Vacation Time!

Just wanted to let all my followers know that The Clack House is currently in vacation mode on Etsy & will return in 2 weeks. We have lots of goodies to add when we get back! 

Here is one =)

Lemon Chiffon Cupcake Tarts

Mmmmmm!

And don't forget to add our Facebook page! 

Hope you all are having a wonderful Summer!

friday favorite

 Whipped to Perfection Sugar Scrub (16oz) - LOVE ME scented

 by BathTalk

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Sweet! I love the pink and white swirls..=)

Feature: Tub Time Treasures!

I was so excited when I saw a package peeking out from the mailbox this morning!

It was my package from Renee Lillie, owner of TubTimeTreasures!

 All I could say is WOW!

The box was jam packed full of sweet & yummy treats for the tub! She is such an incredible soap artist and her scents are AMAZING! All the items are so wonderful it's really hard to pick a fav!

Here is a snapshot of all the goodies that came!

"Summer Melon Spritzer"

Solid Sugar Scrub

This has got to be the best sugar scrub I have EVER used! It left my hands feeling soft, clean and refreshed. I also love how the scrub comes in cubes. Makes it so much easier to use and trust me, ONE goes a long way! They looked so juicy and smelled so good my Hubby almost took a bite!!

"Chocolate Cupcake"

Kip's Kupcake Bath Bomb

I haven't used this yet, but I did open it up to take a good whiff..lol It smells JUST like a yummy Chocolate Cupcake! It arrived in mint condition and I can't wait to try it out! The frosting on top looks so real!

"Pomegranate Cider"

Body Frosting

I used a little this afternoon on my hands after I worked in the garden. hehe, I really can't wait to even take a shower or bath! It also left my hands smooth and soft. The Pomegranate Cider smells divine and
is def on my top scent list now!

"Cucumber Melon" 
Lip Scrub

I have never even used a lip scrub until today. WOW! What a sweet treat for your lips!
I felt like I was at a spa!

"Honey" Lip Gloss
and
"Vanilla Buttercream" Lip Butter

I really enjoyed getting these in my goody box. I love Love LOVE lip gloss and lip butters! The honey smells identical to honey and the vanilla buttercream lip butter smells good enough to eat!

Both are smooth to the lips, not too greasy or sticky.

Her products are absolutely wonderful and I just had to feature her shop!
I asked how She got started and this is what she said:

 Shop: TubTimeTreasures
Owner: Renee Lillie

I started getting interested in soaping when I lost my job last year. I was in an Etsy chat room, when someone posted a cupcake bath bomb. They were SO cute, I IMMEDIATELY searched for a recipe and bought what I needed to make them! Over time I've tweaked my recipe, and have found some soaping blogs online that I follow, and have accumulated other recipes. The Solid Sugar Scrub cubes are some of my favorites to make (and use!)! The lip scrubs, butters and glosses are fun too! There's just so much versatility in bath and body products, and SO many different yummy fragrance combinations, that it's easy to stay excited with what you're making!!

We have a winner! Bakery Wax Tarts Sample Pack

YAY!! We have a winner of The Clack House's Bakery Wax Tarts Sample Pack!

Drum roll please.....

Bullfrogs & Butterflies Baby!!

A big thanks goes out to all that entered! Keep an eye out for more fabulous giveaway!

Giveaway time!!

♥ THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED ♥

I had so much fun with the last giveaways, I'm going to do another! 

 ~THE PRIZE ~

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Baked Apple Pie & Grandma's Kitchen 

Sample Pack

Each tart is smothered in Sweet Butter Cream frosting. The Hot Apple Pie Tarts are topped with apple slices and crumbies. The Grandma's Kitchen tarts are topped with strawberries and crumbies. They each weigh about 1 1/2 oz each. You will receive 4 cake bites (2 Apple Pie and 2 Grandma's Kitchen).

*** How to Enter? ***

All you have to do is check out my etsy shop and then come back here and leave a comment about one of the items in my shop. Pick one that you like and tell me what you like about it! Be sure to include your email address so that I can contact you if you’re a winner!

For a second chance to win, you can follow this blog and leave a comment saying that you do so (if you already follow me, just leave a comment saying that you already do).

For a third chance, become a FaceBook fan. 

Don’t forget to leave a comment letting me know that you’re a fan!

And, lastly, if you have a blog, mention this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment 

letting me know with a link to your blog post.

This giveaway ends on Monday, April 19th, at noon and the winner will be announced at this post and on facebook. The winner will also be notified and the prize will be shipped out shortly thereafter.

What are you waiting for?
 Winner will be chosen using random.org generator. That way it will be fair!

**For US only**

I was featured in The Storque by Etsy!!

WOW!! I don't think I have ever been featured by Etsy! I was jumping for joy when someone shot me a convo letting me know! I know it's a small feature, but I'm too excited anyway!

Those are my Yummy Pink Sugar Cupcake Wax Tarts on the left! 

You can read the article here!

Oh, Baby

Ok, so I have already posted about this wonderful Etsy seller before, but I just HAD to post about her again after receiving yet another wonderful sheet of labels I had purchased! I contacted Autumn Leah over at Autumn Leah Designs a few weeks ago on creating a custom sheet of baby shower theme labels to use on custom baby food jar candles I was making for my BFF to use on the tables for decor at her baby shower. They were such a HUGE hit! Everyone just adored the little candles! YAY!! I also made other candles for the shower to give away for the game prizes. Autumn Leah is simply the most fantastic Etsy seller I have come across so far! She makes such lovely designs and has top-notch Customer service!! 

Here is one of the baby food jar candles I made using her labels

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Too cute!!! You can purchase your own set of custom labels here:

Autumn Leah Designs

Keep in mind she is due any day now, 

but she will open her shop back up as soon as everything returns to normal. =)

Next photo is the custom candles I made for the game prizes

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Left to right: "Baby Cakes" Cupcake Candle, "Neapolitan" 16oz Mason Jar Candle,

4 Pack "Black Raspberry Vanilla" Frosted Votive Candles, 

Cinnamon Bun "Bun in the Oven" Loaf Candle

I even used one of the labels on a baby blue tag and used a

safety pin to attach it to the bow on the loaf candle. They were such a big hit! 

And don't worry, I was sure to bring a stack of biz cards with me to set on the table hehe..!

How to save a life

Sorry guys for not posting in a while. For the last 2-3 weeks I've been taking care of our canine family member Spunky. He is a full blooded Bull Mastiff Pitt. And a big one at that! One Saturday, my hubby was outside working on one of his cars (as usual) and I come out to bring him something to drink. Our neighbors were out grilling and one of them yelled across the yard "Chasity, Your dog is bleeding".  I called him out from under the house and didn't think to much of it at first since he's gotten in oil and such before in the back yard. When he come up to me I just about past out. He had a massive chest would that was about 6" long and 3" wide. He was bleeding out everywhere. Of coarse, I started going into panic mode screaming for my Husband to come. This is what really upset me...since it was Saturday we only have one local (expensive) vet that takes emergency calls. The same vet in which I've been taking our Pomeranian I got this past Christmas to see. When we called they told my husband that they couldn't take him in because he was not a client! What? Not a client? Are you joking??!!! Lucky for us, my Husband works for the man who's Daughter runs the vet. So yeah, I called them! I totally went there. They told me not to worry about anything, to put my dog in the van and there will be someone up there waiting when I got there. And sure enough, there was three women waiting. Not too happy to see me, but they were there. We consider our animals like they are family. I will go to no end to save them. 

Here is Spunk Chunk (as I like to call him) resting in our laundry room after surgery. 

We still don't know exactly what happened to him or what he got into. The vet said he looks as if he tried to jump over a fence or it could have been a wild hog considering our location of where we live.

  He is a real trooper. He never whined or acted like it bothered him! 

She said that if we wouldn't have taken him up there, he would have died by morning. 

 He's my big Goof Ball..lol But I love him!

shout out

This shout out post goes out to Autumn Leah over at AutumnLeahDesigns. I ordered a few new personalized labels for some of my candle jars. They turned out soooo adorable! I just had to post about it! 

This is the design I used for one of my candles

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The listing can be found here:

Autumn Leah Designs Personalized Stickers 

-- POLKADOT THANK YOU --

She has sooo many cute labels and stickers to choose from. She is a WAHM and will design 

anything you need! Custom Orders welcome!

etsy for kids

Here are some sweet finds aimed just for the kiddos. 

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 Child's Initial Lamp Shade with Satin Trim and Center Bow

 

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Infant/Toddler Demin Blue Flower On A Dark Brown Crochet Headband 

  

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kids adjustable skull hat

  

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Finn the L/S monster tee sizes 2,4,6,8

  

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hand stamped baby bangle cuff bracelet ...love bug

  

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Customizable, Reversible Super Hero Capes from Everybody's Hero

 

 

Winner!!

We have a winner! The winner of the "Another Candle Giveaway" is....

♥ jodi233 ♥

Thank you to all that entered! We will be posting a giveaway each month so check back often for another chance to win some awesome prizes!

quick & easy way to make a Etsy banner

In case you missed the Etsy forum thread today a super nice Etsy shop owner shared her easy peasy way of making a shop banner! 

Here is what I made:

Not too shabby huh? =)

I'll probably play around with it some more when I have time, but this will do for now. I always wondered how to make one esp if you don't have a photo editing program like photoshop, or not really computer savvy(like me) this is the easiest way I have found so far. 

The Site is called Big Huge Labs. 

Once you are on the site click on "Mosaic Maker". You can register for an account, but I just signed in under my facebook account to pull pictures. I then set it to 7 Columns 3 Rows. You can also adjust the background & border colors. Then all you have to do is click on "choose a photo" 

Once you have finished picking out 7 photos,  click on create and it will take you to a page where you can save or edit it some more. I added "The Clack House" to a white photo using Picnik.com

And there you have it! Easy Peasy!

another candle giveaway!!

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED
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I had so much fun with the last giveaway, I'm going to do another! The rules to enter will be just like before, but this time YOU get to choose what you get! 1 choice out of THREE fabulous items!

First choice: 

Yummy CANDY LANE Wax Tart Melts

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 Second Choice:

Yummy Valentines FROSTED CUPCAKES Wax Tart Melts XOXOXO

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Third Choice:

Warm Spiced Apple Cinnamon 8 oz Mason Jar Candle

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WOW! How much fun is this?!!

How to Enter?

All you have to do is check out my etsy shop and then come back here and leave a comment about one of the items in my shop. Pick one that you like and tell me what you like about it! Be sure to include your email address so that I can contact you if you’re a winner!

For a second chance to win, you can follow this blog and leave a comment saying that you do so (if you already follow me, just leave a comment saying that you already do).

For a third chance, become a FaceBook fan. Don’t forget to leave a comment letting me know that you’re a fan!

And, lastly, if you have a blog, mention this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment letting me know with a link to your blog post.

This giveaway ends on Friday, February 19th, at noon and the winner will be announced at this post and on facebook. The winner will also be notified and the prize will be shipped out shortly thereafter.

With luck, you could win this lovely gift or make it your own Valentine's treat!

What are you waiting for?
 Winner will be chosen using random.org generator. That way it will be fair!

**For US only**

the finer things in life

Wow, just wow. I have never really checked out the edibles on Etsy until now. OMG. If you haven't either I suggest you do now! There is 1000's of baked goods and candy treats on Etsy that I have somehow overlooked! They def deserve their own post. Here are some treats that are sure to tickle those taste buds 

and keep you coming back for more!

Chocolate Swirl Marshmallows (set of 12)

TheFoodSnob 

Just a little Taste of Cloud Nine Caramels

haveitconfections

 

 Espresso Brownie with Dulce de Leche

whimseyandspice

 

Coffee Mocha Toffee 1/2 lb

VintageConfections

And for your special Valentine

Valentine's Cake Truffle Variety Pack

lollidreams

Sweet! Mmmmm, makes me want to go out and buy something NOW!!