We had the best time last weekend at the lake. My brother's birthday was June 1, so we celebrated with camping, boating, and playing games. On Saturday I canoed the Buffalo River with my Crossfit group and had a blast and made new friends. We all had a pretty...
Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend! A highlight of my weekend was participating in the "Murph Challenge", which is a Crossfit challenge honoring Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in action in Afghanistan on June 28th, 2005. You can read about Navy...
I hope you're having a great week! My nutrition/business/life coach has me on a mission to make my life easier, so I've got a bunch of projects in the works. Finally, after 13 years of manually putting together the Ashley's Finds email every week, I've hired a company...
I hope all y'all had a happy Mother's Day weekend! The boys and I went to my parents' house and had the best time. I got Mom this metal butterfly art from The Metal Man at Bella Rustina: Mom at first told me she had forgotten to get me something for Mother's Day (I...
I took the boys to Toad Suck Daze last Saturday. We spent the majority of our day at the little petting zoo filled with rabbits, goats, chickens, and puppies. I'm not a big fan of petting zoos because of the stress on the animals, but the boys are huge fans....
In March I missed the first sale of Robin Apple's estate due to having a show and was super sad I had to miss it. I was excited to find out that a second sale was to happen last weekend. Robin was a friend and I wanted to buy something from her estate to remember her...
Another fun Bella Rustina weekend is finished and I'm still recuperating. It was an honor to have a visit from Tammy Pope, our Arkansas State Fair Sr. Queen. She is a super talented lady (she is a maker) and it has been fun to watch her win the title and follow...
If I ever decide to have Bella Rustina during the same week as taxes are due again, I need my head examined! I was so frazzled yesterday trying to finish up taxes that I both e-filed and mailed my federal taxes. The good news is I was done with it all by 3:30PM...
I hope you had a wonderful Easter! My family visited my brother's church in Pottsville to see my brother play a shofar. A shofar is made from a ram's horn. My brother plays many different instruments, but he had never played a shofar before. It produced the most...