Let's Go Fly a Kite!

Let's go fly a kite!

Up to the highest height.

Let's go fly a kite,

And send it soaring,

Up through the atmosphere,

Up where the air is clear.

Oh, let's go fly a kite!

Let's go fly a kite!

-Burt 'Mary Poppins'

Haha...that song just makes me happy...maybe it's Dick Van Dyke's awful fake British accent in the movie Mary Poppins...but maybe it's just that the song makes me think SPRING!

Today was The Southern Standard's 11th annual Kite Day and it was the MOST PERFECT morning for flying kites! The sky was blue, the sun was shining and there was a nice breeze...add to that a whole bunch of kids and their kites and you have a great recipe for Kite Day!

I got to serve as a judge for the festivities today and it was so hard to pick favorites! But there were no losers today since everybody got the chance to enjoy the beautiful weather! Watch The Southern Standard in the days to come for details about the event.

I thought I'd share with you all some of the pictures I took this morning...Enjoy and I hope this inspires you to get out with your family this week and take in the spring!

(Jack Sherrill flying his kite...I love the look on his face; pure innocence!)

(Margaret Hobbs thanking the crowd for coming out and announcing the winners)
(Standard staffers posing in their Kite Day shirts...designed by Seth, of course!)

Hello Rose!

As you all know, we're big Preds fans at Ashley's Attic (lol...really?) and many of you know that we have Nashville Predators Crocs at the shop.




We were one of the first stores in all of Middle Tennessee to get these shoes because the shoes were introduced early last summer (right around the time of our ownership issues) and a lot of stores were scared to make that kind of investment on a team that might not be here next season.



I made that investment because I had faith that we would keep the team...Tennessee loves its Preds...and also because I figured that even if we just had one season left with them I wanted to make the best of it.



Well...fans were very nice and helped make that investment worth it; because the shoes were so hard to find anywhere in the state, people from all over the state were ordering Preds Crocs from our shop! Knoxville, Murfreesboro, Chattanooga....A LOT of McMinnville Pred Fans came in...and of course we shipped several pair to Nashville.


One of those shipments found its way to Patty Pred, one of the team's most devoted fans and she loved them.


So I get a call from Patty a few weeks back and she tells me that Rose Tootoo wants several pair of the Preds Crocs...from me! Rose Tootoo, as in, Jordin Tootoo's MOM! HOW COOL IS THAT? TOOTOO'S MOM SHOPS AT ASHLEY'S ATTIC...all the way from RANKIN INLET!


And she is going to tell all of her friends about the shoes and hype up the website IN CANADA!! We're goin' international people!


(In the next week or so I will be posting a little box on the sidebar of the site to give the Preds Fans a little more info on the Predator Crocs and Jibbitz...also some shipping information for anyone wishing to order a pair...keep checking back.)


For all things Jordin Tootoo click here, just in case you don't know all about him already!


We all love Jordin at Ashley's Attic...even before his mom became a customer!



He's Chalee's favorite hockey player ever, you know...for those of you that I haven't told the story to (I even got the chance to tell Rose Tootoo an abbreviated version of the story!) :


Chalee loved her pacifier; she called it her "tootoo" (and this had nothing to do with Jordin...she didn't know the Preds just yet).
So, at her first hockey game (she was about 1 and a half years old) we took her down to the glass to watch the pre-game skate. I had bought her a "Tootoo" shirt because I figured it would be the easiest name for her to say and because the kids always love Jordin. I then pointed him out to her on the ice and she immediately locked in on him with her eyes, looked a little angry and confused, and would not take her eyes off of him. He even came up to the glass at one point to smile at her and she just looked at him. LOL...so, her mom informed me a little later that they had taken her "tootoo" away from her earlier in the week...she thought it was time.


Well, apparently Chalee did not agree and I know now that she must have thought that the "Tootoo" guy that I was talking about and pointing at must have taken her "tootoo" and THAT was why she looked so angry when she looked at him.



Chalee has gotten over that anger now. She now thinks of Tootoo with happy thoughts...she likes to see him fight and she likes Seth's 'Tootoo-Train Whistle' She has learned Shea Weber's name too and associates hockey and the Predator logo with "Weber and Tootoo". She calls her Tootoo shirt "The Hockey", as in; my mom: "You need to change back into your other clothes Chalee.", Chalee: "But I got the hockey on."!

Summer Crocs...

The kids' Athens are here...

They come in fuchsia/orange, black/charcoal, chocolate/lime, fuchsia/cotton candy, and chocolate/khaki. They are $24.99 and come in kids' sizes 6/7 through 3/5. Sizes 8/9 and 10/11 also come with a really great back-strap to help keep the shoes on little feet.

And that's not all...we also have restocked the classic Cayman Crocs (the ones with the holes)...yes finally I have 8's and 9's again!

We also restocked the kids' Real Tree Camouflage Crocs...

As always, come in or give us a call while supplies last...YOU KNOW how fast these shoes sell!

Always the Cheerleader...

Yeah yeah...we lost tonight.

BUT they really came through in that last period and they pushed the game in to overtime without the help of two of our main players, our captain Jason Arnott (flu) and David Legwand (hurt foot).

And hooray for Dan Ellis for breaking our previous record, keeping out 52 of tonight's 54 shots on goal!

Despite the loss, I'm still very proud of them all ...and we still have one chance to show the Wings who is the best in this series!

For the details on tonight's game click here.

High School Musical Jibbitz, Etc.

High School Musical Jibbitz!!! Finally! I told you that they were coming!
Also new are the flip-flop jibbitz. And back by popular demand are Spongebob and friends, butterflies in assorted colors, Hannah Montana, Dora and assorted tiny flowers....just in time for spring!

New in Hello Kitty

Here are a few of the new bags in the new collection by Sanrio. These are my three favorites...especially the last one; it's like a really elaborate bracelet!



Hurry in while supplies last .... before I take it all home with me!

1 Down...

...only 3 to go! Go Preds! I'm just very happy for my boys tonight so I thought I'd post some pictures from tonight's game!

For the details on this Western Conference Quarterfinals series click here...

For all the details from tonight's game click here...

Here's a pic I took of Seth with a cardboard cut-out of the cup...I don't have my camera with me at a lot of games, so when I do, I take A LOT of silly pictures!

First period...
Third period...

My boys, third period...
See our pretty Stanley Cup Playoffs logo? More third period...
And this is Seth cheering for Ryan Suter at the post-game "The Zone" radio show at the Jack Daniel's Club.Keep your fingers crossed for us to do well in the game on Wednesday night - 8:00pm at the Sommett Center.

And one last thing...RED WINGS SUCK!! Lol!