The last week of February, first week of March has historically been a challenging one for this girl. There’s been a string of mishaps, and every year I vow to stay indoors for that full week and avoid the dire occurrences which include  life altering injuries, ridiculously difficult break-ups, death of of beloved dogs (two in the same week, 5 years apart), and a host of other smaller things like car scuffles. Needless to say, I looked at a calendar last week and just about shut life down for a bit.

But, it might be true, that once you’re doing exactly what you want to be doing in and for the world, there’s some kind of mystical alignment. I won’t think too much into it, other than to have a moment of dear and sacred gratitude.

Because so far, this week rocks!!

Sweet happenings, in order of appearance:

Full-Access Passes to Big Sky Documentary Film Fest, which happened a week late this year, falling right in my danger zone. I love this festival, love the week-long evening parties and reasons to wear my great shoes, and of course, I am always moved by a few of the films (Chasing the Ice). And the filmmakers loved having our Beauty Tea in the Lounge! (the guys particulalry liked the Man Tea)

Best of Body Care by The Holy Kale: This blog is great. Being a busy lady recently, a lot of my healthier habits have taken a bit of a slide (even though my idea of unhealthy is putting a bunch of cheese on a bowlful of steamed veggies and having a whole bar of dark chocolate and too many galsses of wine. Not exactly drive-through bad). She straightened me up! I'm now on day 3 of clean, lotsa-veggie eating again, and I'm sure when I slide into too much cheese, I'll be right back on her site, looking for ideas. Anyways She loves Us! And it makes me so proud.

Indulgence Montana: This little shop is a wonderfully curated skincare boutique, a mini Nordstroms in Bozeman, MT (like Sage & Cedar, PreenApothecary and EssenzaSeattle). Great skincare. No clothes, no shoes, no massages. Just the products. I could sit in there reading labels and getting packaging inspiration all day. Well, they now carry BijaBody's anti-aging body care and beauty tea. I am so proud. Our shelf will be right there by Laura Mercier, one of my favorite make-up brands evah, evah. And Deirdre is the first make-up artists who has ever made me up, rather than make me clown looking.

Gene Juarez Salons + Spas: That’s right, our first Mac-Daddy account. The first account with an office building several stories high, designated “visual merchandising” person, and at least a hundred treatment rooms. BijaBody will be in 48 of them! 48 back-bars (the products beauty therapists use during treatments) will be stocked with BijaBody’s Anti-Aginng Body Treatment and the Daily Body Serum. And we’ll be sitting in ten retail locations. Yup, you can imagine it was not a relaxing weekend setting up for that shipment! They're in Seattle, along with the Sweet Spot Sugaring Studio who was the first place to stock us in Back-Bar! Several estheticians with BijaBody. Makes me happy just thinking of it.

Allure Called, They’d like to meet us: Well, actually, I emailed them. But they emailed me back! And they didn't ask to meet us, just our products. All 6ft of me pranced around the house, trying to act all  cool. It's Allure! It's like my version of a holy book. Carrie's Vogue. My go-to gift. Linda Wells and Charlie Rose hung out for an interview once, and I almost couldn't watch. It's my two favorite media peeps. Too cool. Thank goodness for email and the facade of non-chalance and appreciation. I was freakin’ stoked and giddy! Anyways, they get their package today. At some point, there will be BijaBody in the Allure office and and it’ll get passed around. And it's basically like a vision unfurling, products I spent years working on, getting passed around a hectic beauty magazine office. Oh dear, I may be goofy today.

sororiTea Sisters: I’ve followed these ladies for a long time. I found them on Steepster, which is like Facebook for tea geeks and I wish I had way more time to spend there. They’re awesome. They're sisters. They love tea. And they think a cuppa Nightly Beauty Tea is awesome. They blogged about it! Coming from these two, who I bet under their general niceness, can be tea snobs (like me), that means a lot!

So it’s the 29th, I’m feeling alright. One more week to go. putting ju-ju in the air that packages will arrive safely, Allure will see what we're creating and life will be generally mellow for the next week! 3 years ago, I injured my back this week of March. For the following 9 months I could barely walk to the bathroom, or wash my face without being in flat on my back position. What a blessing in disguise. I had always wished I had time to write a business plan.

{I think} You can plan everything down to a T, work your butt off, get everything lined up, and then you hope a piece of magic touches it. If Magic touches you and you haven't done the work, it's usually wasted. If you do all the work, and Magic doesn't quite find you, cool things will still happen, I believe, but the ultimate Vision, the Big Plan, takes both. Work your ass off, and set yourself up so Magic sees it. I've got the work part down pat. And I've got butterflies fluttering!

xoxoxo, Melissa