Have you heard about betty?

“I just can’t believe the lovliness of loving you”

Waiting for Icarus by Muriel Rukeyser

He said he would be back and we’d drink wine together
He said that everything would be better than before
He said we were on the edge of a new relation
He said he would never again cringe before his father
He said that he was going to invent full-time
He said he loved me that going into me
He said was going into the world and the sky
He said all the buckles were very firm
He said the wax was the best wax
He said Wait for me here on the beach
He said Just don’t cry

I remember the gulls and the waves
I remember the islands going dark on the sea
I remember the girls laughing
I remember they said he only wanted to get away from me
I remember mother saying: Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
I remember she told me those who try out inventions are worse
I remember she added: Women who love such are the worst of all
I have been waiting all day, or perhaps longer.
I would have liked to try those wings myself.
It would have been better than this.

Making biscuits.

Charlie Cat.

GUSH

Scott arrived late, minus a tire and with a smashed windshield, and he came bearing gifts!

Scott does sweet things like remember what thrift store that thing came from that i didn’t buy but can’t stop talking about, and sometimes he will buy a book i already have but like the new cover better so we can trade, and most of all he lets me take silly pictures of him.

Too much champagne + grocery fireworks (and some SC fireworks) + heart-attack blackberry ribs = A nice little holiday.

Art imitating life imitating art.

Welcome to bake it pretty.

Pantone 197 C

Done and done. Designs for the new cards have been sent to the printers! Here is a little peek:

Inspired by vintage flash cards.

Time to relax i guess?

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Scott comes to visit tomorrow! Amanda is making delicious soup as i type! There are 5 pounds of ribs in the fridge!
(and i use to say fourth of July was my least favorite holiday!)

Is that a gram?

Working on a new business card for Bake It Pretty. That means pouring over paper samples (one of my favorite things) and cursing at my computer at five in the morning (I blame illustrator). I’m thinking 16pt w/matte finish and rounded corners? Deadline: to the printers tonight! (but only after we go to the pool, duh).

Last night i dreamt i had an iphone.

Hotlanta (noun):The name that idiots who don’t even live in Georgia call the city of Atlanta.

Amanda + Me in Atlanta for three days. Highlights:

1. IDDBA trade show (Imagine every deli/bakery section of every grocer in one place and you could eat anything you wanted, also add a cash bar at noon, and a bunch of business men)

Speakers included Alton Brown!, Jim Gaffigan, Colin Powell, and Bob Knight.

Business Literature

Fancy Badges
2. LUSH

3. Bodies (the exhibition)

4. dialogue in The Dark

5. Flying Biscuit Cafe and Cafe Agora ( THE Best Greek food, sorry yia yia)

6. ” World of Coke” ( 4-D just means they spray water at you) Antoine+manuel Illustrations

7. Gala at the Aquarium

Favorite.

8. Criminal Records ( and Comics)

9. Hotel Cable!

10. “My Life in Ruins” (Richard Dreyfuss as the “funny” old guy who is actually really the “wise” old guy, ugh.

11. Julia Child, “My Life in France” (book on tape!)

As soon as we got home we were sure of two things, one- we needed Julia Childs French cookbook, and two- we could really use a smooth, refreshing, happiness inducing Coke.

BLT TWO.

1. Vegetarian BLT 7, 2. BLT, 3. BLT at Saigon Wraps, Fruitvale Village / BART Oakland, 4. #230: confessions of a BLT virgin, 5. The Sam Vimes BLT, 6. Tea-sized BLT, 7. blt roll-sunday, 8. BLT, 9. blt