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pink lemonade $42.00 USD whip cream $42.00 USD grape jelly $42.00 USD spearmint $42.00 USD red hot $42.00 USD berrylicious $42.00 USD all six $180.00 USD

lemon poppy seed scone & iced americano with cream.

giant bagel and americano. and the menu. i love the menu design.

iced vanilla honey latte. and my arm party.

hello and soon, goodbye.

we will be seeing each other a lot over the next few weeks.

i applied to art center and i was accepted. we’re moving to LA. and we have tons and tons and tons of shit to figure out.*

i am originally from california so this is kind of like going home and kind of like, not really at all.

my parents met in california, and i was made in california, but i was born in arizona because i was a hidden pregnancy/child.. my parents were crazy. my mom was super young, but my father should have known better. anyway, i spent a few months in phoenix as an infant then back LA (san pedro, palos verdes, long beach), until my mom couldn’t stand it and we came back to arizona. when i was little i called it ariBona. not joking.

i didn’t apply anywhere else. art center was my first, and i guess only choice.

i’m so fucking happy, nervous, and totally and completely stressed about everything, well.. yeah. we have a lot to figure out. i am going to be studying graphic design with an emphasis on motion. i wanna do title sequence… like. so. bad. that’s what i want so that’s what i’ll do. i’m so crazy grateful, because i have been able to do this on my own without any real training… now i can’t even imagine how it’ll be after intensive study. my best work is still ahead of me. that makes me happy, and a lot / little scared i guess.

we’re going to visit in march and find a place to live.

(*mike is able to transfer with the company he works for, so a little less stress, actually! ….. but still, tons of fucking shiiiiiiit to figure out.)

i’m probably getting a cold. and of course, this is the worst time for me to get sick, like ever. i have a product shoot tonight and have work all weekend. i am pretty fucking annoyed (if i am getting sick but i feel like shit!) and i probably should stop my bitching now and go pick up some cold medicine.

xoxo, ag

ps, i am SO not complaining. SERIOUSLY. this year, so far, fucking amazing.

now it’s almost lunchtime on a friday, and i am here with an iced americano, a fresh gel manicure, in a dark steel grey, looking at my computer screen wondering what it is i need to do and why i rushed home from the train. well i just remembered…. work.

here is some bits and pieces of things i have been working on. kind of, no.. it’s exciting, because i can add a graphic design project to my site very soon that will show how it starts and how it ends, but, that’s next week.. wait for it.

AND a single color screen print on french pink lemonade paper (18×24) coming soon..

xoxo,
ag

we were running late. and i couldn’t find my hair brush, and all our clothes were all over our bedroom, falling out of our luggage. and a zillion other excuses/things. but we went out, and we looked great. and everything was pretty fucking perfect. but, we missed brooke & matt.

first, a pre party at our friend eric’s house. then the compound, and then after midnight, to another house (with mostly the same people) where we watched people sing, and saw beth tom play the violin. and mike kind of cried. it was a really beautiful moment.

we all drank champagne and sparkling wine, and had great conversations about art and everything else in the world. we didn’t get home until 4:30 in the morning and it was undoubtably one of the most beautiful nights of my life… i am not kidding.

my only regret (kinda), i took no pictures. the next day, i found corks from that night in my bag.

also, i finally met jenny odom ignaszewski. she quietly came up to me and said ‘soooo i heard you’re antigirl….’ i said ‘you’re right..’ and we started to talk about art. i wish she hung around longer.

this year is going to be one of the best. i just have a feeling.

xoxo,
ag

a ring mike gave me, by melanyBE.

a tree i found on the washington idaho border when mike was taking other pictures of trees.

and it finally snowed! it only lasted for a few hours.

so we’re here, on the border of washington and idaho. it is christmas and i’m making chicken soup. i didn’t pick up the chicken for the soup, until this morning (it’s christmas, remember). the kitchen is, almost a complete wreck. and stuff is kind of everywhere. so that’s the downside of it. the upside is pretty much everything else, and i mean everything. the barn we’re staying at is amazing, literally, a-fucking-mazing.

oh, and it hasn’t been snowing. i got those boots for no reason at all. so far. it’s raining now, so there is hope… and well, mike wants to take me to flagstaff soon. and really i hated the snow last year so i am kind totally fine if it doesn’t snow at all.

a prefab gingerbread house mike and his kid made on christmas eve.

pictures i took during our drive to pullman (WA) from pasco / tricities (WA).

in salt lake city on thursday at 9 in the morning, with yellow drinks waiting for a tiny plane headed for washington. the blue moon was mikes. the ‘holiday punch’ was mine. it was some sort of scotch apple cider.

i need to finish the chicken soup.

xoxo

my jam + drink links because,

i blacked out on saturday night. i woke up sunday feeling dumb as ever. i haven’t had any blackouts in along time.

saturday was weird. i was drinking sauvignon blanc at my moms for our holiday dinner. it was the first time i had a ‘holiday’ dinner with my family in, like, years. maybe, 6 or 7. it is a weird time in and for my family because of my dad dying. sad to say and i really resisted saying it until like, two months ago, i guess, it was always a weird time in my family. there were always fights, abuse, drugs, addiction, food, and mental illness.

before my dad died and during his illness, i thought ‘ohh, i make art because my dad’ got me into art. it is true and it is not. he got me into art. he showed me art. and he showed me design but i don’t even really think he knew what it actually was, he’d tell me to look at things/posters/billboards and ask me what i thought. he wanted me to be an architect.

the reality of the situation was, i made art, things, collages, and paper houses and everything else i made when i was little, to escape what was going on around me.

back to the recent black out, after we left my mom’s, i continued to drink, but i exchanged the wine for makers mark. mike and i planned to tour bars, that didn’t happen because i ended up passing out, quite literally.

anyway, i try not to beat myself up about such situations.

and sunday was pretty great, despite my embarrassment about the night before, i wasn’t very hung over. annnnnd, mike and i drove 15ish miles for pizza (barros pizza, i wanted barros pizza, for weeks and weeks) and we went shopping for his son.

my drink links, hangovers & age, angry drunks, booze blackouts …. and let me not forget, where the fuck should i go for drinks.com

ps. have fun, be safe, don’t black out… and if you do, or if there is a remote possibility of such, put that phone in a fucking lock box.

xoxo, ag

next year, i want to make more, but all different sizes. and everything different really, i guess… hm.

merry christmas!

i’ve been anxious all week about my wreath packages. but last night, courtney posted a picture of the wreath i sent her.. i was so relieved. i’m really happy with how they all turned out. we still have 3 to make, i think 3 anyway. i also think i may have missed taking a picture of one of them or i miscounted somewhere along the line. before i would get really pissed off about such shit, but now i’m just hoping people will enjoy them as much as i enjoyed making them.

and today, i’m going to work on the final wreaths, work on covers designs for a new project, and…….. make a very, very, well thought out peppermint bark. i’ve been thinking of how i want to layer it for, like, a day or two now.

xoxo