Hey All!
Just want to post a quick update.
I'm working on the art prints (these are being ordered/shipped separately). Stickers have already arrived at the warehouse, and everything else should be arriving there tomorrow. 
orders have been uploaded into the system, once things arrive, the warehouse will need to "kit" all the things together, (otherwise they charge me per item on a pull, which would essentially be, 2stickers, 3 bookmarks, a calendar, + anything else, which would add up pretty quickly, this way it only counts as 1 or 2 picks). 

You should all have access to the coloring book and the calendar, and i hope you love the art! (if you don't just make a comment, as its probably related to the order being locked down. 

I dont have pictures of anything yet, but i hope to have some this week. 

Hope everyone had a great thanksgiving, and looking forward to the christmas holidays ahead
Andreas

Hey Backers!!
Just wanted to say sorry for the delay in getting an update out.
I haven't talked about it much, but ive been dealing with setting up a lawsuit and (ironically somewhat related) dealing with an IRS audit...which makes this holiday crunch..quite busy.

Im happy to say that you should have received your backerkit invites, if not you can get them here
https://2024-baby-bestiary-calendar.backerkit.com/. 

When you finish the survey, you should have access to the PDF calendar! (I do want to have everything submitted for print)
This weekend I should be able to put in the order for everything so we can keep things moving and on schedule.
My priority now is getting the stickers/bookmarks/earlybird postcard, as these need to be kitted with the calendar

Thank you for all the support and I hope you love the calendars! (also if you see any errors let me know as ill be able to make fixes tonight, have a few others looking at it as well, just in case I missed something.)

IF you have any questions, please dont hesitate to reach out
Andreas

Hey all! 
Im super excited to say that we funded!! and I can't thank you all enough for your support.
I've already got all main calendar art from Nala, so i'm heads down getting the calendar formatted and set up for printing, so that no time is wasted on the printing/fulfillment front. 

I also have the outlines for the coloring books that ill get that ready so you can grab them once we get into backerkit.
Speaking of which, starting next week ill be opening up the backerkit, for any pledge changes, art, ect. 
Thanks again so much for the support,and I look forward to another year of an amazing calendar!
Andreas

Hey Backers (new and old)!
Im excited to announce that we crossed the 10k threshold which means we'll be adding stickers (thinking of doing two designs) to every calendar! For the next one, 14k we'll be doing bookmarks (want to do two-three designs, working on those), and at 20k we'll add a magnet to the whole thing (and subsequent magnets after)

We're also super close to unlocking the Coloring Book! (which the pdf will be free for everyone, and the physical will be an unlocked addon)

No that we're back from BigBadCon, I should have another art update for you in a few days!
Thank you all for the support!

and as a final question for you all,
What day/holiday should we add to the calendar?

Huzzah!
Im excited to announce that we've reached our funding goal (at least the first one), this covers our print  run (the minimum we need to get this ball rolling). The next 4k (up to 9k) technically recoups the art costs. As always, Im super excited to see where we can take this project (given our limited time).

That said, goodies!
With every calendar, we like to include goodies as a stretch goal. In prior years, we commonly did magnets but slowly expanded to postcard/art, and even stickers. But as always I want to turn the question to you>
What would you like to see as a small inclusion to the calendars? (as a note, each calendar gets this item, though we could def do per backer as well.)


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Also to note (this is more my business side musings), over the years we've amassed quite a few excess magnets over the years, which normally is fine, we've listed them on our website and such, but interestingly they dont sell that well post-campaign, so we've mostly resorted to just giving them away with some sticker/mini orders and at conventions, but thats not really sustainable. (also prior years we did three magnet designs, so there were a lot of magnets over the past 9 years). 
I think I'd like to move towards 1 magnet design (if any at all) + other things (stickers seem to do well post, but we're still new at it), this way we can experiment a little bit more or at least maybe dip into something that isnt really going to cost us storage over the years. Anyways, thats probably way more context than you need, but thought to share. 
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Thanks again so much for your support!
And lets keep this little calendar train going!
Andreas