Fave Rave: The Fall Festival, Pt. 2

 I'm back, (yay! Internet service!  Verizon sucks btw)

And nearly a month later I can finally bring you the second half of that Fall Festival Fave Rave. 

Part 2 consists of 

the PEOPLE, the PRIZES, and the PARTY 

(er, lack thereof...this is Evansville we're talking about).

First up, the typical festival goer....be it a ponytail or a tattoo showing some love for their fellow hoosier.

These two types, they fit right in.

You've also got your food booth friends.  

Although, um....this lady just flat out scares me.  I don't like where her gaze is going.

(and I was oblivious to it the whole time...should've known something was up; she was selling turkey testicles for goodness sake)

And lest we forget the favorite fetch of all festivals:

BEHOLD THE CARNIE!!!

Phew!  Thank goodness for my lil' partner in crime, 

Sew Me Some Love,  

to take me back to a fashionable place.

Next up...what I call a PARTY!
A party on my wrist....
in the form of a wristband equalling unlimited RIDES!
CARNIVAL RIDES (w/no hands)=INSTANT PARTY

And clowns...clowns are at parties, right?

(but please creepy-clown man, leave my friend outta this)

And THE PRIZES!

What's a carnival without winning some loot?

Especially the uber cheap quality stuff that wayyyyy too many people spend wayyyyy too much money on trying to win for their silly girlfriends.

You gotta play to win...

So someone tell me where my fave game, Elvis the Racing Mouse was this year?

Yeah, crap...I had to settle for this mouse instead, soooo not Elvis the Racing Mouse.

Yeah I played alright, about $10 later I walked away empty handed.

As if I was expecting to walk away with a real prize or something...

No way in heck is/was anyone ever going to win a bounty of a prize like a Brown Bear.

I should've known to stick to the "Winner Everytime" crap.

Ummmmm like the poster/dart toss game.  EASY!

I was a bit wiser than the winner everytime game, though.  No need to waste my money on a Taz and Bugs shoot'n hoops poster when I can charm a carnie with my smile...
enough so that he's fooled by my age.

muahahahhahahahaha!

And yay!

Kelly and I left the Fall Festival with prizes in hand.

I suppose since this is a personal style blog, you all might be slightly interested in what I'm sporting other than a stuffed yellow accessory, right?

Wearing (on 10/8/10):

Yellow stuffed banana-Fall Festival

Black faux leather vest-Beacon's Closet 

(found $2 in the pocket upon purchase btw)

Ivory gauzy tunic-H&M

Skinny Jeans-Uniqlo

Black booties-Steve Madden

Black printed scarf-Express

Silver purse-Cole Haan

And lets not forget the SCORPION BUTTON, presented to me upon purchase of my scorpian pop as seen in previous post.

And that folks....that's what I call my FAVE RAVE in terms of my hometown of Evansville, Indiana.

Nothing quite beats the West Side Nut Club Fall Festival as is apparent in both pt. 1 and pt. 2.

So if ever you're in southern Indiana come the first full week of October (also known as my birthday week) 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE witness this spectacle for yourself!

And friends, a big fat huge MUAH!  Thanks so much for standing by patiently while my internet service got all its kinks worked out.  I have my fingers crossed we're back up and running here at home for good.  Which means I hope you all come back and frequent my pages once again.  I'm working on a little giveaway of sorts to show my appreciation for all those that didn't leave me just because of a few technical difficulties over the past month and a half.

But I'm back...hopefully for a while...and this little giveaway I mention, well I already got a part of it, and let's just say I'm having a hard time parting with the goodies myself.

Yeah, keep checking back, once I get it all together, the details will be here!

xoxoxo

FAVE RAVE: the FALL FESTIVAL, Pt. 1

Ok, remember how I mentioned on the Nashville leg of my vacation there was some weight gain going on? 

Well below, you're about to witness, how it was possible for me to gain a whopping 10lbs in one week!

I present to you the one and only cool thing that ever happens in my hometown:

The Evansville West Side Nut Club Fall Festival!!!

A fave rave for sure as I grew up going to this festival every year.  And somehow 12 years had gone by since I made it back home for the annual festival.  I knew this year, I couldn't let an opportunity to attend pass me up.  Oh and I made the most of it...going on average 2x/day for lunch and dinner.

And let me add, the Fall Festival is pretty much just a freakin deep fried food festival. 

(sure there's rides and games, but we all go for the fried fattiness and novelty foods they offer to townies that call Evansville home.)

The Fall Festival took up 7 of my 10days of vacation, so naturally I have to seperate the fun into a two parter blog post.

So part #1 of this fave rave: THE FOOD!

Taking in the food-y fun with me were my hometown blogger girls (and my psuedo lil' sisters),

Sew Me Some Love (on the left) and Alex's Wonderland (on the right)

As well as their friends, Lalalaurynnn (on the left) and MondoMandy (on the right)

It seems one of the main goals of the Fall Festival is to offer up interesting deep fried treats.  I keep mentioning "deep fried" because seriously, no joke, about 95% of the edible goodness is just that:

DEEP FRIED!

Every year they try to outdue the year before by introducing the Evansvillians to regular foods just FRIED.

Such as the case was with the Deep Fried Greenbeans shown below.

-I should mention, these were eaten by Alex's Wonderland who also has a wonderful food blog known as Wonderland Kitchen

So I'd like to think she knows a thing or two about good tasty food considering she appears to be quite the chef herself.  I believe she took a liking to these green beans.

Not being a huge veggie lover myself, and definitely not a fan of green beans, I opted out of sampling.

I cannot tell you what I think of them.

Something I have always, and will always, munch on when attending the Fall Festival would be the

GIANT TEXAS TENDERLOIN!

Sooooooooooooooooo good!

-The one shown here was ingested by Lalalaurynnn, she can attest to its tastiness I'm sure.

And then there's the medly of deep fried mixed veggies

-Again I did not partake in samplings of these.  No thank you!

But apparently they're not so bad. (Unless you ask my highschool BFF, Abbey, who would tell you differently as she tasted them earlier in the week).

But readers, just when you thought the deep fried goodness couldn't get any better...I present to you the "REAL DRAW" of the Fall Festival this year:

DEEP FRIED TURKEY TESTICLES!

In an attempt to gross you all out, I did try to purchase these, and I was going to show you all photos of me shoving testicles in my mouth.  (remember, I'm classy like that...uhhhh)

-Unfortunately, come Friday night, they had sold out of all 600lbs of testicles!

Yeah, 600lbs!!!!!!!!! 

Evansville, YOU ARE GROSS!

yet, I was completely willing to partake in this too now that I think of it.

With turkey testicles not being an option, Kelly and I went for the next grossest thing we could find.

I chose a lollipop with a Scorpian in it!

I was rewarded with a button that looks exactly like this sign--of course to prove how "tough" I am, I promptly added the button to my gang vest's flair once I was back in NYC.

Now here's the real kicker, while the scorpian itself was nothing other than "crunchy" his legs did keep getting stuck in my teeth! 

hahahahahaha, are you vomitting yet?

(SideNote added 10/27/10: Kelly reminded me of the best part of the scorpion lolli....I can't believe I forgot to mention this...but at one point, after biting off a few legs, I flung my sucker around surely when talking which leads to me making flamboyant gestures with my hands,landing it smack dab in a townies' hair!  Poor girl...I ripped out a strand of long blonde locks.  Kinda funny to me of course...she was probably thinking otherwise.  I promptly threw my sucker away after that.  Damn!)

Kelly opted for a Creepy Crawlie.

Essentially the same thing as my sucker, only with a worm inside!

She was rewarded with a button looking like the sign below.

So for $3.00 a pop, it was well worth grossing you guys out!  Scorpian pops are rad!

(Let it be known, the last time I was at the Fall Festival 12yrs ago, I ate a chocolate covered cricket--notice they were sold out according to the price list below)

Oh West Side Nut Club Fall Festival...thank you for the 10lbs I gained, and then had to work off when I returned back to NYC (I felt disgusting to say the least)!

Good food, good friends, and good times!!!!!!!

Daily Wear: Deja Vu

It's a case of deja vu?

Nope, I really did wear this skirt like 2 wks ago (see?)--along with keeping the outfit about 95% the same. Sometimes a girl has no time to be creative.

To make it slightly different this time around, I changed up the top portion from last time, but kept the same color palatte.

This time I paired a lightweight, sheer turtleneck with a slouchy-fit tencel cardi.

My "creativity" comes in with the tying of the cardigan. I felt the front knot not only gave it a much needed fitted shape to my bodice (considering this is a way to balance out the full skirt) and it also lent itself to having a bit of a ballerina inspired look.

(or am I just completely dillusional on that last part?)

Now I understand I lured a lot of you in tonight with yesterday's mention of a new haircut. Sorry to let you down, nothing drastic took place.

It looks the same, just like this outfit, maybe 95% the same. So much so that you probably can't even tell a "new haircut" is at hand, can you?

I'll tell you what I did.

I went in there after work and said, "I want this hairstyle, specifically the piece-y bang, the rest you can leave as it is-just a trim on the split ends please. Oh...and I'll take a few little short layer pieces here and there at eye level."

Now I also have to tell you, these pictures are from yesterday. My stylist does not put any product in my hair, and that's fine--I think we both prefer him to just blowdry it so I don't catch pneumonia and then we'll both be on our merry ways.

I however, on a daily basis, put about 3-5 products in my hair. Therefore, the texture and look of my hair is always much different than what I leave the salon with.

So what you see here is not exactly an accurate depiction of what I have managed to achieve today. You'll see it soon enough, I tend to gunk it up and make it much more piece-y and "edgy" shall I say? My stylist tends to go a more classic route opting for curled under edges, shine, and flat hair. (again this probably goes back to the fact that he never puts any product in it)

I am also not extremely thrilled with it at the moment--ask me again next week. I've come to know my hair quite well-it takes nearly 1 week after the cut to get it to be what I want.

So let's say by next Thursday its going to be what I intended.

Now its just kinda, "eh".

And there you have it...all that hair hoopla I promised, and you only get this!

I'm sure you're already over it.

Wearing:

*Black cardigan-Uniqlo

*Black turtleneck-Target

*Pink skirt-H&M

*Black opaque tights-HUE

*Black suede shoeties-BCBGgirls

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Ok, now I'm so excited about what I came across today...it makes me smile, it makes me proud, it makes me super giddy--and completely ready for summertime.

SewMeSomeLove (she's come to be like a little sister after all these years of knowing her) is working on putting together a portfolio. I've completely recruited her as my summer intern

and hopefully one day my full-blown assistant!

(lucky girl...hahaha-yes, I'm tooting my own horn. Toot-Toot)

And she's hinted at having a Giveaway on her blog very, very soon. All we have to do is help her reach 20 followers--not too hard, just follower her and before we know it she'll be having her giveaway (oh I'm soooooooo entering! Did you see those beautiful rings--talented I tell you!)

Halloween--"Get on the Night Train" (2008)

If you've got a sidekick, why not dress the part this Halloween?

While it may not have been October 31st on this particular evening, it was an ideal occasion to dress up, considering we were the only ones taking it to that level besides the band.

(September 2008, "Appetite for Destruction" Booze Cruise around Manhattan)

Loaded like a freight train

(My attempt at Axl, looking more like a brawny biker chick)

Flyin' like an aeroplane

(Slash and Axl Dancin w/Mr. Brownstone)

Speedin' like a space brain 

On Roxana (left): 

Black top hat-Halloween Store 

Vintage GNR T-shirt (mine)-Thrift store

Black Vintage '80s patent leather eyelet belt (mine)-Ebay

On me (right):

Blue leopard print bandana-H&M

Black skull print t-shirt-Wet Seal

White scarf-H&M

Ivory Vintage 80s eyelet belt-Thrift Store

Black woven belt w/bullets-Merry Go Round (circa 1995, isn't that store long gone?)

Silver aviator sunglasses-the BF's (god knows what gas station these came from)

One more time tonight...

Imagine my delight, when I saw these two 

(Alex's Wonderland and Sew Me Some Love) 

a few months ago following the same destructive path I've chosen!

(FYI: These two ladies are just starting out in the blogging world, so please travel on over and give them a read.  

They're dishing out their college angst, style, and party-life fun.  

And for all of you like me, somedays I just wish life would be like college again.  This is a quick fix.)

So on this note, who's your dream Halloween duo? 

-Mick and Keith?

-Joe Perry and Steven Tyler?

-Richie Sambora and Jon Bon Jovi?

-Sonny and Cher?

-Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (more of this coming soon, check back)

You know, it's not too late for you and your bestie to jump on board and plan your Halloween get-up.

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Side Note: If ever I had a little sister, Sew Me Some Love would've been it!  I've known her since the day she was born, and after all these years, it makes me so ecstatic to find out that she's not only into about 90% of the same stuff I'm into, but she's also studying to be a fashion designer!  In some little way, it makes me so happy to see her following the same footsteps--that being footsteps out of the parents' house, onward to college, and one day a hop, skip, and a jump outside of Indiana to the bright lights of the big city!

Side Side Note:  Sew Me Some Love, let me apologize for probably putting your diapers on crooked, most likely failing to warm your bottles to the proper temperature, making you sport my crazy hairdo's to piano class, and never having mastered the art of cooking-thus all those frozen pizza or PB&J lunches I served you and your brothers

Triple Side Note: AXL IS FROM INDIANA!!!!!  I don't care that he's a total douche nowadays, I gotta stand by my man!