view of pittsburgh from the balcony at the mattress factory.
last sunday, i went to the mattress factory with my friend leigh. it's "a museum of contemporary art that presents art you can get into. room-sized environments, created by in-residence artists."
they had free admission, so we decided to take full advantage of what the museum had to offer. one of our most exciting excursions was the gift shop that was full of fred flare items. i'm always a sucker for gift shops and commemorative items.
this post is dedicated to stephanie's long-awaited bachelorette party aka deep creek cabin weekend aka peen theme 2012!
the weekend started out with a big carpool from pittsburgh to deep creek with me, steph, shay and leigh (with a brief, but essential stop in morgantown for black bear). most everyone came friday night, with the exception of jeremy, whose flight was delayed, so he came in saturday morning.
stephanie in her tiny peen hat for going out purposes.
cabin loveliness.
we even learned how to bear proof our lives.
we just drank, ordered pizza, had dance parties, socialized and ate all kinds of phallic-themed snacks like cake pops friday night.
phallic cake pops!
peen weekend 2012!
we also got into the hot tub that apparently had a thick layer of scum surrounding it. we didn't mind and just threw caution to the wind and made ourselves into boiling human soup.
hot tub leg lifts.
saturday was completely full of shenanigans from the start. we got up in the morning and immediately started with mimosas. because why not drink from sun up til sun down? this day was shaping up nicely.
mimosa in all its shining glory.
later on, we decided to actually leave the polygamy compound and make a fire/s'mores treat.
ryan, a fire and a random dog.
my charred s'more and jeremy's typical position.
loving leigh by the fire.
i don't remember if lunch was before or after the fire, but we basically all had conveyor belts of food directly into our mouths for 48 hours, so it's hard to put time frames on things. everyone contributed different dishes for lunch, so we had a wide variety of delicious noms at our fingertips.
ryan whipping up sandwiches with chicken, bacon, roasted tomato, arugula and caesar dressing.
after lounging around for awhile just watching tv and eating even more, we decided it was time to play some games.
playing apples to apples -- drinking edition.
playing "pin the macho on the man" -- part of peen theme 2012
then it was time to leave the compound yet again and face the booming night life that deep creek had to offer and ended up going to honi honi. apparently, i asked the bouncer for "one chicken tender and some napkins" so that happened. "YOU'RE MARRIED!?" is also another favorite quote of the night.
me, jeremy & shay at the honi honi.
me and the beautiful bachelorette!
group shot!
most of us were hurting pretty badly come sunday morning, but it was all worth it to celebrate stephanie's weekend. after mustering up some strength from the inner depths of ourselves, we all packed up our stuff and said goodbye to the robin's nest cabin.
so i finally broke down and bought two pairs of colored jeans. i quite frankly don't know if they even look good, but i decided to take a leap of faith. my eyes were saying "mehhhh" whereas my heart was squealing with delight. i went shopping by myself, and i feel like that might've been a mistake because i didn't have someone to reel me in.
i bought them in coral and mint because a) those were the best colors b) they weren't the color of cat vomit/muted river stones/have an 80s floral pattern.
also, i feel like if you're going to make a statement, make it a loud one. and own it.
now i just need to figure out what to wear with them...suggestions?
west virginia wine & jazz is my second favorite holiday, right behind halloween. i have gone almost every year since college, so we're talking about eight years of consecutive wining and jazzing.
to give you some brief history: it's a big festival held in morgantown, wv where all sorts of wineries set up in a field with jazz music as a soundtrack to your drinking. you pay $20, which gets you a free wine glass and unlimited wine tastings. it's pretty much the best thing ever.
my friend lindsay arrived from columbus friday night, and we left for the festival saturday morning. major snag = it was raining. we hoped that the rain would calm down as we got closer to morgantown, but mother nature wasn't on our side. when we checked into the hotel, we put on our ponchos and marched in the rain to the mountainlair where we would be catching the shuttle to the fest. we got caught in a torrential downpour. I'm talking it was raining in sheets and the wind was blowing our faces off.
we made it on the shuttle and to the fest, and it was surprisingly very well-attended considering the weather. the lines for the wineries were obviously a lot less crowded than when it is sunshine-y and beautiful, but we still had to wait to taste at some of them. we hiked through the wetness and mud and were basically covered in filth by the time we found a place under the tent.
the rain downpouring, our muddy feetsies and my disgusting sandals.
lambert's is usually my go-to, but i wasn't loving their wine this year. we ended up getting wine from forks of cheat winery and west-whitehill.
lindsay showing off our wine purchases.
forks of cheat's "bad cat" and west whitehill's vidal blanc.
we drank for a few hours and then decided it was time to head back to the hotel morgan. we took a pretty hefty nap and then headed out for dinner at black bear, where we sampled some of the concoctions from the west virginia inspired cocktails. i got the moonshine martini and lindsay got the blue hole margarita.
after dinner, we went to this new bar called rock top, which is a rooftop bar with two pools. it's pretty crazy for being in morgantown. as my friend ben said: "oh my god, that place should have its own free clinic...or penicillin dispenser."
they had a DJ named DJ marshall (his tagline was "crankin' it up and burnin' it down!") and it was apparently a "silver chalice party school trophy" party since WVU is back as the #1 party school. the DJ played the air horn sound about every 30 seconds which made us laugh/dance simultaneously.
rocktop's rooftop pools.
we got back to the hotel around 2:30am and promptly went to sleep. we got up in the morning and checked out and headed to the chinese buffet for a "goodbye, morgantown" lunch. if you want to feel terrible about yourself and your life choices, i highly recommend it. lindsay played some awesome music on the way home, and we got here around 2pm. she left about an hour and a half later, and i pretty much napped the day away after that.
september 6th, 2012 marks the momentous and glorious day that i had my very first iced pumpkin spice coffee from starbucks.
with fall being my favorite season, there's really no excuse to never have had one before, but i guess i just never really appreciated coffee before this year. so there's my way around the question "have you been living under a rock?"
fall is just around the corner and i want to drink this every day.
i've been wanting a deer head on my wall for quite some time now. not your traditional taxidermied deer head with glass eyes, but more a deer painted some funky color and covered in glitter. you know...how nature intended.
i have put together some of my favorite deer head items from the interwebs.
one: deer head silhouette 8x10 wall art, $15 two: iron wall deer face, $90 three: chevron pillow with deer head, $30 four: faux deer head in mint green with glitter, $170 five: rope wrapped deer head six: deer head ring in antique gold, $35
