Despite being bleery-eyed and a crumpled untimely mass I had to check out what Hap is doing with the site over at the Dada site (I like, I like!) and note this would be his/their first-go-round with the great WP (pretty sure about that). Anyway, it inspired me to make a post about an article/video on quick, easy alterations (here’s the pdf) to easily update a wardrobe. On both sites (wha?). That, with the new-found Vélocouture flickr group — well, we know what to expect for the slew of blouses and button-down shirts that are cluttering the closet… and if heels are an option… well!

It’s spurring me on to do away with the car, already. The only hold-up: am I really dedicated enough to hunt down fabric, trim and art supplies sans personal vehicle? I am, however, certain that I want to give up the car.

And, today still, I promise, I’ll make new postings to my etsy shop, just to keep pace with the number of web posts… really…

Yeah. I’m on that. Tonight. I promise. So they’ll be ready first thing… oh. It’s tomorrow morning already. OK. In a few hours. After a quick nap.

In the meantime, I have to express that I was just blown away by the 1) structures on 2) the site design of 3) the speed of www.modulardwellings.com. I thought MD100 looked familiar — in the way people I went to school with recognize me (for the record I’ve usually not got the foggiest idea of who they are). But as soon as I saw the link to Readymade I knew…

The link was found via www.prefabs.com, which arrived by way of a google search for mobile home / prefab housing. Maybe it was this Reuters article on a London hotel underway article (there’s a video report o the site somewhere as well) combined with the upcoming RV show (there’s a $1 off coupon on the back of, I believe, this week’s Taste magazine) and local talk of an intentional community (one official ‘househunting’ meeting under the belt, and one planned) that promoted it to an idea worth looking into.

I started the esty shop in order to experiment and find an outlet allowing me to make ‘art’ on a consistent basis. Let’s reacquaint myself with materials that have been collected but not used for a while, to refine skills, work with new materials and develop new skills, I thought. If the result was good/successful/useful enough and worthy of being seen by others, it would be time to share it. Up onto Etsy it would go!

But then I started hearing things. The successful sellers crew hinted that grouping too many different (and seemingly disjointed) things in one all-encompassing shop was a bad thing. And the endless discussion forums that bringing up so many topics (copyrights and property rights, anyone?), concerns and pet-peeves — oy!

So what’s a girl whose art and creative pursuits spans so many mediums and definitions to do? I’m not partial to the thinking that exploring multiple mediums (say wha?) in one shop (whoa, there) is as much a hindrance (tsk!) as many make it out to be. Am I alone on this? Opening up a shop for every endeavor just doesn’t seem like an option to me!

So, instead of tending to unfinished projects (see above), it’s time to debate the efficacy of Twitter in regards to my daily life…

There are enough internal censors going off with every blog entry. Do I NEED to sign up for a new web service (the term ‘service’ is questionable, unless there’s utility behind the need to constantly reset unused and forgotten passwords.) Plus it’s yet another battle of the introvert/extrovert, and these days the contemplative introvert with a side of snark and a dash of snippy is winning. (Although I am mulling over plans that would gets me to Boston for a few days and pretty much sway things in favor for the extrovert argument. Anyways…)

Twitter does seem to have it’s utilitarian side — a gas usage/mileage tracker, local weather updates as well as news-related twitterings. And it does provide levity (who doesn’t need that?) while ‘building character’ (or at least one formed by a compilation of one-liners) thereby offering even more insight into friends (henceforth to be referred to as ‘the followed.’)

But every time the pointer closes in on the ‘get started-join!’ button, an image of the pending deluge of mindlessly broadcasted random bits and pieces has me recoiling in terror.

Yet another web-based ‘thing’ to put effort into? Fine, let’s further obfuscate the function of my ‘only for emergencies’ cell phone, which is primarily around just for the voicemail functionality, anyway? Add to the socially-shared updates and broadcasting already underway: musically’scrobbled’, ‘flickr-fed’ ‘til my finger is trigger-happy, ‘share’-ing web sites, half-heartedly ‘ thisNext‘-ing and offering up a fairly non-existant movie feed where fellow facebookers can test ‘our compatibility.’

So I’m sticking with Yelp and Furl (archive set to private, thanks) for now. Eventually I’ll give twitter a run — when I have an unlimited sms plan and have convinced myself the world needs — better yet, wants — minute-by-minute details of my daily exploits.

We will see…