It’s nice to be home again from the flurry of Scandinavian Festivals! I could do without repeating the adventure of a flat tire on the way home (naturally with a trunk full of tables and card rack pieces!), and the blister on thumb after drawing for two days (which seems to be a relapsed blister, if such a thing exists, after hand sawing on a tree stump a week earlier), but I had a fantastic time at the Twin Ports Scandinavian Festival and Hostfest. Now, a couple days after getting home and well before I’ve evaluated my inventory and put anything away (you can imagine the chaos), my order of 4.25×5.5″ cards has arrived! These all go toward making packs of cards.

The Little Critters pack is new and finally printed a good year after I finished them all, with Badger, Bear, Bobcat, Coyote, Deer, Raccoon, Skunk, and Squirrel cards.

The Minnesota Wildflowers Collection 1 has been updated for the first time since I put it together; partly because I’d like to work on changing the two Wildflower packs into Woodland Wildflowers and Prairie Wildflowers (collection 1 being woodland), and partly to freshen it up with some new drawings. For instance, the daylily (a non-native garden escapee) has been swapped for a similarly colored native Wood Lily, and the Small White Lady’s Slipper (which is the only lady’s slipper that grows on the prairie) has been exchanged for the deep woods-loving Stemless Lady’s Slipper. When I’m closer to running out of Wildflowers Collection 2, I’ll get to work changing over that one into the prairie wildflowers.

The Dala Animals Collection 2 has also been updated with a couple swaps. My most common request has been for all four reflection drawings to be included together in the pack, since I completed the Norwegian Fjord Reflection much later than the first three. It is a change I wholeheartedly agree with! I also really loved the Dala Rooster: Wake-Up Call, so that one got swapped in, and the rooster it is replacing will transfer to Collection 1 when it’s time to reorder that one again.

Christmas is coming, and I have For Unto Us (the nativity card) back in stock! After several requests, I printed Get Your Goat, the Tomte and Yule goat duo, for packs this year. I have plans to create a pack of a mix of Tomte cards, but I’ll have to finish a fourth drawing first, so it may be a year or two by the time they’re printed. And the Chickadees are an old favorite that work as Christmas cards or just a nice winter scene.

So that’s all the new packs! I’ll be updating the store as I get them put together!

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