Spreading some love...

I was watching Celebrity Apprentice earlier today while doing some work.

Next thing I knew I had spent the last 30 minutes reading the Wikipedia page about Illusionist Penn Jillette and google image searching Lisa Rinna's lips.

This then lead to 30 minutes of google image searching what Lisa Rinna looked like in the 80's and reading more about Penn Jillette's atheist beliefs.

Needless to say that I am a little bit behind on my to-do list today.

I am still trying to catch up with some missed blog posts this past weekend so I can complete the 'Story of My Life' blog challenge.

Saturday - Favorite quote (from a person, from a book, etc) and why you love it

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I love this quote (as well as this artist) so much and think that it is such a beautiful reminder that there is always good present in bad situations. Most of us forget that and it is always good to be reminded :)

Sunday - Publicly profess your love and devotion for a blogger.

One of my favorite blogs is 'Life of Bon.' Bonnie is hilarious, seems like a really great person and does a lot of fun things on her blog 

(that is if you are like me and consider having a book club on your blog to be fun).

Bonnie likes to create corpses in the high school English classes she teaches, paints her living room walls bright green and has a pretty funny husband.

So you should definitely check her out.

Alright everyone, I have a lot of guacamole and wine to drink. My husband just finished up his third law school final (only one to go) and we need to celebrate!

~ With Love, Ashlee ~

What Makes Me Uncomfortable...

This weekend I was supposed to participate in the highly anticipated Indie South Fair in Athens, GA. Lots of rain, strong wind and chilly weather ended up making this a no-go for me. 

I sat with my husband in the parking lot of the craft show, after driving 1.5 hours in the rain, debating on whether or not we should set up. After about 40 minutes of talking, walking around to look at other vendor's set-ups and checking out how wet people's wares was getting, we decided to head back to Atlanta. 

It was a painful decision to make because so much preparation went into it, but in the end it was the right decision. We just couldn't risk ruining all of my inventory with the sideways rain and sudden wind gusts.

I drowned my 'too windy and rainy to set up at the craft show' blues with a glass of wine, a Chocolove bar and some pizza on Saturday and woke up yesterday with some sort of weird sodium hang-over. After not eating processed foods for a few weeks, a pizza really threw my body out of whack but gosh darn it, it was so delicious.

I am looking forward to another show this weekend and I now have a looooot of awesome new items to stock in retail places as well as on etsy. I am going to be taking photos all week of all the new items that I made and will be adding them in my etsy store throughout the week!

Here's to looking at silver linings!

With the weekend, I got a bit lazy on my blogging everyday in May challenge hosted by 'Story of My Life.' So here are of the things that I missed....

Friday - Things that make you uncomfortable

1/ Applying makeup to my face and lips. 

I totally got the eyes down and think that I do a fabulous job on them, but if I feel the need to apply concealer, foundation or lipstick, I come out looking like this....

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 2/ Having to walk through a crowded restaurant where the tables are super close together. 

I always, always seem to hit people's heads/shoulders with my hips and butt when I am trying to navigate a crowded restaurant. 

I need whiskers on my hips because I always knock them into people/things. 

3/ Any kind of circus act.  

Just thinking about Cirque de Soleil makes me nauseous.  

Trapezee acts, knife throwing, contorchonists, motorcycles jumping through flaming hoops. 

I hate all of it.

I am certain that everyone is going to die that is in the circus and I am have to sit there and witness their death. 

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 4/ Going to bed without socks on. I needs them on my feet to go to sleep and it just feels weird if I don't have any on. 

5/ Talking to strangers about my business. It seems like a small business owner should be able to talk to anyone/everyone about what they do, but I still get a little embarrassed and uncomfortable when I talk to someone in person about what I do. 

Email/blog/etsy - I am just fine, craft show - ahhhhhhh!

That's all I got for now. Any of these make you uncomfortable?

 

~ With Love, Ashlee ~   

PS... I finally figured out what was wrong with my email subscription link and bloglovin' feed. So if you tried to sign up in the past to get my posts delivered via email, you need to do it again because it didn't work the first time around. You will find the email subscription link on the right side of my blog, underneath my photo. 

 Also, my Bloglovin' is up and running, so follow me on there since Google Reader is saying good-bye!

My Expert Advice...

For the month of May, I am participating in the challenge proposed by the 'Story of My Life' blog. She wants us to blog everyday in May and gives us a topic for each day.

Today, I am supposed to give you all expert advice on something that I am knowledgeable about and I figured that there is nothing that I know best than how to be a good puppy mommy.

So here are all my top five tips for you puppy moms or expectant puppy mommy's.

1/ Make him do constant photo shoots when he clearly doesn't want to. He will thank you later for the adorable photos.

You get extra brownie points if you can incorporate costumes.

 

 

 

2/ Whenever he gives you this face....

give him whatever the hell he wants. 

That's just plain adorable.

3/ Let him give you puppy kisses whenever he wants.

 

4/ Be strict with rules like 'no puppies on the furniture' and 'no begging.'

5/ Take plenty of walks. 

Lots of walks with lots of sticks and lots of friends along the way.

So there are my five tips for you coming from me, clearly an expert. 

Also, I did just do a blog post with 19 photos of my dog. That's how I roll.

~ With Love, Ashlee ~

My Life in 250 words or less ...

Born on ‘Christmas Adam’ in the Sunshine State. 

Won ‘Most Beautiful Baby’ award in a beauty pageant at age 1. 

Moved to Colorful Colorado. 

Lived in purple cowboy boots, oversized promotional liquor t-shirts and leggings. 

 

Spent hours combing my great grandfathers hair and eating the abundance of zucchini my great grandmother fed me. 

Painted everything that I could find with puffy paint. 

Decided that I wanted to be a multi-million dollar actress. 

Gave everyone handmade pot holders for Christmas. 

Got some bad haircuts. 

 

Wore tie dye overalls to middle school and lived to tell about it. 

Got grounded for spreading glitter over every inch of my mom’s house while making her a scrapbook. 

 

Wore red and khaki thanks to Target.

Went to college and discovered Indian food. And knitting. 

Never. Stopped. Knitting. 

Had a handsome stranger waddle over to me during a college basketball game. 

 

Became best friends with this handsome stranger and shared many late nights together which included Monopoly, bowls of mixed nuts and lots of laughing. 

Went to Africa for three months and started to realize how much more my best friend was than just a best friend. 

Best friend became boyfriend. 

 

Moved across country with boyfriend. Boyfriend became fiancée after a proposal on our air mattress.

 

Started selling jewelry on etsy on a whim as a fun project.

Fiancée became husband. 

I became self-employed with ‘My Sweet Nomsa.'

We became Southerners and adopted a black lab puppy. 

 

Law school for him, blooming business for me. 

I am joining up with 'Story of My Life' to blog everyday in May. 

Today's topic was to write about your life story in 250 words or less (mine is 249 if you are counting).