2 more dares /  by jen geigley

Last week I scrapped dare 85 and 86... This one is about me jumping around and dancing when I'm home and no one's looking (except for L, but she understands and can't be embarassed by me yet.)


And this one is about my useless never-ending knowledge about music. We used to play 'name that tune' using sound clips from Amazon.com or iTunes at my old job, and I was a force to be reckoned with. I'll admit, like everyone, I have my weaker categories, but I would win with random old stuff. Ummmm, "Hippie Chick" by SoHo? Yes.


Gotta get to work now on my stuff for Craft Saturday, which is tomorrow. Erin and I are totally testing the waters with this show, and we're hoping there's a good turnout. I'm sure this first run will be a learning experience, but no matter what, I'm looking forward to a fun day hanging out with her. We really can't have a bad time as long as we're in it together. We've been through job hell together, taking photos of badly-dressed crazies at the state fair in the rain, and five strip clubs in one night (ahem, it was for a news story.) Now if I could just find that photo of us with the scary dude with the wolf hat, complete with legs and paws (or whatever the hell it was), it would go here.

craft saturday!!! /  by jen geigley


Don't forget! Craft Saturday is next Saturday, March 22nd! Here's a sneak peek at what I'll be selling at the booth I'm sharing with my friend Erin. I'll be selling t-shirts for kids and babies - some with custom words/phrases and birthday shirts with numbers on them. I'll also be selling small canvases with bird art on them (see this post for a photo of what I'm talking about.)

Erin's stuff rocks by the way - she makes stuff out of vinyl record albums and album covers - cuff bracelets, coasters, clocks, magazine bowls, notebooks, etc. - you must check it out!

Come out and support local Iowa artists and check out their handmade goods. There will be pottery, apparel of all sorts, art, jewelry, handspun yarn and hand-sewn goodies galore. Hope to see you there!

yo. /  by jen geigley


I've been busy prepping for Craft Saturday on March 22nd. (Have you heard enough about this from me yet?) It's from noon - 5 p.m. at the Fourth Street Theatre and Vaudeville Mews downtown. The other vendors look really fun - lots of hand-sewn stuff that I can't wait to check out. And of course I will be sharing a booth with my talented friend, Erin, who has been making all kinds of cool stuff. I have about 20 shirts ready to go, and 5 more will be hopefully ready next week, so I'm crossing my fingers that will be enough. And I'll have the birds... come and see us.

Last night I did dare 84. (It's all about LEAP. Leap Year, leaping, taking a leap... whatever.) This was a quickie and I'm so loving the yellow. Especially with all the snow and dreariness lurking about every damn day.

I blog to differ /  by jen geigley



If you saw SNL last week, Andy Samburg made a string of blog jokes during Ellen Page's monologue... and by the way, I love Ellen Page. She's so little. And her voice is so monotone. I have to admit that I still haven't seen Juno but need to soon. And I'm going to Netflix now to put Hard Candy on our list. I heard her character cuts someone's balls off?

DC and Craft Saturday! /  by jen geigley

As I promised, here are a couple of photos from my trip to Washington DC ... I had a kick ass time and met two of my scrappy heroes, Kristina and Shimelle. Kristina was SUCH a cool girl and I had a blast taking her classes and chatting a bit. She's so amazingly talented and I was drooling over her mini-books that she brought to class. And she's funny as hell. I also had a great time with my new partners in crime, Kelly and Maria. So many fun adventures ... the limo ride, drinking wine out of the bottle (and later, glasses), telling the driver 'oh, we won't be long' before heading into what looked like a miniscule scrap store and then disappearing for at least an hour, and closing down Applebees (and having drinks next to Kristina and her friends.)



Also, March 22nd is the next Craft Saturday at Vaudeville Mews downtown, and my friend Erin and I will have a booth there selling our goodies. Which you can check out here or here.

remember the bangs? /  by jen geigley

I've been debating whether/whether not to cut bangs for awhile now. Maybe since October, even. So I did it and I like them, except they itch my forehead a little. I needed a style change. Not like I used to in the 90s, though - when I'd dye strips of my hair with cherry kool-aid or whack off 10 inches or something crazy without a care in the world. (And yes, cherry kool-aid makes a GREAT dye if your hair is blond and absorbs color well. You just boil it in a small amount of water and don't add the sugar. After all, you're not going to drink the stuff. This was before Manic Panic became available... ahhh, yes, the 90s.)

So here they are, the BANGS...


I also started doing a photo a day on Flickr for the 365 Group which has been totally fun. I started in November and didn't know how well I'd do at keeping up with it, but the new year has kinda motivated me to keep going...

don't bite your friends /  by jen geigley

Today has just been whacked out. L got up late so I got up late, which resulted in a complete mash-up of our normal schedule. So I didn't shower or eat anything until now (and it's 2:20 pm), it's snowing and I have to go pick up more freelance stuff, and I know... wah... poor stay-at-home mom. But I'm just totally off today and it feels icky. Showering is one of the central necessities in my life and if I can't shower, watch out because it's serious. It's the one factor that would keep me from going on Survivor. I'd never be able to deal.

And we've become obsessed with a new-ish TV show. A kids' show. Yo Gabba Gabba (read more here or here). And if you know me, I'm very anti-kids' shows. Most of them. Anti-Dora, Anti-Diego, Sesame Street is okay because it's a classic, and don't get me started on Barney (which makes me gag as I type it.) But Yo Gabba Gabba is created by musicians/graphic designers/a guy from the Aquabats. Which is cool. And they feature songs like 'don't bite your friends.' Plus, guest stars like Tony Hawk and Biz Markie, The Shins, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh and Shiny Toy Guns... wow. Now that's a show that's worth exposing my child to.