Good evening everyone, l hope you are all well and not outside tonight with this weather and the wind! High winds have been forecast which is the reason why tomorrow, the Kington show is cancelled as there are large marquees hired for it and the marquee company, seeing the forecast, refused to go ahead as their insurances wouldn't pay out in case of damage. So, anyone who was going to come tomorrow, l do hope you read this in time, please do not come to Kington tomorrow! l have been at my drawings now started when was it...a week ago? After l finished all the chocolates and found myself without the presentation tops, l did the menu for the prunes which was a lot more elaborate than usual, then felt incapable of doing any Apostles drawings. l had the vague idea of them going on Mars for a few months now, but l wanted to bring Paris into it (originally l was thinking to do the Apostles at the Olympic games in Paris with all the fiasco which ensued there, the athletes swimming in the Seine with the turds floating, the Marie-Antoinette head being chopped off -Macron wasn't worried of giving ideas to his people- the children being taken by "death" onto the boat into the tunnel, it was all really odd, to put it politely) but l coudln't do both. This time they start in Paris at Notre Dame (drawing on the front of the box) and they find a portal which sends them...to Mars! (second drawing, which l will not show on here, traditional as l want it to be a secret for when you open the box!)
After all portals do take all sorts of beings into different worlds, places and times. So why not on Mars? The middle drawing is on Mars. You can peer at it a little bit here.
l have printed those and they are better quality than last year's prints (the black and white ones) as l made sure l didn't have to attend to the drawing on the comptuer - l cannot print in high resolution once l have fiddled on the computer, despite saving it at high resuolution and not having the printer on economy setting. It is somehting which has happened with this new desktop l have had a few years, the printers photocopies in great details but it pixelates coming out of any document from the computer itself. Anyway, enough rambling about printing issues , as l don't have time to send them off to printers due to my last-minute drawing (l finished the last drawing at 4am yesterday ) and am now to assemble the boxes. The 3d drawing which l don't always do is on the Apostles boxes menu, and is back at Notre Dame in Paris, as you can see on the picture.
Any orders with those boxes l have not yet sent, so l am behind with orders but think by Tuesday everyone who has ordered up to today should have sent. l thank all the regular Continuum Conceits customers who have come back, your regular purchase means a lot to me and l am so glad you appreciate the chocolates! l also thank everyone else whose name l do not recognise in the orders who have not ordered before. On this, l am tonight allowing myself to have an early night (9pm) so l can get up early tomorrow to carry on the work. If l carried on preparing boxes tonight, l know l would be up at least till 3am again. It is like that for chocolatiers, Christmas time is always so busy, which is very exciting, but it is a shame l don't have time to enjoy it for longer, take more time, but this is my homeopathy symptom at this time, l cannot somehow take any advance on my work, events come and l have to drag myself by the skin of the neck to do anything, when once l have started, l love it. But...Maybe one day l will start my Apostles drawings in October! Next year they are going to be stick-men, as l was enjoying those here so much (despite having no ideas at all) that l loved to take lots of time and writing properly so not to have to put it on the computer... This below is as you can see, the cover for the little boxes of alcohol chocolates. This is a scene l watched this summer when the broody went with her 4 chicks and her adopted turkey chick, on top of a pile of tyres at the back, and this is below her sister Poutpouts, now deceased, having a dust bath. This little hen had a bad leg and l looked after her many weeks... l wanted to immortalise her and l hope her soul is well now. l am sure she is. Her sister the broody oddly also has a bad leg, not the same symptoms but a non-healing locked ankle which she must have broken and didn't heal properly, but she survives. She was a great mother and so nice she could look after the little turkey so l didn't have to look after her... pets take a lot of time!
l haven't put those drawings pictures on the products yet, as it will delay my unusually early bed-time further and then l might start looking at youtube comments or conspiracy theories and then it will be 1am... But this is what you will receive.The drawing for the classic collection is the swan and the fox l drew for Sam and Iman's wedding. Good night all! l wish you all a cosy, good night and much peaceful, enjoyment.
PS: l didn't make the early night, when publishing this blog, l then couldn't find how to activate notification by email in case it wasn't being sent, then the website interface was hiding admin things on how to increase the emails l could use, l had to contact someone and l am now here, 3h later... (it takes a long time to talk to representatives on a chat...but it is all working now!) PPS this blog isn't very well written because l am a bit tired and is a bit perhaps too common, my apologies for anyone offended by the word "turds".
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