Day at the Dog Park

Today was such a beautiful day I just couldn't pass up spending some quality time with my doggy. Since my husband (Rob) was in school and couldn't enjoy it with us I took my camera as my trusty side kick.

On me and Calvin's (my cute little doggy) day of fun we first went for a walk then traveled to our local dog park. Last time I took him there he didn't know what to do with himself. He wasn't sure about what to do with all his freedom so he kind of just wandered slowly. But this time he was so excited and was very social. He made friends so quickly and it was great to see his progress. When we first got him, about 6 months ago, he was so scared and timid and just didn't know what to do. We adopted him from a shelter and they rescued him from a puppy mill so he hasn't had the greatest life. But we try to give him all that he's missed out on. So to the dog park we went. Look at how much fun he had!

 

We plan on spending much more time at the dog park and hopefully Rob can come too next time! 

In other news we've updated our etsy with more pottery and some new knitted items! Check them out at www.Askrobske.etsy.com they're pretty exciting haha!!

Thanks everyone for reading my blog annnnnnd I know you're all excited about the giveaway haha. All the details are being worked out and it should be posted within the week. Make sure to keep an eye out for the giveaway blog.

Thanks for stopping by! :)

<3 Ashley

Another weekend

The weekend is almost over....sad face. Now it's back to school I go. I've been working on a knitted cape jacket type garment and it's almost finished. I'm really excited about it :) pictures will be posted once garment is complete! I've also been working on some photo ideas I've been coming up with. We shall see how they turn out. Once I find the winners out of the shoot I just had I'll post them for all my wonderful readers to check out :)

The giveaway is still in the works. I'm sorry it's taking so long to get it together. Just had some kiln trouble at the school. But don't you worry! We will have the giveaway up and a the details soon. It will be quite exciting!

As summer comes closer I get more excited about the adventures that are about to come. Rob and I just came up with the great idea of taking a road trip and I must say I am soooo excited about the idea. It will be great just him and me driving around, taking photos, and loving the company of each other. We will also be stopping by a few peoples places while on this road trip. I hope we can pull it off because it would be so amazing. We will also be bringing our trusty companion Calvin our little schnauzer, so cute!

I have so much to look forward to! After school ends in May we will be (hopefully) road tripping down to Florida for Rob's God daughter's christening, then a cruise with his family, then more time with our family and friends in Florida, then up the east coast to visit friends, and finally to Canada where we will be spending our summer as camp counselors. I am beyond excited about life!

Another big moment that will be happening soon is Rob and my 1 year wedding anniversary! I can't believe it's already been a year! He is so amazing to me and I could not have asked for a better person to spend the rest of my life with. It is so wonderful to be married to my best friend <3

Ok enough of the mushy stuff! More art and giveaway goodness to come!! I hope soon to add more pictures of projects I'm working on to keep up the excitement haha. Thanks so much for dropping by my blog!

<3 Ashley

Update

Hey everyone! I just wanted to throw out a quick update about everything. Rob and I will be taking photos and posting lots of stuff this weekend on our etsy as well as posting the big exciting give away!!! I know you are all super excited because I am haha!! I've also already updated our etsy account with some of my photos so you can go ahead and check it out if you'd like :)  www.etsy.com/shop/askrobske

Thanks everyone for stopping by. I promise these updated will be more exciting soon!

<3 Ashley

Coming soon!!

Soon me and Rob (my super husband) will have a give away of some of our art to promote our new etsy shop and this blog! So get excited!! Rob will put up some of his ceramics and I will have some knitwear (hopefully) for the giveaway :) More details to come when we get everything up and running :)

In other news Rob and I are on spring break but we've been working really hard in our studios but yesterday was our spring break day :) It was amazing! We hung out in a really cute hippie town and bought some really affordable vintage clothing and ate some pita pit for dinner....super yummy! We were down in that area for the main event....to see COPELAND in concert. They were amazing last night! But sadly this will probably be the last show we see of them because this is there fairwell tour :( you should check out there tour dates because they are more than worth seeing. So amazing! And it was really great to get to see them with my husband :) Also the bands that opened for them were really good too so you should also check them out! There was Deas Vail, Person L (our favorite next to copeland), and I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business. All of these bands were amazing and definitely worth looking into :)

I hope everyone has a great weekend :) Thanks so much for stopping by!

<3 Ashley

Etsy Shop!

I have posted 2 new items on mine and my husband's etsy account so go check it out! I'm really excited about it! You can check out our etsy here. We do custom orders too so if you have something in mind we may be able to help you out :)

In other news in my collage class I've decided to make a slam book. I know it sounds really mean but I think it will look great. So the premise is while working at summer camp last summer a lot of people got fired and they have great stories attached to them. So I'm going to reenact the stories on paper in slam book form. I really enjoy playing with the ideas of the different judgments that occur in everyday life. I've done some photography projects on judgment in the past and it's always something that draws me in because as human nature we all judge one another. It's just a part of life but a lot of times I wish that my judgments weren't so negative. We all have our demons to concur and that's one of mine.

Spring break is coming up and that means I will be working extra hard in my knitting class because I want to knit some items for a photo shoot I want to do over spring break. Hopefully I can pull it off and if I do I will post the photos :)

On that note...thanks so much for reading and make sure to check out our etsy shop www.askrobske.etsy.com. We will be updating it frequently (hopefully) as we make more items.

<3 Ashley

Mid semester critique

Today was my mid semester critique. I would have to say it went really well! I posted these 2 photos from my dream series:


Everyone was very receptive and liked the idea. They gave me good feedback, like experiment more with different techniques of getting my idea across and maybe explore my dreams a little more and put that into the photos as well. So I will probably continue this series to see what I come up with.

Also big news....I am OFFICIALLY a fibers major now. I am BEYOND excited!! I can't wait to absorb everything that is related to fibers. I have some really great ideas that I hope I can implement in my fibers work. I still plan on using photography as well and I think I can really join the 2 to make some fantastic art.

Speaking of fibers I finally completed my first sweater! I'm so excited! It turned out great for my first sweater. It is kind of more like a dress which is what I wanted and now all I need is a brown belt to wear with it and it will be complete! I will post pictures soon. I really need to catch up on taking the photos of everything I've made. I've also made 2 scarves. I really like them. I will be selling them on etsy soon so keep a look out! Also I just bought some yarn and it should be delivered soon and I will start hand knitting some scarves. I have great ideas, great plans and I'm sure they will be up on my etsy account once I finish them.

In other news spring break is next week and I can't wait! Rob and I plan on making a ton of stuff for our etsy shop. He's been working very hard in ceramics and we will be posting some of the items for sale on etsy as well. This is all so exciting!

Thanks so much for reading and I hope you have a great week!

<3 Ashley

Dream Dream Dream

As I have promised you here is my Dream series. The tentative title is "Displacement of Dreams". I was working on this series and was inspired by the movie "Waking Life" You should all watch it, it is very good! It's very philosophical and discusses the reason for life and dreams and things of that nature. So my series was very loosely based on that film. The series can be read as a narrative. I hope you enjoy!

It seems that I am missing some images that I will add on tonight once I get to my house. I hope you enjoyed my series and I'm going to try to submit this to a gallery here in town. I also want to submit my "Judge me" series which I don't believe I have showed you. I will have to post those up here soon. It's off to the knitting room I go. Thanks so much for reading :)

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