Where You Can Find Us For The Holidays

Last time, we highlighted the upcoming holiday fairs of our friends. (Click here, or scroll down, for your handy-dandy review.)

Today, we're letting you know where you can find Bean Up The Nose Art for your holiday shopping. Yay!!! Here are the fa-la-la-la-la ways . . . .

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Our one . . . our only . . . our super-special holiday fair in-person experience? Come on down and find us at:

Yes! On Saturday, December 3, we'll be banding together with terrific artists Linda Grimes and Lisa Sonora Beam at Lisa's studio space (2 Florence Avenue, San Anselmo, CA) to bring you holiday goodies extraordinaire. And free gift-wrapping. And snacks and drinks! (The fun kind.) Early enough for you to get your holiday greeting cards -- where Bean Up The Nose Art will be having a sale! Lots and lots of gifty-gift items from we three queens of artsy & craftiness. Come on down for fun and cheer . . . and in only a three-hour sprint! From 3-6 p.m. (That's Happy Hour time, folks!)

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Can't make it there? Don't live in nearby? Already have something else scheduled in this busy season? Never fear! Bean Up The Nose Art's new products on Cafe Press are here!!!

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And when you do, you'll find over 100 items . . . all under $25.00 . . . just right for gifts. We've taken our most popular cards and did further collage altering to create 15 new eye-popping, happy images . . . and put them on cool things like ipad bags, iphone covers, journals, mousepads, coffee mugs, gym bags . . . .

Order on-line through CafePress. This terrific company does great fulfillment . . . just got our test run of products in the mail this week, AND LOVE THEM. Journals are especially vibrant. Gym bags are tough nylon. Colors pop everywhere. YAYNESS!!!

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It's been an amazing three years . . . exactly . . . since I ran the contest in fall, 2008 to name this business . . . then put up first greeting cards on etsy.com in March, 2009 . . . started selling in brick & mortars a while after . . . had the great good fortune to gain a sales rep at the end of 2010 . . . who is now distributing the greeting cards and luggage tags to over 100 stores in the western United States.

First: I couldn't have done it without you. The support of you folks reading the blog, commenting, following on Twitter, liking on Facebook, giving feedback and encouragement, and buying Bean Up The Nose Art goodies is something for which I am grateful every day. When I ask myself, "I get to keep playing at this?!?!?"

And second: If you want to turn your art into your business, I totally believe that you can. Because if I can do it, so can you. And here are 100 tips to help you get started :) Or, to help that friend or family member you believe in get started :)

How To Start Making Your Art Your Business: 100 DIY Tips is $3.99 on Kindle at Amazon.com. I've been saying that for this price of a latte, you will get more than a cup of goodness. Hoping you'll find that to be true!

And here's also hoping that your holiday shopping season is easy, peaceful, filled with creativity and joy, instead of hassle and pressure. You deserve a good one:)