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Flowers and plants are so connected to what I do, and to Dot & Lil. From the botanicals, plants and flowers distilled into essential oils to scent many of our products, to the botanicals that are added to our bath salts and soaps, Dot & Lil is deeply intertwined with flowers from beginning to end. I definitely embrace this—me and flowers, we get along! I emphasize their relevance in my business by...

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...

New gift sets went up on the website yesterday. Now, you can satisfy that scent addiction to one particular Dot & Lil scent by buying the set. Like my addiction to Rose everything, much to my boyfriend's dismay (he's a Rose hater...scandalous I know.) Also listed is a really cool new shaving set with a shaving brush, container and shaving soap.

I also added new pictures for a few sets, including...

Over the holidays and after them, the focus here at Dot & Lil ends up, inevitably, on the selling and talking and sales and meetings and planning and goals and dreaming. This weekend, I got back to the making, and it felt great! Not only that but I got to make new things, and get my creative streak running by coming up with a few new...

So, please forgive the sub-par pictures. There's a reason I get them done professionally usually! The pro pics will be ready soon, but until then I thought you might like to see what's up!

Rose lip gloss. Subtly sweetened and rose flavored and with crazy glide and moisture. New glass packaging. New labels. Ever so slightly tinted. It's available here

Vanilla lip gloss. Sweet, warm, vanilla with...

The Dot & Lil perfume contest is winding down! You have until September 1st to take a guess at what the two new single-note perfumes are, released in their new blue glass packaging. To participate, submit your two guesses as a comment on this blog post, that originally announced the contest.
The first people to guess correctly will win a full-sized free bottle of the new Dot & Lil perfume!



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