Hello, new brick and mortars friends!!!!

A most amazing thing has happened.   In the three weeks since we sent out our last e-mailer, Bean Up The Nose Art goodies have moved into FOURTEEN NEW BRICK AND MORTARS!!!  

Can we get an, "Amen"?!?!?

Please don't assume this amazingness is because we are (read:  "I am") such great sales people here ourselves.  We're okay.  But not that good.  And there is not enough time in the day to get to every single task.  Nope.  

This gain in brick and mortar friends is the work of fabulous sales reps at The French Artist Club.  Chantal and Bettina.  They are sales women extraordinaire.  

So, we proudly present here the list of those fourteen new brick and mortar friends:

In San Francisco, CA . . . .

Wink SF, 4107 24th St.,  (415) 401-8881

In Eugene, OR . . . .

Down to Earth, 532 Olive St., (541) 342-6820

In Lake Oswego, OR . . . .

Buddie's Flowers, 65 South State St., (503) 675-1715

In Portland, OR . . . .

Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., (503) 226-2811

Stella's 1108 NW 21st Ave., (503) 295-5930

Zucari's Home and Garden, 629 NW 23rd St., (503) 525-9397

In Seattle, WA . . . .

City People's Garden Center, 2939 E. Madison, (206) 324-0737

Curtsy Bella, 2920 NE Blakeley St., Ste. A, (206) 523-3221

La Tienda, 2050 NW Market St., (206) 523-3221

Maxine's Floral, 8811 Roosevelt Way, (206) 523-4200

Queen Anne Mail and Dispatch, 2212 Queen Anne Ave. N.,  (206) 286-1024

Red Balloon, 417 15th Ave. E, (206) 297-3605

Seattle Flowers, 600 2nd Ave., (206) 728-2588

Trudy's Flowers, 509 Olive Way, (206) 340-1502

We're happy as clams to be included in the goodies offered at all of these establishments!!  Thanks so much for having us!!

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With growth comes inevitable change.  Frequent readers (WE LOVE YOU!!!) of this blog know that we have been highlighting our brick and mortar friends here as we've been making them since last fall.

But this addition of 14 new stores . . . added to the eight we still have not covered since they began carrying Beans in early March . . . makes us realize that it is no longer possible to highlight each new friend individually in the depth we've done before :(

And, with luck, the "problem" will multiply.  The secret sauce news is that The French Artist Club has just sent marketing packets of Beans out to seven additional sales reps . . . .

The solution?  Each week, we'll be loading the names of our new brick and mortar friends into the hopper at random.org.  That site will randomly generate one brick and mortar -- and we'll be featuring that store.  One each week.  

Sound fair?

We hope so.

But it is not without some big sadness that we leave for now our original format of welcoming every single one of you individually with a big, fat, happy, "HOWDY!!!!"   It has been through the forward-seeing, risk-taking kindness and generosity of our brick and mortar friends that this little business has grown.  You all, each and every one of you, deserve a blog post.  

We'll still be "liking" you on Facebook.  And following you on Twitter.   And tweeting our thanks to you on Twitter.  (Check us out at @tamholland.)  And listing you on our website.  But you do deserve even more :)  Because YOU ROCK!!!!