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are you one crazy decision away from making your dream happen?

We all take different routes to the realization of our dreams.

Sometimes, as you will see from these videos, you just have to go for it and not look back!

(we’ll be doing a few of these before our tour starts so that we can practice and get a good feel of how we work together and what we need to have for all of those that we hope to do on the road!)

Tell us what you think!
Suggest what you’d like to see more of or other questions you’d like to have answered in these interviews.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow the fun!

Callie out on the town

In gearing up for the tour we are doing some fun on-the-street practice interviews and such, so this morning we went downtown to a little arts and crafts market that they have once a month in the summer. We had a nice time talking to a number of people who are pursuing their dreams and hearing their perspectives on what it takes to make it.

The kids got a little face paint on their arms since Maverick went first and was a little wary of the lady messing with his face.

David noticed a nice spot for a blank canvas shot and Callie did a little posing.
The kids couldn’t resist playing the piano, so they joined her in the shot when David was done 😉

Krista and I manipulated David into doing what we thought was a yoga demonstration and Callie was all set up to laugh at him in the background (in his opinion), but he actually ended up basically getting a massage and Callie kept falling over, and over, and over, so… I think David won.

We also posted a few of these!

Stay tuned for some sneak peeks of what life on the road with us this summer might look like…

$50 giveaway!

 Do you need new business cards or an awesome social media profile design?
Maybe you’d like some sweet art for your wall, a card, or…
your next DIY project???

What would you do with $50 to spend at the Beauty of One OR for design with our other business, Kaleidoscope International?

Well with the giveaway we’re doing over at Framed Frosting right now that $50 could be yours – all you have to do is head over and enter!

{You could spend it on something like one of these!}

peaceuppeaceup2truth2uptruthup

or

and many, many more products and possibilities!

So what are you waiting for? Go enter now!

PS. Our very first video interview will be up on the Beauty of One YouTube channel soon,
how exciting!

very excited to introduce…

…our new Head of PR!

Aloha! I’m Jessica- a Texas girl who followed her heart and ended up on a crazy little island in Hawaii. I found my niche in PR & Marketing which led me to finding a passion in working with small businesses. I tend to think that I live a pretty “normal” life but when compared to others, I realize that I haven’t always followed the road most commonly traveled. Why? Because being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity (I borrowed that quote from Will Smith). And being mediocre is one of my biggest fears. That’s what attracted me to Tico & Tina. Besides their obvious awesomeness, I love their love for life. They inspire me to live bigger and live better.

When the opportunity to be Head of PR for the Blank Canvas Tour came about, it was a no-brainer. As Head of PR, it’s my goal (and my job!) to spread the word about this incredible project so that you too can be inspired.

I hope you follow us along the journey of the Blank Canvas Tour- not only for us, but for you! And if you want to find out more about my personal journey, you can check it out at JessicaWho.ME

We’re so excited to have Jessica on our team, we’re just sorry that Hawaii isn’t part of our tour! 🙂 If you’re interested in being a part of this adventure check out some of the opportunities we have so far, and we’ll be updating them throughout this month.

we want to tell YOUR story!

So we are only about a month away from when we hope to start touring, and we’re starting to line up some of our interviews!

Meet one of our interviewees!

Marlon Braccia, author of The Enlightened Cook: Protein Entrees and star yoga instructor, contacted us a few weeks ago about being involved, and we are excited for the chance to meet her in LA and taste some of her amazing cooking! Check out some great cooking tips on her YouTube channel!

We have some other people in mind for interviews already, but we want YOU to have a say in it!

Check out the map of our tentative stops and see if we’re going somewhere remotely close to someone you think we should feature. (it can even be yourself 😉 ) Although, honestly, don’t worry about the map too much as the trip will be a little flexible, just nominate away!

All you have to do to make a nomination is to write a blog post talking about why that person would make a good interview candidate, which might include how they have inspired you in some way. If you’re writing about yourself you can talk about obstacles you’ve overcome on the way to living your dream, or how you are working toward a dream you have.

The bottom line is, we are looking for people to feature who have or want to have,
a mindset of adventure.

In other words, those who have done something that could be considered “crazy” in going after their dreams, those who have been scared and unsure of how things were going to turn out, and those who want to pursue a dream but aren’t sure if they’re ready to take that next step.

We also want to hear from those who are pursuing their “normal” dreams, like being a teacher or doctor, and want to be real and open about the struggles and obstacles that they face. One size does not fit all and all kinds of dreams are very real and relevant. The most important thing is that you are pursuing and seeking out what you were created to do (and we recognize and identify with the fact that sometimes we do a lot of different things on our way to finding our niche – and even that can evolve over time, but we want to record the journey).

We’ll be promoting the people and businesses we connect with to interview on our tour, and featuring them now and to be continued indefinitely as we build up a resource of encouragement for people everywhere.

One of the reasons we want you to be involved in this process is because once the nominations are in, we’ll be letting you vote on your favorite story potentials. Once we start putting up the interviews everyone will be able to vote for their favorite, and the winner will be awarded a percentage of our product sales while on tour, to put towards  pursuing their dream!

We’ll be starting the linkup in the next couple of days, so put your thinking caps on and get your posts ready!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

a shoutout and some art!

First of all, we want to say thank you so much to Erin of Indie Gift Box for becoming the first ad sponsor for the Blank Canvas Tour! Indie Gift Box is pretty awesome and we’re going to be part of the first boxes that will be getting sent out in July. Go check it out and send Erin an email to let her know you want to join the fun!

Second, have you visited our summer tour projectyet? Did you know that one of the sponsor rewards we have set up is download credits for the Beauty of One? That means that you can download BlankCanvas™ files and all sorts of other pieces of art to keep forever!

Let me tell you, this is a DIY artist gold mine. Just imagine all the bajillions of things you could do with our work! We’ll be putting up some ideas as we go, but in the meantime, check out an example of variations that we do with one concept.

Comment to tell us which version you like best!

These are just some of the many, many pieces that will be available in our store! We have lots of items just waiting to get uploaded and will be making more all the time.

We’d love for you to visit our project and support us in our mission to spread encouragement – store credits are only one of the 11 options you can pick as a thank you for your sponsorship. Every dollar counts and means SO much to us. Thank you!

Launch Party!

What do you do when your crowdfunding project launches before you realize it is going to happen? Well, in our case you scramble around like crazy to try to get up to speed!

We have SO many ideas of where to take this, guys, you can barely imagine! It’s a long, long road with a whole LOT of sweat and probably some tears… but by the grace of God we’re going to keep going!

We had to have a little team celebration for making it this far. Since we stay away from sugar most of the time, and also keep it out of our kids’ diets for the most part, we picked midnight to have the Kalona Chocolates that Krista brought us 😉

and the next day we had a pizza party!

Thanks for taking us to 4% of our goal so far!

(by the way, we had a free pizza, we’re not just throwing good money sense to the wind 🙂 )

what does it look like from the inside?

Well, currently it looks like some buggy technical website issues that we are having to deal with, as you can probably see the extra lines of random code showing up. Don’t worry, we are addressing the problem and it will hopefully be resolved shortly!

The inside also currently looks like us freaking out a little bit because, well, apparently that is what people do at the start of things like this. Who knew?

We want to maintain a very real look into how this all works and what it feels like to be a part of. It’s so easy to have doubts and fight negativity in the middle of something and look at all the other success stories as having happened overnight – we want to change that impression with a behind-the-scenes look at our journey.

We obviously don’t know what the outcome will be, but we do know that it will have its ups and downs and be a crazy ride 🙂

and then things got a little crazy-go-nuts!

So we just ran across START.ac on Wednesday afternoon. We were almost ready to start putting our project up on one of the other crowdfunding sites we’d been checking out when some of the features of START caught our attention, one being that we could put everything up live before we actually launched, kind of like a test run, to get feedback about the way we had everything set up.

The site having just launched definitely made us think twice or three times about actually going with them, but we figured it wouldn’t hurt to just try it out for the audition week or so and then maybe use one of the other sites to actually launch. So we put our project up early on Thursday morning.

To our surprise, we got an email on last night (less than 24 hours from posting) telling us that our project could be launching as early as Sunday night. The plan had been to get caught up on other things over the weekend at least, but we quickly realized we needed to push preparations into high gear!

Truth be told, we hadn’t really even told anyone about the project yet because even though we had been working on the side towards launching it, the language we used when talking about it was always very tentative. It really didn’t seem like there was anything to discuss yet!

So now here we are, freaking out just a leeeetle bit about how insane this actually is…

David has been working on a press release and I’ve been working on refining our supporter rewards for the project (with a lot of help from Krista!) and we’ve both been working on getting the site updated – this section is totally new and we will be trying out the file downloads we’ve been planning to add for forever. I also have a lot of work to do in developing the framework for our tour team. I’ve set up the initial info here, so check it out!

Pray for sanity! 🙂