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Savonnerie de L'Estrie Online Boutique is finally ready for orders!! I published the English version a couple of weeks ago (my apologies to my french customers, it is taking me much longer to complete it all in french than I thought it would...) and it is working! I have also purchased an SSL Certificate so anyone who tried to go to the boutique in the last week and may have been told that it's not a secure site (even though all transactions are securely done through Paypal) it is now!
If you have any problems at all with the site please let me know as soon as possible so they can be fixed!
And don't forget, free shipping for anyone who would be willing to give me a testimonial with their name and town that could be used on this website!!
Thank you to everyone that has visited this site and please feel free to contact me with any comments or suggestions or complaints! Kara :-) In physics, anything not fulfilling its intended purpose self-destructs. The same is true for people. When we're not fulfilling our inspirations, we find ourselves living lives of turmoil or desperation." -Dr John Demartini
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4/2/2015 1 Comment Another Month?I really would like to apologize to anyone who has wanted to order my Savonnerie de L'Estrie products on this website.... I really thought that this month, April, after over a year of slowly building the website myself, that I would have the e-commerce section done and it would finally be easy to buy my products online! I found out yesterday, when I called my website provider to learn how to link my products to paypal, that I had set all the products up wrong! (i.e. the way one of the many persons working there told me but not the one I talked to yesterday!). This guy was right though, possibly because he was older and not one of the twenty-somethings I usually talk to, my products were installed all wrong.... Instead of using the product builder that comes with the website, which doesn't offer any inventory management or shipping options at all, even through paypal, even if I pay extra(!!), I have to redo it all in a photo/text combo that will replace the useless product boxes I have now, and then set it all up on paypal and insert a code that they give me into the photo/text combo on my website . "Don't worry, it should only take you a few hours" the guy told me, but I can easily see it adding at least a few more weeks onto the time I thought it would take to have my e-commerce site done.... So if anyone would like to order anything online, please call me at (450)292-0057 or use my contact page and I will get your favourite products to you as soon as possible! I'm not charging any taxes yet (one of the few perks of being a new-ish company) and there's a flat rate shipping fee of $7 or Free Shipping if your product total is over $65! I'm also offering free shipping if you submit a product testimonial to be posted on this website along with your name and town! Contact me to learn more. My products can also be found at one of the 5 charming little boutiques/galleries that I recently listed, along with photos and maps, here.
Thank you again for your patience if you've been waiting to order anything and please don't hesitate to contact me! "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on it's goods" -Thomas Paine 2/22/2015 4 Comments My First BlogWelcome to the Savonnerie de L'Estrie blog! I've never imagined myself as someone who would write a blog, and I'm not kidding myself into thinking that anyone else but my mother will read it, but I've been informed many times that to have a successful business website, (which I am just about to launch and hoping it will be successful), I'll need a blog - so here it goes!
I won't bore you with all of my family drama, but I will try to include: -New product announcements and specials -Spotlights and information on products I already make -Interesting health and beauty news I continually come across -Information on towns here in the Eastern Townships that you might like to visit, and on the boutiques my products are already in -Health and beauty recipes, and maybe some wholesome food recipes from my friend Maaike's monthly vegetarian cooking collective -Upcoming events and information about Farfelu, an artist's collective boutique/gallery where I am a administrative member -My paintings, art in general, and information on other artists in this area -Guest blogs from anyone else with an interesting topic they might like to add to this blog, especially about the Eastern Townships and events happening here. Please contact me if you have anything you'd like to contribute! Sorry this blog will be mostly in English :-( I chose Savonnerie de L'Estrie as a business name because at the time I was trying to pick a name the language police here in Quebec (yes they really do exist!) were giving a lot of trouble and fines to English businesses. They aren't in the news so much lately but they are still around, and even though Savonnerie de L'Estrie is a mouthful it's a great name, it rhymes, and it perfectly reflects what my business is! A good proportion of my customers are French, and even though every time I speak French I get some version of "Please for God's sake, just speak English!" I want them to know that I will answer all of their comments in french and I have tried to make my actual website as bilingual as possible, thanks to my uncle's patient girlfriend Johanne. I am publishing this blog a bit earlier than I expected because I found out, from my extremely kind and understanding first online customer Louise Abbott (who turned out to be an old family friend and an extremely accomplished author, photographer, and documentary filmmaker living here in the Eastern Townships - you can check her out at www.ruralroutecommunications.com), that an older, unfinished, embarrassing-to-me early version of my website somehow managed to get itself published!! I could have done it accidentally, its very easy to brush over the button and it publishes without any warning, not even a "Are you sure you want to publish this website?", which is strange because it won't even let me delete a photo without making sure it's what I want to do several times! If anyone else stumbled across that website please let me know as soon as you can and try to check it out when it is properly finished the way I had hoped the world would see it for the first time....It has taken me over a year to write and design myself so I had really hoped it wouldn't be seen in it's messy, unfinished state.... Thank you for visiting my blog and I will try to finally get my website going in a few weeks! If you know what you would like to order before then please contact me and I'll get your order ready for you as soon as possible! Kara :-) At the end of each post I'd like to share a quote, I love them and collect them the way some people collect old baseball cards! "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default" -J.K. Rowling |
AuthorKara Needham is the founder and creator of Savonnerie de L'Estrie, a small manufacturer of handcrafted, all-natural and affordable artisan skincare in unique folk-art packaging. Archives
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Savonnerie de L'Estrie
450-292-0057
Soaps / Savons
Lotions / Baumes
Where to Buy
About
Policies/Contact
Artwork
Website Design by Kara Needham 2014 - 2024
© All Photos & Images by Kara Needham
All Rights Reserved.
French Translation Courtesy of
Johanne Laplante 2014