Soak, while designed for all fine fibers, is the perfect (and generally preferred) solution for hand-washing lingerie.


Ask lingerie expert Jennifer Klein, from Secrets from your Sister, who recently answered the age old question- how to hand wash bras, on sweetspot.ca.

On February 18th we head off to NYC to our semi-annual tradeshow, CurveNY. There, we spread the word of Soak to lingerie boutique and department store buyers world-wide. We start with our basic hand-washing techniques, move through our delicate fragrances and talk about our award-winning packaging and designs. We’re also introducing Carrie + Phil, the latest members of the Soak collection.  Phil loves protecting hand-washables from the rest of the laundry and relieving the sink of its duties by providing a safe haven for Soaking.  Phil or no Phil, hand-washing lingerie on a regular basis prolongs its life and keeps it looking clean and stylish longer.

This pictorial review of Soak, said to ‘explain the phenomenon that Is Soak’ does just that, so, enough from us, get SOAKing.


 










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Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday, to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!


DellaQ designs the most lovely knitting and sewing essentials. Cases, fabrics etc. She also has a collection of bags that suit laptops, daily travel and larger, non-crafty stuff. Della herself, over the years, has also become a great friend. She is a lovely business woman, avid runner and friendly face during our travels around the knitting and quilting world.

Naomi, on the other hand, came into my life about a year ago, at a TNNA tradeshow. She took one look at my purse and jumped right into my arms. She hasn’t left my side since. Talk about devotion. She’s soft, friendly and always gets compliments. I still enjoy hanging out with Della when I’m on the road, but Naomi is always by my side.

Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday, to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!


Meet Brachic. Located on Richmond Street in Ottawa, Ontario, Brachic packages the perfect bra in the perfect pink bag. When I bought my insanely beautiful and comfortable purple bra (Salome) during my last visit, I was captivated by Marianne (the owner extraordinaire) as well as her staff, her store and her shopping bags.While the store is simply lovely, the fitting rooms are brilliant. One even has a cork board for fitting women to exchange business cards! Each has a unique theme to make every woman feel at home.
I brought my pink bag back to the office and I just can’t part with it. It has the style and durability of a re-usable bag, but it’s crisp lines and un-tarnished surface makes it more suited to visual display than daily carry-along. So, we’ve decided to use it as a mini-soak display. 

We also shopped and danced ’till we dropped with Marianne at the CurveNY Lingerie trade and fashion show in NY… but that’s a story for another day. Does your shop have a unique and lovely bag? Merchandise with it. Don’t forget to send us the pics!

We know how frustrating it can be when you can’t find the picture that you want. We’ve had a lot of requests from people to put up a blog posting on how to search for images on our Flickr site. Hopefully by the end of this post, you will have no trouble navigating and finding exactly what you need.



Our photos are organized into collections and sets. Collections are made up of sets, and sets are made up of photos.

We recommend starting in the collections view at www.flickr.com/soakwash/collections or by clicking on the collections tab.

Each collection has a mosaic showing some of the images that you will find inside. Click on the collection that you need and it will open up and show the sets of photos included in the collection.

In this instance, I selected the “Inspired by everything Ravelry” collection. You can see that there are 3 sets within this collection.Next you click on the set that best describes the photo that you want. For our example, I selected “Creative Juices yarns”. That will then take you to a page that shows all the individual images that are included in that set.

Once you find the photo you want to use, select it to enlarge the photo. You can change the size to one that suits your needs by clicking “+all sizes” above the top left hand corner of the image.

You will be taken to a window that shows all the available sizes. Select the size you need and click download. A window will pop up, click save and then choose the destination.

Once you’ve downloaded the image, you can return to our other photos by clicking “back to the Flickr photo page” on the top left hand corner of the screen.

 

Search using tags

We have used tags to further organize all of our photos. In the tags view, it shows words that have been used to describe our photos. For instance, clicking on the word ’bottle’ will open up a window that includes all of our images that have been tagged with the word ‘bottle’.

Still lost? Email Ngoc@soakwash.com for a personal tour.

Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!


When I was little, my mother travelled the globe. She was a fashion designer. She frequented New York and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Montreal. She bought fabric in Asia, shopped the stores of Paris and London and visited suppliers world-wide. She also collected shopping bags from boutiques near and far. Many moons ago, she used them to wallpaper the basement of the house where we lived. Paper bags and a staple gun. History in the making.

She loved the prints, the colours, the sayings and, I’m certain, the shopping that went along with them. Many bags are from boutiques that no longer exist, or stores that have changed their name, logo and image, time and time again. Did you know that Banana Republic used to be a ‘Travel & Safari Clothing Company’? (I miss those old Banana Republic t-shirts with lions and tigers and bears, oh my!) Club Monaco is a great Canadian brand of the past. Roots is still around with its iconic beaver et al. Remember Ken Done with those great water colours and prints?

I guess that’s where my fascination for bags began. Where we live, in the city of Toronto, Canada, there’s a new bylaw that states that retailers must now charge a minimum of $.05 for a plastic bag. This trend towards re-usable bags has created a larger than life collection of brilliant bags at our office. We now travel the globe, attending trade shows, visiting customers and of course, shopping. While our bag collection is often used for carrying Soak to and from the office, some of our bags are becoming icons in their own ways.Each Friday we’re going to share part of our bag collection with you. You’ll learn about bags from our distributors, Soak retailers, events we’ve sponsored and places we’ve been. We’ll include fascinating facts, merchandising tips and whatever else we find in the bag. So sit down, grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday to learn how these bags came to live at our office.

A while back I received my beautiful apple cozy(ies) in the mail at the office. I bought 4 from UnravelMe… One for me, one for my sister and two for friends with whom we spend every Xmas eve. It was love at first sight.

 

This year, our friends have decided that for Xmas, we are each to bring a bag of food for the local food bank (USA) local food bank (Canada) rather than bringing gifts. Brilliant. We’ve also extended this great idea to our family Hanukkah party.

Since I already have my 4 apple cozies I am still going to bring them, each with apples inside. I believe they fit right in with the food bank theme. Mine however, will live at my office with or without an apple in it (depending on my lunch that day) because it’s just that pretty.

We’ve already begun collection food for the local food bank at the Soak office. Our friends and family brought food offerings to our holiday open house. We encourage you to give to your local food bank this holiday season. As most families are financially strained, so are the food banks. I also learned that food banks (at least the ones near us) can’t use plastic bags any more, so donating re-usable bags is also a great idea. Happy holidays.

Mini-soak Merchandising at its finest. Sometimes, our crafty skills shine in unexpected ways.

Enjoy the holiday and don’t forget to include Soak in your holiday shopping and gift-giving plans.

Order online or see our list of retailers to find one near you.

Ailie, our National Account Manager came to visit yesterday with Katie, her lovely new daughter. Best wishes to Ailie, Katie and their entire family!  We look forward to her return to the office. The library has already been fitted for a play pen. I’m feeling the need to also secure some dragon-fly night lights and other fun crafty decorations.

This is the quilt I made Katie. She’s such a snuggle bunny. It was love at first sight.

Friday afternoon I had the pleasure of taping an episode of the E-hour with Steve Stunt. (air date to follow, I think this Sunday the 29th) With me was fellow entrepreneur Paul Moyer of Moyer’s Candy Apples. We chatted about our experiences in business and in the Dragons’ Den. Paul’s family has an apple farm and is now well-known for his candy apples.

On my regular trip to the market Saturday, I realized that I was already quite familiar with Paul’s products. In addition to securing a candy apple, I stumbled upon the most elegant form of cauliflower, cauliflower romanesco. It was love at first sight, and dinner Sunday. Yum. All were carried home in my favorite market bag, from Borough Market, in London England.

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