In December of 2016 our first range of Bath Bombs was created.

It started out of pure boredom.

I had a history of having multiple jobs at a time and always keeping busy. Then along came my first daughter Stevie! An absolute champ of a sleeper [at the start that is] I found myself constantly trying to keep myself busy but not really sure what to do being stuck at home with a newborn.

I decided to teach myself how to make something. It was perfect. I could have a little table in the dining room that wasn't being used and I could fill in my days.

I went with Bath Bombs for a few reasons.

1. I used Bath Bombs all. of. the. time.

2. I had never actually looked at the ingredients and had no idea what they were even made of.

3. I thought I would have time to use the products while Stevie would nap.

So, after hours of researching I managed to come up with a recipe, buy some ingredients online and found my first fragrance - Sandalwood and Musk.

I had spent a couple of months making Bath Bombs now. I was getting better and had spent quite few hundred on ingredients, tools, mixing bowls and some storage containers. Definitely not what I was expecting to happen when I stumbled upon the idea.

This also left me with more Bath Bombs than I could use. My Mum suggested "Hey, you could sell these at a market".

So, after googling about markets in the area I found one that sounded good and applied. I got myself an ABN and some insurance and uploaded a bunch of [terrible] photos of my products. Somehow I managed to get myself in. Now I had to find everything for a market setup.

I started with a 6ft trestle table and some wicker baskets with labels of the Bath Bomb names. They were all labeled something fancy and not what the fragrance actually was. I spent the day having people ask what the fragrance actually was. Safe to say, that was changed pretty quickly.

By the end of the day I had pretty much sold out. I couldn't believe it. It was the funnest day I had had in soooo long [being stuck inside with a newborn really makes you crave some adult interaction]. I managed to pay for my day and put some money into buying more stock so I could attend the next market!

I had done quite a few markets by this stage and had a whole lot of people asking if I had a website or a way of sending them to friends and family interstate.

I had ZERO idea of what I was doing [I mean, I'm still sorta winging it as I go along]. I created a website that doesn't even resemble what it looks like now. I could've been selling something totally different. I had 5 different fragrances in Bath Bombs and that was about it. A wholeee lot different to what you can shop now.

The website launched April 11th and I had my first order come through on April 12th. I then realised I didn't have any idea about how I can actually ship the products and how to get it to them! So after many emails and phone calls I worked it out and had the postie picking up my orders the following day, shipping Bath Bombs around Australia!

My first Adults Only Bath Bomb was called the SEX BOMB [I still have one called that but he's slightly different].

It still had a capsule inside the Bath Bomb which contained a dare for you as a couple to do. Nothing to cray cray, just a bit cheeky. It wasn't long before I added the other Adults Only Bath Bombs...

It. Was. Fucking. Craziness.

Fizzin was still 'side-hustle' up until this point. I was working a couple of days a week in a bar, I had Stevie who was now 2 and a half, and doing markets prettyyyy much every weekend with her in tow. I was busy.

I had a box of the Adults Only Bath Bombs after doing some website photos. I followed Christian and all his hilarious videos and thought "Hey, he might get a kick out of these". I sent them to his PO Box and that was that.

Fast forward around 2 weeks, I had totally forgotten I had sent them to him. I was at the bar and at around 9pm I heard my phone make the 'cha-ching' sound any business owner loves. But, I heard quite a few of them. I thought 'hmm, why am I getting so many orders at once?' Like, I'm talking every few seconds I was getting that sound.

I looked on my website and saw I had over 200 people on my website. I almost died. I had never had that many people on there AT ONCE.

I was trying to work out what was going on when I saw 'Christian Hull started following you' on my Instagram. Christian Hull. Following little ol' Fizzin Bath Bombs. I was laughing so much at what a 'pinch me' moment this was. He had made a few stories on his Instagram and was testing out the Bath Bombs, which was then compiled into an AMAZING video [you can see it here].

He then posted it to Facebook and my website crashed. It was mental.

I got home from the bar laughing and screaming I could barely sleep. I woke up the next day and I had done a YEARS worth of sales OVERNIGHT. I looked at my phone and I felt sick. I had ZERO idea how I was meant to make that many Bath Bombs. And where was I gonna find the stock? And all the toys? And post them? The list went on. I spent 2 weeks in the garage, barely eating or sleeping, making as many Bath Bombs as I could.

All the orders were out the door within 2 weeks after many sleepless nights and a lot of posts on Facebook groups asking for tips on sending out hundreds of orders at a time.

After Christian's video the orders weren't slowing down.

I didn't have time to work at the bar 2 days a week and make Bath Bombs on the side. The website was too busy for it so I decided to be totally self-employed.

I had no business experience before this and it was scary. A lot of "what-if's" ran through my mind but I decided that I had to make it work.

One of the BEST weekends of my life. I had a corner stall at Sexpo Melbourne all to myself.

I got to meet Fizzin customers that had been purchasing online for months, and a whole lot of new ones.

Slightly different crowd to what you would have at your local Sunday morning market haha!

Born 2 days before my birthday [she's lucky, I did NOT want to share the day], Indie Ava joined us!