I guess most small business owners sit around (on the rare occasions when they get a chance to sit down!) and dream about when their enterprise will be successful and what they'll do when that happy day comes. We sit around worrying about it and gnawing our fingernails... continued

To introduce our new range of organic essential oils and our new candles we are giving away a free Organic Lavender Essential Oil with every order over €30 and we will add a free Cedar and Lemongrass Candle if the order is over €100.

The Tearooms this year were run by Mary Sheehan, who hails from Lambertville, New Jersey and came to the Burren to work with us for the summer, enjoy Irish life and meet more of her numerous cousins. I am happy to say she is returning to the Perfumery for the 2008 season... continued

This was going to be a two part series but since we missed the Summer Newsletter you're getting both parts together. The first section discusses general things to consider when you are photographing flowers. It doesn't get technical and doesn't require that you have a fancy camera.

Our vegetarian salad platter was very popular this year with both customers and staff. Here are recipes for the three simple, but delicious salads used in the platter.

The second part of this article is a bit technical but should still be readable. It assumes that your camera allows you some degree of control over basic settings such as shutter speed, aperture and ISO. This section discusses issues like depth of field, tripods, white balance, and bracketing.