Hi everyone! An update -

I cannot begin to express how grateful I am. Starting this business has given me so much joy and confidence - especially these last 6 months, when often I felt like I was drowning - SSS has reminded me of who I am.

I’m writing this the night of the Wardrobe Project Flea (WPF), truly elated about the experience. I had these same feelings after the 7th West event that Heads or Tails (HT) put together, and WCC WAVES. I’ve met countless incredibly sweet, kind, funny people, customers, and vendors alike. I feel a sense of community, care, like-mindedness. Life is so fucking fleeting and dear, I feel fortunate to spend time at these markets around people who care about others! The planet! Art! Fashion! Design! All of it!!! I don't take that for granted. It’s overwhelming in the best way possible.

I talked about hitting pause for a while with the biz, and that still holds, but to be honest, WPF, HT, and WAVES make me question that. This year, I’ve learned that I’m a market girlie, I’m not really an online girlie! Selling online often feels scrubbed of the human element - more transactional, less personal - and sometimes like consumerism for the sake of consumerism. I love the community and all the friends I've made over on instagram, and I’ll continue to be there. I’ll still definitely sell online, when the time is right, or just sporadically.

I’ve done IRL events since, I think, March of 2023? Most of which I enjoyed, some I didn’t - but that “didn’t” often came from an insecure place of feeling the need to “sell, sell, sell” and be part of some capitalist bullshit machine. I’ve never liked that, and it’s the antithesis of what I’m doing here with SSS. As time goes by, I've been shedding that ingrained mindset, becoming comfortable with my own definition of success, blocking out the noise. It really is the face-to-face experience of markets that light me up, making the work gratifying and meaningful.

So here’s to an evolution of SSS. Still figuring it out, but the idea as of right now is… more markets!

Thank you so much for your support as this biz + project changes and grows and ebbs and flows and all of ittttttt. Thank you thank you thank you!

<3 Cecilia