Of chais and birthday photos

So I'm sitting here drinking the saddest chai ever and I feel the need to post a blog. 

Why is this the saddest chai?? Well I went to starbucks this morning before class with my birthday-giftcard in hand and ordered a nonfat chai... I didnt drink it until I got to school and turns out its just all steamed milk, no chai. But I want something warm to drink so I'm still drinking it... but I think I'm just going to throw it out. Yeah. That sounds like a good plan, its not worth the calories... 

Basically this is just going to be a photo-dump of my birthday weekend. 

We went to the Blue Talon Bistro for my birthday lunch with Aric's family! Yum! If you're ever in Williamsburg, VA I highly suggest eating there. Its my all time favorite place to eat! Yay French food. 

Chocolates! We always go to this candy store. Aric got licorice (I'm not a fan...), and I got dark chocolate blueberry clusters. Yummy! 

Pretty pretty buildings. 

A didgeridoo! I love those! 

Me and the always-dreamy Thomas Jefferson. My neck is doing something weird, but I like this picture anyway. 

Pretty sky on my birthday morning! 

Carrabbas with my family drinking a sangria! It was super tasty. Blackberries and oranges. Yummy! 

Aric and I looking thug. What's new?

Okay, well I'll post again later probably with pictures of my bridal shower this weekend! 

What are you guys doing this weekend?

Xoxoxoxo

Birthday, Autumn, and Weddings, Oh My!

Good morning world! 

Well, its been a while. I feel like all my blog posts start out like that... ugh. 

I kinda fail at this whole keeping on a schedule thing.

Its getting to be fall, which makes me super happy. It makes me want to go make candied apples and wear  rust and purple like nonstop. The weather is still kinda icky in the upper 80s and pretty humid. Ick ick ick! Its kinda a bummer since my closet is filling up with all these pretty autumny/wintery clothes and I try to wear them and then am constantly over heated. Not fun... I don't do shorts or tank tops and I try to even avoid bare legs or t-shirts whenever possible, so hot weather isn't my fave, if you couldn't tell. 

Yesterday I turned 21! I had a lot of fun. I went out to dinner with my mom, her bff (who is basically my aunt!), her 11 year old son, and Aric. We went to Carabbas which is like one of my favorite place ever. I'm trying to go carb-less, but... I started drinking the blackberry sangria I ordered (Oh yum!!!! blackberries + oranges + red wine = yes.)  but I hadn't eaten much all day so I didn't feel very good, so I had a little bread. And then soup. And then a salad. It was a wonderful dinner! We brought cupcakes along so I had one of those because.... well... it was my birthday. So back on the carb-less horse today! 

I got lots of fun presents from everyone! Aric got me wine, hello kitty jammies, and a GIANT bell jar! (I'm obsessed with bell jars...)

Mommy and Dad got me what felt like a billion things, two amazing dresses (I'm going to wear one for the rehearsal dinner!), and two super pretty pairs of boots! I was so excited. Starting... in about a week and a half I ONLY wear boots until mid-spring. They're my favorite! I'll share some pictures later! 

This month is SO busy for us. Gosh... This past weekend was my birthday, this coming weekend is my bridal shower, the weekend after that Mom and I are going apple picking (!!!), the weekend after that is my bachelorette party, and then the weekend after that is the wedding! The wedding totally crept up on me. I can't believe its here already! In 26 days I'm going to be married! Woah! 

Now I'm going to leave you for something cute! 

We started letting Abby out on the deck because... well... her little legs are too short for her to jump over the fence, so we're safe! She loves the outside. Its become a ritual. We get up and take her outside early every morning and drink our coffee on the porch swing with her. Its kinda my favorite!

~xoxoxoxoxoxo~ 

Ash

Face of the day//I have the coolest friends.

Seriously, I do have the coolest friends. I feel like I always go on adventures when I'm with them! Mostly because I do. 

Yesterday I went with my friend Ashley to go take some photos and adventure around. We ended up at this.. well... I don't really know what it was, but its by a railroad and is pretty darn cool. Here's some of my favorite photos of the day! 

FACE OF THE DAY!

So today I woke up seriously wanting to be like the person version of Hello Kitty and here's what happened! 

Eyeshadow:

Polyester Bride-Urban Decay

All others: Icing eyeshadow pallet

Lipstick:

Red liner with revlon light icy pink over top. 

Now off to teach my childrens and draw some more! 

xoxoxoxo

Theatre camp is over, and thus begins Animation camp. 

Its kinda scary because we're almost halfway through the first of two weeks of camp which means that the three next big things in my life after this is over is approaching verrrrry quickly. Those being 1) school starting back up (taking two animation classes this semester!! yes!!), 2) Birthday weekend/moving Aric into the apartment, 3)Wedding!!

Woaaaah. Married soon. 

But yeah yay Animation camp! It just means I have a lot of time to draw! Case and point, yesterday's finished project:

Mermaid!! 

Anyway... that's all for now. Enjoy some art haha. 

xoxoxoxo

Ash

I am SO tired right now its a little stupid. 

I'm not much of a "stay-out-late" person... mostly because I wake up at 5:45am so the last few nights have been rough since I've been staying out with friends/coworkers after we get out of rehearsals at 10:00pm. I've been getting home at like 12 or later. Sooo darn tired. 

I colored my hair on tuesday, its a super bright red and I'm kinda loving it. I put orange highlights in the front, but since its the same darkness as the rest of the red you can basically only tell its a different color, not that they're highlights. People keep asking me about it and saying they like it though, so thats a good sign, right?

Before:

sad naturalish weird red-brown

annnd after:

fun! (see the random orange chunks?)

Also that ghastly tan I had has officially gone away. YES. Good thing I didn't buy new makeup... 

Also I've realized that I get married pretty darn soon. Something like 3 months and 2 days. Thats practically right around the corner. School starts in a month and a half and after that the days will fly by. Weird!!! Aric moves into our new apartment my birthday weekend, so that's only like two months away too. Straaaange! 

I think thats it for now! 

Bye kitties!!! 

xoxoxoxoxo

Ash

Happy 4th of July! 

I sit writing this in the theatre watching rehearsals of Seussical the Musical Jr. (the camp production this year) and listening to an insane storm outside. Yikes. Poor people wanting to watch fireworks.... hopefully it'll clear up in a bit! Our rehearsal goes until 10pm tonight so... no fireworks for us! Oh well. At least I'm with lots of people I like! Always a plus!! 

We did looooots of shopping for the house this weekend. We got a love seat and a AWESOME coffee table. I've never been the hugest coffee table fan, but oh my gosh I'm in love. Its an antique industrial cart used in factories the early 1900s, I don't have a picture of it on my computer and I don't have the cable for my camera, BUT its the same exact table as one at Restoration Hardware (for $700 more than we payed, mind you.) so... yeah I can show you their pro photo of it! 

Super cute, right??? Love it! Its heavy as an elephant but... whatever. Who really gives a darn. 

I've noticed I've become super un-clothes-shoppy lately, I think mostly because a) its summer and b) i hate summer clothes. Because of this I've decided to put some money away to get a new wardrobe for fall. I've been eyeing some pretty things and I've decided its more important for me to pay better money and have good quality stuff than to shop allllll the timeeeee. 

Alsoooo, I got a new pinkage wig, its long and black and amazing. In love. I'll post pictures of it soon for sure. 

What did you do this weekend??

xoxoxooxo

Ash

C.A.M.P. week 1//Furniture shopping

So last week was week one of camp. 

It was super fun, I love all my kids. I'm going to miss them in two weeks when this is over.... 

Buuuuut then I have two weeks of animation camp to take my mind off it.

I seriously never thought I would be teaching, much less teaching children. Weird. 

I have to say the time kinda flies by since I have camp all day and then come home and have like 3 hours before I go to bed. Its strange. 

MOVING ON!!

Aric and I got some furniture this weekend~ 

We got a mattress which I'll spare you pictures of because... well.... its a mattress. But yeah that was exciting. We also got a bed frame because as of right now we're going to do one of those just a box spring, mattress, and frame but with cool art as a headboard thingies. (Which I'm excited about!) So once we get that figured out I'll share pictures. We do already have our bedspread though, its white with ruffles I think its the "Shabby Chic" brand, we're going to pile the bed with black and grey (and maybe some red) pillows. I love pillows... 

We also got a dining room table! This is super exciting because its going to be serving as dining room table/desk since we have a two bedroom and need a studio space more than a living room/dining room. Yay! We got it at world marked (my fave!) for like... $189 because it normally has leafs to extend it but it didnt have them. Like we care... haha the table is kinda farmhouse-y which is exciting. I'm not entirely sure what our style is going to be. Kinda like rustic goth. Or... something like that. 

I can't find it online or I would share a picture. I'll take a picture once its like set up. Its a nice antique wood with like strange "x" shaped base. I loooove it. Now we just need chairs.... hum. 

What did you do this weekend lovelies? Off to get ready for camp!