Girlfriends and Jammies

It's raining today (again)...Tonight I'm wearing my jammies (that's pajamas) to Chick-Fil-A to get me one of these for free:

 

That's a chicken burrito, people, and the yummiest thing ever.  Maybe not EVER, but definitely the best fast food breakfast item EVER.

Yum.  

So...good food and good quality time with two of my favorite girls.  Can't wait.

We Made It: The Macon Store Opens

Friday was a late night for us.  Shane started looking a little happy/crazy around midnight.

 

Meanwhile, the Papyrus spinner was looking a little sad...

Books were still waiting to be shelved and boxes moved and giraffes were looking longingly out the window.

Mom was wondering why  she had vacuum duty and her daughter was taking pictures...

But some books were ready--they had their act in order and were waiting patiently on the shelves for the next morning to arrive...

In the wee hours of the morning (actually around 9:00) Shane put the store hours on the door...

Forget something?

Finally 9:30 rolled around and we were ready for business!

And then THE BEST THING happened--PEOPLE CAME!!!

Including one of my very best friends from college.  She works in Atlanta now and I hardly ever see her.  It was magic!  Actually, it was conference a few blocks down the road.  But still magical!

I also got to see these two girls--two of my favorites ever!

Shane and I got home to a feast my parents had fixed for us (did I mention they're AMAZING?!?!?!)

Complete with these guys:

Why, it's a red pepper stuffed with avocado and cauliflower...what did you think it was?

MMMMMMMMM

Gottwals Books - Macon

The BIG day is tomorrow!  Shane and I will be opening the doors to our Macon store tomorrow. 

This just in: my mom and dad are on their way down here to be with us for the opening.  They're basically driving 7 hours down to be with us tonight and a few hours tomorrow before driving 7 hours back home.  They're awesome.

In the News Again!!!

Used Bookstore Hopes to Revitalize Area in North Macon | 13WMAZ.com | Macon, GA

Shane had a great interview with Stephanie Susskind yesterday from 13WMAZ.  The story played on the 11:00 news last night and throughout the news this morning.

Added:  We were also voted #1 Bookstore in The Warner Robins Patriot's Best of Warner Robins and Centerville 2010 issue!

I Got Started

$13.00 from Home Depot for a 4'x8'x3/4" sheet .

It was kinda hard making the first cut out of my beautiful book.

I glued it to the foam board with glue stick and then hot glued around the edges.

I did four before Shane got home, and then watching House with him won over finishing.

My Next Big Project

{Imagine this big brick wall without all the Christmas decorations--it's just a big blank brick wall}

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 {If you like old maps (I do!), this book is amazing...it has really great pictures}

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{This is something Dad mentioned one time and I was reminded of it here today}

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{From Amy's blog.  Amy's a genius.}

Still Progressing

The kid's section at the new Macon store is almost "done"...done in quotes because it'll never be completely finished--we'll always have more books to put away, straighten up, sell, etc.  But almost done to open in time on the 6th of February. 

What looked like this a couple days ago:

Now looks like this:

Yes.  Thanks.  The applause is nice. 

How to Get Things Accomplished: Pantry and Valentine's Book Wreath

It's all about the hair.  You have to make sure you put your hair up properly to get things accomplished.

Last night I worked on the pantry.  It went from this to this:

 

Here's how...
First, put your hair up (remember, I told you it was all about the hair):

Then empty out your space.  You'll be amazed at how much you stuffed in there!

Not so pretty, but clean it out really well and then put in the paper.

Then you have to decide how to organize things.  I basically put everything that Shane could fix for himself in the front so he can get to it easily (ok, this pretty much means just the canned soup....), baking stuff in the back, and then threw the "loose" items into a couple baskets (From Pier 1).  By loose items I mean anything not in a box or can.

I'm really pretty pleased with the result.  You may or may not have noticed that I don't have doors on the pantry.  And that it's tiny.  And that it's not really a pantry at all.  And it isn't.  Not a proper pantry, anyway.

It's where the oven used to be when we moved it.  It was one of those ovens separated from the stove so we had to take it out, cut into the cabinets to install a new stove/oven and we were left with the big hole in the cabinets.  It just hasn't been worth the time, effort, and money to do anything with it.  Anyway, at least now it's semi-nice to look at.

In other and more exciting news, I made my copy-cat version of the Valentine's book wreath I showed you in the last post.

Of course I had to put my hair up first:

I got a haircut today, can you tell?  Anyway...ta-da!

 

I know Flower Patch Farmgirl put a lot more time and effort into hers, but this is what I had energy for tonight.  I also know that she used a cute red ribbon and I just used a ponytail holder that was sitting around to hold it up, but that's ok with me.

Valentine Book Wreath

I'm working in Macon again today (and tomorrow) but I wanted to make sure I showed this:

Flower Patch Farmgirl may say she's not crafty, but she's obviously telling a fib.  Here's how she made it.  This is definitely NEXT on my project list!

Progress

Here's what I was working on yesterday.

This is the back section of the new store in Macon--the Teen/Young Adult/Children's section.  Yes, it is as bad as it looks, but pretty soon we'll have all these books sorted, priced, and the shelves filled up.  We are making progress.

Plus, we get to spend time together.  Not really quality-time together, but being-in-the-same-building-time together, and that's good enough for me.

I have also been working on the pantry and hope to finish it up tonight.  I like progress.