Happy New Year! As the title says, Mary Read, Anne Bonny and Olga of Kyiv are ALMOST ready to ship. It WILL be January, and hopefully next week. Those in the EU will need to wait a teeny bit longer while we sort adherence to the latest GSPR regulations, but that’s aiming to be in place for January, too.

While I had been updating across social media and our live stream, I had neglected to update this blog, so I apologise for that. The end of 2024 became hectic in general, with various illness jumping in, and before I knew it was 2025. I’m back and better now though, hooray!

This is not to say that nothing was happening – it sure was! SOME elements were late though, which was entirely my fault. I was late getting directions to the painter, and I had a total brain block regarding writing out the collector cards. It’s all done now though and thanks to Print co. we have them and they are beautiful!

So what DO we have?

• Minis all cast and in hand
• Collector Cards printed and in hand
• Cards hand numbered
• Pre orders part-packed with anything extra from the shop in there

Which is excellent! That’s the majority!

What needs to happen next?

• Mini painting finished (2/3 so far!)
• Minis Photographed
• Graphic design for colour packaging, then ordered
• Minis packed with colour insert
• Shipping!

John has nearly finished painting Olga, then as soon as I receive them I’ll take some pics, whack em into the packaging file and get that ordered. These are super fast steps as the print place I get those from (different to the cards which are more bespoke) I can get next day delivery.

Packing them, I’ll get my part time worker Lil (aka mum) in to help. So these final steps are pretty straightforward.

You’ll know when to expect them as you will receive a shipping notification email.

Thank you again for supporting this! The relaunch will be put into action once these are fulfilled, but before that I will be putting out a survey where you can tell me what you loved and hated from the project so far, to aid in how we do the relaunch, as I LOVE this project but want it to be even better!

Thanks gang!

Annie