Has it really been that long?!!!

Time sure has a way of ticking away quickly. I can not believe it has been almost 3 months since my last posting. Bad me! You can always catch up with us on Twitter though.

I have been so busy! We ended up having to move homes and then in between painting our new house, and un-packing we are prepping for markets and being pure busy bee's once we get to those markets - leaving us straight up t-i-r-e-d. It's been such a whirlwind of craziness.

My way to make it up to you ---- to try and lure your love for us out in the great wide open is...

We are offering this great gift basket filled to the brim with awesome goodies. 

It has so much greatness in it!!! 

Such as: 

*3 free smoothies in your awesome new re-useable 16oz smoothie cup

*Cute Aranzi Aronzo socks, pouches, bento box and a couple of ceramic mugs

*Earl Grey tea from Earths Herbal Teas

* 2 letter sets, a couple of note pads and a business card holder from Shinzi Katoh

*2 great wooden stamp sets

* 2 cute elephant mobile air freshners.

How can you win this basket???

So simple, just head on over to our Soylent Green Facebook page and add that you "like" us.

Once we get to a 100 followers we will randomly pick the winner.

How sweet is that!?

Now head over there now and "like" us!!! 

The sooner we reach the 100 people to like our page the faster we can give away this great basket!

I love Nat & Drew!

That was super fun!

We were on the radio this morning with Nat & Drew, from Virgin 95.3. They have a fun segment that they do every Thursday morning for charities and businesses. To my surprise, they picked us to be their client this week! YAY!!!!

 They are awesome.

 I was a little worried I was going to sound like such a dork. Surprisingly, I did not so bad. I hate hearing myself though.

It's so funny to talk to them on the phone. It's so surreal. After listening to them every morning for so many years on the radio. They are totally on it with their banter. I kind of felt like I was interrupting them at times. Sorry guys! I really do love Nat's sense of humor.

Here is the link below, to their ad's they did for Soylent Green.

 Which one would you choose???

I loved both of them in real life & it was so hard to choose.

Do you think I made the right choice?

Listen here!

Helping hands

It's been such a journey to complete the Soylent Green trailer. I couldn't have done it with out my mom and a few good friends who came through when I was in total need.

The trailer is all done and I am so thankful for the handful of good people that I have in my life. Without them, I may still be puttering around the trailer trying to get things done all by myself. I know I have a problem reaching out asking for help, and I resist asking all the time. I am so amazed by the kindness of people when I do ask for help. Why I wait, is beyond me!!! Usually it gets to the point of me, being on the verge of a nervous breakdown before I actually ask for that help - LOL!!!  I had quite a few of those moments getting Soylent Green finished up. I don't know if it's that I have bad luck? or just weird things like to happen only to me... Like, City Hall sending me an already expired business license??! Thanks, City Hall. Why? Why would that happen?!!! The clerk at City Hall had a good laugh at that one, when I had to make yet another visit to their office. I actually have a long list of all the crazy things that I've gone through on this project.

But, it's all past me now.

 Good things are a head. With great weather just around the corner, it feels great. Being in the trailer slingin' smoothies to the folk, feels right. Awesome things are happening. I can't wait to share all the things that Soylent Green is up to this summer with you.

Thank you to all the people that made Soylent Green a reality. From the very start, to the women who sold the trailer to me & at the very end, when Asami was writing out our menu and just adding the finishing touches to it. And when Laszlo came out just minutes before I was to be inspected to fix my crazy water pump. We made it! You were a total life saver at that point, Laszlo! Thank youuuuu!

Soylent Green and all her greatness couldn't have happened without any of you.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Now come and get your smoothie on! 

I owe you all big time!!!

We ARE D-O-N-E!

I apologize for lack of posts!!!

 But, it seems that life has been a whirlwind since I last blogged about the trailer. One thing that is soooo true, is that things ALWAYS take longer than you expect. Without a doubt.

 But, with all that patience and perseverance I present to you...

Soylent Green,

 in all her completeness!

Woot-wooooooo!!! Isn't she lovely!!???

It's been a crazy ride finally getting to this point. I am so excited to be through all the "pre"-Soylent Green world. Now I am "in" Soylent Green world and literally hours away from officially 

 slinging yummy smoothies to the people! So excited!!!!

It's all I have wanted to do since I first laid eyes on this project.

 Now, it's here. The day has come.

We are working towards being open on Tuesday!

Tuuuuuuuuuesday!!!!???

YAY!!!!

Hope to seeeee YOU at the trailer!!!

Soylent Green got all purrrrdy!

I could barely sleep the night before dropping off the trailer to get the branding done.
Partly because I really loathe backing the trailer up. I was really having some anxiety about having to park it into the sign shop's warehouse bay.

 I get there first thing in the morning and try backing the 'ol Airstream into the bay and it ain't going to happen, feels like a million hours of backing up, going forward, turning the wheel this way and that. No such luck. 

Plan B: Is to get it as close to the door as possible and then just lift it back.

 Would be simple, except the opening is on a slight incline. EEK! So the sign people called upon the help of their nice neighbours. Still... the trailer just isn't going to fit. It's too wide. So not going to happen.

Plan C: The trailer is going to get the branding done while sitting outside.

 Only thing is, it's cold and rainy. Rain is not a good thing when applying a giant sticker sheet to a cold trailer. The installer says he is going to give it a shot. He actually took a blow torch to the trailer to warm it up. It all worked out because, luckily the weather turned for us too and 4 hours later she was all done!

 The sun was out and it couldn't have turned out any better! I was so surprised to see it in real life. From looking at the paper image to seeing the image on the trailer, you just don't know how GOOD it really is going to turn out. I think the trailer looks soooooooo GOOD! I still can't stop cooing over it!!!

 I LOVE! LOVE!

 What APAK did for us. 

Thank you Ayumi & Aaron!

I am sorry for the lack of posts. We have been having internet issues and I wasn't able to get on the computer since before Christmas! 

Things have been kind of slow to get finished because of our cold weather. Slight set back. I still need to finish painting and the temperature out here has been so cold and sucky. The paint just won't dry if it's this cold and damp. So lame.

But, there is lots of other things that I need to do... so I am going to keep trucking and hopefully open this sucker up soon!

Once upon a time

Once upon a time, two lovely ladies drove all the way from Kamloops, BC to make dreams happen. They drove all day to deliver a 1962 Airstream Safari to Richmond, BC. We were so excited to see them pull up with the trailer. Relieved they showed up, being that you just never know with Craigslist!

 We had big plans for the Safari. Sadly the next few months the trailer would just sit waiting to be re-purposed into a mobile smoothie business.

 Finally we found the perfect fellow to help turn the inside into a functional beauty. (Pictures to come of the inside once I finish painting it on the inside.)

Polish swirls

Before polishing

After polishing

Polished the bottom half, now gotta do the top part

When the trailer was almost done on the inside, I had to take it away to Langley to a wonderful friend's house to strip away the clear coat and polish her up, so you could see your reflection in it! The weather was so terrible, couldn't have picked a worse time to take it away to work on the outside. She sat for a week, in the snowy cold. But, finally the weather cheered up a bit. I got to work on her. Wearing umpteen layers of clothing and mittens to keep warm. Using chemicals that felt like they were melting my face off. It was so cold. Finally towards the end, listened to my mom's genius advice about getting a patio heater. I used that and it was awesome! Totally kept me warm. I discovered that I could polish forever and ever if I wanted to. I made a mental choice to only do 3 coats and then to leave the rest till spring. I brought the shine up as I best I could, and took her back to finish up the inside.

She's done on the outside (for now!)

I can't even begin to describe what it is like to tow this baby. It's so scary. If I go above 80km/h it starts to shake. I swear I age 5 years every time I tow her. The highway is so scary. How those two ladies drove her through the mountains is beyond me! I'd be pretty happy to be able to tow her going just 50km/h but, it tends to get people a little upset.

We are soooo close to finishing it all up. I just have to finish painting inside!

We have our new location all worked out & will be moving there late Monday or Tuesday. My truck's heater core just broke, so that will be getting fixed on Monday hopefully.

 She will be getting branded on the 22nd!

YAY!!! So close to being ALL done.