Renegade: the after-party

Well, a middle-aged woman's  version:  with a cup of coffee and still in jammies at 9:00 a.m. on Monday morning.  Because you're POOPED!

Why pooped?

Because you woke up very early on Saturday morning, after staying up late on Friday night to pack your car, to drive into San Francisco and start building your own little 1o' x 10' store before the show opened.  You went from this (which should have been photo-ed even earlier . . . with nothing there, before car-unloading began):

 to this:  

Very quickly.  With the aid of many power tools.  And with the benefit of a little grace when some things that worked in the building-up for the last show didn't work the same way this time.  But still, ending up lovely.  

Here is Bean Up The Nose Art's portion of our store.

And here's a shot of some of Meryl's amazing hand-painted shoes.

You can also see in the background a sampling of the mass of humanity that entered the building on Saturday.  It was NUTS!  Folks in the Bay Area were definitely getting their holiday shopping on.  And that included folks from my own family tree . . . . half-sister Kim, step-mom Nancy, my dad Gary.  And yours truly.  (I may or may not have a bean up my nose in this photo.)

 
Getting Beans out there in the world was great.  The volume of people coming through was amazing, especially on Saturday.  Luggage tags went like hot cakes.  THANK YOU!!!

And there was also opportunity to peruse the wares of other terrific artists, and therefore to be inspired.  

That includes the wonderful type-writer, key-board, and map-based (and more!) jewelry of The Weekend Store:  

It also includes the sweet ceramics and muslin art of Rae Dunn.  

Fortune cookie ornaments?!?!?   YAY!!  

Dogs and words on muslin bags?!?!?!   YAY!!!

 This fabulous party platter lit up my eyes.

The Bean Up The Nose Art award for crafty-best shop set-up goes to this old-school booth by thishumbleabode, which sells ties and other cool hand-sewn items.  And is here staffed by Christina of theheated.

Which makes its own brand of very cool screen-printed goodies, including this tea-towel . . . perfect for your holiday gift-giving.  (Or to snag and keep for yourself.)

And in the booth right next to ours was the ultra-wonderful rarrarpress, maker of  "letterpress printed miscellany" that will make you go, "Wow -- how creative is THAT?!?!" 

And, especially if you are a potty-mouth like me, will make you howl with laughter.  (Caution to the cussing faint-of-heart:  clicking on this image will reveal f-bombs.)  

My oh my . . . .

. . . . and then, after the show was over at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday night, you broke down your store, packed it up, and drove on home.  And unpacked that car.  Again.

And that's why, at 9:00 a.m. on Monday morning, your afterparty is so quiet.  But happy.

A big, gigantic THANK YOU to everyone who came out to Renegade and supported the artists who put their hearts and souls and time and money into making these products, and then put their hearts out on the line again by saying, "Want some?"  

And a big gigantic THANK YOU to all those vendors for doing just that. 

The force of all of you folks, all together, launched Bean Up The Nose into its biggest sales days ever, hands down. 

(And to first-time readers who got here via Renegade, a hearty holiday, "WELCOME TO THE BLOG!!")

Now it's time for more coffee.  And to get a move on!!!