Family Time... a Holiday Break

To our wonderful friends, also known as our customers...

We have so enjoyed working with you this holiday season, seeing you at shows, creating gift baskets and packages and catching up with you and all that has transpired since last season!  Your children, and ours, have all grown!

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As the season draws nearer, we'd like to share with you our plans to take some family time to enjoy this wonderful holiday we call Christmas.  Emma's Friends will be on break from December 22nd to January 3rd.  What does that mean, really?  It means the store will stay open and online, the phone will accept messages and the Inbox will welcome your mail, but all these things will sit dormant (so, hopefully will we!)  until January 3rd.

If you need something prior, please get in touch soon.  And, thank you for your incredible encouragement and patronage and for celebrating our Friends and all they do and who they are.  We are blessed beyond that which we could imagine and we give all the glory to God for His work in and through us.

Have a wonderful Christmas ~ I encourage you to think on the true meaning of this holiday ~ and a blessed New Year too.

Always,
Lynn & all of Emma's Friends

On the radio.... oh, wo-oh-oh on the radio... Yup, we'll be on the RADIO tomorrow morning at 9:30! Whoo-whoot! Why, you ask? To announce our Open House and store opening in West Hazleton. So... if you are in the Hazleton area, tune into WAZL 1490 AM tomorrow morning from 9:30 - 10 am talking about Emma's Friends, Emma and Covenant Abstract too. We'll see you ... on the radio, radio, radio...! ;)

Did you know soap can fly?

Well, it can!  It has flown out of our soap baskets at shows and off our shelves here in the soap shop! If you are looking for soaps for Christmas, better act fast, these things are flying out of here!

okay, so that is a really bad rendition of flying soap!  ;P

WE HAVE SOLD OUT OF THE FOLLOWING SOAPS: Marzipan, Lovely Lavender, Mother's Rose Garden.

And... we have a very short supply of O Christmas Tree, Bayberry Wreath, Holy Patchouli, Cookies for Santa, Peacefulness, Sweet Dreams. 

Next to run out... Orange Cranberry, Spiced Cranberry, Spirit of Christmas... going fast! Get them while you can!!

Did you know soap can fly?

Well, it can!  It has flown out of our soap baskets at shows and off our shelves here in the soap shop! If you are looking for soaps for Christmas, better act fast, these things are flying out of here!

okay, so that is a really bad rendition of flying soap!  ;P

WE HAVE SOLD OUT OF THE FOLLOWING SOAPS: Marzipan, Lovely Lavender, Mother's Rose Garden.

And... we have a very short supply of O Christmas Tree, Bayberry Wreath, Holy Patchouli, Cookies for Santa, Peacefulness, Sweet Dreams. 

Next to run out... Orange Cranberry, Spiced Cranberry, Spirit of Christmas... going fast! Get them while you can!!

Emma's Friends ~ The STORE! :)

We've got some exciting news…. We are opening a retail shop! 

I know you want all the details, so here they are:

The specs:

Where:

32 West Broad Street, West Hazleton  .... rings a bell?  It is where we have local pick-ups of orders.  We'll be across the hall from the ladies at Covenant Abstract with our own space complete with our full line of products and scents!

When:

Monday through Friday, from 9 am to 4 pm. The ladies at Covenant Abstract will assist you.  If you have see us at shows, you’ll recognize them!  They moonlight (literally) for Emma’s Friends!  : )

Future plans:

Looking for input on what will meet your needs…  We are thinking of opening once a month for Friday evening, Saturday morning hours. We have heard from folks that the hours to pick-up can be tough if you work out of town.  Let me know your thoughts.  Thanks!

To celebrate our shop we are having an OPEN HOUSE & Christmas Shopping event!  Friday, December 17^th from 5 – 8 pm and Saturday, December 18^th from 10 am – 2 pm we’ll make up your custom gift baskets on the fly while you shop.  Also joining us will be Sweets by Denise with her amazing chocolate and candied nuts & Joyce’s Cozy Creations with delicious cream cheese cakes and homemade dog treats too!  

Come out, we will look for you there.  We love the ladies who are joining us, I know you will too... and their treats are just too delicious!  Yum!!!

Two shows tonight! Wowsers!

Well, we've never done this before, but there is a first for everything!  Emma's Friends goods will be available for sale in two locations tonight...

Shawnee Inn will be hosting Winter Wonderful, an evening of shopping with local businesses which benefits 5 local charities.  Fantastic!  Emma's Friends will be showcased by Spa Shawnee.  Included will be soaps in bar and liquids, lotions, lip balms, body wash and gift boxes.  Look for Evelyn, she will be happy to help you find all you need!

Valley Country Club will be having their annual Ladies Holiday Shopping dinner tonight.  I will be there with an abbreviated version of our show booths but will have a variety of goods including soaps, lotions, dream cream and sugar scrubs, tarts, lotions, lip balms, bath treats and gift baskets.  We had a nice night last year and are looking forward to another tonight.  This event is for members of the Country Club and their guests only though. Sorry!

Shopping event in the Poconos tomorrow night!

Calling all Pocono/Stroudsburg area friends: Check out this event, Pocono Women Winter Wonderful shopping event. Winter Wonderful Event There will be a lot of wonderful shopping and while we won't physically be at the show due to another event we are attending, you can find our goods for sale. The Spa at Shawnee, which stocks our goods, will be showcasing them in their booth. Come out and enjoy all the wonderful things offered. Best part... this event sponsors five, that's right 5, local charities!

So come our for your Emma's Friends goods and do even more good!  Have fun... the Shawnee Inn is a lovely place to be this time of year!

Lynn & all of Emma's Friends 

What a show season!

We spent this weekend at the American Red Cross Holiday Craft Show at the Kingston Armory. What a wonderful time we had. This year we expanded to double booths when possible and what a difference it makes. It allows our customers the opportunity to peruse our goods and an opportunity for us to spend time with them, which I love. This photo was taken at just after 9 am when the show opened. Tina is at the register and Angie was jockeying our cars out of the show's parking lot.  I couldn't have done this show without them!

We saw so many of our returning friends/customers, several who came out to the show just to visit us.  Thank you to all!  We have so much fun with our friends/customers and some heart moments too.  I feel so blessed that people have opened their hearts to our Friends, Emma and our mission. I love that people bring other people and share with them about what we do and why we do it. I heard it many times this weekend, people coming into the booth, bringing someone new to us and explaining Emma's Friends to them as they come in.  What a gift. What they don't see is my heart break and soar at the same time.  Breaking for their kindness and caring for our mission and soaring because they want to share it with their friends.

And then, there are the accolades for our goods, which is also humbling. Year over year, we hear people say they love our mission and to hear they love our products is wonderful. They say, "We love your mission and what you do and your products are just amazing." We've heard some wonderful stories of how our goods have been enjoyed and given. And to see the gift recipients come in then, and purchase for themselves. Lovely.

And so has been the story of our growth...  we are so grateful and thankful to all who have opened their hearts and stepped out to try our goods... and come back again and again. As we wind down the show season, with only two small shows left, I can't imagine what next year will hold for us. But... I can't wait to find out!

Thank you to all ...  hope to see some of you at the Valley County Club (private show for members) on Thursday and then at our season closer, Hawley's Winterfest on December 11th.  A great place to end the season... my hometown and a beautiful celebration of the holiday season.  Hawley's Winterfest is really a fantastic way to celebrate the season.

Be well, stay warm and look up!
Lynn and all of Emma's Friends

New Gift Set!

Face It!  Our latest gift set just in time for Christmas.

Our Face It gift set includes our much loved Fancy Face, our all natural face wash made of sunflower oil, coconut oil, aloe and honey with a touch of honey and almond essential oil; Botanical Beauty, our jam-packed botanical extract face moisturizer which also has collagen, lactic acid and sunflower oil (a fantastic light molecule oil which can penetrate the skin which it loves so much); and ... introducing... our newest item in the Face Line: Sweet Cream Face Scrub!  All this wonderful goodness for $29.50 in a fantastic little gift box with a window and satin ribbon bow.  Lovely!

Our new Sweet Cream Face Scrub is made with a variety of milks (butter, goat and regular) as well as colloidal oatmeal, allatonin and sugar!  Well, yes, of course, sugar.  Everyone has fallen in love with our Sumptuous Sugar Scrub and for years we have been asked about a face scrub.  So... finally, it's out! 

This yummy little gift set will be unveiled at the American Red Cross show at the Kingston Armory this weekend, Saturday (9 - 4) and Sunday (10 - 4).  Be sure to come by... we have MORE SURPRISES in store... or at least in the booth!  ;)

Love, Lynn & all of Emma's Friends

a year and a half hiatus from blogging, but hopefully we're back

It's hard to believe it could have been THAT long since I have used the blog, but unfortunately, the post dates don't lie.

We have really done a lot in that time, the blog is something of a time capsule in that regard.

Right now, we are in the throws of our show season and the response has been amazing. Thank you to all who have come out to see and shop with us. I hope you have found some wonderful new things as well as your faves from past seasons.

The Red Cross show is nearly upon us and we are really looking forward to the 20 x 10 space! We absolutely need it anymore although at some shows it's impossible to get more space. We appreciate your squeezing in with us in the smaller booths! And for those of you who take the time to circle around the show waiting for an opening in the booth... hopefully you won't have to do that this weekend. : )

More on the show later... we have some new gift sets we are bringing out and a new product too. This one has been on the request list for some time so hopefully everyone will be happily surprised to see it finally come out. I'll let the secret out of the bag a little later... promise.

Have a great Tuesday everyone.

Lynn & all of Emma's Friends