Jack Town Adventures (PICTURE HEAVY)

This past weekend I was out of town. Hence the Lack of blogging and running that occurred. However, lots of drinking, music, shopping, eating, helping my mom, & best friend time DID happen!

The Hubs had 2 shows this weekend in the Jackson area one on Friday night at the Irish Frog in Clinton and the other at Burgers & Blues in Ridgland on Sunday afternoon. Since I am from the Jackson area my family and friends are wonderful and love to come hang out with us at these shows. Here's a little recap from the Friday Night show:

PS. The Irish Frog & The Froghead Grill are NOT in the same location. We realized this after I almost bet money against my bestie Haley. Thank GOD she wouldn't bet me because I would have so lost.

Sporting the *NEW* Chad Knight T-shirts!

We are in love with each other.

Seriously, if we didn't like men...well we'd be in a domestic partnership.

Notice I don't have any pictures of the hubs playing from this night. Whoops. I did however score a Video that will be on YouTube soon. Check out his other videos here: WATCH CHAD KNIGHT

After the show we went to my moms to stay for the night and the next morning we had to get up and help her with a garage sale. Let me give you a little background on this: My mother recently moved in with my gran because she is a HOARDER. Seriously, A&E missed out on this jewel of a woman. She is fantastic but she loves to buy things. Absolute JUNK actually. Her house is clean but rooms are filled with things and we agree that she hasn't thrown anything away since the 1970's. (I'm not joking) So, my mom moved in to help her get rid of things and get her house in order like it should be. Gran can't be there during this transformation because she can't let these things go. She would sit there and say, "I can use that don't get rid of it" and "It makes me happy I want to keep it." HOARDER ALERT. My mom has been working her tail off on this and it was time for me to come help so, Saturday morning we got up at 5am to set up for the garage sale. It went really well and we sold a lot (of junk) I seriously can't believe the things that people will buy. We made a lot of progress with the house and I'm going to go back up this weekend to help her with another BIG garage sale. (I wasn't kidding when I say her house is FULL of stuff. We could probably have 10 garage sales and still not get rid of all of it.)

Saturday afternoon consisted of shopping (looking for new running shoes!) and movies and dinner with Haley & Josh. Lets come up with a couple name for them! How about: Hosh. hahaha Chad and Josh have this man love thing going on and Haley and I love it. It's been the first time she hasn't dated a total dumb ass and we all love each other and getting to hang out which makes things way more fun.

We watched this:

Which was super fantastic

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Sunday we woke up early again to try and continue the garage sale but people don't go on Sundays. So, another 5am morning and then a glorious nap that afternoon. Naps are a wonderful thing.

After the nap we woke up to go shopping and I decided on my new running shoes! I took some photos today for you guys:

Bam! In yo face!

 Nike LunarFly +2

I was a little nervous after reading some of the reviews but they felt so good on I decided to go ahead and get them. I took them for a test run today and 2.10 miles later I am VERY happy with my choice. It's like running on air. Now, I just need to get the Nike Chip for my I-touch and I'll be cool. (FINALLY)

Then it was time for Chad's show at Burgers & Blues

My moma & I (Twins I tell ya)

I swear we have more clothes we were just rockin the new T's ON SALE NOW!

Hubby hubs hubs.

Rockin the Reggae colors with Hosh

Yup, that's what love looks like & Beer out of a mason jar. Classy.

HOSH

More awesome friends that came to support!

It was a pretty fantastic weekend but I am dead tired; However, I have decided I have the best friend in the world and an amazing hubs how freaking lucky am I!

HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND?

WHAT IS THE WEIRDEST THING YOU HAVE DRANK BEER OUT OF?

quick and simple

TTT

T. I recently gave up all soda. I only drink water, milk, or Gatorade.

TT. If I see peanut brittle I HAVE to eat it. Immediately.

TTT. My Maid of Honor threw up in the MIDDLE of my wedding. Right beside me.

I still love her.

Paintings & such

Not sure if I've blogged about it before but one of the things you should know about me is that I paint.

 

Black light paint!

 I love art (in all forms) but painting is the one I think I'm best at and enjoy the most. I can't paint you a life like portrait, I can't do landscapes, or animals - my area would be abstract. I love movement, texture, vibrant colors and the bigger the better. Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh are my favorites and they are the reason I fell in love with Impressionism. Not saying that my work is anywhere NEAR theirs; they are simply my favorites and who I draw inspiration from.

I paint to relax, to have fun, and to get my creativity out!

Another perk of this hobby is getting to sell some of this work and the thought of something that I created in someone else's home; when they look at it they love and cherish it and that makes me so incredibly happy and grateful. I started doing art shows about 2 years ago and they are really fun but incredibly exhausting. I slacked off with my involvement in art shows when I got engaged so that I could focus on planning my wedding but now that, that is over I'm back!

Our itty bitty town has a new street fair going on every Thursday for the month of July so I got in touch with the people in charge and decided that I wanted to set up my booth. Today was the first day and right after work I drove downtown to set up. This is a new event and not a lot of people came out tonight I'm hoping next Thursday will be much better.

I managed to get the hubs to snap a pic of my tent - he's a keeper.

Excuse the crappy camera phone - oh and me trying to be cute.

I'm not going to sugar coat how lackluster the attendance was tonight I painted 1 face out of about 8 children. Granted the okay part is that I didn't have to pay to set up for this fair and I'm assuming it is going to grow (fingers crossed). I met a couple of new people and made some contacts so all in all it was a good evening in downtown Laurel.

I urge people to support your local artists (in every form) and get out of your house. The worlds a big place and nothing happens until you make it.

I'm sure I'll have better post next Thursday - they have music at this street fair and the hubs is scheduled to play.

Hopefully that means lots more faces and lots of sales!

Happy Thursday Everyone - PS. Tomorrow is Friday!!!

What is your passion/hobbies?

Have you ever done any vendor shows or exhibits?