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Halloween came and went. While the cat was away the mice played as, apparently, there was a contest to see who could come up with the most creative "recycled costume" while I was out running errands.  It was hard to choose the winner as everyone was so creative! In the meantime, I continue to work on improving our new website.  I managed to make some minor improvements, but each of these areas still need work: Better Search.  The Search Box that came with the website was pretty funky.  If you were looking for something called Blues and you typed in Blue, it would not come up.  It was super specific. We have created a much better Search function.  It looks "simple" up there at the top of the page, but once you start searching you will quickly be in awe of its power!  (or at least appreciate it a little more).  You will be able to better narrow your search by thing such as color and use, as well as price. Shipping of Nail Polish by Fedex Only.  We had a probl

Birthin' our New Baby TKBTrading.com 5.0! TKB was founded in December 1997.  Over the years, we have had plenty of .... simple-looking.... web designs. What we lacked in flash and sizzle, we made up for in prices, heart and innovation.  Time has caught up with us though and we really needed to become "mobile friendly".  For this reason we are now launching our new version of "us".  It's a lot prettier! Here are some functional issues and differences between old and new site that customers have asked us to explain.  We will post more answers to questions as they arise! Q: Why the change?  A:  We have to be mobile-friendly for our customers.  Our new site will have other awesome functions, but the mobile-friendly was the main issue. Q:  Is my order history going to come over to the new site?  A:  Sadly, no.  The old site was so old fashioned it did not integrate with any of the new site options we had.  We have, however, kept our old site infor

My Colors are So Lovely In April, I vended at the Handmade Soap and Cosmetics Guild (HSCG) annual trade show in Indiana. I introduced My Lovelies, a new line of hue-intense pigments perfect for soapmakers. I offered them in both powder and liquid forms.  The powders are best for the Cold Process soapmakers, and the liquids are popular with the Melt and Pour Soapmakers.   All the colors are soap-stable, strongly-hued and non-bleeding. Equally important (to me), I make them!  Did you ever make something so lovely and beautiful you had to keep running back to look at it, even in the middle of the night?  That's how I feel about My Lovely Perfect Blue.  In cold process soap, it just glows. My Perfect Blue The colors also blend very easily into nail polish.  While the colors are not all approved for use in cosmetics in the USA, I'm not a hater of using in them nail polish.  I'm usually pretty high on my horse when it comes to telling people to follow FDA gui

... back in 2010. I thought I'd share that story. Like everyone else, TKB started out in a basement.  That was way back in 1995.  Over the years, the basement expanded into a bedroom and then from a bedroom into a flat.  We were in that flat for a long time.  Van studied for her citizenship exam there.  I would yell to her over the boxes "What are the three Branches of government?" or "Who are our Senators?"  and she would proudly end up educating me about things I long forgot. Every year there was also some kind of "The Great ...fill...in...the...blank" mistake.  There was the The Great Green Disaster of '08.  I won't point fingers at who made the decision to over-burden our shelves with liquid dyes.  Needless to say the next day we laughed at our foolishness as we mopped up about 50 gallons of green dye.  There was The Great Missing Kisses Disaster of '12.  Again, to protect the innocent I won't mention who forgot to o