i'm in love

Blog love, that is. I'm not quite sure how I stumbled upon it. Ya know how one click leads to another...and another. And before you know it you've found yourself somewhere new and delightful?

Well I recently stumbled upon this blog:

I love the way she writes. You read it and feel like you know her. Or like you want to know her.

Reading her posts, almost makes me want to live on a farm. Almost. I don't know what I'd do if Target wasn't just a hop, skip, and a jump from my door step.

Anyways, you get the idea. I'm really diggin' her blog right now. Check it out.

p.s. I totally got out of day 10 of the organization challenge because I don't have a laundry room. Sad face for my lack of washer and dryer, but happy face that I get another lazy day :)

under construction

I'm currently working on making the blog purdy and cool.  

Please bear with the ugliness as I try to figure this all out. 

See that pretty new signature below? 

Yea, I made that :)

Hello, my name's Ashley...

....and I'm a blog-a-holic. It's true.

I think it's partly because I inherited some of my moms voyeurism and partly because there are so many cool ideas out there in the blog-o-sphere. 

Frank probably thinks I'm crazy because since I've gotten into reading blogs I have become a weekly frequenter of Goodwill for trash to treasures and the Dollar Tree for thrifty craft supplies. 

I thought I'd share what I'm reading and where I get my inspiration. Here is a list of what's on my Google Reader. 

If you are into reading blogs, definitely set up a Google Reader account, it helps you keep everything in one spot and keep track of what posts you've read and what's new. You can also get it on your phone so you have reading material anywhere and everywhere (...waiting in line, on the toilet....). 

I do a lot of my blog reading on my phone, one handed, while I'm feeding little man at 4:30am. What did I ever do without a smart phone?

Anyways onto the list of blogs I <3 : 

A bowl full of lemons.

Craftily Ever After

Creative Home Expressions

Fingerprints on the Fridge

from the nato's

giverslog

House of Hepworths "hoh"

In Between Laundry

It's A Priceless Life

Mod Podge Rocks!

On the V Side

tatertots & jello

the anderson crew

The Shabby Chic Cottage

whatever

Wholesome Baby Food

Young House Love (My absolute favorite!)

See? I wasn't kidding. :) Happy Reading.

xoxo,

Ash

The Importance of Blogging

Jami at from the nato's really summed it up well in a recent post. 

There are many reasons for blogging, and I'll list hers and add a few of my own.

1. It records YOUR history. There are so many little things that happen or that you do that you forget. Blogging is the modern day journal.

2. Keeps family and friends up to date on what you and yours have been up to.

3. It's yet another forum for bragging about your kid and how cute they look in their Christmas best... or picking their nose.

4. It challenges you creatively. You have to come up with something interesting to talk about, or make something mundane sound interesting.

5. It challenges you intellectually. You have to use dat der vocabulary you've picked up along the way, and hopefully add to it. And sentences. Yes, you get to practice forming sentences.

Go ahead, start a blog, ya know you wanna. All the cool kids are doing it.

xoxo,

Ash

Here we go again!

Well, I did a little blogging while I was pregnant with little man. Although I must admit using the word "blog" to describe it is a being rather generous. It mostly consisted of weekly updates via survey format of how me and the bambino were getting along. Ya know wonderful tidbits about the amazingness that is my cervix or how many god forsaken times I had to wake up and pee every night, that kind of thing. Good stuff.

Well don't get the wrong idea, I plan to do just as much over sharing this go around and talk about my kid till I'm blue in the face because he is my all time favorite topic and the kid has a good firm grip on my brain these days.

I also plan to write about my crafting/decorating/DIY adventures as this is my latest hobby. 

Excuse the ugly format until I can pretty it up after the little man is fast asleep tonight. Hence the name of the blog. It's not so easy to crank out a blog post when he's digging his claws into my arms (his awful mother is too terrified to clip his nails on a regular basis) or pulling on  my hair - hell I've lost enough of that already thanks to lovely post-partum hair loss, I need to salvage all I can!

Until then...


xoxo,
Ash