Hey folks! Check out my guest post on CraftMBA chronicling my experience at POOLTRADESHOW two weeks ago in Vegas. I go into how I prepared for the show, resources, as well as my overall experience. If you're an emerging business looking to try out tradeshows, POOL's an excellent place to start.

Great blogs: CraftMBA, Retail Minded
Great books: Craft Inc. Business Planner, Craft Inc.

I love earrings, always have, which is why I hate when I lose one earring. I have a little stack of earrings that have lost their mates yet I can't bear to throw them out. I write all this to say that if you've bought a pair of earrings and you've lost one of them, now you have a way to replace one instead of having to buy a new pair. To enjoy the Feisty Elle No Earring Left Behind Policy, here's what you do:

1) Go to www.feistyelle.com
2) Find the earring design you purchased
3) Add it to your cart
4) After clicking on your shopping cart, enter the following code into the discount box: 1EARRING (for 50% off)*. (The cart will still look as if you're purchasing a pair of earrings.)
5) Click Checkout
6) In the Shipping Instructions box, note if this is for your right ear or your left ear.
7) Optional: If you purchased a pair from me at a shopping event and I, for example, switched your earring findings from the standard hoops to hooks then you must let me know this in the Shipping Instructions box too.

*Note: You will not get a pair of earrings at 50% off, you will get one earring.

Now go forth and rock your earrings without worry! :)

Just found out from my friend Lena that Comcast's Best of the City did a feature on super cute San Francisco boutique Ooma. Ooma started carrying my line last year and you can get a good look at my dahlia and cloud earrings. How fun is this? If you have Comcast cable, check Ooma and my earrings:

1. Click on On Demand
2. Click on Get Local
3. Click on Best of the City
4. Click on SF ooma

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After watching and reading of the terrible devastation and loss of human life and property following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti yesterday, I've made a decision. For every item purchased now till January 31st, I will donate $15 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Let's make a difference!

Happy holidays folks! I hope you're having a restful time with loved ones. Thanks so much for making 2009 an incredible year for Feisty Elle.