 Okay guys, so the first batch of comics have arrived really excited to open it. I think it's wishing on a star Oh my god This is always like the best feeling ever. I want to look at one. Oh It's got like the soft cover to it Where it feels like really nice It looks awesome Oh my gosh, so excited to look through this It's looking good. I'm so glad that it looks this good. It isn't so happy I can't wait for the other one to arrive so then I can see them side by side But this is one half of twin comic. I love it And I love this soft touch cover has the same soft touch cover that Emily is burning had and I'm just gonna wait for those new comics to arrive But yeah, here it is and oh my god. I'm so happy So guys my comics have arrived. So I'm just gonna like unbox them for you passes very interested obviously Because there's plastic. She had me ripping plastic off. So she had to come in and investigate for sure The first batch arrived weirdly wishing on a star arrived first Before anything else even though I ordered them all at the same time These are my Emily is burning comics, which is always nice to see a fresh batch of them. Yay There's lots there Very nice, but I'm excited to see the new comics because I haven't seen them before so So there it is. It looks really cool. The colors look exactly like I Thought they would yeah, so these two comics go together in a bundle So I'm gonna make my own little like sleeve for both of them to go together They are a lot smaller than I thought they would be But yeah, they are short stories. So still cool So I've restocked if you guys would like to order a copy of Emily is burning here. It is or if you'd like to order a Copy of each of these there they are and yeah I'm very excited. I'm gonna start packaging up orders pretty soon and sending them off. Oh my gosh But I'm really excited and So happy to share this journey with you guys. Yeah, I don't know what else to say Thanks for everything basically But guys I just wanted to give a quick update because I did yeah package them all up So you will see that in this vlog if you want to like continue watching and that's a little preview for you Guys to check these out. I have actually sold out of these now But I've ordered more so Hopefully if you want to grab some you will be able to thanks Pesto for putting a button there in the future. But yeah Exciting so I'm working on some patreon rewards tonight and I've got these really cool Handmade scrunchies. So I'm just doing like packaging for them and they're gonna be sent out in the mega bundle I'm gonna be doing the prints and these scrunchies and some stickers because to make up For a couple of months of not sending rewards So it's gonna be like a big package for people and I'm hoping that they like these these are made by my mom and I think they're really cool. They're really like Easy on your hair as well. So I really like using them too They're very nice and they've made by They're like Liberty print fabric, which is apparently like a really bougie fabric, so They feel really silky and soft. Yay. I'm excited Good morning everyone. So as you can see I have started on my packaging of the comics and really excited to get these shipped out to everybody Um Why every time she's obsessed with the camera So I'm gonna do some packaging out by taking the day off work to get this done And I've got the day off tomorrow So I'm gonna go and like get the prints ready for the patreon rewards because I need to catch up with the patrons I live in a cat war zone like honestly. I Don't think I can get a sentence out without a cat meowing or like playing with something so you guys are just gonna have to like Understand this um situation I'm gonna go get my prints printed for patrons today, and we're doing this mega bundle thing because I'm catching up on the Like couple months that I took off and I wanted like reward my patrons for sticking with me So they're gonna get a scrunchie a load of prints. Some of them are gonna get a comic different stuff basically and Yeah, so if you want to join my picture, and it would really mean a lot I'm kind of currently in a difficult position because I started back at work Full-time in the office, and I'm not super pleased about it like I like the work But being back full-time in an office without The opportunity to work from home is really tough now Um when we were in lockdown our company was saying like it's gonna be the evolution of like working now We can work from home a couple days a week, and I know that so many companies now are offering remote work and things so it really kind of sucks that We have to do this because I I don't know I got really used to working from home I felt like it was more me I feel like my mental health is suffering a little bit at the fact that I have to be Stuck in an office eight hours a day, and I don't know. It's just not my thing and I know that People, you know Have to do that. I have to do that, but I would prefer not to so if I could make my patron like super Not super, but if it was enough to like pay my bills, I probably would just be like Okay, I'm doing this now, and I don't know Don't tell them I said that I'm just not feeling positive about it. I'm feeling a bit like how Gigi's feeling right now I don't know if you can actually hear him, but it's really annoying me So I'm just gonna carry on with my positivity guys That looked creep that looked really creepy. I'm sorry and carry on Packaging everyone's orders also. Thank you so much. If you pre-ordered the comics like I was thinking I can't do a Kickstarter and pre-ordering a comic like on Etsy is a bit weird, and I know I Don't know if I would go for it if if somebody else was offering that so I'm really grateful for everyone who did it and You gave me enough funds to be able to print the comics, which is really cool So now I have a product that I can send out to people and it's amazing. Thank you so much for your Generosity and hopefully your enjoyment of what will arrive Please ignore this. I like got scratched on my nose somehow when I was at the beach But anyway, I finally completed most of the orders. There's only a few left to do I think I'm gonna leave that for tomorrow because I'm pretty burnt out This took a few hours of packaging and everything and what that only shows you like How lucky I am that lots of people ordered and I'm officially sold out of frugated teeth So I'm gonna order a few more if you can see here. I Have got lots of the slow disappearance of Olivia and you breathe because I ordered more of them by accident So I ordered a hundred of them and 50 of those so there's only 11 left I believe but I have to package them up and do you know the packaging for the actual putting them together as well So I'm gonna order some more of the wishing on a star and I've got a lot of Emily is burning left Which is cool because I saw how stock basically. I'm really surprised. I didn't realize that it sold out I didn't realize that 50 people had ordered through gritted teeth the geology. I'm super I don't know how that passed me by I don't even I Think cuz I I thought I had more than I did maybe So when I put it through on Etsy, I was like, yeah, I've got loads of these and then it's like Well, you did but then it got sold out whoop It's a good feeling. It really is it's just exhausting as well, but it's like a good good tiredness You know what I mean like you feel Accomplished what I feel accomplished. So there we go So I made little miniatures with this Fimo, which was quite fun. It was just something to do for me like Just for fun. I did film a little bit of it, but yeah, and then I painted them I'm gonna put some resin over the top I think and Just maybe make magnets out of them. I'm not sure yet, but yeah, I made like a little jelly paints thing This book the mirror visitor because I really liked it. I tried to like kind of copy the cover And this one is my favorite one and kind of like a photoshop interface And then it's got this is glow-in-the-dark which is blowing my mind because I love glow-in-the-dark So all the bits that I didn't paint will glow-in-the-dark. Hopefully which is kind of cool So today I am finishing off Packing up some orders and Today I'm packing up some Patreon orders and not orders patreon rewards and I got like some really cool stuff. So I basically I took like the past two three months off patreon and People have stuck about Anyway, so which is really kind of them. So I wanted to do like a mega bundle of prints and stuff to make up for that I Did three different prints for this month. So if you just joined this month I'll be doing the studio Ghibli redraw print for everyone and I want to make some stickers as well So that I'll probably be like this month's reward and then for people who have stuck by for the last couple of months I'm gonna be doing like a bunch of different things. So I've got some scrunchies that my mom has handmade Stop this Pesto calm down It's your problem We're gonna calm down now. What's it like to live with a diva you may ask? Saying okay, so yeah, I did these scrunchies. So my mom made these scrunchies and they are made with like this super nice print I Think they're called Liberty prints. So it's like a really like well known Fabric brand in the UK. So she made these and then I made a little nice little sticker thing and Then also got some sweets. I've decided that I wanted to buy everyone like these sweets are all vegetarian gluten-free blah blah blah So they're good for like everyone. I think Except for vegans, maybe I'm not sure about that, but I don't know why it wouldn't be good for vegans and Yeah, so I think it will be like a really nice bundle once I get the stickers done I have made the stickers. I just need to print them out and I haven't figured out my Greek art still I need to like do them properly It'd be nice to have like stickers from the Greek up, but I still haven't done that But yeah, I want to get like back into the flow of things, especially with full-time work I am gonna be good and I'm gonna be making sure that I do a print and a sticker Like a big sticker every month for all my patrons So I hope that this will be like the last kind of mega bundle even though they're probably quite fun to receive And they are quite fun to make as well. I also had a failed attempt. I don't know if I'm gonna show this footage because It didn't work out that basically I was like I'm gonna make mini palettes for all my patrons and it's gonna be really easy and Cool so what I did was like I got Fimo and I made like little palettes and I baked the first one and it completely burned it was like a massive pile of mess and then this one I like Made a little tiny thing and then I painted it with like this porcelain Paint that should seal it and I was like wait a second After I did it. I was like wait Fimo porcelain. Is that the same thing? No So I don't think that it's come out too well Um, I might still like have a crack at it, but I think I Think they're not really worth sending to anyone like at all They're just rubbish, but I had fun trying so there we go I might in the future make like little charms or something if I managed to figure it out So there we go And yeah, so that's it really and I'm packaging up more more comics and Hopefully gonna be because of Brexit basically what I have to do is declare each Each package online write down what it is write down the weight write down the address Then get a number from that Write it down. So for each thing I have to write all this stuff again Write it all down for myself take it to the post office and say look I've done this online and then they like process your order there so it is a hefty task and I'm not into it It's not the thing that I enjoy about this process I really enjoy making the prints making the comics sending people stuff then receiving it then reading it and telling me if they Enjoy, you know love all that just the process of sending stuff out is like painful also, I realize I have been using a lot of plastic in my Comic like packaging, which is something that I am wary of so please don't Say in the comments like yes, because what basically happened is I've had these plastic packaging for years I'm literally like five four years So I thought I would use them to just find the two comics together So it made sense and then you know, I had this anyway, so I might as well use it I'm not gonna buy them again. I want to buy a packaging that is like eco friendly So I'm hoping to find something online I did get something with no issue like they were gonna send me some stuff But I completely was so busy that I just couldn't do it So I'm hoping maybe if I reach out again to them, they might be able to Help me out. I can make a video on like doing a logo and then putting on the paper If you don't know what no issue is it's like this company that does really eco-friendly packaging and prints like your logos on them It's a little bit pricey So I'm not sure but like if they're gonna give me a discount or something then maybe I'll go with them But yeah, that's it and I'm just gonna continue packaging Mocchi is I swear. I love these cats, but they are like the bane of my existence, too Hello much. Do you want to say hello to the camera? She's like hello. She does not like being touched. She's absolutely insane She sounds we should have called her the gremlin to be honest with you and she won't leave Pesto alone Pesto hates her. Pesto's like just leave me alone and she's like I'm gonna bug ya No, thank you So I'm just working on the two stickers now This is what the stickers are gonna be I'm gonna laminate them and then hand cut them all out But I wanted to see what the unicorn milk would look like on top like maybe it would make it more iridescent and I'm just gonna wait for this to dry, but I'm not sure it's working because the paper is like a Little bit thin for it, but it's kind of cool Hmm Not sure Super happy with the way that this has turned out So I thought I filmed an outro for this, but I haven't here it is Thank you guys for watching if you made it this far, then please give me a thumbs up Also, maybe you would like to check out my patreon seeing as this has have been What am I saying? This has been what this video has been about I'm definitely gonna focus a lot more on my patreon and I was thinking I'm gonna do like a specific How to sort of mini comic on how to make comics but exclusive to my patrons So I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that, but I think that would be something that people be interested in so it might be quite fun to do Yeah, anyway, that's just my idea. You'll probably hear more about that in the next vlog Look out for Saturday's video because I think it's gonna be a really fun one and I'll see you next time Thanks a lot. Bye