"What We Do Is Secret" charity exhibit at Stone Malone Gallery

Greetings loved ones!

I fully intended to come back on yesterday evening and write a second post but my YouTube video was being extremely difficult and not uploading. Since I'm new to all the nonsense I may have broken some copyright rules but I think I fixed it now. I thought I could set a song to a clip without an issue as long as I gave credit... but I guess not? Not really sure how that works, if someone else does let me know! :)

Anyway, this post is about the amazing art show I went to on Saturday. My dear friend, Lucas Raynaud, from back home curated this show and it was amazing. Lucas partnered with another individual, who I unfortunately don't know there name but I have their instagram - @thegossipandthechoir. It was an incredible show with some unbelievably talented artists. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and the crowd that was there. This type of art would be classified as what I would call street art or urban art; graffiti. It appeared that most of the artists used spray paints and acrylic paints for their pieces. Lucas did the woodwork for what each artists was given to use as a canvas, wood life-size spray cans and square backdrop. He also made 50 mini wooden spray cans for the first 50 guests who came that nigh...  I made sure I was one of them :)

What I loved most about this show wasn't only the fantastic artwork but that a portion of all sales are being donated to the charity, #HashtagLunchbag AND they were taking donations for PROJECT SMILE SOUTH CENTRAL, a community project dedicated to beautifying the neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles with murals and artwork from world renowned artists to community children. They held a raffle for a book by Billboard Bandits as well to help with the charities. GUESS WHO was one of the lucky winners for that book?? YOURS TRULY! I got the text yesterday right after making my video, I was so excited haha!

If you are interested in seeing and/or purchasing any of the artwork the show is running from March 28, 2015 to April 11, 2015. They are having a closing night on 4/11 and there will be all new pieces up... I will definitely be in attendance! Location is:

Stone Malone Gallery                 

7619 1/2 Melrose Ave,

Los Angeles, California 90046 

That's all for now. Check out the video : Update & "What We Do Is Secret" at Stone Malone Gallery

Hey, hi, hello there!

Salutations to all you wonderful people!

My name is Ashley Suzzanne... it's pronounced SUS-zah-n, almost like "Susan" but not quite. I wish there was a way to place some audio here like on a translation site hahaha.

Anyway, this is my intro to the world of blogging. I've been wanting to start a blog for quite some time and just never had the courage to really do it, which is strange because I'm not the type to be nervous about sharing my thoughts and feelings. I think it was more of a unfamiliarity with the world of blogging and not sure of what direction to take my blog. I have some amazing influences though their styles and content are very different than what mine will be; I think I may have possibly put pressure on myself and felt a need to fit into their ways.... but I have come to grips and realized I was being silly. 

I once was an avid writer. I used to write DAILY in journals or diaries, whatever type of notebooks I could get my hands on. My mom knows... she spent plenty of money on buying me spiral notebooks or even investing in leather bound journals as I was growing up. They are piled in my hope chest in my old room at her house, thankfully she doesn't mind holding onto them for me until I find a big enough place for myself.

Writing used to be a great outlet for me. There's something about putting your thoughts on a piece of paper that just feels right to me. I'm unsure of why I lost touch with doing so but I'm excited for this because life is beautiful, extraordinary and tragic as you all know and I really can't wait to share it with all of you.

My main goal is to spread positivity and happiness, not just through this but in my life. This way my reach can hopefully be a little bit further, I have short arms so it can be hard.

Today I'm going to be posting TWICE, exciting right? 
Introductions and then the real fun begins :)
Stay tuned...