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Moon Haven’s Cowaramup Cottage is 6 today!

We opened our doors 3 days before Christmas 2002, with all the hopes and ideals of new business owners. Little did Eric and I  know what we were letting ourselves into!

Six years later Eric and I can look back and all we can say is Wow…

Moon Haven has become something much greater than we could every have imagined 6 years ago.

What started out as a humble attempt to bring our skin saving soaps, our pain relieving Achy Breaky Rub and our aromatherapy preparations to a demanding public, has turned into a place of  creativity, friendship and healing,  where random acts of thoughtfulness happen on a daily, if not hourly basis.

Moon Haven soaps, lotions and potions can be found in countries around the world and across Australia.  We continue to be astounded by the thoughtfulness of people who write to tell us of their Moon Haven experiences and success with our products.

This feedback helps us to keep on producing and thinking and researching for  better ways of combining our herbs, oils and other ingredients to come up with even more solutions.

Of course while Moon Haven in our Cowaramup cottage may be 6 today, Moon Haven itself  is now well over 8 years old with our first products being made  in our kitchen.  How far we have come…how far we have to go!

Everyone loved Moon Haven’s soaps, lotions and potions at the Melbourne Gift Fair
Eric, Chris and I spent last week in Melbourne showing off our ever expanding range to a very willing band of retailers and wholesalers.

We met an incredible number of interesting people who wanted to offer Moon Haven to their clients.  Of course everyone just adored our designer series soaps and the new Moon Haven displays Eric and Chris have designed and made.

We also introduced our Herbal Home range of ‘Heat with Wheat’ bags, Relaxing Eye and Dream Pillows as well as a NEW designer series soap in out popular Purple Passion scent and colour blend.

So now its once again all go at the Moon haven cottage as we craft logs and logs of beautiful soap, mix and formulate our pulse point potions and essential oil blends and sew our wheat bags and deliciously scented dream pillows for all of the new Moon Haven retailers.

If you would like to see more do take a look at where you can purchase our products locally, do take a look at our  Moon Haven Australia website and our Moon Haven retailers page

Today was a day at home.

Note that I did not write a day away from work…as today was a web day where I was to write and tweak and enhance Moon Haven’s webpages.

Everything started well… webpage updates and uploads fully underway when …blink…splutter…flash and my computer, as well as the rest of our relectronic world …came to a spluttering halt!

So after a few anxious minutes to see if things would miraculously return to normal I called Western Power for an update. It looked like it was to be at least a 2 hour wait. This on my day of electronic wizzardry… a few precious stolen hours in the privacy of my state of the art, gadget driven, electricity dependent home office .

I was far from pleased, but being the adaptable little soul that I am I went and watered my pot plants, cleaned away the breakfast dishes, read snail mail and generally made myself busy.

After an hour I was lost. Everything I could do without electricity I had done. It was cold and wet and decidedly winterish here and so with fading light I wasn’t even able to read or start on my sewing projects.

So what could I do but sit in my rocking chair with Sarina Valentina Katerina – the bossier of our two Russian Blues on my lap and just …was…

I don’t often get the chance to just BE…but this imposed BEING was a delight to me. So peaceful and comforting… I was able to just exist…just me and my cat with the Scotty dog at my feet.

Of course just as I was settling in… the power came on.

There goes Murphy and his law again!