Chicken Lays an Egg

Freaky Item of the Week

jessy — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:58:10 +0000

This week’s Freaky Item focus is on twins! It’s pretty odd in the vintage world to find exact twin garments, but it does happen. The funny thing is that none of the items in this post were purchased at the same time or location!

This first pair are 1970′s bridesmaid dresses, lace top and polyester accordion maxi skirt. These two even came from different sides of the country, yet are exactly the same in every way!

This mustard yellow and floral accent button-up is the perfect opposite twin to the dark brown with floral accent!

These last two shirts are definitely not exactly the same, but how often do you see this kind of amazing panel-front cowboy shirt??

That’s all for today ladies and gents! Come by and check out our new gear!

zombies like to party

jessy — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:19:26 +0000

Well our one year anniversary/ zombie party went off smashingly, good times and plenty of drinks were had by all!

Mmmmmm…

Morton’s Salt Zombie

“Zombies can’t drive!”

M.I.A zombie

Sangria

Time traveler man

Best dressed zombie

Cold pizza

Zombie Clara Bow

I dunno what Spiderman did, but it musta been bad.

Zombie Dolly Parton

Thanks for helping us celebrate our first year of many to come!

One Year Anniversary!

jessy — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:17:22 +0000

As you may or may not know, Halloween will mark one fantastic year in Northside for Chicken Lays An Egg! We have really loved every moment and are so happy to be in such a great, supportive community and hope for many more years in such a great neighborhood. Come out and celebrate our one year anniversary zombie-style on Saturday, October 23rd! We’re going to have some assorted zombie treats including some NorthSlice and every zombie’s favorite, beer! Check out the Facebook event page for any additional info!

Just because you’re a zombie and you exist by eating brains, doesn’t mean you can’t do it with some style and glamour!

doin’ our Chicken thing…

jessy — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:44:32 +0000

At the last party we had to celebrate the chicken mural going up, our good friend and awesome director, Scott Fredette took some video of us and some of our friends and customers dancing. He set it to the song Tell ‘Em by Sleighbells and created this INCREDIBLE video!

In All Its Glory

jessy — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:41:36 +0000

Well ladies and gents, it took us a while to get it up, but without further ado here is the video of the Northside Pride fashion show!

As you can see, when Chicken Lays An Egg is around there’s never a dull moment!

Northside Gay Pride Fashion Show

jessy — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:57:37 +0000

If you haven’t heard about Northside’s upcoming Pride Fest, then get ready for an amazing weekend! Although Cincinnati’s official pride parade moved downtown this year, Northside will not be without it’s gay pride celebration. A small group of people have gotten together a supercool festival and have asked us to participate in the fashion show on Saturday. All I’m going to say is that we have FIVE themes planned for the show, so be assured you don’t want to miss it!

chicken lays a mural

jessy — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:03:24 +0000

Recently Chicken Lays An Egg had the honor of having a really incredible artist, Chris Gliebe do a custom mural for us in our courtyard! Our fabulous tech guy Jacob (Jessy’s boyfriend) made us this time-lapse animation of Chris painting the mural from beginning to end…

This was the original sketch he did for us and I was amazed how similar it looks to the finished product!

Here are a few stills of it during the progress:

The first touch of color….

She’s such a sassy chicken.

That night we had a little shindig to celebrate our beautiful new courtyard complete with NorthSlice Pizza from across the street and plenty of alcohol. It was as always a night of dancing, playing dress-up, and having a great time.

Early in the evening

We were lucky enough to have Scott Fredette do a photo booth of sorts that night, and he is also making a crazy cool video from the footage he took. (Coming Soon)

Chance is always happy to be the first person in a ridiculous outfit.

Jessy as Buck

Scott is never one to miss the fun of playing dress-up

Alison rockin' the James Bond girl jumpsuit

What? You don't love fuzzy Kangol hats? Hater.

Mabel is too cool for school

The next two pictures were taken by one of our friends and party guests, Amy Rudnik.

Dana, DJ Whocares and company

Now those are some serious jazz hands

Saucy Samantha

Partytime excellent!

Maya gettin' down

John Deere and ruffles

Goodnight everyone!

It was a really spectacular evening as always, and we can’t wait to have more parties in our gorgeous new courtyard!

4th of July Fabulousness

jessy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:20:21 +0000

If you are a resident of Cincinnati then hopefully you have been to one of Northside’s Fourth of July parades. It is definitely a sight to be seen- from synchronized dances with lawn chairs to the Cincinnati pride marching band. Chicken Lays An Egg has been involved for the last two years but we prefer to do it renegade style (like everything). Our good friend Scott lives along the parade route, so instead of starting at the church parking lot where everyone else does we just decorate his house and jump in the parade when we want. (This has the added bonus of allowing us to have a few drinks before the parade instead of standing in a hot parking lot.)

This year the theme for Scott’s house was Muscle Beach Oil Spill, so Scott hired a muscle man to pose and “freak people out”. He did a great job of both and was a huge hit with the crowd.

Maya the hula hoop queen and Mucle Man

The other great advantage to jumping in the parade from Scott’s house is that we get to watch the parade too!

The Lawn Chair Ladies

Ain't nobody here but us Chickens!

Scott and his Muscle Man

Dana waiting to decide when we should jump in

Here we go!

I love how syncronized we look in this picture!

I wasn’t kidding when I said that the Muscle Man was a hit!

Even Jim Tarbell couldn't resist!

I love the face that the girl is making

He's so light on his feet!

We had a fabulous time as always and can’t wait for next year! Who knows what we’ll do then…..

eco go-go fashion show

jessy — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:44:36 +0000

Hey there little Chicken readers – sorry we are so SERIOUSLY behind on telling you about our events and showing you how incredible they turned out! I’m just gonna jump right into with some pictures from the Eco Go-Go Fashion Show at Owl’s Nest Park. The theme of the show was sustainable fashion through vintage clothing, so a lot of the Cincinnati vintage shops were involved. We were the finale of the show, so we decided to showcase a green wedding!

The whole wedding party

Doing some last minute alterations before the show…

Abiyah looking spectacular as a wedding guest

Our ring bearer, Owen was a big hit with the ladies as always- that little girl followed him around the whole day. Oh yeah, that’s his own tux cause he’s just that dapper. No big deal.

I love the giant hair extensions that the bridesmaid Samantha got!

Melissa, the mother earth inspired bridesmaid

Our ridiculously cute flower girl

Stacey as the wedding night and Nic the bride

The beautiful Maya strikin’ a pose after the show

Just a little wedding kiss

Bride and groom

Chance the groom and I party after the show

Unfortunately we only got to take video during the show, so I have nothing to post for you of us on the runway. However, we have will be participating in the Northside GLBT fest fashion show, so make sure you catch us there!

nod from st. louis

jessy — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:58:45 +0000

I was very excited today to hear that we got mentioned in an article from St. Louis Today! They mentioned some other favorites of ours as well- Fabricate of course and puzzlingly, our long-gone fabulous shoe store, Shoetopia.

“Forget new urbanism. Head for the real thing, to Cincinnati’s Northside. The neighborhood loosely follows Hamilton Avenue for five or six tight blocks. You’ll see Ace Hardware and Electric, native to the neighborhood since 1949 and a fave of Northside residents. Tourists would probably enjoy trendier shops such as Red Polly Space Outfitters, Fabricate, Chicken Lays an Egg and Shoetopia….”

Thanks so much St. Louis Today, next time come in and see the cool stuff we’ve got! Click here for the rest of the article.