"I just thought that was awesome and it was a really liberating experience for me," she New Zealand online publication Stuff.co.nz. "And while it was for me, it was also for him, to let him know it was completely over."
A YouTube video -- which has since been taken down -- shows Gibbs painting the rocket (with the help of her dog, to make this story even better) with "flames and a baby Simba" and launching it from a concrete pad on New Zealand's Banks Peninsula.
While it's not clear exactly how high the rocket went, it's definitely far enough away for Gibbs (considering there was an actual rocket scientist involved). Judging by a Facebook status she posted after the launch, she's pretty satisfied:
Been working on this for a wee while- thank you to Malcolm H Snowdon and Vaughan Snowdon for helping with the rockets, and i [sic] guess thank you to all my friends and family who supported me through my awful marriage and loved me and took care of me when i needed it the most. I really feel with putting this out there that i can finally say goodbye to the awful times in my life and move on to better things xo