Featured Crafter: A Slice of Delight

I met A Slice of Delight on Twitter. She was promoting sliced fruit soap and I LOVE yellow. I had to take a peek. I just had to have the Lemon Coconut Citrus Slice. It would go perfect in my yellow themed kitchen. Hillary creates the neatest glycerin soaps that made my mailbox smell so good when I opened it. The sweet coconut scent took me back to times of beach vacations. Such wonderful memories.

What I like most about her soaps is that they are so unique that they would make the best gifts or even gift baskets full of different soaps. There are colors and scents for anyone, even the man in your life could use the Spellbound Woods Soap as seen on the left. I can just see May Flowers (From April Showers) Soap in a little girls bathroom.

Hillary is positive, energetic and so eager to share her experiences in making her soaps, you almost feel a part of the process when you get your very own slice. You know for sure, they are made with love by her own two hands.


You can find A Slice of Delight online and at various fairs and shows in the Berkeley, CA area. Visit her shop for her latest show schedule. She will be at Cerrito Vista Park on July 4th. You can also find her on Facebook and on Twitter. She's always game for some chit chat. I'm so glad I checked out her shop on Twitter, because now I have a new Twitter friend that I'm always happy to see online.

Marketing Tip of the Week - Facebook Vanity URL

I got this tip from A Slice of Delight after I had purchased some cool Lemon Citrus Slice Soap from her Etsy shop. Not only did I get great smelling soap, I also got a technical tip as well. Don't think too many buyers and sellers can say that. As most of us know, Facebook can be a bit cumbersome. So I asked  A Slice of Delight if I could pass this wonderful tip on to my blog readers and she was more than happy to help out any one she can.  I copied her tip from our conversation to insure accuracy.


When you have at least 25 fans you can change your facebook fan page to what they call a "Vanity Url". When you first create your facebook fan page it's a long jumbled up string of letters/numbers and your business name. Some of you may still be using this long name and have 100's of fans at this point...here's what you can do...

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Click on this link - http://facebook.com/username - at the bottom of that page you will see this link - Set a username for your Pages - click on that then you will see a drop down and when you click the drop down you should see your ' business fan page'. I actually created two by accident so I picked the one that had already started getting a few fans - at that point you should have a chance to just put in the name (with or without spaces) or any form of upper/lower case you want) and check the availability. At that point you make the big 'commit' and you can't go back. At that point this long url (I've made this up) - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Berkeley-CA/A-Slice-Of-Delight/20800345155?v=wall#/pages/Berkeley-CA/A-Slice-Of-Delight /20800345155?ref=ts will get to be www.facebook.com/asliceofdelight (if that's how you want it) - It doesn't change the name of the page title (which may have spaces) but this gets the url down to something nice and manageable

Now the URL is nice and simple and can easily be put on a business card or any other place you want it posted/tweeted/promoted/etsy/blog/website/etc..