Gack & Gigi’s

Started with an empty booth.

10 feet across by 6 feet deep. My dad made some shelves, and we started with a 10 foot section of wallpaper, some white fabric, curtains, and valences.

Going for that ‘Shabby Sheik” look. LOTS of up and downs from the ladder, sitting across from our booth. Doing the confused head turn. Wondering if this will work out.

 

 

 

After lots of tacks, staple guns and coffee. We were able to get some sort of design down. (note of thanks to my dad, Carrots. He built the shelves, and attempted to help us decorate, but I had to shoo him away) My dad said “DO NOT climb on those shelves, they are NOT meant for you to sit on… I mean it” in his sternest dad voice, to his 32 year old daughter, and wife.

 

 

 

 

Quickly after dad left (he probably wasn’t even out of the parking lot) I scrambled up the ladder with my trusty coffee, and we hung valences, and curtains.

My mom brought a bunch of white fabric, to set on the shelves, I came up with an idea to cover the walls, and shelves with it. Awesome.

 

 

 

 

Lunch consisted of Pringles for the Queen and I. Nothing says brain fuel like cheese covers chips.

All in all we worked ALL afternoon, started at 11:30 am, ended around 6 pm. With this…

It’s an eclectic collection of us. Things from our homes, our past. Some new, some really old. Some home made. The thing is Queen and I have always wanted to have our own store. More of a craft store, with things we make, and supplies for others to create.

But this is just getting our feet wet, see how we work together. Well I think we will do great. Hell we’ve been quiet the team for 32 years now.

Feisty

Chee-oo’s. no mo.

 

“No mo Chee-oo’s Mom” Says Weaky

“Let me see. HEY there’s no more Cheerio’s MOM!” yells Bagel…

“Don’t make me look in the box. It stresses me out” Whines Maggie

‎"Hmmm... no food. Just crazy mommy and a camera in this box. I got out of the sunshine for this... squirrel." Says Sophie

"Nope. You guys are right. No Cheerios left in the box. Now that mystery is solved, we can move on with the day." Says me.

A day in the life of me, with my two kids, and two dogs. ♥

Feisty

BTW Sophie wins best eyes through a Cheerio Box.

4. A picture of your favorite night

This night was a current favorite. It's hard to just pick one favorite. It's the Kid Rock and Bon Jovi concert from summer 2010. Any night with just me and Ed alone, I tend to cherish. Even more when we get to do something special. This was a great night front row 4th balcony at Soldier Field, July night, we sang songs together, had a great view, and enjoyed each others company in the amazing city of Chicago. ♥

The other picture I wanted to post was of us in Wisconsin for the Music Festival, I do believe August 2009. THAT was a cool night. We dropped the kids off at his parents, and drove ALL the way up there, spent the afternoon with Aunt Nancy and Uncle Tony, and Nikki. Watched Loren play with Kate and Kasey (country singers) after Aunt Nancy and Uncle Tony headed home. The four of us had dinner, listened to music, and rode the sky tram over the whole Music Festival. A spontaneous and sweet night.

Feisty

(I’m doing 30 days of pictures if your wondering)

30 days in pictures.

Not sure if you’ve seen the 30 days in pictures thing going around. Some of my younger FB friends are doing it, they are also photo junkies. But it’s a great idea to get conversation going, and so I’m going to do it there and here.

Enough said. Here is day one…

“A PICTURE OF YOU AND 10 FACTS”

1. I am 5' 1/2"
2. My favorite color is Purple, but pink and turquoise are up there.
3. In my art room I have at LEAST 19 pairs of scissors.
3. I have two boxers. Both brindle, Maggie turning 8 next month. Sophie is 6.
4. I have two cats. Jordan, just 8 and Chloe who is 7.
5. Socially I enjoy staying IN. Too many social events in one week stress me out.
6. I've owned 12 different types of pets. Only 4 of those 12 being mammals.
7. The longest running job I've held is being a Independent Demonstrator for Stampin' Up! (rubber stamp and scrapbook company) for 6 years. Second longest job is being a Stay At Home Mom.
8. I drink Starbucks daily. But not from the store. I brew it here at home.
9. I've been married going on 10 years June 16th. ♥
10. Having children is the coolest thing. I have my own people.

Feisty

I made a mess

Hope your enjoying this mess of a blog I have hear, I am…um… under construction to say the least… started it, now have shit to do… hmmm…. maybe after I drop the kids off at the inlaws some starbucks WiFi and me could finish this mess off… I will be back…. just bare with me here…

Feisty

I have found my True Religion

Each week or so, depending on my mood, I tear out a motivating picture from a magazine of what I want to look like. I know I can’t grow taller, but once upon a time I had THOSE abs. Sigh… and I actually once wore a shirt like that, with my jeans. With long blonde hair. And it was about 12 years ago.

I’ve been a rambly mess about wanting to diet, exercise blah blah blah. BUT Spaghetti has been working out… a lot. Sick? Works out. Working a double shift? Works out. Tired? Works out. 6 days in Arizona? Works out. And um… he’s not only losing weight after 7 weeks of P90X he’s getting toned. As in woah, your hot toned. His chest, stomach and arms are really getting nice… so maybe I try a bit harder?

On that note I bought new dry erase markers. Sounds pretty off the subject, but it’s little things that motivate us, and the dry erase chart we each have is pretty fun to make the X in that day. I have too many dashes through my days, while Spaghetti has all X’s, except his one day off each week.

I’ve got excuses out the wazoo, and right now instead of exercising I’m blogging about exercising!! So on the note of the dry erase markers, with my new ones, I redid my chart. Making a whole new pretty chart for me, because nothings less motivating then weeks of dashes and one X here and there.

Starting with Sunday… oh shit… today is Sunday huh? As in I should start out with an X for the first day? Give it a try? I fit 21 weeks on the chart kinda crazy it goes till the end of July…

IthinkIcan IthinkIcan IthinkIcan…

FeIsTy