adorned with Grace: Defining true beauty

We are officially back online! We got most of the stock back up; however, we actually have quite a few more out of town trips this Summer that might get us behind again, but we'll deal with that when it actually happens. You'll also notice we have discontinued quite a few eye colors & blushes/Shimmer blushes as well; many of the colors included pigments our supplier no longer carries so we are unable to make up more of them. There will be a few we can try to recreate; however, we are very limited on time these days and not sure how quickly that will be able to happen. Also note the Clearance coupon on the Clearance page ; it will be good until June 12 and is only for items that are on Clearance. So...you can buy $40 of total items (non-Clearance/Clearance) but it will only take the percentage off on the Clearance items. Thanks for your patience everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that the remainder of the Clearance items are finally up! Check them out here on our Clearance page . These are all our past Limited Editions/Clearance and new "Oops" items so hope you all can find something you like. Many of them are being offered basically at cost (including shipping) and some even at a loss to us, but we'd rather pass these on to people who can use them than throw them away! Judging from the speed of current orders vs. my speed of getting restocked on foundation/powder, it looks like I will need to TEMPORARILY close my store down to give me time to catch up. In addition, we will be going out of town for a few of those days which will likely put us further behind. You see, when I am low or "out of stock" (meaning not a gram of product left, although I usually have the raw materials to make it), it takes much longer for me to fill out orders since I have to stop and make the batches, jar/bag them, & make ...

I've just put up some Clearance items on this page . There is also a special Coupon Code to use for ONLY Clearance items. If you order $20 or more, you will get 10% off those Clearance items . Remember, this will only be on Clearance items; if you put other regular priced items in your cart, there will be no discount off of that. We will run this coupon code until May 7.  Use: CLEARANCE10 I do apologize for the lack of photos on these new items. Most of the eyecolors do have a swatch photo from our Blog so you will at least be familiar with the general color. I recently switched to a Mac computer last year as our HP kept crashing on us despite being less than a year and a half old but my photo editing program that I usually use is not available on my Mac (???) and I think my HP finally crashed for good a few weeks ago. In addition to that, the label maker for our jars was also on that HP computer and the new one for Mac in not as readily customizable for our round labels. I...

So we've been working like crazy to try to get our new Clearance colors out and instead of Foundation & Blush as we've had this past year, we've decided to put out some Eyecolors! And not just in our regular 5 gram jars, but 10 gram jars !!! Because these are Clearance colors you likely won't ever see them again so we made sure to give you enough to last. ;) Below is a swatch I did on my hands of the colors. You will be able to purchase them in duo set (not singly) in the following combinations: Astute & Intellectual Austere & Ascetic Bountiful & Selfless Brooding & Pensive Fortunate & Serendipitous Shrewd & Cunning Soothing & Comforting Timeless & Everlasting We've got a few more small details to finish before we put these on sale but be expecting these up early next week along with a couple new accessories. Just an FYI, our current LE's last day on the site will be Sunday, November 13. We've accident...

Though we have been rather silent via Blogging & Facebook posts, don't think we've forgotten all about you all! On the contrary, we have been busy getting some of the new items together such as some Clearance eye colors and photographing/editing some new accessory items (which we'll leave as a surprise since we like to do that, lol). In addition, we are running a low stock on certain shades of foundation, powder, eye colors/blushes that we are busily making/jarring/labeling so that there are no delays when processing your order. We are running behind schedule due to our out-of-town trips and other unexpected personal detours that have come up. In addition, we discovered non-makeup items out of stock upon our return and needed time to reorder from our suppliers. So when we are behind, we'd prefer to hold off on any Blog Specials to have plenty of time to get caught up. However, we *hope* we'll be caught up by the middle of next week so if you have a suggestio...

Today's Blog Special Then, we also have more Clearance items up! Mostly Oops Foundation and some all purpose shimmers. The all purpose shimmers are made from a basic base similar to our foundation ingredients that we tweaked to make into popular colors you can use for glows/blushes, eyelid washes, or body shimmer (like mix in with your lotion or sunscreen for an extra special glow!) They aren't quite Limited Edition as we did not make them intentionally (as we have creatively planned our other LE Collections) but made colors with extras of what we had and suspected we weren't going to use up anytime soon and a couple were Oops Shimmer Blushes. (Reserved was an Oops for Tenderness Shimmer Blush which is why it isn't quite as sparkly as the rest of them). As with the previous Oops foundies, they will come in a baggie with about 8 grams of product. The Shimmers (not Shimmer Blush because they are made to really use as "all purpose") will be full sizes in our 10...

So it looks like our Internet issues are resolved! Our service was actually performing back to normal about Wednesday last week and we were very close to putting up a Blog Special but then we got notification that our website builder was upgrading our website this weekend and that our site might be unavailable for 10-30 minutes. Because a different website builder has said the same thing and actually taken 24 hours (why I am not with them now!), I decided not to take the chance and make sure the upgrades went well. After all, you never know how smoothly these things go and didn't want to find my website all in a jumble in the midst of a sale where there is usually an increase in order volume! Well, the good news is it truly is even more awesome than ever! More of it is on my end but one of the benefits for you all, my prized customers, is it is now Mobile friendly! So if you have an iPod, iPhone, iPad, Palm Pre, or Android based device, you'll get a screen like you see on the l...

New Limited Edition is up! Also, a few new Clearance items are up! And a Blog Only Brush special. Click HERE to see details!

Finally, our August mini-sale is up! We have taken about 10% off of our single, full-sized mineral products as well as discounted some of our face brushes in both the Ingenue & Premium Line. Also added is a LE Mini Custom Kit where you get to choose a Full-Sized Foundation with your choice of either one powder, one blush, or two eyecolors! We do apologize as we cannot include the LE Summer 2009 Eyecolors in the LE Mini Custom Kit or in our August sale since our inventory is actually running low and may sell out of certain colors very soon. It has been one of our best selling collections and are still in pretty high demand! Our sale will run through the entire month of August. HOWEVER, the sale on the Ingenue & Premium brushes is limited to In-Stock Brushes . If we happen to sell out of the brushes during the sale, when they are restocked, it will be at regular price. In addition, we are running a Blog Special where you *may* qualify for a discount code on your NEXT order if ...

I know some of you love the "Oops" Grab Bag Sample sets so I have got a bunch of those for you this round! I have one set that is devoted completely to colors that are best for cheek/lip colors; one of mostly neutrals; one that has a little bit more color (greens, grays, plum/purples); and then just a couple of a "Mixed Bag" set that has a little bit of each. Most of these grab baggies have at least 20 samples and most of the samples have about 1/2 teaspoon in them and a select few have 1/4. Some of them will also include some discontinued LE sample sized colors (my usual 1/8 teaspoon) and there might be a couple colors from the last Grab Bag set that may be in there as extras. I also have some "Oops" Foundation; I accidentally made an error in my measurement when making Grace 4.0 and it didn't *quite* match the previous batch but I think it might be forgiving enough that if you wear Grace, Faith, or Kindness 4.0, you might match this. One idea you ca...