The Original Ashley

1) I fear if my mother ever found this website, we would loose her to the internet forever... 2) Simple yet epic 3) Mmmmmmm..... Pronouns ..... 4) This has the making of the best pillow fight ever ! 5) Barbie Inspired Art 6) Oh my GOD I want this clock so bad! 7) I think I'd get these and just sit back and watch while people tried to figure it out! 8) This is brilliant! 9) I could eat a horse !

It is finally feeling like winter, and with it comes my desire to eat soup every lunch. And the best part is there are so many soups that you can never get tired of them!  Summer Squash and Corn Chowder Roasted Butternut Squash and Shallot Soup French Onion Soup Broccoli and Cheese Soup White Bean and Turkey Chili Tomato-Basil Soup Beef and Guinness Stew Chicken and Wild Rice Soup Coconut-Curry Chicken Soup

1) How to make the BEST hot chocolate 2) I love these personalized jewelry pieces on Etsy 3) Bet you didn't know I was a coin nut 4) Top 20 Tea Packaging 5) I would love these in my cupboard 6) Can you find Momo? 7) So you're telling me it's not just that I eat too much chocolate? 8) A list of the Worst Bridesmaids Dresses EVER 9) I don't even watch the show... I'm just putting this here for Christine and Marni

Don't worry about how slowly you feel you're heading to your dreams, or how many roadblocks you find, or detours you need to take, you're still cruising far ahead of everyone who's too afraid to even try. Karen Salmansohn

1) How to build a rainbow igloo 2) How to make your own confetti glasses 3) A Personal Branding infographic ! 4) This is my kind of restoration 5) Wow, look at the logo on the box ! It kills me! 6) 10 Lessons for young designers 7) Photoshop Cream !!! 8) Geek vs Hipster  - the infographic 9) The Flexita

it would be on this chess set.... from Design Milk

but I kind of had to.... If you don't get this reference, you are broken and I can't fix you...

So for Christmas, Santa dropped an extra present down the chimney for the whole family. It was an ice cream making extension for the kirkland mixer that holds its own permanent real estate on mom's counter. Now most people would take joy in this, and then put the gift into storage until the summer. Not my family. We don't let the winter weather effect how we eat. If we want BBQ, Dad rolls the grill up to the back door! So on the next sunday dinner, Mom prepared vanilla ice cream for dessert. It was something of a learning experience, while it tasted amazing it didn't really get very hard so it was more like eating a milkshake. We put it in the freezer and ate it properly on monday (I added sliced bananas!) Delicious! So now I'm o n the prowl for some new make-your-own ice cream recipes and guess what, the internet is FULL of them! Here are just a few I'm going to have to try and make! Key Lime Pie Lavender Tin Roof Salted Caramel

If you're not scared, you're not taking a chance. If you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing? - Ted Mosby

1) Split decision pie plate 2) Sexy Brochure idea 3) So pretty .... 4) I wish I knew more people who did fishing so I could do this for them 5) Such a good idea ! 6) How would you like your graphic designer (pick two) 7) 29 ways to stay creative 8) True Colours 9) This is and amazing calendar !

as in, I've had this flower for over a month and it's STILL ALIVE!!!!

2012: in summary This has been an amazing year, there is no other way to put it. So much has happened, so much has changed! So I felt it was fitting that my first post of 2013 should be a quick summary of the past year. At the very beginning of 2012, I went out on my second date with a guy I had met on eharmony, (Josh) and we decided that night that we had planned so many dates for the following months together that we might as well make it official and say that we were boyfriend/girlfriend. In March my brother found an apartment and we all helped him move out, the first of us to finally leave home and make it on our own. I remember on that day as we helped him set up his desk and book, Christian and I looked at each other and realized it was now a race to see who was next. Matt moved out, Christian moved into Matt’s old room and Dad turned Christian’s old room into his ‘Man Room’. Josh and I got two budgie’s together, named them Wade and Diana and they moved