About

Anne-Marie at Otion the soap bar

Anne-Marie Faiola is a serial entrepreneur and passionate crafter. She is also a die-hard scuba diver and voracious reader. Anne-Marie currently runs a series of crafty companies, including the one she started at the age of 20, Bramble Berry. She sits on a variety of non-profit boards and loves to bake if she ever has any extra time.

SoapQueen.com is a collection of soap projects, personal musings, business advice from the trenches and the occasional family photo.

Anne-Marie lives in Bellingham, WA with her adorable entrepreneur husband (he runs an engineering firm) and a beautiful baby boy.

 

That’s Anne-Marie’s story in a nutshell, want more? You got it!

Personal Ramblings

Jamisen in Cartoon Form

Seriously, doesn’t this look like our little red-haired Jamisen? The artwork is done by my friend Jess (want routine laughs? Follow her blog!) who is working on her own cartoon [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

I know you’re distracted by the little bum and that Cupid has caught you with his arrow but there are cute Valentine soaps in the background. Click here to get your [...]

Megan Cummins Dives Into The Shark Tank

It has been a while since we’ve done a Soap Queen interview and this is one you don’t want to miss! It’s with the super sparky founder of You Smell [...]

Curling: It’s Harder Than It Looks

I recently went curling. For those of you not in the “know”, it’s an Olympic sport that involves sliding a heavy rock thing to an end zone and scoring points [...]

Craxy Recap Week 3: End in Sight

Breakthrough! This week the cleanse finally started to feel comfortable to me. It wasn’t the initial change that was difficult but the following through and sticking with it for a [...]

Craxy Week 2: Recap

Crazy Sexy Diet, 21 Day Cleanse: Week 2 Jamisen and I are juicing. He loves it! Craxy Week in Review Can you believe that we are almost three quarters of [...]

All You Need Is Love

Swoon! Check out Bramble Berry’s new Love Mold, ready to make it’s debut to the world tomorrow, Friday 1/27/2012! I know what you’re thinking, “Where’s the tutorial, Anne-Marie? It’s tutorial THURSDAY!” Hang [...]

Snowmageddon Came and Went

Greetings from a fantastic weekend in the Pacific Northwest. Though our snow has melted now, it has been quite a week! These photos are from my Dad’s medical office (in [...]

Craxy Week 1: Recap

Craxy Week in Review  It has been nearly a week on the Crazy Sexy Diet 21 day Cleanse and we are over 20% of the way through. I have been [...]

Valentine Etsy Linkspiration and Love

Valentine’s Day is less than a month away which means you still have time to purchase your valentine goodies. Or even better…MAKE your valentine goodies (Pushaw! As if we’d recommend anything but [...]

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