Hi!

So, I've been even slower with updates this month than I'd feared I'd be, and for that I really am sorry.October has been a month packed with surprises here in my offline world ;) The major things happening have been my birthday; celebrating it with awesome people. Visiting family for a week was wonderful, and full of events! I had great fun hanging out with my sisters, seeing mum again, chilling with dad; I always enjoy his company, words of wisdom and silly humor (fun fact: Saunders is partially based on/inspired by my dad). Those who follow me on instagram (ozoozou) might have already heard of Lennie the bank vole; a brave little survivor of dad's cat who apparently doesn't kill any of the critters he captures - luckily for Lennie! You can read more about that little mouse/rat creature on my instagram, but the TL;DR version is that I looked after him until he was well enough to be released back into the wild - which luckily was less than 24 hours ;) but in that short time we really bonded as he was surprisingly tame, so it was a somewhat bittersweet farewell.. But he'll be okay :) I wouldn't have felt any good about keeping him as a pet anyways; he belonged in the wilderness <3Another wonderful thing that happened, which has gotta be the most magical thing that happened all year; my big brother's third son was born, lucky for me the very same week I was visiting. Gosh, I was completely and utterly charmed by that little sweetheart. And both my brother and his girlfriend are awesome people, and the baby boy's two older brothers are awesome as well. That's one lucky kid, I'd say, getting to grow up along with those four :)Another pleasant surprise for me was that my financiacial situation has actually improved! So that is a huuuuuge relief and a heavy weight lifted off my shoulders.Your patronages are still mighty helpful and I am as grateful as ever for your support <3 you guys are all awesome people too ^___^With all this good luck comes some bad luck, obviously, 'cause there has to be a balance. I'd say with the bad luck I've had so far it was already pretty accurately balanced by the good luck and happy stuff, being just a tiny bit off and so life reminded me to not stick my head in the clouds and be blinded by glee just yet;

I caught a cold.. XDThe first day after I'd returned back home (meeting my family was great, but oh man, so was returning home to my own itty bitty family/pack <3 )

So all the plans I had on being super active on Patreon this passed week was unfortunately postponed. A lot.. :pBUT - 

I am feeling better now, or at least well enough to draw and.. idk, sit upright? XD 

October is almost over with just two-ish days remaining, and so a scheduled livestream IS going to happen, but might feel... less scheduled? You will get a very short notice about it I mean, and I apologize for any inconvenience that may cause, but I'm taking things moment by moment now due to my cold, so I'll stream when I feel like I'm able to do so. Might be shorter sessions too, but at least we'll get some streaming time :D

Halloween is up soon too, so I'll do my best to not make the stream interfere with any trick or treating ^___^

..Also, the birthday party stream looks like it's gonna have to be cancelled... :|I mean, I'd be a terrible host in this condition anyways XD but I liked the idea of it, and interactive streams in general, so I'm definitely up for trying something like that later on someday!And tutorials/art classes/lessons too would be neat methinks... c:

I have drawn though. Not as much as I've wanted to, but still a fairly decent amount all things considered. I'll post a sketchdump of the spoiler-free ones soon :) The ones WITH spoilers are the ones I've worked the most on though and also the ones I'm aching to show you guys XD but they're major spoilers, at least two of them, so as much as I hate to say it - there are a lot of drawings I can't show you until at least a year from now XD

...In short;

I'm late and sick, there's little time to schedule a livestream but I will do my best to stream either this evening or tomorrow (sunday). I will let you know in advance, but it might be a rather short notice (like an hour-ish prior?).Might also invite watchers from deviantART to join in too this time despite it being a scheduled-ish stream, but as promised you'll be notified first.

Thanks for being so patient with me ^^;And thank you so much for your support! <3 Big hugs and lots of love to you all :D 

See you soon!

Best regards,

Elise