My Etsy

Dear Baby…

Dear Baby, This has been an exciting week! I always worry that something has happened to you –that you’ve been hurt and are no longer growing quickly. I guess I already care about you and really hope I’ll get to meet you in a few months.  Last Friday, I had an appointment with my midwife. …

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A Long Overdue Shop Update.

It has been a long while since I’ve done an update on my Etsy shop. Partially because I was tired and sick for a few months (now you know why! yay! openness and honesty!) and partially because I am just. so. darn. busy. and crafting has taken a back burner (to things like freelance design …

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Elaborating on the Whole Baby Thing.

I always joked that the worst part of being pregnant someday would not be giving up alcohol, but giving up coffee. I. Love. Coffee. (I also joke that if my children are allergic to peanuts, I’d give them away before I’d give up peanut butter.) Well, my friends, it has been 61 days since I …

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Birthdays and Other Excitement.

I met Mike on September 11th, 2004 – eleven days after his twenty-fourth birthday. On his twenty-fifth birthday, I fixed him a stir-fry dinner picnic in the basement of my house in college. I made him a scrapbook and told him I loved him for the first time (in the middle of fight. But still.) …

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Ashley Starts Budgeting | The (Totally Awesome) Plan

First! Check out my hard work this weekend – I’m in the progress of redesigning this little  blog and am unreasonably proud of the new menu bar I created. It took days – but I finally got it looking exactly as I’d imagined. Roll your mouse over the links and see how fun it …

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Ashley Goes Back to School.

Last night I started a new class – Web Publishing – HTML 1.

It’s inconveniently located near neither work nor home, I got lost in the building for 20 minutes the first day, I won’t get home until 9:45 two nights a week for the next three months.

Do you understand that I’m usually in …

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