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Hey Everyone! Can’t wait to see you all on the 12th! I wanted to make a place for people to sign up for food they are bringing so we don’t have repeats. First come first serve! Oh, and if someone won’t have time to “make” anything then you could always chip in $5 for the turkey budget 
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Have a spooky and fun holiday
I’m all signed up and ready to go! Can’t wait to get my craft on
I’m super excited that OLOL’s Smilebooth will be there too. Going to be SO. MUCH. FUN.
I have a shoot coming up and I’ve been thinking location, props, etc… and it got me thinking about giant balloons. Are they over-used at this point? Or if cleverly placed, are they still ok?
So what do you guys think?
I’ll see if I end up using them or not… I have to locate them too – I don’t think they sell the large ones just anywhere. Anyway.. I’m off! Happy Thursday everyone
~~ Ashley
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A small sample from a trip this past weekend near Boone NC…
We didn’t have internet last night at our bed and breakfast so I was sort of stuck on the blogging front. But to sum up the day – we started out by picking up the car at the airport. I’ll admit I was a little scared of driving but it turned out not to be as bad as I thought it was going to be. It’s still a little weird to drive on the left – and have the stick on the left… but all in all I got it pretty quick (Joey did have to occasionally remind me on the smaller roads to “get on the left!”. Anyway – we got a late start and started driving down to Alnwick to see the castle there. We took a road than ran along the coastline and it was beautiful. We stopped for a long lunch in a tiny village which put us into Alwick with only an hour to run through the castle. While it was really pretty (and well kept) we were a little disappointed that the “Harry Potter” bit wasn’t pushed more (but can we blame them? The castle was built in the 12th century… Harry Potter was filmed in 2001).
We drove the rest of the evening to our B&B in a little medieval town called Hexham. The house we stayed in was HUGE and gorgeous and had only two rooms for guests. We ate the most delicious Indian food and went back to the B&B to sleep. Unfortunately between my sudden allergic reaction to Britain and the B&B owner’s son playing his music overhead from 3am till 7am – I got almost no sleep 
And Joey was up because I had to keep getting up and blowing my nose so often.
My laptop is about to die so I have to go… But I’ll be sure and update what happened today tomorrow… I know Confusing.
Today we took a tour of the highlands (or lowlands should I say… Scotland is actually quite huge). Our guide was a true Scott – very patriotic about his country and it’s history. I think the passengers on the bus were afraid he was going to run off the road several times with all his pounding on the dash and waving at the map of Scotland pinned onto the ceiling of the bus.
All in all – we saw some of the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever scene… and I understand it gets better as you go farther north. We visited three castles and saw several lochs (lakes) and mountains. Joey remarked that it’s like people up and moved out leaving everything behind hundreds of years ago – I would agree with that one. It feels totally free and wild
Hello! My name is Ashley and I'm a graphic designer/art enthusiast in Atlanta. This little corner of the web is dedicated to my musings on art, design, and different projects around the house from painting furniture to fabric shopping. Thank you so much for visiting! Enjoy!
