Archive for February, 2009

Phew… that was fun!

Eric, Chris and I have just returned from a week away at the Sydney Home & Giving Fair.

We met so many great people and had a lot of fun.

Our new cupboard keepers were a hit at the fair as were our designer series soaps and new bath teas.

We got to welcome many new Moon Haven stockists to the family – so it soon will be even easier to find a Moon Haven retailer near you wherever you are throughout Australia.

Keep a look out in our stockist pages for the updates as we ship out all these orders!

Earlier this week Julie (known as Julie Patchouli to the Moon Haven crew and our clients) was killed in a horrific traffic accident between Cowaramup and Margaret River.

She leaves behind two small children, Jade and Jye, and a shocked and deeply saddened community.

Julie worked in Moon Haven’s  front of house for an extended period leaving us just over 18 months ago to work at Brookland Valley.  Her vibrant champagne bubbly personality and extremely dry sense of humour will be sorely missed. As you can imagine at Moon Haven we are very sad and there have been many tears shed.

Julie had with her in the car, young Samuel who she was babysitting at the time.  Samuel, while badly injured is recovering well from all accounts.  Our thoughts are with him and his family as he continues to recover.

Eric peeling off our newest cupboard keeper mould

Eric has been busy developing and making the moulds for our new range of  Cupboard Keepers.
Moon Haven’s Cupboard Keepers are an essential oil based alternative to mothballs for use in wardrobes, drawers, linen closets…in fact anywhere you need the items inside to smell simply gorgeous and the bugs to stay away.

Eric first made a negative image of the finished mould out of wood. He then boxed this in with a rail around the outside.
The mould for the mould was then sealed, allowed to dry and then silicone was poured into the cavities and allowed to cure.

The picture above is Eric releasing the mould from the master mould. It turned out so well I now have a list of others I want Eric to make!