Located in Girdwood Alaska is a fantastic little shop called Babes in the Woods, nestled among the white capped mountains and ski chairlifts. The owner, Shelbi Lynne, focuses on carrying handcrafted art, including our very own Gladheart Acres soaps and bath bliss.
Below are some pictures from her incredibly happy and colorful shop.
Babes in the Woods is located at :
109 & 111 Olympic Mountain Loop Girdwood, Alaska 99587
Phone #: 907-529-1992
It’s been a while since I have shown any pictures from our shop. These were taken in early July when we moved everything around. With the holidays just around the corner (gasp!) we will be constantly shifting and moving everything…making room for more merchandise and filling the holes that are left after you buy it :)
Above are Alaskan Flower Pounded Tee Shirts… on sale for $10 each or 2/$18…great for you or to give.
And in the background Moonsisters Studios wonderful candles!
I can be there for you when it can’t get much harder.
I can cover your head when life starts to rain.
I can hold on tight when it feels like your falling.
I can bread-crumb the path when you’ve lost your way.
I can make you laugh when the whole world is crying.
I can build you up when you’re broken in shame.
But if all that we do is absent of Jesus,
Then this “so called” love is completely in vain.
By: Mercy Me “The Generous Mr. Lovewell”
Picture by Haylee Shields :)
Picture source unknown, but isn’t it lovely?
“Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: Thy blessing is upon Thy people.”
Psalm 3:8
Inside of our Saturday Market booth.
We will NOT be at Saturday Market this Saturday (Aug. 14th) because we are going to attend a wedding :) We will be open at our Wasilla shop 10-3 pm.
We have just filled our soap baskets and lotion shelves at the shop so come visit us, we would love to see you! :)
The following pictures were taken in our backyard by my very dear and gifted daughter Heather. It’s been a RAINY summer and everything is growing wild…but unless it’s the vegetable garden, the wildness is beautiful. Speaking of the garden, a moose ate all our peas! We have alot of potatoes still growing (amongst the weeds) but everything else is pretty water-logged. Enjoy the pictures :)
Our Creek
Ok, so we have had SOME sun, we captured it on film :)
In the summer around our house rhubarb almost becomes a food group in itself…we eat soooo much of it. Below is one of our favorite recipes, best served warm with Vanilla Bean ice cream or homemade whipped cream…yummo!
1 cup flour
5 TBS. icing sugar
1/4 c. butter
Topping:
2 eggs, beaten
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup flour
2 cups rhubarb (other other fruit; good with raspberries)
Blend crust ingredients. Press into ungreased 9x9” pan. Mix all topping ingredients and pour on crust. Bake @ 350 for 30 minutes.
* recipe from Farmhouse Cooking
Here is the long overdue and much anticipated pick of the week…
Onesies and toddler tees by Salty Starfish Designs!
Salty Starfish Designs is a Wasilla owned business by busy mom Maria and we all love her tees because they are beautifully designed, locally made and include some Alaskana themes. They have been flying off the shelves and are reasonably priced at $15 each…great for gifts or an Alaskan memory.
There are 2 things we have always been told not to talk about: religion and politics. Well I have never paid much mind to the rule regarding religion (which by the way, I like to refer to as ‘relationship’ as in my relationship with God Himself…how awesome is that ?!?) … faith is interwoven into my very being and I am so very thankful. Buuut… regarding politics, I can usually avoid getting into passionate debates even though I myself have some very precise and pointed opinions regarding the subject :) But I must mention that last night some of my older girls & I went to a Meet & Greet with Joe Miller who is running for US Senate. He is a Christian, a Constitutionalist and an Alaskan… in otherwards, a wonderful candidate. Impressive.
Please check out his website www.JoeMiller.us
Also in other exciting news… at the above mentioned Meet & Greet we met 2 lovely sisters from the Alaskan bush village of Galena. They happen to be Gladheart gals (aka customers :) ) and they told us of an interesting and unique use for our Vanilla lotion…apparently vanilla is a gnat deterrent (and the bush is full of the nasty little biters). Simply slather yourself with our Vanilla lotion and the gnats will hover about but not land. And of course, it’s deet free :) However we cannot promise that our Vanilla lotion will keep anything else away :)
Have a safe and blessed 4th of July.
Notice: We will be closed Monday July 5th. See you Tuesday 10-6, come in and see what we have rearranged :)
Hello Friends,
I have been absent from my blog as we were having difficulties with the blogging program and since I am computer illiterate, I was at the mercy of my computer guru hubby. All is better now, complete with a beautiful new background, kudos to Shabby Creations for her beautiful blog design (and an updated website in the works!)
We have been getting some wonderful/lovely new goodies in the shop…little handmade birdie keychains and little pouffy heart pins, vintage style wrapping paper, more scarves (sold almost completely out of an order the day we put them out!) and locally made appliqued tee shirts for the little ones… and more! And more coming! Yay! (please let me know what kinds of products you would like us to carry, we would love to hear from you).
Yummmm, we have been experimenting with some new soap scents and will be offering them soon… I have a new favorite :)
On the home front, we continue to pack boxes and prepare our home to sell. I think we will be putting it on Craigslist later this week. We have been looking a little north of Wasilla to move to but have nothing specific in mind… I admit that it can be a little unsettling for this Mama!
We continue to love Saturday Market, this is our 8th year and it is going well (downtown Anchorage, we are on the back row) and we are also doing the Wasilla Farmer’s Market on Wednesdays (weather permitting).
And in the garden we have been enjoying a nice mixture of sun and rain; we have peas, potatoes, beans, zucchini, lettuce and herbs growing quite nicely, as well as a plethora of weeds, lol.
Several of our children are participating in the National Bible Bee www.biblebee.org and it is so nice to hear their precious voices quoting beautiful scriptures throughout the day.
A new Hannah’s Pick is on the way later this week.
XOXO,
Tammy
For her week 2 pick Hannah chose our Simply Devine Electric Candles. We have carried these gems for years and they have continually been a best seller . Available in 2 sizes and a variety of yummy scents these are a safe way to gently scent your room. They are made of scented wax and then warmed slightly by the glow of a small bulb (dipped to look like a candle flame~how cute is that !?). After a few months the scent will fade, we have refresher oils and replacement bulbs. These are a ‘candle’ that can literally last forever! We love them and use them ourselves, we have several in our home but our favorite scent depends on who in the family you ask! Mine is Hazelnut Latte while Hannah swoons over the Vintage Vanilla and Sweet Pea ones.
Because these are so wonderful, unique, long-lasting and packaged in nice boxes, our Simply Devine Electric Candles make excellent house-warming, senior citizen, anniversary, birthday or ‘just because’ gifts.
And this holiday season be sure to check out our holiday scents! Hannah’s pick this week will certainly keep you glowing :)
We have a whole pond of these wonderful rubber ducks at our shop, aanndd we are expecting some really cool, brightly- colored polka dot ones any day! Wahoo, bathe away!
(From Sesame Street which I haven’t watched in YEARS but I still remember, with great fondness, this fun song)
Rubber Duckie, you're the one,
You make bathtime lots of fun,
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you;
Woo woo be doo
Rubber Duckie, joy of joys,
When I squeeze you, you make noise!
Rubber Duckie, you're my very best friend, it's true!
Doo doo doo doo, doo doo
Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who's
Cute and yellow and chubby
Rub-a-dub-a-dubby!
Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of you.
Every day when I
Make my way to the tubby
I find a little fella who's
Cute and yellow and chubby
Rubber Duckie, you're so fine
And I'm lucky that you're mine
Rubber Duckie, I'm awfully fond of -
Rubber Duckie, I'd like a whole pond of -
Rubber Duckie I'm awfully fond of you!
Doo doo, be doo
Hannah is our 15 year old daughter who works with me on most Saturdays. She is very creative, has an eye for beauty and is developing a good business sense. We have a lot of fun in the shop together. Recently Hannah got very excited when reading over the back of our Lavender Dryer Sachets and thus our idea for ‘Hannah’s Pick of the Week’ was born, we hope to feature each week a product that Hannah loves.
Aren’t these beautiful? The back of the package says:
“ Bring home the scent of lavender with our organic Lavender Dryer Sachets. Each sachet will last up to 6 cycles in the dryer and your laundry will be left with the scent of fresh lavender fields. Afterwards , the lavender will make a great carpet freshener—just open the sachet and sprinkle on your carpet before vacuuming.”
What Hannah loves about these: the beautiful packaging, the lovely lavender scent and the value.
My Mother’s Day Bouquet
Last week was very overwhelming… it seemed that everything that could go wrong, did. At times like that I often will take my eyes off of the Lord and focus instead on all that is going on around me… all the negative anyways. When at last it seemed that I could do no more, handle no more, think no more, I heard the still small voice of my Heavenly Father reminding me to count my blessings. Here is a short list in no particular order:
*Friends ~ we are incredibly and wonderfully blessed to be surrounded by loving, caring people including the family who loaned us their car (complete with a full tank of gas!) and fixed the brakes on our van without charge. And gratitude overflows from the depths of my heart when I consider the God who answers prayer and all those friends who are praying for us.
*Customers and a business we love~ it was a slow week at the store but there were customers and the Lord wanted me to remember that fact…. those who came in, who praised our store, who love our soaps, who spent their hard-earned money in our shop rather than somewhere else. We are still working with our hands, together, all these years later and in spite of slow times, in spite of supplier problems, in spite of rising shipping costs and shipping impossibilities, it is a blessing without measure.
* Home and hearth~ we continue to have a comfortable home, wood for the fire (yes even in May we sometimes need one!), food to eat and lots of love to share… the simple everyday blessings that so many around the world go without and yet we often take for granted.
*A royal court~ here in my home I am queen, the Mama who presides over her royal court along side her husbandly king. My husband and children are my family, my friends, my loves. I am treated far above my station and expectations and it is a joyous position I hold.
* The Word of God~ true spiritual meat, soul refreshment, encouragement in drought time, life and water. Who can put a value on the blessing of being able to hold God’s very word in my own hands? Priceless.
So just like the hymn “Count Your Blessings” admonishes : “When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed, When you are discouraged thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done”. Amen to that.
Mother Prayer
Dear Lord,
today we pray for mothers--
our own mothers, and mothers everywhere,
who have made such a major contribution
to the good qualities we have,
sometimes through genetics,
more often through great effort and patient instruction,
and who have done their best
to gently polish away our rough edges.
Lord, please bless our mothers
for the endless hours of time they spent
and the boundless energy they invested in us.
Bless our mothers for their sacrifices on our behalf
as they often gave up or deferred their own dreams
so that we could have ours.
Bless our mothers for always being there for us,
for being the person we know we can turn to
when we need comfort, encouragement, or just a hug.
Bless our mothers for making a home for us
where we could feel safe, where we felt we belonged.
Most of all, Lord,
bless our mothers for their unconditional love,
for loving us no matter what,
and for frequently showing love
in ways that make us feel valued and cherished.
Lord, please bless our mothers mightily.
Strengthen them, soothe them,
wrap them in Your infinite love
and shower them with blessings
too numerous to count, too magnificent to describe.
We love them, admire them, respect them,
and we wish that You would give them back
many times the good they gave to us.
In Jesus' name we pray; Amen.
By Joanna Fuchs
We have lots of beautiful gifts and bath bliss to treat your Mama with and to give her a GLAD HEART. Our store hours are Mon-Fri 10-6 pm and Saturday 11-5.
And while supplies last we are having a give-away with every purchase.
Our Give-Away: One beautiful hand-dipped silicone light bulb in scrumptious pastel colors. These are perfect for nightlights, welcome lights, electric candles, etc.
One per customer please and while supplies last.
We have put these on sale so you can stock up! They are perfect for spring decorating and don’t forget Mother’s Day on May 9th.
These beautiful Made-in-the-USA heart shaped floral pillows are currently 40% off!
The matching table runners are also 40% off.
We have been filling up the store with neat things and also have a large assortment of soaps, lotions, scrubs and other bliss back in stock.
Come visit us soon, we love to see you!
We have several locally made bunnies, all with their own personality, here to celebrate spring.
We have a pair of these handcrafted rockers for sale, buy the pair or purchase just one. And wouldn’t that bunny make the cutest Mother’s Day gift?
Just one of the many vintage linens that recently arrived.
Think pink and pretty.
More lovelies, to give or keep (smile)
It was a lovely day for a drive to Fairbanks. The mountain was stunning and the sun shining. We are all set up and hope to see you soon!
PS This photo was taken with hubby’s I phone, emailed to me then blogged. Gotta love technology.
We will be at the Woman’s Show in Fairbanks Friday-Sunday April 8,9 & 10 at the Carlson Center. We will have a booth full of our soaps, lotions, sugar scrubs, bath salts, lip balms, candles, and other bliss. Please stop by and say hi…we’re looking forward to seeing you again!
For our local customers, we will be open at our shop in Wasilla
Fri. 10-6 & Sat. 11-5
