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What Could be Better than Fruit? Add Alcohol!

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Ashley| Leave a comment

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Hola folks, it’s true, I’m actually back again! Surprising, eh?

Today I want to share a fabulous summer drink recipe that I could honestly drink all day erryday. Especially right in the middle of this sweaty summer.

It all started with these two posts my lovely mother put on her blog The Foodie Affair. They are both resplendent with watermelony goodness and as soon as I read them I was overcome with the need to drink all the watermelons in the world in tasty drink form.

The first one seduced me with its simplicity, and then the second with its alcohol content. Since I had neither tequila nor triple sec, but DID possess a tasty bottle of rum, I decided to go with the first recipe and booze it up.

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Since I had a birthday barbecue to attend I figured what better than gifts of boozy watermelon refreshment?

Check out my mom’s recipe. I followed it exactly (just quadrupled) and used her advice and skipped out on ice and froze the watermelon instead. Then I added some rum (arguably the most important change I could possibly make). Basically it was in typical recent-college-student-fashion: I added a shot for each serving then some extra splashes for good measure. My main squeeze Miguelito pointed out that since the recipe has coconut water it ostensibly cures the hangover before it even begins! (Did you know that coconut water cures the alcohol related ills? Srsly yo).

Needless to say this drink is a complete success. Fresh, bright, and easy as (boozy watermelon) pie! TRY IT

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I Have an Obsession

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Ashley| 5 Comments

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Forgive me, but you are about to enter into my weiird obsession.  If you are reading this right now, you have no choice, so just go with the flow.

So basically, here’s the deal.  I am obsessed with buying glasses.  I get all of those weird emails from Eyebuydirect and Coastal and Zenni (I swear that this is not an advertisement, it’s more like a confession- so search for them yourself if you have a problem too, I guess?).  And most of the time I can ignore them.  Most of the time I’m like, oh cool glasses sale whatev.  But sometimes, for no apparent reason except my mind is tuned to the SPENDMONEYONTHINGSYOUDON’TNEED channel, I am drawn to those advertisements like a near-sighted moth to a flame.

I spend hours- yes, I believe hours is correct- scouring the sites for the best frames.  Or the weirdest frames that I think I can pull off. And all of those sites have that funky function where you can upload a picture of yourself and then virtually “try-on” frames.  But no matter how you angle your head or light the picture you always look odd, so basically you just have to trust your gut or ask your boyfriend incessantly DOYOUTHINKTHISWILLLOOKGOODONMEEEE???

And that is why I have five, yes FIVE, pairs of glasses that all have the same prescription.  I have been meaning to store them in different places so that my near-sighted self is prepared for the contacts-less apocalypse.  I will be the most stylish zombie hunter.

And because I want to justify this obsession, or maybe just share the tip with some poor sap like me who wants to own all the glasses in the world, here they are.  The five glasses that I do not really need but still somehow justified buying/wearing:

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The last pair is my personal “B-52s/Librarian” favorite.  But unfortunately they only really look okay on me if I have a tan, so they don’t get too much wear.  But who cares, because I LOVE THEM.

So yeah, there you go.  If you have an eyeglass obsession like me, don’t waste a hundred bucks on fancy ones from the store, seriously go spend $12 on a weird website for ninety million pairs.  They’re not fancy brands, but you will have a fancy face when you fight the zombies.  Like me.

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Morbidity and the Inevitability of Skull Necklaces

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Ashley| 1 Comment

Hello one and alll! I am writing you as a college graduate and now that I’ve passed that major milestone I am struck with an impending sense of death and doom. Just kidding. But I have been seeing all of these rad skull necklaces around the interwebz and since I am now officially a post-grad twenty-something, I thought I could make a sort of viable connection.

Well, no, the truth is I love these skull necklaces and I just wanted to make a post about the skull as fashion accessory and my love for it. And I also graduated college. So, those two things aren’t really connected but for the sake of this post. So there you go.

Skull Necklaces
So I’ve been lusting after these rad skull pendants but didn’t have any of my own, so I decided to bust out some clay. I had some Fimo clay called “marble” that has a white base and little bits of glitter spread throughout it.  It looks like a marble stone when it’s dried, and is perrrrfect for skulls.
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The process was pretty simple: 1) roll and mush a grape-sized ball of clay around until it is easy to work with, 2) form it into a skullish shape, 3) then add the eyes, nose, and teeth.  Then, 4) stick an eye pin into it’s top and bake it according to the clay directions.  When it comes out 5) use a permanent pen to add shading to the eye sockets, nose, and teeth holes.

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He’s a funny little guy (and oh god please ignore my nails… looks like I tore apart a zombie with my hands).

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I strung him on some brown cord and I’ve been wearing him ever since!  Next I may have to encrust one in glitter or rhinestone the bejesus out of one.  I guess it’s safe to say this isn’t the last you’ll see of skulls.  Perhaps my inner goth is coming out… haha

So there you go.  I graduated college and I am now obsessed with skulls.  Melodramatic much? hahaha

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Hot Rollin’

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Ashley| 3 Comments

Just a quick post to say I am so over undergrad… ugh.  Wah wah wah.  Emotional overflow.  So close yet so far.  Blegh.

So now that I’ve gotten that out, I also want to flip to the polar opposite and share something that makes me ohsohappy.

And that is hot rollers.  Yes, hot rollers.

I have recently become somewhat obsessed with the heretofore thought “old-ladyish” styling tool.  Turns out that hot rollers are super rad in that they are quite wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am-ish.  And what I mean by that is they’re fast and easy.  Wow, I don’t know where I’m going with that metaphor… Nevermind.  Here’s how it works:

(start with boring hair)
1. Plug in the curlers and warm them up for ten minutes (while you brush your teeth, make coffee, choose an outfit, take pictures of yourself, etc.)


(oh haaay.  fancy and serious grandma.)
2. Roll them all up in your hair (this takes five minutes max, and as I practice I’ve gotten faster).

 

3.  Let them sit until cool for 10-15 minutes (while you eat breakfast, put on makeup, make lunch, change your outfit, sit on the couch and try not to fall asleep, practice making unattractive faces, etc.)

 

(why lookie here, I’ve got curls)
4.  Pull them out and run your fingers through your curls to loosen them, which takes just a few minutes.

 

(I grin because they are soooo easy)
5. Hair spraaay.  (Or sometimes I just use mousse before I put them in)

Anyways I love them because I don’t have to sit with a curling iron for twenty minutes constantly almost burning my neck and fingertips.  Also, I have mostly-straight hair and they add volume without looking too unnatural.

So this is how I stay sane.  Relatively sane.
Hope you enjoyed this procrastinatory (I really wish this was a word) post!

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