Newsy Day

I am in SpokesGoat mode for the first bit of news today.
I am excited to show you something fun the publicist shipped out from my shop.
As you know I am now a Famous SpokesGoat for making favors for weddings, showers and parties.
It's true!
I would not lie!

A customer contacted the publicist for a baby shower and it had a deer theme so the My Cousin the Soap was perfect!

Did they not come out cute?
They are three different scents - Jasmine Tea, Afternoon Tea and a custom blend, Vanilla Mint.
When customers need lots of big soaps like this for a party there are special discounts available - because I am a nice goat!

I must admit that the customer came up with the saying on the tag.
It is very clever, isn't it?

And you can see my deer soap on the inside!
I think they will make very nice shower favors.

In other news, we had another visit from VisitorCat:


If you cannot see the movie you can watch it on YouTube HERE

He just walked in like he usually does and he started playing the the Farm cats toy.
They did NOT like that!

Ooooh, did the MEOWS fly!

A New Look for My Shop

I have been sprucing up all over.
You know that my blog is looking all spiffy.
Now my shop has gotten a make over.

It's true!
I would not lie!
I maaaed at Glogirly and she made me a new header.
She made it just like I asked.

Isn't it pretty?
I would like to graze on those beautiful green fields.

If only....
Should you need some design work done you should maaaa at Glogirly too.

Two Winners Announced

Hooray! Today is the day all of the winners in the One World One Heart Blog Giveaway are announced. There were over 500 blogs participating so there will be a lot of happy people getting emails.

Here at The Maaaaa of Pricilla I was giving away three bars of my rich Happy Goat Soap to one lucky winner. Since we had so many entries and there was some confusion on my pubicist's end (sometimes she is a little goofy) I have decided to give soap to two lucky winners! How cool is that?! This was our first year participating in this great blogging event and I know we will be looking forward to next year.

There were 280 comments on the post - isn't that exciting? So my publicist went to Random.org this morning to pick the lucky comment and it was #212 from SummerSadie. We are also giving soaps to prpldy. Nowthey will just have to choose their soaps from the shop and they will be mailed right away.

The publicist has a big headache today so if she were the winner she might have chosen these. What do you think?

I want to thank everyone who came to my blog and commented. It was nice to read all of the nice things about how beautiful I am. Even though I am not a vain goat.......

The Coveted Scratch of the Tail Award

Hooray! I am so excited. Again. I think people are getting excited about the Coveted Scratch of the Tail Award. Our publicist found our soap in two treasuries last night so it is my great honor to bestow the award on:

MemoriestoYou for this list full of soapy treasures. She featured our Maaaaaaassage Bar Scented with Cherry Cordial amonst all the other lovely bath and beauty products. Her shop is full of pretty memory boards in all different shapes and sizes. I think this one would look good in my goat house. What do you think?

The second list was made by that Treasury Queen of the Big Sky Montana Team, Judy Elizabeth of JudyElizabethsFlock. She makes the most adorable soft sculpture lambs. She picked the Herd of Goats listing which shows an adorable photo of Michael and Sarah when they were kids. I think Judy Elizabeth is trying to wallpaper her house with her awards.

Coveted Scratch of the Tail Award

Oh boy! Time to present The Coveted Scratch of the Tail Award. This is what makes my job as spokesgoat so much fun; I love giving out this award.

I learned of a sea urchin themed treasury curated by mmarielle She creates beautiful bottles, urns and amphorae but I think my favorite is this. The problem is, I would probably eat any flowers placed in it! So please visit the list and check out the beautiful shop. You will love what you see.

My Abby and Nora soap in the Strawberry Heaven scent is in a colorful list from the Treasury Queen of the Big Sky Montana Team - Judy Elizabeth from JudyElizabethsFlock. I am sure you remember reading about her adorable soft sculpture lambs in this post. Her shop is chock full of adorable lambs.

A big THANK YOU to both curators for thinking of me when they made their lists.

Michael's Big Adventure

Today Michael the goat went on a big adventure. Every so often the publicist/udder massage specialist takes Michael the goat for a walk. He needs to get out and work off some uh, excess energy. He gets very excited about these walks. He is also a very good goat on his walks; he loves the publicist as she bottle fed him as a baby so he thinks she is his mother.

His pen gate opened and Michael bounded out into the driveway and......slid on the ice! He was so excited - doing his high kicks - that he forgot like we all do that the driveway is an ice skating rink. It rather took away from his grand exit. Then off he happily trotted following behind the publicist as she headed for the goat barn. This is where he strayed. It was the hay pile. I must admit to being pulled by the allure of the hay pile myself. So much hay just sitting there for the munching. It's hard to resist and Michael didn't; he climbed right onto it and started eating hay. Michael's favorite thing next to a doe is hay.

Then it was off to see the horses across the street. They are so pretty and friendly. Sometimes they escape from their corral and come to visit us. But they also come and eat our hay! Now, I don't go and eat their hay so I think they should leave our hay alone. All four of them were in our yard one day last summer eating from our hay pile. Humpf! Horses eat a lot of hay. But I digress.....Michael enjoyed saying "Maaaaaa" to the horses and they neighed in return.

From there it was a quick trip through the goat barn for an extra handful of grain - lucky goat! Now Michael is back in his pen eating hay! The sun is shining today so we are all Happy Goats!

Crazy Goats!

I live with a bunch of crazy goats! I do not include myself in that sentence. I am not a crazy goat; I am a Happy Goat as befits the spokesgoat for Happy Goats Soap. But given the behavior of the other goats on this farm I am beginning to think it should have been called the Crazy Goats Farm. For example, yesterday when our publicist/udder massage specialist was bringing Abigail and me down from the barn to our pen Abigail decided it would be a good time to go visit the horses across the street - and off she ran. But she forgot that the driveway is a sheet of ice. Her hooves were a' moving but Abigail was not. She eventually got some traction but ended up doing a face plant and sliding a good four feet before the publicist caught up to her and got her turned around. I was trying to be a good goat and not laugh at her but it was very, very hard.

Then Michael the goat escaped from HIS pen. Again. Now that he has discovered how to get a running head of steam and leap over his fence he just keeps doing so. He is just so proud of himself! The publicist drags him back to his pen by his horns -which he doesn't like at all! I think it upsets him that she is strong enough to do it. Hee hee. This week our male person is going to buy taller fencing so that Michael will stay where he belongs - hopefully.

But the topper of the day belonged to Luke the goat. When it was time to head back up to the barn for our goat treat and a good night's sleep Luke decided he just wasn't quite ready yet. Actually Michael didn't head right up either so the publicist had her hands full of rammy goats. She went to the goat barn and got a lead, hooked Michael the goat up and took him to the barn. When Luke the goat saw her returning he climbed the mulch pile. The publicist yelled at him; told him he better not dare jump into the doe pen. But you can guess what happened. Luke leaped! He started chasing Abigail around as if his life depended on it. I just stood back while Abigail ran like the devil was chasing her. And in a way I guess he was. Again, I tried not to laugh at Abigail's predicament but it was ABIGAIL after all.....

The publicist opened our gate and I ran out. Abigail finally figured out to escape as well. Luke had the gate slammed in his little goat face. He was not happy about this at all! Abigail and I RAN to the goat barn while Luke MAAAAAAAAed like a crazy goat. The publicist got us settled and went back for Luke the goat and found him with his head stuck in the fence! He put it through were our pen meets the garden. He was trying to fit his whole little goat body through an 8" x 8" hole. Crazy goat! When the publicist went in to help him he was so focused on getting to us girls that he did not want to back out of the fence, he just wanted to go forward. It's that whole "gotta get a doe" mentality these bucks have, you know? And I thought he was in love with ME. Bucks are fickle, FICKLE!

Anyway, with much wiggling the publicist finally was able to get Luke the goat out of the fencing, hooked up to a lead and into his pen in the barn. Whew! She was exhausted! Luke the goat was, uh, frustrated.

The Sweet Smell of New Soap

Mmmmmmm, lavender. And mountain huckleberry. Oooh and exotic red tea. It is an exciting time around the Happy Goats soap kitchen. New soap has been made and while lavender is an old favorite we are introducing some new scents and shapes for spring! Now of course I am not to be involved in the actual soapmaking I am, after all a goat but my publicist always lets me have a sniff of what she has made so I can give her my hoof stamp of approval. I have been a long time fan of lavender; it is so very relaxing. I think that maybe if we fed some to Abigail it might just calm her down a bit and she would stop trying to hog all of the hay.

The new scents we have made so far for Spring include: Afternoon Tea, which is a sweet and lightly spicy fragrance that I think is my new favorite. Orange Creamsicle, mmmmm remember those ice cream bars with the orange ice on the outside and the vanilla ice cream in the middle? It smells just like they did. Mountain Huckleberry, this one is like a bowl of fresh, tart wild huckleberries. Red Tea, slightly sweet and quite exotic. This one is limited and I chose to have Pricilla bars made in it. So you can see that it is going to be a sweet smelling place around here...

A few of the new shapes have already been introduced in the shop like the I Heart My Goats, The Eagle on the River and A Pet for The Goats but there will be more new soaps coming soon to celebrate the soon to be new residents of the Happy Goats Farm - WE'RE GETTING CHICKENS! That's right, cute little feathered friends to frolic with on the farm.

I realize this has been a highly informational post but I am , after all a spokesgoat and must sometimes do my job and put forth the good word about the wonderful soaps that are produced with my milk. So head on over to Happy Goat Soap and check them out for yourself. Tell 'em Pricilla sent you and you will get a 15% discount on your order. You can wait for an updated invoice or just pay and my publicist will issue you a refund. Aren't I a generous spokesgoat?

The Glory of Being a Goat

Now I know that most of you reading this will never know the glory of being a goat and I am sorry for you. My life is just wonderful. My publicist/udder massage therapist takes wonderful care of me and I get to browse in a most scenic corner of the world. My only complaint is Abigail and since I gave birth to her I suppose I am mostly to blame....

But today I am going to discuss Happy things. It is Saturday and I am taking time off from my spokesgoat duties. A doe needs a break now and then, don't you agree? The first topic I want to bring to your attention is a wonderful fundraiser for another worthy species; the bunny! My furry friends from across the pond Arabella and Wesley (you can read all about them here ) are donating a beautifully crafted rabbit bag from their publicist to a wonderful organization - The Buckeye House Rabbit Organization to raise money for abandoned bunnies. A beautiful treasury has been created to showcase bunnies and other cuddly creatures and draw attention to this worthy cause. So why not check out the raffle and the Treasury?

And the MOST EXCITING NEWS since I have become spokesgoat for Happy Goats Soap
a wonderful etsy seller by the name of Lambert curated a Treasury and NAMED IT AFTER ME!!! How exciting is that? I cannot tell you how thrilled I was when I was told. I immediately did my famous goat dance of joy. Sometimes being a spokesgoat is just too much fun. I thank you Lambert and I must say I do like the Two Hens painting. When I next redecorate my goat house I will surely keep you in mind!

SpokesGoat Duties

Now you might think that being a spokesgoat is all about just looking good in my photo but that is not the case at all. Remember, I am the face and Maaaa of Happy Goats Soap so I must, at all times remember to get my name and the soap's name out there for people to see. Today I did my job well! The first thing I did with help from a wonderful etsy curator; Happy Goats was on the FRONT PAGE of etsy today! I was so excited when my publicist/udder massage specialist told me I did my famous goat dance of joy! What better way to get the news out about Happy Goats Soap?

The second thing I did today was curate my own Treasury. This was a first for me, I will admit. And it was tough for me to do all that searching with my hooves - but I think I did a fine job. You can check it out here . I tried to add a screenshot but that was beyond my spokesgoat duties.

Well, I am going back to the goat barn to eat some hay. I am hoping that since I did such a good job today I will get some extra carrots tonight!

How You Can Become a SpokesGoat

Now I am sure that many of you out there would just love to become a famous spokesgoat just like me. It wasn't easy and as I mentioned in my last post there was some luck involved but I am happy to share what I know with you so that perhaps you, too can enter the realm of caprine glory.

Most important is a good head shot. Any famous super model will tell you this. While it is BORING to sit still for all the picture taking when you get a final result like my world famous Happy Goats photo, well, it is all worth it. I have, of course, included it here for you all to see. But with a face like mine it is very easy to take a good picture. My problem is I just don't like to stand still. I have better things to do with my time like eat hay and those apples and carrots of which I am so fond.

My publicist/udder massage specialist worked for quite a while to get this photo of me and I do believe she did an excellent job. It shows off my eyes just right. The snowy background is a perfect compliment to my soft brown and white coloring. Hopefully you all have a publicist/udder massage specialist that will be as willing to work as hard for you.

Well, that is enough for today. There is hay to be eaten and Abigail to be avoided. Maaaaaaa!

Maaaaaaaa!

Greetings all. I am Pricilla; the spokesgoat for Happy Goats Soap. I have decided it was time for me to maaaaa and let everyone know what life is like for a goat. I mean we are a neglected species. How many goat bloggers are there really? So with the help of my publicist/udder massage specialist I will be spreading the word about life on the Happy Goats farm and with the other goats here; Abigail, Michael and Luke.

I won't have much to say tonight as it is late and I am tired, being pregnant and all but I did want to get started and introduce myself. The photo shows me with my publicist/udder massage specialist, Patty. She takes really good care of me and brings me lots of treats. I love apples and carrots by the way..... I am a little embarrassed by the photo. Patty made me wear a necklace for some crazy photo contest she was entering so please excuse her.

Aren't I gorgeous?