Hey all,

Thank you for your patience and thank you for your very quick work filling out the surveys!

Completely unsurprising, but the most popular item is the Mothman Tea Set! I see you fellow Mothman fans!

Here's some important info going forward:

Survey locks and charges are going to happen every Friday until the survey deadline on January 31st. One was supposed to happen yesterday but it didn't feel good to lock + charge without sending out a reminder first. Instead, a lock and charge will be happening Tomorrow Sunday 21st.

I will be ordering the pins right after Christmas. They should take about 45 days to make, making us still on time for fulfilment. I'm already going over final art and such with my manufacturer so I'm basically just waiting to pay. I unfortunately can't order them any earlier because I need to be able to confirm my new address will actually be *my* address before I send a bunch of expensive merch to it. (more on that below...)

I will unlock surveys again after the pins come in. This will only let people add more pins, unfortunately, as BackerKit doesn't have a good way to administer partial refunds. I will post photos of the pins so you can see how they actually turned out. This will be some time in February.

I will contact UK backers and sending Etsy links for their orders in February. I'll be doing this only when all of the merchandise is in.

Lastly, I will be participating in Pintopia this year in January. I will be doing a set of cyberpunk-style animals and will be posting designs very soon. You can follow the campaign here!

I am, for once, very confident that fulfilment will be as sooth as butter for this campaign. It's getting there that's killing me a bit! I think I mentioned my house woes in my last update. My spouse and I are trying to buy a house and settle in to our new town, but the first house we made an offer on was full asbestos. We were supposed to close on the 22nd, and that would be that. We decided to terminate that contract and start over on house hunting - that's been the reason I've been a bit squirrely and hard to get a hold of, and I'm sorry! 

Good news is that we found a back up and made an offer. Inspection turned out great and we should be good to close and move in on January 8th. I'm waiting on getting my mortgage re-approved before I start making plans to have things shipped there. I'm going to try to get my studio space set up asap so I can get be completely ready for Pintopia and fulfilling Autum Aesthetics. I get a WHOLE BASEMENT to myself so I don't have to stress about storage space anymore!!! And a nice space just for fulfilment!!! AND NO ASBESTOS!! YIPPEE!! 

Thanks for being here all, I really do appreciate it and am looking forward to not moving next year (haha) but in all seriousness, I am very thankful for you all. I wouldn't wish the year I've had on anyone, but you all being flexible and kind has made it 1000% easier and better. Some of you have been with me for every campaign I did this year and gosh, you folks have been troopers. I won't let you down, promise! 

Cheers, and see you in the next update!
- Lachlan