For all of us here at SJ Creations, Halloween is one of our favorite times of the year. While we enjoy your last few days of summer, the spooky holiday is slowly creeping up on us and in two months, the streets will once again be filled with trick-or-treating ghosts and goblins. We want to be sure to give you ample opportunity to stock up on our ghoulishly fun Halloween products so we’re getting ready now. Enjoy!

Add a festive touch of Halloween to your bathroom or kitchen with the 16 oz. Ghost Hand Wash ($7) and 16 oz. Pumpkin Hand Wash ($10).

The 17.4 oz. Haunted Halloween Hand Wash and 17.4 oz. Spooky Vanilla Hand Wash ($7 each) offer festive designs and ghostly good smells.

These fun Antibacterial Hand Care Sets ($6 each) make for wonderful Halloween gifts. Available in Trick or Treat/Wicked Candy Apple or Spooky Vanilla/Haunted Halloween. Includes 1 oz. hand lotion and 1 oz. hand gel.

Want more great Halloween options? Check out all of our new Halloween products then tell us your favorite and why in a blog comment to be entered in our August Blog Comment Giveaway. You could win a $25 gift card to SJ Creations!

Winner will be selected via random drawing from all blog comments in August on September 1. Be sure to check out past blogs and leave a comment for extra entries.

Have you heard about SJ Creation’s Design-A-Label contest? We want to bring you, our friends and fans, in on the action by helping us create a new label design for our luxurious body butters! Simply select one of the six fragrances and create a new look!

You don’t need to be a professional artist or graphic designer to enter. If art has always been a passion, this is a great opportunity for you to show your skills.  Amateurs, hobbyists and students are all welcome to submit your designs.

Designs must be received by September 1.

The creator of the winning design, as voted by the online public, will receive a $25 Amex gift card, a case of body butter with your winning label and the chance of having your design on shelves nationwide!

Read all the rules on our Label Design Contest Page.

We look forward to seeing your ideas!

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Enter our August Blog Comment Contest for a chance to win a $25 gift card to SJ Creations.

Tell us about your greatest art achievement.  Maybe your an artist or photographer and you’ve had art featured in a fancy show.  Or maybe your crowning artistic moment was a drawing of a dog in elementary school. Share your artistic background and you’ll be entered in our comment contest.

Pier at sunset in Ocean Beach, San Diego

Here at SJ Creations, we’re lucky enough to live and work near the gorgeous beaches of San Diego. But we’re also aware that there are wonderful beaches all over the world and we’re inviting you to share photos of your favorite coastal landscape with us. It may be palm trees on the shore of Hawaii or a rocky seaside cliff in Maine. It could be an everyday place in your town or an exotic vacation destination. Any beach setting that you personally photographed will qualify you to enter our contest and you could win a great prize from SJ Creations!

Submit your photo and a short description, including when and where the photo was taken, by email to awalker@sjcreationsinc.com by August 15. Once we finish accepting submissions, we’ll post all the photos in a Facebook album and open up voting to the public. We encourage you to get your friends and family to stop by and vote for your photo too!

The winner will be the photo with the most “likes” on September 1. The grand prize is a $25 gift card to SJ Creations, second place will receive a $15 gift card and third place a $10 gift card.

Please email your photo to awalker@sjcreationsinc.com to submit.

Ooh la la…she’s fun…she’s fabulous…et elle parle français! Without a doubt, Fancy Nancy is everyone’s favorite tiara-wearing, glitter-sporting, glamorous little girl. That’s why we are positively delighted to present our exclusive product line based on the beloved Fancy Nancy book series written by Jane O’Connor and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser.

Whether you are a retailer, professional event planner or the mother of an avid fan, you’ll find an abundance of posh, sparkly Fancy Nancy inspired spa and fashion accessories at SJ Creations.

Looking for the perfect birthday present, party favor, sleepover set or flower girl gift? We have exactly what you need to transform a special party into an elegant soirèe fit for the poshest princesses in the world!

• Fancy Nancy Ooh La La Body Lotions includes a pair of 2-oz. jars in Strawberry Parfait and Glamorous Grape scents, for $7.99. Dee-licious!

• Our Posh Powder Set will make any girl feel extra fancy with its Posh Powder Puff and 3.53 oz. Strawberry Parfait Shimmering Body Powder; $8.99.

• The Très Fancy Fun Set turns any glamour girl sparkly with glitter galore! Includes Glitter Nail Polish, Strawberry Parfait Glitter Gel and Strawberry Parfait Lip Balm for $7.99.

And now, for a limited time only, purchase all 3 of our Fancy Nancy gift sets for one low price of just $19.99! The entire collection makes the perfect gift for your favorite Fancy Girl. Gift shopping for girls just got easier!

Volume pricing is available to professional party planners and other qualified buyers.

What’s more, you can now get fancy with SJ Creations’ Fancy Nancy Facebook fan page and the Fanciest Nancy Twitter feed, where you’ll be kept up to date on all things posh, fancy and fun!

Yes, it’s fun to be fancy! Au revoir!

Sailing…sun tanning…sand, shells and seagulls! SJ Creations’ “Fragrance of the Month” for June pays homage to summer with ocean & sea inspirations, featuring a variety of nautical-themed Body Care and Home Accent products on sale now!

If you won’t get to the beach this summer, why not bring the beach to you? Give your home a charming seaside cottage environment even if you live in the mountains or plains, with a selection of our enchanting Ocean Breeze, Ocean Mist and Sea Breeze items. Just one whiff of these subtle, shore-infused scents will transport you from your bath or kitchen, back to your favorite beach in an instant.

All Ocean and Sea-themed products are on sale as Fragrance of the Month items with 25% off, which includes our cleansing hand washes, refreshing bath salts and our decorative and fashionable home décor caddy sets, like the Ceramic Shell and Boat caddies!

Check out our latest Press Release!

Smart About Skin Care – SJ Creations Launches Website, Informs Customers About the Importance of Organic Ingredients

For additional information about SJ Creations and Pure Organics, contact Rich and Sundi Yousko or visit www.SJCreationsInc.com.

After 7 years of selling exclusively to retailers (including Sears,  Bed Bath and Beyond, Ulta, and Homegoods), SJ Creations brings their bath and body product direct to consumers with the launch of their website, www.sjcreationsinc.com.

San Diego, CA, May 22, 2009 –(PR.com)– Family-owned, San Diego business SJ Creations launches their e-commerce website this month — http://www.SJCreationsInc.com — bringing organic bath and body products direct to consumers for the first time since the company was founded in 1997.

Due to the overwhelming positive response from customers that have purchased SJ Creations’ product from retailers, the company has launched a new website making it’s product available to eager customers. Julie Evans comments, “We have received many emails over the years requesting SJ Creations to sell their products on line, so we are very excited to be able to offer this service now.” Retailers including Sears, Ulta, Bed Bath and Beyond and TJ Maxx will continue to carry SJ Creations bath and body products, but now customers have the option to shop online as well.

Not only will the website provide the convenience that has made online shopping so popular, but customers can use the site to access important information about their product. SJ Creations owner Rich Yousko notes, “it is important for the consumer to understand the ingredients in the products they use since a high percentage of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our body.” As the SJ Creations web site grows Mr. Yousko states, “we plan on becoming a resource for customers to learn about the risks and benefits of personal care ingredients.”

The Pure Organics skin care line includes both body and face care products, the prices ranging from $9 to $18. All the products contain a minimum of 76% organic ingredients, and are 100% paraben free with no sodium lauryl sulfates (SLS), silicon, or petroleum. The body product line is available in four fragrances: Fragrance Free, Green Tea & Ginger Blossom, Lavender, and Pink Grapefruit.

The Pure Organics Pink Grapefruit body line was created to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer – Every sale of a Pure Organic Pink Grapefruit product, SJ Creations donates a portion of the proceeds to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Available products include a moisturizing hand crème, body lotion and wash, sugar scrub, body butter and body mist.

The website also features other bath and body items that SJ Creations manufactures including private label products for various retailers (which include gift sets, slipper kits, and home accent caddies with hand wash and lotion). An exciting new project for SJ Creations is a line of gifts for young girls (age 3-8) featuring Fancy Nancy, a children’s book character that is rapidly growing in popularity (www.FancyNancyBooks.com).