Gosh, sorry for the long silence! (Patreon)

I didn't even realise December is almost over. The dead giveaway is not even Christmas looming ever closer, but the fact we'll see Star Wars tonight. =P

The last two weeks were just too full. Apart from having to drive my son everywhere because of his broken arm (which is healing well - thank you for all the well wishes!), my two Year Tens at school kept me busy. Five people tried to cheat their way through a Latin exam by googling translations under their desks. Some were smart enough to try and pass off the results as their own work; some, hilariously, were not, faithfully copying Latin translations from the eighteenth century - in verse, to boot - into their exam papers and thinking I wouldn't notice all the forsooths. This meant that every exam took an hour to mark instead of twenty minutes, as I had to check every online text for matches. I only finished today. And had a lot of very unpleasant phonecalls with parents.

I will finally finish up the last of the calendars this weekend and start shipping the FIN prints - and finally finish the new pin designs! I'm looking forward to starting the New Year with a minimal backlog of work, and prettily arranged paints that beg to be used.

Since this is the time of year to look back in gratitude, I want to tell you all again what a precious bunch you are. A decade is drawing to its close, a decade in which I firmly found my artistic voice and was able to do a lot of projects, none of which would have been possible without you. <3 I feel truly blessed to have been given the chance to do, and succeed with, so many things. Thank you.