Abigayle Rhodes

This is 30. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

Big shoutouts to all the people who made my party special, both near and far. It was a fantastic evening and I love you all so dearly.

Thank you to my in-laws for letting me host at their house, because there is a lot more space to fit snacks and a projector to watch Shrek on. Thank you to for being record keeper (because clearly Im bad at remembering to take pictures 😂) making an amazing birthday montage and using her magic powers to manifest Shrek and Donkey from the Shrek blind bags. Thank you to .soft.always of for the most incredible looking cookies and cake, and also GLUTEN FREE 🤤 Thank you to for escaping the dragon guarded tower with swamp pudding that I am currently eating for my birthday breakfast.

And because this is a crafty account and I know some of ya’ll are gonna ask:

Dress pattern is the Cowl Next Dress by , size 2x bust graded into a 4x waist and hip. Fabric is the silky sandwashed tencel from , of course. Belt is from .and.co. Boots are from VALUE VILLAGE (I know, I couldn’t believe it myself).

I love you all, here’s to making 30 the best decade yet 😘

I’m alive! I was in a three week time warp where everything moved both slow and fast and each day bled into the next, you know how it is.

Despite the creative slump I’m crawling my way out of I have been attending my CNC class at and having an absolute BLAST. Last week we plugged a couple of my illustrations into the laser cutter and engraved them on different materials! I can’t believe how well the pointillism translates, just looking at these makes my brain swim with possibilities.

I have no idea how I want to utilize this newfound technical skill but I know I want this in my repertoire, because, how cool do these look?! How would you want to see my art in this way? Jewellery? Keychains? Framed materials like this? Or some other way I haven’t thought of yet?! Let me know in the comments!

This is the piece that made me fall in love with acrylic painting again, it also has the best anecdote attached to it.

I painted this back in 2023, in my first semester of degree no.2 and it was part of a project in which we had to create a piece of art that represents a culture we’re apart of. This piece is 2’ x 3’, so almost life size, and it’s a nod to the Instagram account ***rnightstands , depicting my own q***r night stand.

As I was painting it I would send progress photos to my Bubbe and when it was done, she asked if she could have it. I said yes, without hesitation… before remembering that I painted a vi****or in the bottom drawer. It’s very subtle but I still got paranoid about giving my Bubbe a still life of my actual bedside table with a s*x toy sticking out of it. I asked my friends what I should do and all of them told me to lie about what it was if she ever asked, but I’m a horrible liar and felt bad. My mom then told me to tell her the truth about it, so I did. Scroll to read her response 😂

Anyway, it’s now in my Bubbe’s dining room.

Can you believe it’s been NINE YEARS?! One more away to double digits! First photo is from this past year and the third photo is from our first year together. You’re my best friend in the whole world, and I love our little family. Wouldn’t change anything for the world ❤️