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I made all the Snape buttons for Infinitus on Sunday (still need to label them with their artist attribs and links). Surprisingly, my right hand and wrist didn't hurt that much afterwards, although I managed to bruise my left palm internally somehow, and more annoyingly, I noticed that one of the assembly rings of the button maker has developed some cracks. A replacement is on its way, but it probably explains why I was getting so many squibs (so to speak) - something like 20% of the presses went bad and though I could often tell before I actually pressed the pin-back in and wasted the whole button set, it resulted in me wasting a lot of the protective mylar circles (not to mention printing ink).
But wet blanketry aside, this means there are plenty of free buttons for me to give away. I wound up making more than I had originally planned to because I got so many yes's from artists! Very surprised there; I had sent out a lot of permission requests (something like a hundred? not sure, I'd have to look at home) because I was expecting to get about 35-40% back. Instead I have 55 buttons and that was with painfully whittling all my art choices down to one per artist (I had begun the project with as many as seven from some of my favourites, although I had planned to narrow those to no more than three from any one person). So every button is unique.
I am planning to design a sign or button that points out I have these available - "Free Snape badge? Ask me!" kind of thing - although I will probably also be noticeably jingling and chinking and rattling with a sackful of these, so just find me and ask and you'll have your very own to take home. :) (PROTIP: It happened to work out that there are proportionally few with a younger Severus saying "I ♥ Sev" - if you want one of those I suggest pawing through them sooner rather than later.)
If there are any left over when I come home I will be happy to mail them out to people who couldn't go.
But wet blanketry aside, this means there are plenty of free buttons for me to give away. I wound up making more than I had originally planned to because I got so many yes's from artists! Very surprised there; I had sent out a lot of permission requests (something like a hundred? not sure, I'd have to look at home) because I was expecting to get about 35-40% back. Instead I have 55 buttons and that was with painfully whittling all my art choices down to one per artist (I had begun the project with as many as seven from some of my favourites, although I had planned to narrow those to no more than three from any one person). So every button is unique.
I am planning to design a sign or button that points out I have these available - "Free Snape badge? Ask me!" kind of thing - although I will probably also be noticeably jingling and chinking and rattling with a sackful of these, so just find me and ask and you'll have your very own to take home. :) (PROTIP: It happened to work out that there are proportionally few with a younger Severus saying "I ♥ Sev" - if you want one of those I suggest pawing through them sooner rather than later.)
If there are any left over when I come home I will be happy to mail them out to people who couldn't go.