lots going on these days, though the web feels quiet. we’re working on secret behind the scene coolness for indyish and meanwhile moving all our furniture around in our livingroom/workspace area. it started because we’ve almost decided to get a dog, and if we do, out place needs a cleaning, because we’ve got dust bunnies that could kick a small puppies ass. we’ve mostly got the situation under control in the main rooms now, which is good, but the bedrooms and kitchen are still … welll let’s just say they still reflect a previous 6 months of up-to-the-elbows in chaos.

it’s been kind of a big year.

we launched indyish.com pretty much exactly one year ago, while i was still trying to finish up my ma thesis. we threw our first arts weekend about a month and a half after i defended, and then we went right into website making (via touchbasic.com) for some dough, and then planning for a POP workshop, and then right into planning for the holla-days arts weekend with POP. we’re still returning goods to artists who participated in the holla-days insta-boutique but aside from that we’ve basically been able to relax since then for the first time in months. so yeah. we decided to clean the house.

today is new year’s eve, and so far it’s been a sweet finale. i did leftover pumpkin pie for breakfast with Emilie and schemed a bit for her party tonight, then walked down to the vintage stores on and around st.viateur to find a birthday present for Serah-Marie. We work together on Worn and we lived together so we’re pretty good at shopping for eachother. I saw a bunch of stuff I thought she’d like- she’s kind of one of those people who will love anything with serious character- but decided on the mint condition sixties red faux snakeskin handbag because i think it’s exactly “anna sui red,” and Serah’s a fan. I hung out with the store owner Celine and gossipped a bit about the guy she likes, and got to tell reassuring stories about how El and I hooked up, and found a brown leather seventies skirt at general54 (on st viateur) that the owner, Gen, had printed a grove of pine trees on making it completely dear and irresistible. Then I came home to El having his first coffee of the day, plugging away on network layouts and the like. With our new set up in the working room (where all the website magic happens=) El sits right behind me and it’s nice to sit quietly back to back building our codey worlds. It feels more like a real office in here all the time!

cheers y’all, have a safe and peaceful new year
r