A much quicker turnaround on this update :) but I wanted to share a quick little update. I finished another one of the designs! Illumination (homing beacon) has always been o...
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Jeszika Le Vye
8 days ago
Update - with pictures :)
Hello!
To begin with, I wanted to apologize for letting two months go by between updates. I usually hope to keep new updates posted every month or two, and I have let...
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Jeszika Le Vye
3 months ago
✨ Advent Design ✨
Another quick update :) I have the work-in-progress ready for Advent! I'm really having fun with how light and luminous Advent feels - and I hope you guys love her design 🖤
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Jeszika Le Vye
3 months ago
✨Exhale Design ✨
Just wanted to send a quick update - I got the work-in-progress ready for Exhale!
I am really happy with how they are all turning out, but this one especially felt just ...
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Jeszika Le Vye
3 months ago
✨🌙 What's Next? 🌙✨
Goodness, thank you everyone 🖤 I wanted to start by just saying how grateful and excited I am by how much you all helped bring this project to life. We not only hit our final...
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Jeszika Le Vye
3 months ago
✨ We did it! Last stretch goal unlocked!! ✨
✨ Oh my goodness - I'm so happy to say - we unlocked the final stretch goal last night!! Advent is now unlocked! ✨
This means all 9 Sorceresses are now unlocked and availabl...
A much quicker turnaround on this update :) but I wanted to share a quick little update. I finished another one of the designs! Illumination (homing beacon) has always been one of my very favorite paintings from this series, and I'm so happy with how her pin design turned out. I hope you love how she turned out as well!
✨ Illumination ✨ also called 'Homing Beacon' - as this sorceress reminds us that home is not a place, but a light we carry within us that calls our kin home to us. With this light, we find our family, and wherever we go, we are home. Take care to nurture and feed your light and warmth as it is a source of life to those you love as well. Like the loyal and social fox, her pack is numbered and tight-knit. Together they face the storms and share in joy, carrying the warmth of the den in their companionship. All members of her pack care for the young and injured, and she reminds us to pull close to us those we love and those who need us. She gleams a signal to us through the mist and rain, to share our warmth and light, and to gather to you your pack.
With Illumination finished, that just leaves two left - Shimmer and Advent :) which I hope to have finished and ready for updates of their own soon as well. I also wanted to take a moment and just say thank you so much to all of you for the incredibly kind and thoughtful messages and comments to my last update 🖤 It means so much to me and I feel so lucky to have such kind and understanding backers. The last few months have been very difficult, and it was such a huge weight off my chest to read all the kind words and feel that everything is going to be ok. My biggest fear is letting people down, and the grace you all shared with me gave me so much peace. Thank you so much 🖤 I am on the mend, the surgery healed super well, and things are returning to normal a little.
Oh, and a small note on pin progress - since my wonderful vector artist has already finished a few of the vectors, I was thinking of going ahead and ordering one or two designs, instead of waiting for the whole batch to finish. Since my last pin manufacturer has been such a nightmare to work with (and I'm still fighting to finish the order), I think that it might be less stressful and safer to try a new manufacturer with just one design and see how it goes. That way I can test if they are a good fit before sending them tens of thousands of dollars and being trapped working with them. And on the plus side - we get to see how a few turn out a little faster :) I think I will start with the Astronomer.
Ok - I really meant to keep this short lol so going to run for now! 🖤 Thank you again, everyone 🖤 love you guys and I'll have another update soon!
To begin with, I wanted to apologize for letting two months go by between updates. I usually hope to keep new updates posted every month or two, and I have let it slip a little longer than I usually do - which I hope will be a bit more understandable after this update. It definitely wasn't my intention to go too long between updates and I don't want anyone to feel worried or stressed about the project. So with this update, I hope to put everyone's mind at ease, share a bunch of final designs on pins, and explain what has kept me so busy over the last two months.
I also posted an update on my Flora & Feather campaign last week that covers a lot of this as well (but more specific to that campaign) so for those of you who backed both, some of this will be a repeat from that update.
To begin with - Puzzle Campaign Fulfillment: Shortly after this campaign wrapped up, all of the metal tins for my jigsaw puzzle campaign arrived. Which was great! But also meant I then spent the better part of a month fulfilling that Kickstarter and officially getting that campaign wrapped up and completed. It had been a long wait for everything to finish shipping and arrive for me to be able to fulfill that campaign and so getting that finished was a very high priority. Also, my entire studio was stacked to the ceiling in boxes with barely enough room to reach my computer lol - which also necessitated it getting taken care of as quickly as I could. Though it is a separate campaign, I thought I'd share a peek at the state of things while finishing fulfillment on that campaign 😅
But it is officially all finished now - making one less huge project and campaign for me to need to divide my time and work between.
Last year, when I decided to run both Flora & Feather campaigns at the same time, I believed it was an efficient use of my time to run them concurrently - that it would make the process more streamlined as I worked on them together. Looking back, I realize how wrong I was, and that not only was it double the work, it was more than double, as trying to manage my time between the two made both harder. I learned the hard way that running two concurrent campaigns was extra, extra difficult, and I definitely will not make that mistake again! But at least the puzzle campaign is successfully wrapped up!
As much of this update is more specific and personal, I am going to finish up in the backer-only section instead this time <3
