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  • For the Love of Blogging began many years ago as the space for a young (and slightly naive) design school graduate. Since that time, I've grown a bit wiser and (hopefully) matured in my design perspective. So, my goals for this blog have evolved, and now I look forward to using this space as a way of sharing my experiences with Braizen, motherhood, and as a Jedi Master of design.

  • That's me: mom, greatest wife ever, designer, business owner, and the single largest contributer to Diet Mountain Dew's vast soda fortune. It's hard to believe that my journey into design and branding began nearly a decade ago with this blog and a drive to create dynamic brands for boutique photographers in the Atlanta area. Today, I'm the founder of Braizen, a small business branding design firm, and I dabble in a handful of other design-centered projects. This is my life, thanks for reading. Look for me on Dribbble, Facebook, Twitter & Pinterest or head over to Opieh Studios to see all works in progress.

  • You read right – our's son's name is Opie. Well, his really name is Oliver Paul, but everyone calls him Opie. He's a real cool kid who loves to draw, makes messes, get dirty and work on cars with his Dad. He knows no strangers even at 4 years old and we expect he'll never be the shy kid in class. He is known for his many expressions and the conversations he spurs are off-the-wall-hilarious. He has an imaginary friend from California named Jack who is six and can drive. He's not really into social networking yet, but stay tuned. I am sure he'll add a twitter app to his iPad shortly.

  • Aside from being incredibly handsome, my husband Paul is one of the most intelligent people I have ever known. I love him for his nerdiness, mostly because it means he can fix just about anything that goes wrong on the homefront. He's a brilliant engineer, loving father, and always manages to keep me interested, no matter the subject. For all of his awesomeness, I let him maintain a significant workshop in the garage, where he tinkers on his cars, motorcycles, and top secret projects with which I'm certain he will one day rule the world.

Something to look forward to

April 15, 2012 Filed in: Ashley | Personal

I’ve done more yard work in the last 3 months than I’ve done in my entire life. I keep telling myself that it will all be worth. It will be worth it! But 11 acres is a really big yard so I expect it will never be done. Ha!

I look forward to Saturdays full of hard work and Sundays lounging in my hammock and picnics with friends and family. I’ve been working on the hammock spot today. Can’t wait to get that baby up and rockin’ and curl up with my kindle.

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Easter Weekend 2012

April 13, 2012 Filed in: Opie | Photography

I don’t take enough pictures of Opie anymore – sad, I know. It’s partly because I hate lugging the equipment out and partly because he doesn’t cooperate much these days. I actually thought the effort was completely wasted last weekend when I forced Opie into a photo session while we were working at the property. Amazingly – we were able to get a lot of great shots.

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Sleeping Sideways

April 11, 2012 Filed in: Opie

I peek in Opie’s room every night after the Sandman has paid him a visit. There’s just something so innocent about seeing your child sleeping so soundly especially when they resembled a freight train an hour beforehand. It’s one of my favorite parenting past-times. We’re a late night kind of family so bedtime is pushing 9:30 a lot of the time, but Opie sleeps ’til 8am anyway. Yes – I do know that I have it made.:)I digress…

I walked in his room tonight to find him sleeping totally sideways in his bed on top of his mountain of pillows. It’s such a little thing, but it made me laugh out loud. Perhaps sleeping sideways is a break from the norm and he’ll wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Maybe I should try sleeping sideways… just for the heck of it.

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