{"id":37756,"date":"2016-01-26T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=37756"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T21:19:02","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-gaby-germaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-personalities-meet-gaby-germaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Gaby Germaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gaby Germaine, UncommonGoods Creative Director<\/em><\/p>\n

My home town is…<\/strong>
\nSmack dab in the middle of the heartland, Van Meter, Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong>
\nHard working people, nature, color, and kindness.<\/p>\n

Working at UncommonGoods, I\u2019ve learned\u2026<\/strong>
\nThat this Thomas Edison quote I love is 100% accurate. \u201cOpportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.\u201d I have been fortunate enough to work with and learn from some amazing people who have not been afraid to work and to work hard.<\/p>\n

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The most beautiful thing I\u2019ve ever seen is…<\/strong>
\nThe Great Barrier Reef<\/a>\u00a0in Australia. I saw colors I had never seen before. I got so excited I forgot I was underwater and started talking out loud through my snorkel about how amazing it was (and taking in a lot of salt water).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m stubborn about…<\/strong>
\nI prefer to call it determined \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

My guilty pleasure(s)…<\/strong>
\nFrench fries, ice cream\u2026 and Christmas music way before the season starts and long after it ends.<\/p>\n

The most ambitious crafts project I’ve ever done was…<\/strong>
\nOne year I knitted everyone in the studio I worked with a scarf as a gift and everyone in my family as well. I had yarn all over my home and could barely move my fingers come Christmas morning.<\/p>\n

An uncommon fact about me…<\/strong>
\nI have won three talent shows by speed reciting the tongue twister Betty Botter Bought Some Butter.<\/p>\n

If I could travel back in time, I\u2019d…<\/strong>
\nI would want to be a fly on the wall in an early 1920\u2019s Parisian caf\u00e9 and listen to Hemingway, Pound, Stein, Joyce, Eastman, and all the other masters of that time as they chatted.<\/p>\n

With a pile of stuff in front of me I would make…(You\u2019re given a Reclaimed Wine Barrel Lazy Susan<\/a>, a dozen pairs of nylon stockings, a stick of red lipstick, double stick tape, and 5 straw, wooden-handle brooms.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would probably use the Lazy Susan and brooms to make a table to serve some appetizers on. Slap on the red lipstick and stockings and throw a party. Oh, and pocket the double stick tape\u2026 that stuff is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associate Creative Director Gaby Germaine bought some butter. \u201cBut,\u201d said she, \u201cthis butter\u2019s bitter!” So she bought a bit of better butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1170,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37756"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66106,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions\/66106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}