Month of Gratitude, Day 1

November = Thanksgiving Day.  Thanksgiving Day = celebrating what we're thankful for.    But heck -- there are so many things we're thankful for!  Let's make it a whole month!!

So, friends:   welcome to Day 1 of the Month of Gratitude on this blog!!!  (Keep coming back.  You might just find yourself featured . . . .)

And, we'd sure like to hear what  YOU'RE grateful for.  Post comments all month long.  We'll have a drawing on November 30 to give away fabulous one-of-a-kind holiday goodies from Bean Up The Nose Art, specially made for this contest.  

More ways to enter!  If you BLOG or TWEET or POST ON FACEBOOK about Bean Up The Nose Art's Month of Gratitude . . . you'll get an EXTRA FIVE ENTRIES in the contest!  Sweet!!! (Post a comment to let us know that you've done so, and we'll check them out!)

Ready?!?!  Let's play!!

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MONTH OF GRATITUDE, DAY 1:  Sugarskull7

Boy oh boy, are we grateful here at Bean Up The Nose Art for the mad rubber stamp design skills of Kim J., whose etsy shop  is "Sugarskull7":

That right above is a cool pin that she sends along with her rubber stamp packages.  That right below is the banner of her etsy shop.  (Did we mention she has an etsy shop?  If you want to see some cool rubber stamps, you should click right on over to it ASAP!)

Kim has been designing and hand-carving stamps for 15 years.  Two years ago, she began selling them on etsy -- where we found her.  Thank goodness!   See?  Here's one of our fastest-selling cards:   

Want to know where the dogs came from?  Voila:

That's right.  That's a sugarskull7 stamp right there.  And Kim has generously allowed us to reproduce him.  And his friends.  Seriously.  You will find her designs on tons of Bean Up The Nose Art products.  And a fabulous new bag of them was delivered just a while ago.  Cannot wait to incorporate them into new collages!

Kim is a full-time artist, designing and hand-carving her stamps eight hours a day, plus painting, plus learning to screenprint.  (So, we can look forward to a new product line from her soon!)  And she has a 16-year-old daughter.  And an artist husband . . . who just lost his corporate gig . . . so now we have a household full of artists giving it a go at making a living as artists.  GO, ARTISTS!!!!  Hooray for your bean-up-the-nose spirit:  "Let's give something a shot, and see what happens!"  

Other things we bet you couldn't guess about Kim (who lives in SoCal):  she is "obsessed" with hula-hooping.  

So, here's hula-ho(o)ping that your future is bright and prosperous and even more art-filled, Sugarskull7.  YOU ROCK!!!