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🌱 Two things:
1) Stickers are live NOW for everyone! They’ll be up just a little while: HERE
2) Calendars and notebooks are coming. There’s a story, but it’s happening.
The last step in designing for our first ever Britchida art calendar was writing “2025” over and over until I had one that felt just right. I scanned it in and positioned it over my painting, feeling quite aware that I did not know what 2025 would hold. I just knew I wanted to get this right.
When I wrote my first little art bio a few years ago, in the absence of any sort of actual credentials, I just said, I make art as a way to heal and offer back to my community some gifts for resilience.
I think that’s why I felt like being so careful with the design, because I wanted the calendar to be like that, a gift for resilience. I wanted something perfect to keep you company over the next year.
It turns out, they are not perfect. The covers are lush and thick, but despite having opened 62 tabs and scoured the internet for the best quality calendar making option, the inside paper is too thin for all the white space, and you can still see a faint outline of the previous month’s art through.
They arrived on my door step on election day, and I just set them aside with a sigh.
I explored some options for getting them reprinted, but in the end I couldn’t stomach wasting all of these. We’ve had some days to look at them now and have started to joke: they’re just nuanced; these ideas are multilayered anyway; our histories always show through and that’s okay; the future’s not perfect, but we’re going in with the best of what we have and will make it our own.
So, we’re putting them in the shop after all and throwing in a free Isn’t it fun? sticker with each one. There are just 50 of them, they’re marked down and quite possibly the only calendars I’ll ever make :) Members will get first dibs tomorrow evening (Friday, Nov 15, 4pm PT / 7pm ET). Any that are left will go in the main shop on Saturday morning at 8am PT / 11am ET.
If you’d like access to the member drop, join any tier on Patreon or become a supporter here on Substack.
There will also be notebooks, which are actually quite perfect. Look at these full-sized ones! I will be sketching in them all year.
And we have a new tiny one that will be available on its on own or as part of the collection.
Members get first dibs on calendars and notebooks tomorrow evening (Fri 11/15, 4pm PT/7pm ET). For access, become a member. Starts at $3, comes with $10 off.
Any left will go in the main shop on Saturday at 8am PT/11am ET.
We have just 50 of each (well, now it’s more like 46 after pulling out a few for friends).
But first! Stickers 🥳
Our Winter 2024 sticker drop — the biggest one of the year — is live now in the main shop. It will only be up for a little while, so if you’d like to collect some tiny art for yourselves or people you love, swing by now.
Hoping something easy and good finds you today, along with all the space and safety to savor it.
love,
brit
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