Cheers to 2012!

Happy New Years!  I hope everyone has the best NYE night and celebrates with a lot of glitter, sparkles, and champagne!!!  Thank you for making 2011 a fun blog year for me! Cheers to 2012! :)

{DIY Gold Dipped Glassware}

Instagram Link Party {20}

Hi Friends!  I hope you had an amazing holiday!! I sure did... currently writing this from my brand new iPad :) :) :) ... but am going to update when I get back to Philly and can use my real computer!  Just wanted to get this up just in case you were blogging and had photos to link up!  The link list will be up all week... can't wait to see your holiday photos! xxoo, ashley

**updated with my favorite new ornament :) thanks for reading my blog, Santa!

 

Merry Christmas!

Merry, Merry Christmas to my family, friends, and blog readers!  I hope you have a great day celebrating with your families and loved ones... and that your day is full of holiday cheer!  xxoo!

 

Friday's Fancies: {White Christmas / Spring Green}

It's the Friday before Christmas and I am home at my parent house in Kentucky!  It is not white outside in this part of the country... but I can dream that I will wake up on Christmas morning and there will be snow on the ground!  Too bad we aren't in Cleveland anymore, you could almost guarantee a white Christmas there, every year! But... even with the temps in the high 40's, I couldn't help but join in on {av}'s Friday's Fancies fun and create my own white Christmas inspiration... except when I was browsing for inspiration, it kind of turned into a white and green post... I mean a spring green post! :) Happy almost Christmas, I mean, Spring... well, I guess I really mean, happy almost spring clothes arriving in the stores, but it's still way too cold to wear them!!! xxoo.

{madewell Spring 12 look book}

I'll take one of each please!! :)

Beach Memories

For Christmas, my mom and her siblings put together an amazing scrapbook of beach photos dating back to the 60's for my Grandma!  (Shoot... I really hope this isn't the day my Mama learns how to get on the internet to read my blog ;) Since I helped them beautify the book right before printing, I was able to get a sneak peak at all of the photos and letters they included in the book!  Here are a few of my favorites! :)

Holiday Cheer for a little Wednesday Pick-Me-Up!!

Happy Wednesday!  I have been looking forward to this day for weeks because I finally get to hang out with my boy after his last final of the semester - stress free!  We are celebrating Christmas together tonight before we both head home (in different directions) to see our families tomorrow!  I absolutely can't wait to give him his stocking... I think he might love it :)  His other gifts are wonderful too.. but there is just something about that stocking I am obsessed with!  Oh... and only 4 more days until Christmas - which means only 4 more days of crazy holiday posts in the blog world until we all change our focus and start blogging about SPRING!! ;) xxoo!

Happy Holidays from Free People

Instagram: Christmas Wrapping

Hi Friends! I am going to be quick today because I am super sick :(  ...but wanted to post an instagram photo for the week!  6 days until Christmas and I am ready!! My gifts are wrapped, shipped, and ready to give! I was going to do a little gift wrapping inspiration post along with my photo today, but since I am under the weather... here are my pinterest boards for {holiday cheer} and {gift wrapping}!  Hope you have a fabulous last week before a few days off with your families (or more... if you are lucky)! xxoo.

 

Happy Weekend!

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!  The last one before Christmas - crazzzzinessss!  :)  Saw this {image} on pinterest tonight and I think my feet perked up a little bit ;)!  Oh, what I would do to wear these just one time! xxoo.

Holiday Nails

I saw these manicure photos on {love Maegan} and fell in love - not sure if it is because of the sparkles on her nails... or those sparkly rings on her fingers!! Either way... I think I am going to pull out the glitter nail polish this weekend!  xxoo!

images {via}

Stocking Stuffers - My favorite! :)

Stockings are my favorite thing about Christmas morning!  I am not sure why... maybe I like the mystery of what I am going to pull out next... or maybe it is because Santa does an amazing job stuffing my stocking with useful small gifts, beauty essentials, gift cards, candy and lottery tickets! Below are some fun things I wouldn't mind receiving in my stocking this year! ;)  PS. magnetic lenses for the iPhone... you have got to be kidding me - AMAZING!  ...and leopard happy socks (not shown but link below)...  I'm obsessed :)  xxoo.

{iPhone Lenses} {Leopard Ornament} {Spike the Punch Necklace} {Scales iPhone Case} {Hand Cream Bouquet}   

{Philosophy Bubble Bath} {Happy Socks} {Dress up Band-aids}  {Benetint} {Erasable Frixion Pens}  

{EOS Lip Balm} {Deborah Lippman Nailpolish} 

Ladybird Giveaway Winners! Congrats!

Congratulations to the two winners of the Ladybird initial pendants!  Please email me with your choice of letter in gold or silver and your address! :) Happy Holidays! xxoo.

To purchase a pendant of your own (or for a gift) click {here}!