I have long held the highest of respect for Susan  at NotQuiteJuneCleaver.com. This woman makes everything homemade and has owned her own catering company and a successful venture in soap making, written cookbooks… and has six children, home schooled them all and runs a home based on love and “doing it with pride”. I admire women like her… not caught up in fast food and fast living… but values based on home and homemade… and being real and authentic.

I found her website one day, while looking for homemade soap… which I love and use here in our home. Needless to say… I got “hooked” on Susan and her daily blogs and fell in love with her passion for life and her homemade way of living. I became a fan, and I have even written about her in my free newsletters I send out and put her link on my blog page.

I usually do not go this route with women I don’t know… but you see Susan has been a life saver for me many times. I have my own company that is based on celebrations and traditions for women, and I produce my own line of organic bath products and gift line. There have been times when I have had doubts about my creative comapny… and the path I was on… you know the ones all creative women have…. and when I felt this way… I would pop over to her blog and her words and daily living that she wrote about on her blog, gave me the COURAGE to stay on course and keep going!!!

I finally wrote to her one day via email and thanked her for being such a positive mentor to me and she took the time to write me back!  How great is this!!

And now I am proud and excited to say that I won one of her handmade APRONS!!!! I will wear this apron each time I cook dinner, or when I am feeling blue… cause I know that a great lady made this… and her inspiration and devotion to being a homemaker, wife and mother…. inspires us all to be Not Quite June Cleaver… but just to be who we are… exceptional women… doing exceptional things!

Thank you Susan,

Victoria