After a lot of chipping away at this finalizing the designs for this project in between moving, being sick, and starting school again for the first time in over four years, everything is at long last done for this project! 

I am so sorry for the wait this has been-- I really didn't anticipate all the curveballs the end of the summer was going to throw at me or how difficult moving would end of being. 

This design is a freebie for all backers, as a thank you for the tremendous support this campaign has received!

Hi everyone! I'm so sorry for the radio silence on this end, my life outside of work has been a bit of a tornado recently--

I’ve been tied up in the hell circus that is moving cross-country while battling a mysterious flea infestation; every step of this process has been a trial. After spending a solid two weeks contacting over 100 landlords and available properties and getting any sort of response from a fraction of those, we were more or less forced to jump on the first lease offered from anyone.

From there, we had about a week to get packed and ready to make the 8ish hour trek from Nebraska to Chicago, during which the aforementioned flea infestation manifested seemingly overnight, making our packing far slower and messier than we realistically had time for. A lot of stuff had to be left behind in the rush, we conceded to just having to make another trip at 5am the day we left after countless hours trying to make it work.

Moving in itself has been exhausting, our apartment is a third floor walk-up in a building with very tall ceilings (which is great in the apartment!) and steep stairs. I know it’s definitely taken its toll on my health; all of my chronic conditions are making themselves very known. We’ve just made it back from that trip, a 34 hour turnaround of driving to Nebraska, packing and cleaning, somewhere between two and three hours of “sleep”, more packing, and finally driving back home.

Things are finally calm enough to get unpacked and for us to settle in, however. My PC has been set back up as of yesterday, allowing me to actually resume work since it’s been packed away for a few weeks.

Surveys should hopefully be going out within the next week, and manufacturing starting shortly thereafter!

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I am so, so sorry for dropping off the face of the earth during this mess— it’s taken everything I have to just keep on top of all of the necessary factors of this move. I’ve been incredibly stressed trying to get it all pulled together enough to get back to work, and I’m glad to have the worst of moving behind me now.   

Three more designs are complete! I'm still chipping away at all of the new designs to be added to the campaign, all of which have funding goals that have long since been passed!

Further designs are in the works, and should (providing all goes well) be coming to the project across this week!

Current WIPs/on the list are:

Thank you so much to everyone for their suggestions of what further stretch goals I should add to the campaign, and for everyone's patience with me while I've been working on these! 

Hello all! 

My apologies for the delay in getting this update out there, I've been admittedly bogged down with illness and apartment hunting with a deadline along with shaky hands directly impacting art. However! The first (small) set of additional designs are here!

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Further designs are in the works, and should (providing all goes well) be coming to the project across this week!

Current WIPs are:

Thank you so much to everyone for their suggestions of what further stretch goals I should add to the campaign, and for everyone's patience with me while I've been working on these!