A little reminder that freelancers are humans, too. ❤️

This freelancer is moving apartments next week, and not all stress comes from work.

After a year of amazing clients, projects, and even winning Contra hackathons that helped make this new chapter possible, it feels like a lot is changing at once. I'm scared, but happy.

And right after the move, I’m off to Europe to visit Christmas markets, something I’ve dreamed about for years. 🎄

So I probably won’t be as available as usual for a little while, and I’m learning to be okay with that.

Sometimes growth looks like new projects. Sometimes it looks like a new home, a long-awaited trip, and making room for life outside your laptop.

Here’s to new beginnings. ✨

totally agree! I’m learning to adapt to the quieter periods between projects and enjoy the extra free time. Wish you a nice trip!

While digging through the Rijksmuseum's public domain collection, I found George Barbier's Falbalas et Fanfreluches, a 1920s almanac of hand-stenciled fashion plates that promised fashions "present, past & future."

I built a custom Recraft Style from 10 of his plates, cropping away captions and borders so only his jewel-toned colors, elegant linework, and confident Parisiennes remained.

Then I gave Barbier the future edition he never got to make: his women deadlifting, running boardrooms, livestreaming makeup tutorials, swiping through suitors and DJing until dawn.

Each scene is presented as a post on Falbalas, an imaginary 1920s social feed where the admirers are many and the comments are scandalized.

It's a celebration of women taking up space, drawn in the style of an artist who always made them the most powerful people in the room.

Present, past, future..wow! All in one, amazing work!