I absolutely did not plan for this.

Normal blogs are doing a twelve-month retrospective. This is not that. Instead, I got my pedantic/ADHD self into doing twelve bonus designs (well, eleven since the Yeti is the monthly, but also twelve if you count the Cheers Words design that is kind of an offshoot of the Speech Bubble).

So, for the Twelve Days of Christmas, I gave my supporters:

One Kawaii Yeti

One Gem (Heart)

One Diskette

One Gem (Trillion)

One Scissors Guard

One Gem (Cushion)

One Double Bow

One Finish Strong

One Camico Cat

One Speech Bubble (and some Cheers Words)

One Gem (Brilliant)

and a Sitting Bear, not in a tree.

Aside from the Yeti, these will probably stop being free-to-supporters at the end of January, so sign up on Ko-Fi or Patreon now if you want a good deal. (The non-bonus designs are always free for three months.)

Most of these were things I'd done but never fully tested/polished for production, and honestly it was a good exercise just to remind myself that getting a design out the door can be pretty simple (if tedious and slightly time-consuming; I need to automate more of it).

I did get some side projects done as part of it: fixed (or at least made a formal work-around) the encoding issue with accented characters, fixed the missing accented characters in Bluenesia, made a bean-stitch version of Chicken Scratch. Both the latter alphabets will be in the next release of Ink/Stitch, so that's nice.

And now I have a plan for what I'm doing next: cleaning and oiling both active machines (normally a post-Christmas-rush thing, and they really need it), updating the sadly-neglected newsletter (and automating the blog-to-newsletter thing, which I keep forgetting to push the button on), and then the next designs: I Love You This Much, Primitive Bunny, Clog, Sit Here, and Valentines.

Whew.