America's Birthday and My Mom's Birthday

I was going to put this post and the spray paint post all together, but, decided against it. I thought it would be too much in one. I just wanted to share some pictures from the 4th of July and my mom's birthday party. It's not too exciting of pictures. We didn't stay for the fireworks at VMI and I started enjoying my white russians before I could take any more pictures of the party, but, I figured you guys might enjoy them just the same.

    This is Moody Hall at VMI with it's VMI flags flying.

Bubby enjoying his 4th :)

Maury Brooke Hall (New Science Building) and a Lexington City fire truck.

And this is my NAVY CAT!!!!! Isn't he cute!?! I got him from the build a bear knock off vendor at the 4th of July stuff :D. He's pretty much awesome in his NAVY whites :)

I only have a couple pictures from the party and let me explain our "patio". We had a car port in our yard from where we had had our two dogs Shilo and Milo who were strictly outside dogs. We had it over their kennel so that they could stay cool in the summer and keep the snow off of them in the winter. Anyways, they passed away a few years ago and we were trying to figure out what to do with the car port, so, we decided to make it a patio area. We just recently had the cement poured in it and it's actually a very pretty place now. And it definitely keeps us cool in the summer. We keep the grill out there and we now have a fire pt as well. And using the car pit was a whole lot cheaper than any other way of building a deck and having and/or not having a roof over top. With the roof, we can even still have our cookouts if it rains! Now, I'm ranting, on with the pictures!

As always, Sheba's in the middle of everything

One of our tiki torches. Haha, I just thought it was cool :P.

Another one of Sheba.

That's it for now. Hopefully, I'll get the spray paint adventures up tomorrow!!!

Treasury Tuesday: Wedding Weekend!!!!

It's a wedding weekend for this blogger :). I am going to be a bridesmaid!!! In honor of it being wedding weekend, I decided my Etsy Treasury was going to be a "White Wedding" theme. I love looking at wedding things. They're always just so pretty and feminine. The lace, the flowers, the rhinestones and all those pretty dresses.



I'm pretty sure my favorite piece is that white gold falling flower necklace. I'm really, really wanting it!

And yes, I was humming Billy Idol's White Wedding the whole time I was putting this together.

Anyways, that's all for this blogger for now. Stay tuned for a post about my mom's 50th birthday party, a couple pics from the 4th of July at VMI and our adventures with spray paint :).

Cute Animal Monday: Hello Bubby

I've put up pictures of Bubby before, but, never really described him. Here's another picture, for your viewing pleasure (try not to go into cuteness overload).

Bubby is a 6 year old black pomeranian. He's pretty popular in our town. People see my mom, they don't ask her how I'm doing, they ask how Bubby's doing. He's pretty much everyone's favorite dog (when he's not barking his head off). He's super tiny. Maybe a tad bit overweight haha. But, when we first brought him home, at 7 weeks, he could fit in the palm of your hand. Here's a picture of him when he was a baby.



I almost miss him being that small haha. Anyways, he's super spoiled. He's already small to begin with, which makes you want to love him, but he also was born with a bad leg. The vet thinks it was broken when he was coming out of the womb and no one could tell (since they couldn't walk) and it healed wrong. There is no fixing it unless we want to spend thousands upon thousands in surgery and even then it's not guaranteed. But, he's pretty well taken care of. He has a stroller so he can go on long walks, but, without walking too far. He gets worn out pretty quick. And, as you've seen in a previous post, he has a car seat so he can look out the window when we take him places. He's also very spoiled, because I'm an only child AND an only grandchild. My Nana (grandma) lives with us, so, they both spoil him pretty bad, since they don't have any other kids to baby haha.



I love this little pooch. He's so full of personality. Just his facial expressions alone say so much. And he's good at giving the stink eye! But, he loves us all. It breaks his heart if we even think of leaving the house without him haha.

Anyways, this last picture is kind of random, but, I had no where else to put it haha. It's a squirrel in our yard and he stole one of Bubby's biscuits.

Now I'm just the lazy blogger

Hey guys. Sorry I've been MIA...again...This time I wasn't very busy. Mostly just lazy haha. Plus, I do most of my blogging during my lunch break and I actually WAS busy at work. To the point where, I really didn't get many lunch breaks. Anyways, This post is going to be everything Harry Potter :). I absolutely love Harry Potter. It is literally one of my most favorite things on this planet! And the last movie comes out this weekend. I can't believe it. I have nothing else to look forward to...except going to Harry Potter World. It opened about 2 years after my friends and I went to Universal Studios :P.

With that being said here's my Harry Potter Etsy Treasury :)

If there's anything I like more than Harry Potter, it's people who make things ABOUT Harry Potter.

I'm also going to throw in my Cute Animal Monday (although, he's kind of a "so ugly, he's cute".

Voldemort Cat Finds a Home

I love this story. I think it's precious haha. And I love that he was adopted BECAUSE he looked like Voldemort :P.

I also have a peek at an upcoming knitting project :):

And last, but not least, the trailer for the last movie.

Awwww, I remember when I finished the last book. I was sitting in the Park Office. I had already finished working for that day, but, I was in a good part of the book and didn't want to stop to drive home. I was sitting in the dark and the security guard (thinking no one was there) walked in to see me literally bawling crying and he freaked out because he had no idea what was wrong with me hahaha. Oh, I miss the Park Office :). Well, that's all for this blogger. Hope everyone enjoyed! And I hope everyone enjoys the movie!!!!

I'll actually end you with this:


I lovvvvve this<3 haha.

Winner for Giveaway!!!

The winner of our giveaway is announced!!! Congratulations!!!!

More Info On the Giveaway

THIS GIVEAWAY CLOSED 7/2/2011

Hey guys! Ashley D's World Facebook Fan Page has officially hit 50 fans!!! These first 50 will get their name put in twice for the giveaway. BUT, the giveaway won't happen until we reach 250 fans!!! So tell everyone to like the page. I just put the link in this blog. Here it is again:

Ashley D's World Facebook Fan Page And it's also located just below the banner of this blog :)

Here's the 3 pieces of jewelry you'll get to choose from for the giveaway! They're all handmade by me and they all have a value of $35!







GOOD LUCK!!! And thank you all!!! :D

Works in Progress and a Giveaway!

Hey guys! So I can finally do at least one work in progress post. I have another one coming soon :). This one is that dagon blanket for the boy that I have been working on for over 2 years now!!!! I started it when I first started learning how to knit and kept taking breaks in-between. It's completely, entirely, hand knit and hand sewn by me. And I made the pattern. If you don't know what the VMI spider is (which is what the pattern is supposed to be), you can check out www.vmi.edu and there'll be a picture of it there :).



These aren't very good pictures, because I took them with my cell phone camera, but, there it is.



Oh so close, yet, so very, very far...*sigh*. I still have about 5 more rows to go. And to save myself from weaving in all those ends, I'm just going to knit a back haha. I have almost one fourth of the back taken care of. Definitely won't take as long as the front! (hopefully)

Anyways, on to the fun stuff! A GIVEAWAY!!!!!! I just started a facebook fan page for my blog and etsy page. In celebration I want to do a give away, however, there's a catch! I won't do the give away until I have 250 fans. The first 250 fans will be entered in the give away and the first 50 fans will get their names put in the pot TWICE!.

With that said, here's the link for my fan page:

Ashley D's World Facebook Fan Page

Get to recommending or there won't be a giveaway!!!! You can also find the link at the top of my blog just below the banner. Thanks in advance guys :).