Radical Pinterest DIY's

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Hello friends, 

I have been having so much fun getting back into blogging lately! I love scouring the internet for super cute things to share with all you beautiful people! Today I've gathered up a bunch of really doable DIY's from pinterest. I know we've talked about pinterest a lot this week, but I've really been diving deeper into it and finding some real gems! 

Today's collection is colorful and inspired by the upcoming warmer months! As we switch out our sweaters for sun dresses, I am dreaming of jingly bracelets and warm nights out on the front porch with that sweet crayon candle burning next to me. I want to make like twenty of them and put them all over the house, they're just so cute! And, I definitely think my next project is going to be that woven round rug! I just need to find myself a large piece of cardboard. 

Have you guys been DIY-ing anything lately? Let me know!! Do you think you'll be trying any of these projects? 

xo. holly erinn 

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A Jean Vest Journey

Hello friends, 

So today I wanted to share with you a little project I've been working on for a while now. A few weeks ago, I picked up a plain jean vest at Target in the clearance section. In all honesty, I was really jealous of Bryan's vest and wanted my own. He's had so much fun of the past few months collecting awesome pins and patches, and I wanted my own. Yes, I'm basically a toddler. Most of my pins were found at Hot Topic, along with the pizza, Nirvana smile, Tool, and Harley Quinn patches. The lipstick pin is from Big Bud Press, and the 4 cloth patches are from Etsy. The large 'vomiting flowers' patch comes from a shop that doesn't exist anymore, and the 3 smaller ones are from Creepy Gals. Definitely check out Creepy Gals, their selection of patches, art and pins is just spectacular!! I've also bought a few other patches from Etsy, but they haven't arrived yet. I'll be sure to share those with you as well once they arrive.  I'm not sure where Bryan purchased all of the studs, but I believe they came from Amazon. If you guys would like to know exactly where he got them, and I'll get that info for you! 

Do any of you have a jean vest? Blog about it lately? Share links with me down in the comments!! 

xoxo. Holly Erinn

Random Post: A Little Update

Hello Friends, 

Just popping in to say hi and explain all the crazy standard posts lately. I wrote a bunch on the recent break between quarters, since I figured (and I was right) that I would be busy once school started back up. Who woulda thought college would consume my life, right? ha! 

Any ways, folks, I'm working (slowly) on some new illustration projects. And, as the quarter progresses, I'll have a good bit of design work to share as well! So hang in there everybody, listen to the awesome tunes that I've gathered up for you. Because, I swear, they are good tunes!! I'm so excited for this quarter. Here's my classes this quarter. 

• Senior Project: creating out design (and illustration) portfolio website
• Multi-Page Documents: exactly what the name says. I'm making a catalog
• Portfolio 2: a continuation of last quarter's class, developing and polishing our portfolios
• Leadership Principles: dunno. I'll let you know after tomorrow :P

Well, that's all I've got for today. I'll be back soon with arts stuffs and junk. Ya know, spring is just around the corner. My fingers are getting itchy for crafty stuff. A DIY, perhaps?? Who knows! 

xoxo. 

Holly 

Random Post: DIY Awesomeness

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Hello Friends,

The closer we get to spring, the more I get twitchy for the handmade wonders of DIY's and I've been scouring the internet lately, looking for some cute ones and I think I found a few you guys may enjoy! 

The above is a photo of the lovely, Katie of Skunkboy. This DIY is perferct, and I can't wait to try it. I am constantly finding dresses at the thrift store that are just a tiny bit too small for me up in the chest area and this would be the absolute best way to fix it! She's a genius. 

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The Creative Market  is one of the best resources I've come across within the past year. They have a ton of free things that come out every week or so. New fonts, fun backgrounds, and vector images of all sorts just to name a few! Not to mention, they have a ton of amazing things you (or someone like you who has money) can purchase, like blog templates and all kinds of neat stuff! I really like this site and once I can afford it, I'm sure I'll be buying something fun off here. 

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Holy cuteness!! I am completely in love with this amazingly adorable indoor butterfly garden by Scathingly Brilliant! In all actuality, everything she does is just lovely! I think I'm going to try and do something like this somewhere in our room soon. It's really just too cute not too. Oh! And I just remembered, I have super glittery butterflies in my craft stash. Yup. This is totally happening. 

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Here they are folks. The fairy god mothers of DIY, yes A Beautiful Mess. I know I found this a little late in the game (Christmas was...uhh...weeks ago) but this project is so stupidly simple and just so lovely it kind of hard to not love it! I don't think I'd have it say anything festive or seasonal. I would want it to stay up all year, and maybe hand above our bed on our "cool wall". I'll explain later, there's plans in the works. But for serious thou, this project is on point. I'm totally trying it this year! Stay tuned. 

SO! I really haven't updated you guys on aaaaanything that we've been up to lately...because, we haven't done...anything. For serious, school and work and the end of the quarter has consumed me life for the past month or so. And along with the holidays, we have had no life. At. All. The new year is here, next week I start my final quarter of school before I have to find an internship. Life is going to get interesting real quick. 

Bryan and I made a list of things we want to do this year, and along with my list of goals to be achieved by my next birthday (thankfully the day before the new year)....we've got a lot planned at a lot we want to do this year. This year is going to be the year we stay on point. The year we actually get some shit done! Wish us good luck, folks. Here's to a DIY year. 

We've got a few photo projects in the works and a few fun things we want to do that we're going to document. AND there's a few other things that I can't wait to work on that I can't quite tell you about yet! Squee...secret projects, anticipation of spring and a handmade start to our new year! <3

xoxo. 

Holly