what a wonderful weekend PART 2

i'm back with the second part of my 'what a wonderful weekend' post. in my last post, i talked about jessi's grad party...this time i'm going to share pictures of the excellent time that my dad and i had down at the three rivers art's festival! 

 

 my dad and i have these traditions...there's certain festival and things that we go to EVERY year. just to name a few : the three river's arts fest, washington county fair, the greater pittsburgh renaissance festival, national pike gas, steam and horse show. we're major nerds! haha! 

i love it though!

my dad is my best bud! i swear if it wasn't for him (and quinn) i think my head would have exploded by now! 

i live for the arts festival! one of these years, i'm going to enter my work and try to have a booth! fingers crossed for next year!!!

 

dad's really cool, he's got a super long white beard and i think he looks like a wizard! haha! maybe he secretly is, wouldn't that be neato!

i think my favorite part of the festival this year was the puppet parade! that's mostly what i took pictures of and what i'm going to show you today! i really didn't take pictures of the art work, only because some of the artists i don't think would have appreciated it very much, having some nerdy girl get all up in their business with a camera! 

but the puppet parade was more than happy to have their pictures taken! enjoy!!

the last one, is probably my favorite out of the bunch! :) 

i hope you enjoyed my pictures!!! i know its getting really close to the weekend again already, so i'll probably have tons more to share next week! 

i've been working on a lot of projects and once my tattoo heals, i'll show you picture of it as well!!

have a super fun end of the week and weekend coming up!

keep it funky!

XOXO,

holly

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keep it funky!

XOXO,

holly

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what a wonderful weekend PART 1

good morning everyone! 

it's going to be a suuuuper hot and day here in pittsburgh, so i'm planning on spending my time in doors blogging and crafting aaaand getting tattooed! yep, i'm getting my tattoo worked on this afternoon, by my dear friend andy! i'll post pictures later on. most likely not today, i'm kind of a bleeder and i don't want to horrify any of you! ha!

any way...this past weekend was fantastic! i got to spend some time with manda of friday, jessi's grad party was on saturday and sunday i went to the three rivers arts festival with my dad! the only thing that would have made the weekend better was if my love, quinn would have been around. he and some of his guy friends went to a starcraft competition in ohio (nerd alert!) hahaha! kidding! his nerdiness is part of the reason i love him!

so i've got tons upon tons of pictures to share, which is why i'm going to be splitting my posts up into 2 segments. 

FIRST! we'll start with jessi's grad party....

so you remember that really weird, highly edited and kinda funky looking picture i posted last week when i was teasing jessi? well, i can actually show you the piece i painted her! YAY!

 isn't it super cute! i'm painting a bunch of them for the festival that we'll hopefully be at this fall! i'll tell you guys more about it later, once we have all the info and hear back from them. it's not going to be until probably august til we hear back, so be patient! rest asure, the moment i get the go ahead, i'll be ranting about it for weeks!!!

 

these are a few of the other colors i'm working on for these paintings! super cute right?!

all four of us were there this weekend for the party, which was really nice! it's so very hard to get everyone in the same place at the same time anymore! we've all gotten so busy with life! 

her party was lovely and she got so many nice gifts, and her parents bought her a car! i don't think she's been home for more than a minute or two since saturday! haha! 

this next picture, i'm probably going to get in a shit ton of trouble for... i don't actually care. its really funny! 
so amanda bought this really cute shirt friday while we were out and she wore it to the party, but the problem is, is that she couldn't keep it from falling and exposing her bra. we (mostly me) were jacking her wires about it all day... and then i snapped this photo....

don't be too mad at me manda! looooove you!

being the crafty weirdos we all are... we can't go anywhere with out craft supplies.... yup we worked on things at the party! hahha!

we've got problems...

and just for fun... i took some shot of coco trying to battle the melted chocolate covered oreos...nothing embarrassing though, she made me put the camera away before she'd take another bite! hahha!

yes, it was that hot outside that it straight up melting everything! 
well, that's about it for right now! i'll be back later with the second half of my wonderful weekend! 

hope  your weekend was neat too!!

keep it funky!
XOXO,
holly

TEASING JESSI and not so frugal friday

hey kitties! 

alright, this week's frugal friday isn't frugal AT ALL...i'm just warning you. i put this one together last week after scouering modcloth after they sent me an email about things that were all owls. uggg.... they know just how to get me. so i put this little polyvore together to show my great love of their site.

modcloth love (not so frugal friday) by hollyerinn featuring an owl necklace

ALSO....our darling little jessi graduated from college last month and she's having a party this weekend. i being the crafty goddess (bahahahha) that i am (sarcasm)...decided to make part of her gift and now i'm going to tease her about it. because i fucking can.

 
i like it. and i hope she can't tell what it is...she's rather smart, sadly enough. ha! well, i mean she does have a degree in psychology and all! 

CONGRATS JESSI ON ALL OF YOU RECENT AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS! 
WE LOVE YOU!!!!

keep it funky!!

XOXO,

holly

There is life on Planet Coco.

And it is friendly, if not the most intelligent.

Anyway, sorry I have been away for yet another inexcusable amount of time. I have been going through some personal and health problems that have rendered me quite useless but fear not, I am getting better. Sadly, I haven't much progress to report. I am making headway into learning embroidery and hope to have a cute little project posted for you guys very soon. Mostly I've been learning stitches and studying stitch diagrams while making strange shapes on some spare fabric. I know, boring work. Other than that I've not been doing much. Just trying to work through some personal problems, balance some relationships, and deal with the stress of the holiday weekend at work. (Seriously, I lugged around more ice and propane this weekend than I did for the first four months of my job combined.) I was able to do a bit of Etsy shopping for myself though. Retail therapy at it's finest.

I scored this little number from Etsy seller Hissyfitoly

And this strand of button pearls from Chickatey. Now you may notice that there isn't much merchandise left in Chickatey's shop. This is because she and her fiance were the victims of an apartment fire and lost almost everything they had. Read about it here. Making a purchase would help Katey and her fiance so much. Katey is also the charity cause of April's Army this month so any purchases made in the April's Army Shop will also benefit her.

Well, those were my purchases. Now all I need is an excuse to show them off. Maybe something like an ORDER AND CHAOS RETRO PICNIC? (*hintcanwedothispleaseguisehint*)

Now I'm off to the magical land of bubbles and hot running water. I'll check in with you guys after my shift.

~Coco

New Hats-Plans-and-Secrets

Hey Guys and Dolls!
Long time no see eh?
I have been busy busy busy. Did I mention I've been busy?
My graduation party is this week and between preparation for that, helping my Mom who just had surgery, and practicing for my driver's exam, I've been meeting myself coming back. All is well. I passed my exam today and now have a license!

I have tons of designs in the works and I can't wait to show them to you guys once they are finished. I'm really pleased so far. I've been working on a new hat that will be a surprise for our dear Holly. She knows she's getting a hat, she just doesn't know what it is going to look like. I will share that with you guys once its done and in her possession.

Though I don't have much to show you guys I am VERY excited about what I do have to share. I finished a new hat design this week and I think some of you are going to love it.

That is my Grandma on the left and myself on the right to give you a better idea of what the hat would look like on. I am extremely pleased with how this one turned out. I call it The Foxy. I plan on exploring other types of ears and in time will have some more fun hats. Currently I'm looking into Bunny ears.

I'll be back soon with more hats. In the meantime if there is anything you'd like to see, give a shout out and I just might be inspired to include it in the line.

Until next time.
Live well, laugh often, and love much.
❤ Jessi