A postcard calendar, then! \o/

That's really, really cool! Just so you know what the calendar will look like, here's the 2016 one I had made four years ago. :) 

There's so much great new art since the last calendar - what was it, for 2017? I don't think I even had one made for 2018, right? It's going to be hard to choose which pieces make it in. I may need your help with that. ;) 

For those who voted for another pin - that will happen anyway. I will have to be careful with more recognisable merch after all, though - a friend of mine was just flagged by the company who owns the rights to Tolkien films, with a C&D for a hobbit hole pin she was doing (they seem to be trawling Etsy in search of certain tags at the moment.) I still hope I'm fine, as they're focusing heavily on anything LOTR and Hobbit-related, and all our fave Sil characters are non-problematic. Another reason to hope the Silmarillion won't be made into a film. O_o

Talking of the Sil! I had a fun idea at last weekend's con - I'm going to do a Silmarillion cheat sheet. Something that has all the important characters on it, with their names and an image, and that you can print out and put into the book as you read. I did that with the Harry Potter books when I read them to my kids, and it might be a huge help in making the Sil more widely known, haha!

One word on last week's Etsy orders: They have all been shipped now (almost sixty of them!), and I'll ask you to check carefully whether your packages contain everything they should. I was being very thorough, checking most of them at least once, especially the ones packed by the kids, but I'm very mistake-prone at the moment, especially if reading is involved. If any of you got anything other than you bought, let me know, and I'll rectify my mistakes without a fuss. (There haven't been any until now, but still.) 

And - if anyone has any photos of the pins, please feel free to share them! <3