows *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Fresh Zest for Life (compare to CLEAN type)
Cinnamon Vanilla
Coconut
Coconut Island Breeze *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Cranberry Yuzu
Creme Vanille
Decandent Chocolate Cupcake *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Fleur d'Orchidee de Banane *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Fresh Lemon Curd
Frosted Cupcake
Green Irish Tweed
Green Tea & Willow
Hamakua Banana
Haruko
Intoxicating Coconut *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Italian Cream Cake
Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcake *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
L'Magique (compare to L'heure Magique type)
Light Blue Sky (compare to Light Blue)
Marshmallow THE ORIGINAL
Pink Buttercream Frosting
Pink Magnolia
Polynesian Plumeria
Pumpkin Frappuccino *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Southern Style Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Spiced Cranapple Cider
Sugar Cookies *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
Sumatra Coffee
Sweet Pumpkin (THE BEST PUMPKIN EVER!!!)
Tahitian Love *Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies Exclusive!
The Princess (compare to Princess type)
Vanilla Tootsie Roll
Vanilla Cannelle (compare to Vanille Cannelle type)
Vanilla Orchid
Vermont Apple Pie
Very Pink (compare to Truly Pink type)

In Celebration of our newest acquisition - let's have a sale!

Celebration Details as follows:
15% off ANY & ALL orders = Use Code: [b]SSWS [/b]at checkout! AND....
FREE SHIPPING on ALL orders OVER $150.00 (1/2 off International orders) AND...
EVERY Order over $50.00 receives (your choice) FREE 8oz "Sweet Pea Petals" or 8oz "Felicity" fragrance oil ~ just add you choice in the COMMENTS section!

The Fine Print ~ Disclaimers as follows:
Only (2) Sampler Packs per household will receive discount ~ All other Packs will be regular price
FREE SHIPPING applicable to Continental US (international orders will receive 1/2 off shipping)
Pre-Existing orders are not applicable
Sale BEGINS: Friday, August 29th at 3:00 pm CST
Sale ENDS: Tuesday, September 1st at 3:00 pm CST

Any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@daystarsupplies.com ~ Email is the BEST way to reach us since we are in the shop working throughout the day and unable to answer the telephone!

Thank you for your continued support! Have a fabulous & safe Labor Day Weekend!

Stacy Herrod & The Day-Star Crew

P.S. "Salty Sailor" is on the site now, too!

[url]http://www.daystarsupplies.com/p-s.htm#SaltySailor[/url]

Saturday, August 16, 2008

BACK IN STOCK!

The following fragrances are now BACK IN STOCK:

Black Tea - Nature's Cauldron Collection
Creme de la Creme
Southern Iced Tea
- Southern Hospitality Collection
Spice Market
Turquoise
Vanilla of Madagascar


It still shows these as "OUT OF STOCK" but they are indeed back! We've just not had the chance to remove the notice!

Thanks!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

SSWS FRAGRANCE LINE-UP

Okay ... here's what we will be stocking first:

Almond Coconut type - name is changing to "Amande Coco"

Bamboo Sugar Cane

Cafe au Lait
Chocolate Covered Marshmallows
Chocolate Fatale
Cinnamon Vanilla
Coconut
Coconut Island Breeze
Cranberry Yuzu
Creme Vanille

Decadent Chocolate Cupcake
Fleur d'Orchidee de Banane
Fresh Lemon Curd
Frosted Cupcake

Green Irish Tweed
Green Tea & Willow

Hamakua Banana
Haruko

Intoxicating Coconut
Italian Cream Cake

Lemon Cream Cheese Cupcake
L'Heure Magique type - will be changing the name of this
Light Blue Sky

Marshmallow THE ORIGINAL

Oatmeal Milk & Honey

Pink Buttercream Frosting
Pink Magnolia
Polynesian Plumeria
Pumpkin Spice Frappucinno

Southern Style Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Sugar Cookies
Sumatra Coffee
Sweet Pumpkin


Tahitian Love
The Princess

Vanilla Tootsie Roll
Vanilla Cannelle
Vanille Orchidee type - changing name to "Vanilla Orchid"
Vermont Apple Pie
Very Pink

Stay tuned ~ we are working on it ALL right now!! :)

~Stacy

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

EXCITING ANNOUCNEMENT!

Day-Star Candle & Soap Supply, llc is excited to announce that we will now be the new home for Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils.

We feel that the purchase of Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils is an excellent compliment to our current fragrance line. Over the next few months we will slowly begin adding Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils to our stock. We will begin adding the best-selling fragrances first!

In order to quickly stock up: We will run pre-buys for you, our loyal customer, to help save you money! To make it easier for you, we will have a page on our website clearly indicating “Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies” to help navigate quickly and efficiently to your oil needs.

We have personal experience with many of Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils from use of our candle line ~ we know that the oils are high quality! We truly appreciate this opportunity that Johanna offered to us. She has worked for many years testing and developing her line of fragrances. It is such a compliment to know how hard she has worked on her line and to trust us with her oils to grow it forward. We know that you will be just as excited once you have a chance to sample these oils!

Our website is http://www.DayStarSupplies.com

Also, which Soap Silly Wholesale Supplies fragrance oils would you like to see us add first?

Please email me OFFLIST info @ daystarsupplies.com

Please have patience while we are in the transformation stage! The updates to our website may take a bit of time, but we are working incorporating the fragrance oils to our site!


Please email Stacy with any questions or comments – info@daystarsupplies.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

COMPLAINTS & SUCH

COMPLAINTS & SUCH

I was perusing the message boards and ran across a thread about our newest Lushies fragrance oils. I usually just sit back and do not chime in on the threads, but this particular comment really rubbed me the wrong way. I won’t reply to the thread in question ~ that will just be a train wreck in the making and will end up deleted.

Some think that we are charging “more” for these Lushies due to their popularity. I BEG TO DIFFER. That is completely unjust & flat out rude to even consider such a thing!

First of all, I offer strongly concentrated fragrances. I could offer you less expensive oil, but it won’t be as good. I pride myself in offering STRONG, top-quality fragrances. We all want top quality, but you’re not going to get it cheap. Yes, I will admit – we do have pricier oils than other places around, but like I said before top quality isn’t cheap.

Yes, I know, I know... we can't please everyone, but we do try!

As you are aware, the cost of consumer products is increasing daily. The fragrance industry is no different, and it is currently being affected by increases of raw ingredients. We have absorbed other price increases in the past and will continue to strive to offer the most competitive pricing available for the top-notch fragrance quality that you receive from us.

Let me give you an example of what I am talking about: one particular manufacturer that we use has increased our pricing by 10 PERCENT within the LAST TWO MONTHS. No, we have NOT passed this increase onto our customers ~ we are doing our very best to absorb any and all increases. YES, you read that correctly an increase of TEN PERCENT!

In instances such as this, we are forced to increase our Sampler Pack pricing and re-evaluate several of our exclusive duplication sample prices. By re-evaluating the pricing tier, we have implemented the new Sampler Packs to accommodate those particular fragrances and to help you save a little money by ordering in a pack.

We do want to stress that we are NOT INCREASING OUR PRICES across the board or anything that drastic.

I am sure that this post will get me blasted for saying all this, but I would like to set the record straight here and now. So, what better place to do so than our blog?

Thanks to those of you that understand!

Have a great evening,

Stacy & the Day-Star Crew

Edited to add:
Gentle reminder ~ this post is our intellectual property, and is strictly for our company blog & is NOT to be copied & pasted elsewhere.

Monday, August 4, 2008

URGENT! TROPICAL STORM ALERT!!

URGENT!
TROPICAL STORM ALERT!
www.DayStarSupplies.com

Good Monday Morning!

We are under a weather advisory at this time - Tropical Storm "Edouard" is headed in our path. We are going to be working orders today & preparing for the storm. We are on the northeast side of this storm once it hits land so we expect to have high winds and rain. We may be without electricity so we are stockpiling our gasoline and pulling out the generator. Here is a link to read about this quick storm: Edouard

(fyi - we are 60 miles north of Houston - we are pretty close to the Gulf so we get a lot of the crazy weather!)

Please keep us in your thoughts! I am praying that we won't have any damaging winds to knock our electricity out, but with these crazy storms you just never know!

So, if you do not hear from me ... this is why! Bad weather = no electricty!

I hope everyone has a great week! For all the folks in the path of the storm - STAY SAFE!

Thank you!
Stacy & the Day-Star Crew