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Another Puces Pop come and gone! Thank you for coming out to visit us this weekend. A weekend of chatting, showing our Spring & Summer collection, catching up with maker friends, and celebrating handmade. We sold out of everything Lilac scented!

Here are some of my favourite photos from this weekend, and some of the lovely vendors I was lucky enough to meet or see again. I came home with a brand...

You guys know by now that Dot & Lil is a huge lover and supporter of other handmade businesses and the handmade community as a whole, especially in Canada! I wanted to share project run by Alison at The Petit Cadeau blog that really celebrates and highlights all things handmade! Alison is running her very first marathon at the New York City Marathon at the beginning of November! That's a pretty...

Next weekend is that time again, time for Spring Puces Pop! We will have all of our Spring & Summer collections available, plus select items on sale (Shea Rescue butters for lips & nails are still on sale for $6!) and our regularly awesome 3 for $18 soap show-deal.

 A handy little list of what shows and events Dot & Lil will be participating in this fall and winter! Lots of other great handmade, handcrafted, local artisans too. I know where I'll do MY holiday shopping!

Boite de Noël annual holiday sale
Thursday October 13th 6-9 p.m
Friday October 14th 10 a.m. to 9 p.m
Saturday October 15th 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday October 16th 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Royal St Lawrence...

It isn't quite thanksgiving yet, but I'm overflowing with thankfulness these days! Last night, I hosted a small gathering to thank the Dot & Lil helpers who helped me get a big order out the door in the past few weeks. I couldn't, absolutely couldn't, have done it without them. It was a lovely evening.

I made bow pasta with ricotta, spinach, pine nuts and chorizo sausage that was loosely inspired...

There's been a very unusual-for-me blog hiatus for a week or so, but now I'm back! And there are lots of new things going on at Dot & Lil!

The Montreal Gift Show ended yesterday, and happily we will be announcing a bunch of new retailers that met us at the show and want to carry Dot & Lil in their locations & stores. Exciting! As their orders get shipped in the next few weeks, I will be adding...

Well guys, who knows why I waited so long, but after years of having my own website, trying out an ArtFire shop, etc, I have FINALLY signed up and opened a shop at the Mother of all online craft venues, Etsy!

My shops at www.dotandlil.com and www.artfire.comwill still remain open. I will have to see if the ArtFire shop is here to stay--I may shut it down...

I wanted to share a few new pictures of Dot & Lil goodies. I actually took and edited these myself, which is new for me, so let me know what you think!

Lilac scented 'The Tea Party' soap set with fine bone English china cup & saucer


Rice Flower 'Lend a Hand' soap (all profits are donated to the Dot & Lil Kiva Team)


Unscented shaving soap set,...

I haven't been around quite as much lately, on twitter or the blog. Have you missed me? I'm right in the middle of a great big production run that will take us all the way to the holidays, basically. What that means is that there's so much soap around here, we could drown an elephant in bubbles. No, really! There's at least 600 bars hanging out waiting...

Our killer sale ends tomorrow! Until midnight on July 15th, everything in our online ArtFire shop is 25% off! That's a pretty great deal, and we hardly ever have sales around here so take advantage!

Go browse through handmade soaps, perfumes, gift sets and milk bath, all for a discounted price with reasonable shipping! The shop can be found here.

I've been using Dot & Lil body butteron my already summer-weary feet (I'm a flip-flop addict--not always the best thing for skin and nails.) It's working like a charm, but that's not just because I'm a creative genius who dreamed up a killer formula (well...that too!) Mainly, it's because all the Dot & Lil body butters are shea butter based. I'm not even exaggerating much when I say shea butter is...

You guys should all head over to Let It Unravel, a blog all about handmade goodness. Todays' post is a profile of...well, me! And Dot & Lil. It can be found here.

Also, Let It Unravel is hosting a Dot & Lil giveaway for their Love Your Body series. So if you wanna win some bath truffles, go check it out! It's pretty easy to enter.

There's a big announcement coming from Dot & Lil tomorrow, too (hint:...

Yesterday, I launched a project here at Dot & Lil that I've been thinking about for a long time. I've known for a while now that I want to increase the ways in which my small business contributes. In fact, I want trying and contributing and helping to be tied right into the business model. And so I'm excited to launch what I hope becomes a permanent and successful project at Dot & Lil: the Dot &...