New name

Changed the name of the blog. Going for a more professional thing here, I guess. Updated my website too. It's STILL not finished, but getting a new look, simplified, cleaner, I think I can actually live with this one for a while. Check it out and leave me notes.

ashliefleig.com

Save the Dates

Yay! Wedding things!!! Super excited about my newly finished wedding save the dates! I went through several versions before conquering my indecisiveness and landing on this one. I'm quite pleased with it.

Now if I could just figure out how to go about the invitations…

Not really design-related, but whatevs

So the past week or so, we've been working on pretty-ing up our living room. We painted the walls, added a new TV unit, and a few decor items on the walls. So I wanted to add a little life to the room with some plants. I've been seeing little terrariums all over sites like Pinterest and ApartmentTherapy so I thought I'd give it a try. Let's hope I don't kill it :P

Started with some succulents and a glass container from Ikea.

Added some cheap fish tank gravel from Wal-Mart. Just a thin layer in the bottom so the soil can drain. This layer looks a little higher from the sides of the glass because I pushed it toward the outsides of the container just so more of it would be visible when it was all done.

Then I added just a thin layer of the soil from the container the plants originally came in and then a thing layer of this cactus mix soil on top of that.

After that I started adding the plants. The first one easy enough, but the second one was very prickly and I didn't have any gloves that would protects my fingers. So I grabbed one of the red plastic cups I was using to scoop the soil from the bag. It was just the right size to slip over the little cactus and hold it upright while I packed some soil in around it.

Once I got all the plants in and a little soil packed around them to hold them up, I need to fill up the container so the soil would be packed nice and snug around the plants.

Once the container was filled, it looked like this:

I added another good scoop of gravel just to be decorative and gave it a nice watering.

Then I took my finished project inside feeling quite proud of myself.

But I was a little worried my psycho cat would try to dig them up again, so my fiancé being the genius he is, suggested we use another of the Ikea containers as a cover over the top. I love it!

Now, hopefully, it will be quite safe and happy. Hopefully it gets enough sunlight and hopefully i don't over- or under-water it. I have killed more than one cactus in the past, and these plants looked like they needed a little tlc from the start. But if I care for them well enough, I should get some more of those nice bright little flowers! Yay! Ok, til next time…   :)

The WORST Blogger EVAR!

Yup, that's right, EVAR! I am so not good at this. I could just say I've been really busy, which i kinda sorta have. Since my last post the holidays happened, there was a move, a week-long trip to Vegas, school starting for me and daycare for Little Monkey, and a fabulous week full of pink eye, colds and ear infections. So I guess I have been kinda busy. But there's been downtime in between. A lot of TV-watching and procrastinating in social media form. I probably could have done something a little more productive during that time. But if I had that kind of organizational and focusing power, I probably wouldn't have been prescribed Adderall that one time when I was a kid…
Anyway, my point is that i've been totally lost in Distracted-Kid-Land and feeling kinda lame as a designer at the same time, so I've just kind of avoided that whole area altogether. But I figure now's as good a time as any to start being semi-productive again, so why not? Now I just need to figure out what to start on first. Do I go back to the little projects I made for myself or start on a couple of other things I've been thinking about? The new things would be websites, first one for my Almost-Hubby's business and then one for myself for what I hope will become my design business. I don't know. I'll just go browse some web images in an attempt at "researching ideas" and see where I end up. In the meantime, I think I need to start posting again. I mean, I have an app on my phone for pete's sake. No excuses really. Right?

Update

Another rework of my logo thing

Working on putting a portfolio together right now, so no new design for a bit.

While You Wait…

A little something to share while I work on some designs. Or at least think about designs. Got a paper due for class so there might not be a whole lot of actual designing this week. Anywho, here ya go!

A Little Belated

Finished it a little while ago. Haven't done much else. I'm trying to be a gods student am keep up with my class work. Maybe I'll post some inspiration pieces til I have something of my own to post.