Pictures of the process!

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Everything's been bagged up now. Tomorrow we bubblewrap, print postage, and bag up the envelopes, and they go to the post office on Monday.

I won't spoil the extras, since I know how much fun it is to open a package and find stuff you didn't expect, but thanks to a bunch of eBay shopping I was able to really rock the extras this time! (This is why I ask you for your GC wishlists...) For people who were in the Gaiman circle, I was able to portion out the prototype decants elisem sent to me so that I got five sniffies out of each decant, which means everyone has at least three or four (and sometimes more) prototype sniffies with at least enough oil in them for two or three skin tests.

In-US people who were in both the Gaiman and Metamorphosis circles, and who paid shipping for both, have had PayPal partial refunds issued for one of the two. Outside-US people, I will refund you when I figure out how much the actual shipping costs are. (I won't count the freebies in the shipping costs; those are my treat.)

Finally, I thought people might enjoy seeing the process, so I took some pics while I was decanting yesterday. (I didn't wind up doing any pics today during the divvying-up portion, alas.)

( A tour of the process of decanting sixty-nine bottles' worth of BPAL )

Shipped! ...halfway.

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US participants: your packages will go out with tomorrow morning's mail. Please let me know when you get them, or leave feedback in the feedback post about your experience!

I will 'fess up: I think I forgot to include tea and candy in a few of the packages. I'm so sorry; my office is still packed up for the window installation we had running this week, so I was working in not-my-usual-workflow. I'm not going to reopen all the packages to check (we tape the labels to the envelopes before we fill the envelopes and so opening them would involve reprinting the shipping labels and having to get fresh envelopes) so if your package gets there and doesn't have the tea and candy, please let me know! I'll either hold this circle's tea-and-candy for the next circle you sign up for with me, or ship it to you separately: your choice.

Outside-US participants: I really wanted to have yours packed up for tomorrow's mail, too, but unfortunately the USPS shipping system is down. I'm going to try again before I go to bed, but they may have to go out on Tuesday. I'm really sorry!