{"id":3882,"date":"2025-01-17T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2025-01-17T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T15:45:09","slug":"new-year-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/new-year-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey hey! It&#8217;s a brand new year, wow. 2025 is already shaping up to be something busy and exciting for us, and we&#8217;ve already hit the ground running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Websites!!!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing is, of course: wow, we changed our site again! W&amp;W has gotten a full-on makeover. New updates to WordPress has really allowed me to go absolutely ham on it and really make it feel like ours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-16-at-12.58.45-PM-1024x770.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3893\" style=\"width:911px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-16-at-12.58.45-PM-1024x770.png 1024w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-16-at-12.58.45-PM-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-16-at-12.58.45-PM-768x578.png 768w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-16-at-12.58.45-PM-1536x1155.png 1536w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screen-Shot-2025-01-16-at-12.58.45-PM-2048x1540.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently in the process of doing the same to our shop, so for now <strong>our shop is closed<\/strong> until the revamps are all done and tested. This should hopefully be done before the end of the month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">PINTOPIA!!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another big focus we&#8217;re doing this month. Pintopia on Backerkit!! It&#8217;s launching NEXT WEEK!! And for the first time, Winter and I are separating and running two campaigns at the same time! Yes, it&#8217;s nuts! But it&#8217;s also so that we could partner up with our pals for Pintopia&#8217;s cross collab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I, Tas, will be running <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/d0b97dee-3672-4bcb-8826-d4c25aa15cba\/landing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/d0b97dee-3672-4bcb-8826-d4c25aa15cba\/landing\">Lil&#8217; Harpies<\/a><\/strong>. These will be 1.5&#8243; inch pins, in black metal and with some screenprinted details! Of, of course, little harpies! We&#8217;re opening up with the Cardinal and Blue Jay, but there&#8217;s a couple birdies to unlock, too: including, naturally, the Great Tit and Blue-Footed Booby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled_Artwork-98-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3890\" style=\"width:948px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled_Artwork-98-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled_Artwork-98-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled_Artwork-98-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled_Artwork-98-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled_Artwork-98-1-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter will be running <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/1ad2e8d6-fa23-406d-bedf-d3246ed3bd2c\/landing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/1ad2e8d6-fa23-406d-bedf-d3246ed3bd2c\/landing\">ANTIQUITY<\/a><\/strong>, a revamp of his Greek Mythology pinset. This one will be smaller, with 1.5&#8243; inch pins meant to invoke the imagery of ancient pottery, and symbolizing the popular gods. A much easier set to collect, this time! The goal unlocks the Moon and Sun God pins, and there will be a poll to vote on which one unlocks next!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/banner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3888\" style=\"width:966px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/banner.png 1280w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/banner-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/banner-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/banner-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s Pintopia, of course, so we&#8217;re collaborating! With others! I, with Lil&#8217; Harpies, will be collaborating with Fairylogue Press, who is doing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/7dc69edb-9fcf-4def-a67a-982975ccad44\/landing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/7dc69edb-9fcf-4def-a67a-982975ccad44\/landing\">Shiny Trinkets: Crow Time pins!<\/a><\/strong> You&#8217;ve probably heard of Crow Time, right? Well, if you get some snazzy Crow Time merch along with my Lil&#8217; Harpies, you&#8217;ll get bonus pins from the both of us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter is collabing with our other pal Gisele with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/87dd1aa0-e802-4e1b-85d9-523010655209\/landing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.backerkit.com\/call_to_action\/87dd1aa0-e802-4e1b-85d9-523010655209\/landing\">Sky Thieves<\/a><\/strong>, some absolutely adorable tiger pins with stars! If you back ANTIQUITY, along with Sky Thieves, you&#8217;ll get some wonderful bonus pins from them too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/collabpins1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3897\" style=\"width:716px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/collabpins1.png 1000w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/collabpins1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/collabpins1-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, since it&#8217;s all coming from the same place: if you back both me and Winter&#8217;s campaigns, <strong>you&#8217;ll only have to pay shipping once<\/strong>. It&#8217;s like backing one of our usual campaigns&#8211;only twice? I guess?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we also manage to get both our campaigns up to 10k, Winter and I will also collab on an embroidered <strong>Harpy Keychain!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m very excited about these pins and these projects, so please join us in this little adventure! You can follow the pages now to be notified when they all launch!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Storage??<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The THIRD big exciting 2025 thing that&#8217;s been happening is that we got some <strong>new storage space for our stuff!<\/strong> For the last&#8230; well, since W&amp;W existed, even, we&#8217;ve been working out of our own apartment. Which is great, y&#8217;know, but we were starting to lose a lot of our personal space to the business. Since getting this new spot, we&#8217;ve spent most of this January moving and reorganizing, and it&#8217;s looking great! We only had to fight off&#8230; a few spiders. And maybe a centipede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250114_210804983-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3895\" style=\"width:726px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250114_210804983-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250114_210804983-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250114_210804983-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250114_210804983-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250114_210804983-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This opens up a lot of opportunities for us, now that we can really separate our work space from our living space. Helps a bit with the brain space, too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in time, too, because we just got the shipment for the <strong>softcover Prism Knights!<\/strong> Look forward to a Kickstarter update very soon, and for these to be on the shop when it relaunches!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3898\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152604139-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3899\" src=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/windywallflower.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20250117_152653923-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s on the docket, 2025?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh boy! Yeah, I did say I&#8217;d be back with our new plans, didn&#8217;t I? Alright, well&#8230; let&#8217;s see&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These three things have taken up a lot of Room this beginning of the year. So, once they&#8217;re all done and tucked away, what&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>New Card Deck Campaign:<\/strong> we&#8217;ll likely be running a new Kickstarter to reprint our dinosaur card deck, since it&#8217;s running low! It&#8217;ll also include a new deck with new, dinosaur-related designs&#8230;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Augustine&#8217;s Return:<\/strong> this should be very soon! We aim to be back before the end of the month!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>New Zines and Artbooks:<\/strong> we really wanna focus on printing these for our upcoming stories. Look forward to printed Moby Dykes and Farewell Tour zines!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lab Partners:<\/strong> our next 18+ comic, about some very mad scientists! This starts rolling out on Patreon next month, and will be available on our shop afterwards!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>New Keychains and Patches:<\/strong> we really want to shift towards this kind of merch, moving forward, so we&#8217;re ready to print some new designs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With all these website overhauls, we&#8217;re also aiming to start giving you guys stuff digially. <a href=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.itch.io\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/windywallflower.itch.io\/\">We recently reopened our Itch.io page<\/a>, and Winter has been itching to post some prose <strong>directly online<\/strong> for you guys to read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You remember my fakemon zine? I&#8217;m currently expanding it again, but <a href=\"http:\/\/tasmukanik.com\/wp\/lapeo-region-dex\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/tasmukanik.com\/wp\/lapeo-region-dex\/\">I made a whole page on my site with all of them so far<\/a>, that you can check out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we already have some conventions lined up this year, and no doubt there will be more on the way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Montreal Maker&#8217;s Market<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Montr\u00e9al, QC \/\/ March 29-30<br><strong><em>Calgary Comic Expo <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Calgary, AB \/\/ April 24-27<br><strong><em>FBDM-MCAF<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Montr\u00e9al, QC \/\/ May 23-25<br><strong><em>Montreal Comic Convention (MTLCC)<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Montr\u00e9al, QC \/\/ July 4-6<br><strong><em>Ottawa Comic Convention (OCC)<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Ottawa, ON \/\/ September 5-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for stopping by! Here&#8217;s to an awesome 2025!<br>-W&amp;W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey hey! It&#8217;s a brand new year, wow. 2025 is already shaping up to be something busy and exciting for us, and we&#8217;ve already hit the ground running. Websites!!! The first thing is, of course: wow, we changed our site again! W&amp;W has gotten a full-on makeover. 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