I recently attended a Chocolate Party called “Chocolate is the new Black”. It was put on by Seattle Metropolitan magazine and was actually an event for Verizon Wireless’s new Chocolate phone. Babeland set up a Chocolate Massage Bar with the Babeland Body chocolate hazelnut massage candles, chocolate raspberry lickable oils and massage bars. We had John Van Hoy, a local LMP, doing hand, neck and arm massages and I used the Kama Sutra chocolate trio to paint edible tattoos on people - I mostly did hearts and stars. The party was at the Ibiza Dinner Club and all the food and drinks they served had chocolate in them - even chocolate drizzled beef skewers (surprisingly really good); there was a chocolate tasting by Theo Chocolates, and Chocolate phone giveaways from Verizon. Babeland was thanked several times by Poison Waters, the Drag Queen MC, and we had a line waiting to get massaged and tattooed for most of the night. I even walked around the party dripping hot wax or lickable oil on folks so they could lick or massage each other (there was even a bed in the club and I was trying to encourage some naughty behavior!). All in all it was a blast. Lots of people wanted to know if we were selling the products there and asked if they could take the testers home. At least everyone did get a chocolate raspberry Babeland Body massage bar in their gift bags at the end of the night, so hopefully everyone went home happy. If this sounds good to you, check out our edibles.

Audrey McManus

Babeland Seattle Education Coordinator

Kate Bornstein visited us at the Seattle store to do a mini-workshop based on her new book Hello Cruel World. Over 60 people showed up to see her and hear her speak. We sold 23 of her books which I think was record number for a book event! It was really great to have her here and everyone was really excited to see her, whether again or for the first time. The event was free, but we accepted donations for Lambert House — all the money went into sealed envelopes so I don’t know how much we actually raised for them, but thanks to everyone who contributed.