The Original Ashley

It's the cottage weekend! Finally! A time for me and my friends to sit back, watch the stars,  eat tons of food and try and fit into our bathing suits afterwards. Every year I try and think of something new we can do, sometimes its a treasure hunt, or bringing up a deep frier so we can make home made funnel cakes. This year I'm going to try Mojitos! I will report on Sunday of either the success or massive failure!

An Article I found on Colossal We all know that as the seasons change on Earth, temperatures rise and fall, plants grow or die, ice forms or melts away. Perhaps nobody is more aware of this than NASA’s Visible Earth team who provide a vast catalog of images of our home planet as seen from space. Last month designer, cartographer, and dataviz expert  John Nelson download a sequence of twelve cloud-free satellite imagery mosaics of Earth, one from each month, and then created a number of vivid animated gifs showing the seasonal changes in vegetation and land ice around the world. Despite having encountered numerous seasonal timelapse videos shot here on Earth, this is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this visualized on such a large scale from space. It really looks like a heartbeat or the action of breathing. Read more over on Nelson’s blog , or see a much larger version of the gif here . (via Co.Design )

So today I had a client ask me to changed the sky in one of the photos of their house. I can see why, the photos were taken on an overcast day...  I was told I only had 15 minutes to make the sky blue. (We charge for photoshopping time...) Considering my time restraints, I feel I did a pretty good job. Here is the copy I fixed up.... Apparently this was 'Too Perfect". I don't know what to say to that other than make my own version for giggles.  This is my design.

I don't normally talk about work on here, but I have to boast this job that I did this week. I got the order to do some sold cards for an agent, so I went into her file and got her existing design. This is what it looked like.  Pretty basic. Though I really have to point out the agent photo on the back, a black turtle neck and black background makes for a pretty awesome floating head...  Anyways, I don't normally change an agents look, as it is usually their look and it is how clients recognize them. So I made the card and sent her some proofs. She called me back and asked if she could add a house that she had just listed. "We'll have to change the design a bit to fit it, can you do that?" She asked.  "Yes. Yes I can."  So I took the phrase 'change the design a bit' to a whole new level and totally re-vamped her design. She ended up calling me back to tell me that she had changed her mind about the second listing, saying that

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Last night I had the great pleasure of being at the P!nk concert in toronto. And by great pleasure, I mean I was vibrating in my seat with joy. It was FANTASITC! Made even more so when she not only sang songs from her newest album but also a ton of songs from her earlier albums. I knew all the words and was belting them out as Pink did some truly astounding acrobatic feats in the air all without missing a note! I had such a great time and I'm so happy I went!  *Note I did not take these photos, I was too busy singing to get my phone out!

http://design-milk.com/cmyk-playing-cards/

So last night I went to bed and the city looked like this.... And when I woke up it looked more like this.... I then tried to locate my car, but they all looked like this.... The drive to work looked mostly like this.... But then I got to work and I didn't have a key and no one was there and I was stuck outside looking like this…. So I left a message in the door and went over to the coffee shop around the corner and chilled like this for two hours.... And then Stan Lee and Chris Evans showed up and we chilled. THE END!!!!

1) That damn Abominable snowman 2) PHOTOSHOP FRIDGE MAGNETS!?!?!?! 3) The f-stop watch! 4) Personalized wooden cufflinks.... soooo nice 5) Chocolate Seal ...... mmmmmmm 6) The Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers 7) A board game about music ! Josh would totally beat me in this! 8)  Celebrity  Wedding Cakes! 9) And the Coolest Wedding cakes!

1) I fear if my mother ever found this website, we would loose her to the internet forever... 2) Simple yet epic 3) Mmmmmmm..... Pronouns ..... 4) This has the making of the best pillow fight ever ! 5) Barbie Inspired Art 6) Oh my GOD I want this clock so bad! 7) I think I'd get these and just sit back and watch while people tried to figure it out! 8) This is brilliant! 9) I could eat a horse !

It is finally feeling like winter, and with it comes my desire to eat soup every lunch. And the best part is there are so many soups that you can never get tired of them!  Summer Squash and Corn Chowder Roasted Butternut Squash and Shallot Soup French Onion Soup Broccoli and Cheese Soup White Bean and Turkey Chili Tomato-Basil Soup Beef and Guinness Stew Chicken and Wild Rice Soup Coconut-Curry Chicken Soup