A Successful Day

So I work at The I.D.E.A. Store and today was our soft opening and it went pretty well. But doing what I like to do I decided to sort and separate a donation of iPod and Zune covers. Here's my boss, Gail, with a customer. All of the proceeds benefit the CU Schools Foundation, kind of a full circle of good deeds- supporting the schools, recycling items, and creating unique art projects. I bought some supplies as well. I have an idea to create this guirella marketing campaign.

So there are lots of stickers and I have the ipod cases. After a bad test run with hand writing things and using paint pens, I've decided to go with printing out the logo, tracing it on either cardboard or perhaps matt board. The creating a stencil and spray painting onto the iPod/sticker.



Ah so I painted the stickers with Schmitz and reclaimed the basement as the workspace I wanted it to be. Then watched DeLovely while taking apart the cases I had brought home with me to work on. So that might be a little strange but I grew up in a house where my mom worked all day and then crocheted while drinking her black Russians and watching tv. I learned from the best. I took a part cases, watched a netflix movie, and other such things. Might as well be productive at all times right?

And then just to have a little more fun, I fixed a shirt of mine. Big deal right? Well, I bought this shirt senior year of high school and ripped it freshman year of college and today.. I fixed it. Then I cooked dinner.

It was meant to be garlic shrimp but.. we're out of garlic. That's not a dilemma though. I made the rest of the recipe just minus the garlic. So the shrimp cooked in olive oil and with steak seasoning sprinkled on top and at the last lemon juice. I made broccoli as well and poured the rest of the seasoning on top of the broccoli when done. Pretty delicious.

Now off to a comedy show at Class Act- http://www.classactinteractive.com. Then out with the boys. :)

Tomorrow Schmitz and I are going to work on the stickers more, I'm possibly creating a poster/t-shirt design for the store, setting up for the next Indi Go exhibit, and dumpster diving businesses that we could potentially approach for donations for The IDEA store...

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Good Morning

Here was my breakfast out on the porch today, three different cheeses in the omelet and honey on the toast.

The flower yard art-age is a new addition. I got it at my new job The I.D.E.A. Store. Pretty awesome program that I'll have to blog about again soon.

I really enjoy this new neighborhood, even with its flaws. At night the love struck teenagers are crying and having dramatic, poetic young love scenarios next to their parked cars. In the morning everyone is rushing by on their way to work or to drop off their kids at Holy Cross school just a couple blocks away. And sometimes the neighbors children and grandchildren are out in the front yard playing basketball or riding their bikes. Growing up on a farm I never had the opportunity to live in a vibrant, busy neighborhood. And sitting outside in the morning having my coffee and breakfast is how I appreciated it today.