If you’ve ever driven down a District of Columbia street, you’ve probably noticed yourself a little more upset than usual. A tendency to ignore the blinking turning signal from the car in the next lane. Even an occasional side eye or vulgar exchange between you and your traffic mate. Why? My guess is that one of the main reasons are because the roads are always under construction. Always! New York Avenue, under construction. 295, under construction. You name it, and there are set of cones and idle (sometimes even non-existent) set of construction workers to go along with the barricades.

So if you’ve visited the shop lately, you may have noticed some changes. Similar to the DC streets we all hate so much, we would like to consider ourselves a work in progress. The AOI team is currently working to make the store, blog, and website one seamless work of art with the hope that the result is a better customer experience for you. So if things have been seeming a little slow on our end, don’t worry; we’re just doing the behind the scenes work to make sure our AOI followers are happy. Summer time is almost here and we have some very special things planned. Just wait and see.