Stuff

i have been popping into my scraproom during all my free little moments lately. all i have been working on is miss ella's book. why is is that baby girls are the funnest thing to scrap. god help me if i have a son.

i have also been poking around blogs and checking out sketches. i think i have followed a sketch once in my whole scrap life. however, in the last week, i have kinda used three of em. they definately help give direction and jumpstart the scrapping process.

here's a sketch from the Sassafras blog that i chekced out.



here's what i came up with:




Title: A mother's love is like nothing else in the world it knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. Agatha Christie.

I am working on a sketch from Studio Calico now and will post it soon.

Here are a few other layouts that i've created recently.




Title: Already
Journaling: They already love you. They are already hooked. They already know you are meant to be here. They are already asking lots of questions about you. They already want to hug and kiss on you. They are already calling you their baby sister. You have only been in this big world for 30 minutes and still, they already know that you belong to them, always.




Title: where there is love there is life.
Journaling: your first moments with your parents after you were born. 2/24/11




Title: Meeting Ella
Journaling: It is amazing the joy, love, and happiness a new baby brings to a family. Your birth was no exception. MiMi, Pops, Nana, Daddy, Hayden, Madelyn, Maw Maw Ethel, Aunt Kathy, nannie, and Paran were all at the hospital when you were born. All of our hearts grew a little bit bigger when we met you. You are a very loved little girl.

even though i've gotten a lot of layouts done lately i haven't felt super creative. you know that great feeling you get when you feel like you are oozing all over with inspiration. i brought some stuff to the store today to work on so i am hoping the oozing begins soon.

happy happy thursday!
hope it's blessed.

ash

Dreaming...

Lately...

i have been dreaming about home decor.

i have been checking home decor blogs.

i have been reading home decor magazines.

i am surrounding myslef in home decor inspiration.

this is quite the tease for me because, we are renting right now. don't get me wrong, i love our apartment. i am in no rush to pick out a house. it's just hard when you rent because you can't paint. and, we dont wanna go buying tons of furniture to make the apartment look like we want when we know it is only short term and when we get a house i am gonna want all new stuff and we will have different needs.

so anyways, i am going to share some home decor inspiration that i have been storing in my folder on the puter. i have all these amazing images stored away ready to come to life when we get our home.



love all the white. love the mirror. love all of the different chairs. love how un-put together it all is.




obsessed with collage walls right now. here are just a couple. i am collecting b's and trying to find some number 2's. have to re-create one like this. have to.



gotta love the little clotheslines of inspiration. love.



oh god. swoon. seriously. i love vintage luggage. i have a bunch of pieces now. but i will never have enough. i want stacks in every room.

well there are just a few photos.

i don't think my heart can take much more.

i could go decorating crazee.

i so wish i could have my way with that apartment.

happy friday!
ash

A few new things

Lately...all i want to do is scrapbook. guess i'm in need of some serious therapy lately that's all. hehe! Here is a frame that i created as a donation for our local university, Nicholls.



i really like the way it came out and did not want to give it away.

i have also been working lots on my new godchild ella's little book. i usually give the kiddos their scrapbook of their first year of life for their first birthday. i am trying to keep up with hers so that i am not starting on 6 months old the week before the party.

here are a couple of layouts for that book.




No the title is not egg. That's her initials. Ella Grace Guidry.




Title: And then there were five.

Hoping to get lots more scrapping done this week and weekend. I've been trying to popp into my scraproom during the few litte spare moments that I have been having.

Hope your day is beautiful.

I wanna say Happy birthday to my baby bro Copeland. He is such an amazing person with such a good heart. He is strong, loyal, determined, hardworking, sweet, and so many more things. I admire him and love him more than he will ever realize. I miss him tons too!

I'm so proud of the person he is!



Happy Birthday Cope! I love so freakin much. Hope it's a perfect day. You deserve it!

Ash

Some Wedding Goodness

As most of you know, I got married on December 4th of last year. Umm I hope you are clapping because that deserves a round of applause. HUGE accomplishment. Lol. Anyways. Lots of folks have been asking to see some wedding pics. I will share a few of my favorites periodically on the blog. Today, I will show you some from the preparation process.






Getting my hair did.





Tiff showing my mom where the hairpiece and veil go before she headed out.



Mom needed some comfort. The veil was too much for her to handle. Love that bout her.



Time for some grub.



They all wore whatever shoes they wanted. Like them, they were all very different.



Taking time to look at old photos and reminisce.



Checking out the ceremony area. It was all becoming a little real to me and my heart was beginning to get very full, my belly very nervous, and my head very cloudy.



The best part about the prep of the wedding was that the day was very relaxed. We had lots of time to talk, laugh, and soak it all up. I can't help but almost wanna cry now thinking about how I was thinking, "Man, I hope I don't lose this once I'm married." Those girls are very very important to me and almost all have been since the age of 5. I wouldn't have shared the day with anyone else.



This photo has a little place in my heart. Two years ago, when I got that tatoo, it was symbolic of a very trying and hard time in my life. It was a declaration that things had to CHANGE. Now, I sit, two years later with it on my foot on the day that I will marry my best friend. It makes me realize how quickly God changed the mess into a masterpiece.



A lot on the brain. Can't you tell?



Kasi and Jess behind me like they had been the whole year. They definately had my back.



More Laughs :)



Surrounded by three of the people that held me together that year.



There she is. Adding the finishing touches, picking up the pieces, pulling me together. That's where she has been my entire life. Loving me and supporting me so fully. No matter what. No matter who I had become. Even if she didn't like it. She has loved me and made me and taught me oh so much. There is no way to explain my love for her.



There she is. Kasi. My cousin but so much more like my sister. She provided me with something borrowed. Which is funny. I feel like she was my something borrowed all year. I feel like I borrowed her from her family all year. She was sooooooo there for me. She just listened. No judgment. No criticism. She watched me grow. She helped ease the growing pains. She told me she went through lots of the same. She's amazing. She has become so necessary in my life. We have become so close. Love her so much!



Everything was getting much more real for me at this point. They were still laughing and chatting. My heart was beginning to race.

Okay so there are a few from the prep process.

All photos are by Mr. Clint Shuttlesworth out of Houston, Texas. You can check him out at www.clintdoesablog.com or www.clinttakesphotos.com. He's amazing.

Sorry I was so mushy gushy today but, hey, it was a wedding that's how they are.

Hope your weekend is totally blessed. I know mine will be. I have great plans.

Happy Friday.

Ash

Browsing...

So, I have been fighting a little health issue these past couple of days. I am so uncomfortable that all I have been doing is sitting around and watching tv and browsing the internet.

I'm not exactly floating in the dough right now, so, it is big trouble for me to be on the net looking at spring fashion. I am definately a fan of winter but spring clothing is fun too. I found so many things that I want to put on a little wishlist and hope that someone decides to fulfill it. Hey! A girl can dream right. Here's what is making me drool for spring.

Anthropologie:







Jessica Simpson:






I found tons of stuff from Urban that I wanted to post but the pics were too small.

All i know is that my huge butt better get in the gym to even be able to look half decent in spring attire. :) Hoping to get a good run in this afternoon.

In other news: I got a new car yesterday. Yes, I have to post about that because if you would see the beast that I have been driving the past 7years, you would understand how absolutely exciting, astonishing, and amazing a new car is to me. Shane took me to the dealership yesterday and I was able to get a brand new white sentra.

I had a sentra for my first car that I absolutely loved. However, while I was on a beach vacay with my podnas the summer after my senior year, I got home, and my dad told me he sold my sentra because he got an amazing deal on a ford taurus. Let's just say the car barely ran then and nothing much changed for the 7 years that I drove it. Let me say that I am very thankful for my parents getting me a car and that I was blessed enough to have a car at a young age. However, the Taurus was a special piece. There were times when it would buck, make noises unheard of to the human ear, and even catch on fire, yes people, fire..more than once. So, a couple of weeks ago it decided to take its last breath and Shane and I knew that we just had to get something new.

I am so excited driving the sentra. Having air conditioner in your car is such a luxury. It is so nice not to be sweating like a pig while cruising to work. If air conditioner is a luxury, you can only imagine my reaction when they showed me the ipod hookup. HECK YEAH! So, thanks to the boo so very much for the amazing new car. I love love love it.

Well, I guess that's all for now. I am hoping to be feeling up to doing a lil scrapping tonite. The good Lord is healing this little medical issue so I really wanna get in my scraproom after the gym.

Happy Tuesday to you all!
Ash

Lately...

Hey guys. I have definately not been a loyal blogger lately. So sorry. I have been busy with Scrapfest. We took the store. And, busy just trying to get the store unpacked and back to normal.

I have also been in quite a weird funk lately. I don't mean a sad, depressed funk. Not like that. So, don't worry. I just mean a tired, lazy, no energy kind of funk. I feel like I absolutely can not get enough sleep. When I am awake, I am dying to get home to take a nap. It's really weird. I am usually not like this at all. I usually stay awake till the wee morning hours and then run on very little sleep.

Don't know what the deal is. I haven't seen the gym in almost two weeks. Haven't been eating much. When I do, I'm not eating well that's for sure. Lots of cereal. I don't even want Pepsi lately. For anyone who knows me at all, I AM OBSESSED with Pepsi. I have to have at least one a day. I haven't been wanting or drinking much Pepsi at all.

Like I said, this is very weird. I really want to snap out of it because I haven't been very productive. I needa get my butt back into a workout regamin. I also need to start getting more done around the house. I needa cook too. I just needa WAKE UP. I don't get it. I am usually not like this at all.

Oh, and just because I know this will be ur first thought, I AM NOT PREGNANT. Just throwing that out there.

I dunno I am just not enjoying being so tired at all. I want to feel like my normal self again. WAKE UP ASH!

Well, I know this post was not very interesting but I just wanted to share. Talk to you guys soon.

Hope your day is blessed!
Ash

New Creations!

Here are a couple of new creations using some new product from the store.

Welcome Ella Grace:



She:



Luckily I have had some scrapping time. I hope to have more tonite!

See ya soon!
Ash