Hi Y’all,

First off shut out to Remy for the recap of the year 09. I will be doing a little summary on the now ending Momotaro Vintage 0901 project before starting the new Momotaro Copper Label GL003-MB -journey.

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Nobel prizes seem to be given out arbitrarily.

The Governator publishes rather great memos.

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Merry Christmas y’all,

The holidays are coming to an end this year and we’re getting ready for the last week of the year 2009.

I have avoided the notebook as well as my phone for most of the holidays (or at least tried to) in order to relax for a moment. During the holidays our little election came to an end on the Christmas eve and my next project is now decided. I am still putting my current 0901 project through the test of winter element and I can tell that the jeans are working real well even during the harsh winters of Finland. Actually I feel as if I would really love to continue the current project for another year and I realized that some of you felt the same way as 14% of the voters thought that I should continue the project as the jeans would most definitely become even better in time.

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Hi Y’all,

Christmas is almost here and yours truly has been overwhelmed with Xmas preparations along with the rest of the stuff like work. But all work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy. Well no fear of that, I’m never dull and when you love what you do, work does not even feel like work. But the cleaning, packing and gift shopping, that’s a whole different thing. That said, all these other things have taken a lot of my time so pardon a bit shorter blog post today.

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Hi Y’all,

Hope you have had a chance to give your vote on my next big denim project (see the poll on the right).

Four more nights till Christmas Eve. Splendid! Few more days of work followed by a long weekend full of seasonal celebrations. Christmas is a season of sharing and giving, but also like someone from my family mentioned about receiving. It’s true, as nice as it is to give presents it’s also nice to get a few surprise gifts.

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Hi Y’all,

As I hinted on my post yesterday, I am looking into starting my next denim project shortly and decided that it would be best to let you, our readers decide what type of project I’m going to undertake. I did do some preliminary ranking based on the type of jeans and the available size. But in the end you have the choice over what jeans I will put through wear and tear next year. On the right you can see the poll, so don’t hesitate to cast your vote.

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Hi Y’all,

Today was a snow day, and I hope I have me a … snow night? Yes, today was indeed a snowy, winter day. Even Helsinki got covered in snow.

It’s 10pm now and it’s still snowing.

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Hi Y’all,

We’ve all recovered from the Saturday’s party and as I hinted on my previous post, the winter indeed made a comeback. Great! Christmas without snow in Finland does not really feel like Christmas, or so they say. Nevertheless I’m really happy to see snow again. The thing is that along with the snow, came the freezing cold weather. This morning Helsinki woke up to -12 degrees Celsius. Cold… Well that’s not all that cold if you think about the fact that not that long ago we still had (and the North of Finland still has) -20 to -30 degree Celsius climates. Now that’s cold.

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Hi Y’all,

It was a mighty fine party last night. A pack of people getting together to celebrate our journey this far and more importantly getting together in celebration of the seasonal festivities. There are many types of Pre-Xmas parties or “pikkujoulu” as we call it in Finland, some good and some not so good. This one however was a night to remember and to relive next year. Plenty of mulled wine (glögg or glögi) as well as good food was consumed in good spirit and more importantly good company.

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Hi Y’all,

We’ve almost reached the mid-point of December and I’m only now coming at you with another Kicks edition. Well for December’s kicks edition I decided to do a little follow up on some previously discussed kicks as well as talk about some on-going trends (also previously discussed). But without further due, let’s get ready to rumble.

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