Honfest 2009 : Day 2!

The Honfest fun continued on into Sunday evening with a dunk tank, belly dancers, fantastic music, food, drinks…and all the bubblegum in the world (story for another time)! Enjoy!!

The queen Hon! Quinn had a 6 foot tall cardboard Hon that she doodled made for the photobooth. Here she is!! Isn’t she lovely;)

And here is the fabulous doodler herself, Quinn of Quinnep Doodles. 

The belly dancers were unbelievable! 

After the belly dancers, the Hons took the stage for Bawlmer’s Best Hon Contest!

One of the runner ups! She was so excited!

Charlene is crowned Bawlmer’s Best Hon 2009!!

Denise Whiting (creator of honfest) and Charlene!

After Bawlmer’s Best Hon was crowned, Jaime and I headed over to the dunk tank to watch Denise Whiting and other’s get dropped into the ice cold dunk tank!

Denise in her fabulous swimming attire!

After Denise got dunked, we headed over to watch the Cold, Cold Heartbreakers perform! I found a family of Hons along the way! Hey Hons!

Hampden Jack!

Rodney Henry, getting down!

And last but not least, Boh! What would a Bohtimore festival be without him!!

 

** UPDATE** Click here to view Honfest gallery!

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Honfest 2009: Hey Hon! Day 1

Last weekend, I made my way back up to Maryland to join the rest of the fabulous gals that make up the blonde creative (Jaime Windon, Mk McKenna, & Quinn Peyser) to help photograph Honfest 2009! What is Honfest, you ask? HonFest is a local tradition in Baltimore. A Bawlmer (Baltimore for those of you that do not live in Maryland) term of endearment, Hon, short for Honey, embodies the warmth and affection bestowed upon our neighbors and visitors alike by historic working-women of Baltimore. HonFest is an annual celebration in honor of these women. The festival was created by Denise Whiting, owner of Cafe Hon and is definitely a highly anticipated event in the Hampden neighborhood in Bawlmer. People came from all over to attend this event, myself included! Here are a few of the images I was able to capture. Most of these are from the first day during the Lil Miss Hon and the Miss Honettes competitions! 

Little Miss Hon crowned!!

Miss Honette crowned!

Even the dogs got in on the action!

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Honfest 2009!!

i am excited to report that i am in maryland for the weekend to help celebrate and photograph honfest 2009.  we will also publicly launch the blonde creative! to find out more about this exciting festival and new artistic endeavor please follow the links to the sites below!!

honfest is an amazing festival that takes place on the streets of hampden – one of the most fabulous neighborhoods in baltimore! hampden is home to tons of inspiring artists and characters, and lots of just plain good people. the annual honfest is much more than a local tradition – it is truly an international craze! the classic baltimore (bawl-mer) term of endearment, hon (short for honey), is at the root of this exuberant celebration that honors the honest, hard-working, fun-loving women of baltimore. yeah hons!

this year i will be joining the blonde creative as we bring even more energy and excitement to the festival with an amazing booth featuring blonde photo, quinnep doodles, 5ringsphoto and mary kate mckenna photography! in addition to all sorts of surprises and fun, there will be raffles and giveaways, and a super-fun photo booth (complete with life sized hon- doodle!) to help capture the hon in everyone! 

more info to come soon – click here for more details – and we hope to see you there!

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