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Peeps Who Rocked The Week
Saturday night . . . time to roll out the list of Peeps Who Rocked this last week for Bean Up The Nose Art! As always, we begin with the cool indie brick and mortar stores who are kind, generous and...
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Dang! It’s been busy!
We are waaaaaay behind in what we’ve been trying to post weekly in 2013 . . . thanks to ”Peeps Who Rocked Our World” during the week. In fact . . . FIVE WEEKS behind. And a lot of stuff has happened...
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6 Reasons We’re Changing Up The Birthday Club
Since 2009, Bean Up The Nose Art has had a Birthday Club . . . . . . . in which, when you signed up on our website, or in-person at one of the fairs, open studios, or classes that we gave during our...
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Hell Has Frozen Over . . . .
. . . because, good Lord, I’ve actually cranked up the blogging machine. After absolutely zero entries since summer of 2013. Let’s just say a lot has happened since then. Grandbaby Zoe Best. Thing....
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One Kinda Brave Thing: Week #15
Prompt: KNOCK. IT. OFF. As in, off your to-do list. This week, I’m tackling an art business project that’s been on my to-do list since October. That’s right. Seven months. And it’s not a minor...
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SPRING SALE!!!!! Saturday, April 26. . . . 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. . . . 2044 Alameda Ave., Alameda, CA That’s right! For the first time in two years, Bean Up The Nose Art is gonna sell...
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Truth-In-Advertising: 5 Not-So-Nice Things About Me
Yesterday, I saw it: one too many Facebook postings from an artist about the joyful way he was living his life . . . when I know lots-of-the-opposite from personal interactions with him. On the heels...
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One Kinda Brave Thing, Week #17
This week’s Monday prompt: GO. FOR. IT. As in, whatever you want to do/post here. As in, this is your blank page. As in, I’ve got complete open room and space for whatever it is that you want to be...
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Let’s Be Clear: It’s Not
And it’s probably never going to be. And that’s why I stopped blogging for so long in the second half of 2013, and the beginning of 2014. And by now, you are probably asking yourself what the heck I’m...
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16 Ways Creative Productivity Gets Kicked Into Gear
No treatise here. No scholarly learning. Not even any paragraphs. Just a list — in no particular order — of 16 things I can vouch for that work for me, every time. * Coffee * good sex * bantering,...
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One Kinda Brave Thing: Week 19
Prompt: GET HOT AND BOTHERED. Yes, I am. I’m talking about . . . S-E-X. See how careful I feel like I have to be, even in being brave enough to bring up the subject at all? Not with any suggestion or...
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The Like Button
This week on Twitter, my friends posted and discussed a New York Times piece by Bruce Feiler . . . not ironically for us, about the “approval seeking and popularity tracking” of some social media...
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One Kinda Brave Thing: Week 21
Prompt: GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK. Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer; Labor Day weekend, its unofficial end. I’m giving One Kinda Brave Thing — and me, in relation to it — a summer...
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Ten Ways I Get Myself More Time
People often remark to me that I get more stuff done than lots of folks do. I’ve come to think that might be true. I’ve spent some time trying to figure out why, and I’ve come up this list below —...
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Perspective Shifts
Lately — since getting on Instagram a few months ago, and spending lots more time writing fiction and communicating about writing fiction — my brain’s fallen in love with the concept of perspective....
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Seven Ways To Cultivate Your “Inner Voice.”
That’s right. It’s in quotes. Because I don’t really know WHAT to call “it.” Muse? Intuition? Creativity? Instinct? Soul’s yearnings? Also, “it” gets a bad rap from things like criminals’...
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Of Memes and Media
With almost 56,000 tweets in 3+ years on Twitter, and over 500 art-for-today images posted on Beans’ FB page in the past 19 months (in addition to other business postings there about brick &...
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