Gots me a new phone!

Hey all! So I got a new phone and its got this neato app thinger for blogger, so I can post via my phone! How cool right?! So now maybe I'll be able to write a little more and post more often. Yay! That's all.

<3 Holly

packing for a chocolate dipped vacation

hey errrrrbody! so i figured i'd  share some photos from me preparing for vacation and what i've packed. this is just going to be a bit of a photo dump....enjoy ya'll! <3

if you guys have any question on what the products show above are or where i got them, just ask! i'll be gone for most of the week and won't be posting for a few days. but i'll be back by next week so be sure to check back for vaca photos and such!! have a great week you guys! <3<3<3<3<3

hershey park, hershey park...somethings goin' down at hershey park!

 

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hey guys, things might be a bit quiet around here for a few days, but i'm hoping to pop out one more post before i head out for a mini VACATION!!!! my bestest joey and i are heading to hershey park next week for 3 days and i can't be more excited. i'm going to try to write something up to show you guys what i'm taking and all that jazz. work has been kinda nuts, it seems like i work everyday, all day any more so i apologize for the quietness of the blog. i'm working on some things for you guys thou, promise!! 

oh! what did you guys think of jukebox sunday? did you like it? or not? what would you like to see come out of it? any suggestions??? let me know! 

new things, changes and goals

 so i figure i should give you guys a bit of an update on what's been going on with me and the girls here at O&C....well, amanda and i have a new job. we're both working at kennywood, the local amusement park, as face painters. its kind of awesome working with my gal! i've been there for a few months and i pushed and pushed for her to work with me because i knew she'd do amazing at it! and she has been! she's got such a talent for makeup and face painting...and her FXwork is bad ass!!! hopefully this fall we'll be working together again for kennywood at their halloween events, fright nights, doing makeup and FX.

so you remember me with 
suuuper long hair, right?!

well......

 

i've chopped off all my hair! i decided a few months ago that i was going to cut my hair short for work this summer so that i could stay cool out in the heat. well, i'm one of those crazy people who's motto always seems to be 'go big or go home'....well i guess this time it was go short or...ya know!  its a big change for me, i've never had my hair this short before. its grown out a good bit since i've cut it, so its not as bad as it was. not that it didn't look nice, it was just a little uncomfortable for me. i'm getting used to it now. BUT! i did do something good with my hair, instead of just throwing it out, i decided to donate it to locks of love. i felt that it was something that just made sense. if i'm going to get it cut then i shouldn't just get rid of it and waste it. it should go to some one that could do good with it. i feel very strongly about this cause, and i hope that you guys take a minute and check it out. i donated 19 inches to the cause but their minimum is 10", so if you got the length and you're wanting to do something good, this is very simple and does so much good!

 if you've read my last post, i had mentioned that i've been taking a break from the business....well the girls have too. we haven't done a show since last last november or december i think. a few weeks ago we did! we partook in the WYEP Summer Music Festival and had a blast! we didn't make much but i think it was a nice slow ride back into the swing of things! we had a bunch of new products and colleen decided to come along for the ride and sell her lovely things and i'm so very glad she did!!! hopefully, within the next few months we'll be doing a few more shows and i'll of coarse be taking photos at those too to share.

so...

new things= job. 

changes=hair cuts and business thingers

and now for...

goals!

 goals, goals, goals.....i'm going to be moving out of my father's house and going back to school this fall! yea, i'm actually going to be doing this! my life is about to get hella crazy really quick!!! colleen and i will be living together and we'll be looking for our new place in late august, hoping to be moved and settled by mid september just in time for me to start school early october. i'm so very excited and so extremely terrified. its such a big leap and i'm sure i'll be fine but its a giant change into actual adulthood. so naturally i'm a bit nervous. but i'll be documenting everything along the way and sharing our journey in tid bits here and there. 

wish me luck everyone, i'm definitely going to need it! :)

 

what i've been up to....

ello friends! well as you've all probably noticed its been pretty quiet around these parts lately. this is the dealio....i've been suuuper sick. there's some sort of cold/flu/stomach virus thing going around pittsburgh so its been my demise of recent. but i'm back and i'm trying to get back into the swing of things. but i wanted to share a little bit of what i've been up to during my sickness.

listening to far too much incubus. especially this song.

on repeat. for days.

 working on a poster for a consignment i'm doing.

so far so good. its coming along well, so i'm pretty much pleased.

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spending far too much time on sites like etsy and facebook.

its amazing how much of a time suck the internet can be if you let it.

i wish i had a count of the hours that i've spent just muddling through people photos of FB.

it would probably be astonishing. and ghastly appalling.

well just want to check in for a sec and give you a little peek into what i've been doing since i've been doing everything except blogging! haha! i hoping to change that in the coming weeks. i swear when it gets cold and gloomy out side i just don't want to do anything. so when the weather gets a bit better i'm sure i'll be in higher spirits and there will be more fun here at O&C!! 

guys, i swear i'm not dead!

well, i'm sure you've all noticed how quiet its been around these parts lately. really, there's no good explanation for it. but i can say that i haven't had much to write about recently and i guess its been taking a toll on the blog. i said a while back that i didn't want to force things with the blog and i didn't want to write about things that didn't mean something, or something i didn't believe in or feel like it was 'me'. i don't want to copy other people's posts and i don't want this blog to be like all the other blogs out there. that would just be silly. i'm not going to write about popular things just because they're popular and it'll get me more pageviews or followers. that's not what i want this thing to be. so, this being said, sometimes i run out of things to say. things get quiet around here. and yea, that sucks. but if you guys just ride out the silence with me, i'm sure i'll come up with some awesome stuff sooner or later! AND if there's anything that you guys would like to see come out of this, let me know!!

 so stay patient, my friends i'll get back into the swing of things soon!

(p.s. if you're wondering how i got my photo to look like that check out 

the stellar post that the darling lauren of the perfect pear wrote up the other day!)

just a bit of an update!!

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hello again friends!!! the above photos is COMPLETELY unrelated to anything i'm about to say. i just thought it was pretty! hahah! anyhoozle....just wanted to let you know that i have sent out the sponsor emails...so if you have signed up to be a sponsor, please check your emails and let me know if you've received it! 

this week might be a bit quiet around here. i'm hoping to do a little renovating here on the blog. creating some new graphics...so keep a look out for that stuff and also planning some things for the posts and such! 

just wanted to check it and give y'all a heads up on whats-a-happenin'! 

there is life on planet holly!

hi everyone!

i assure you i'm not dead...this week has just been insane. i've been trying to work on this new line, i had a hearing for my unemployment (that was horrible), and i finally got my license....on top of all of this i'm trying to get all of the things i need ready for this fundraiser i'm doing this weekend. its been a whirlwind! but i'm working hard to bring you this new line of products, i'm so very excited for you all to see it! its going to be very fun!!

if you've noticed....and i hope you have, we have sponsors now here at O&C and it would be fantastic if you would take a minute and check this awesome group of ladies out! i'll be show casing them all soon and hopefully their will be some great guest posts and giveaways to share with you in the coming month! i'm very excited to have them sponsoring us and i love them all, they're great! check 'em ooout!

other than that, keep a look out for that sponsor spotlight post, some new items to go up in our shop! and also some behind the scenes pictures and ones from my upcoming events! the next two months are going to be insaaaaane!