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Hey everyone, going to do some frank talking with you all about the feature.

My taking it over wasn't planned so much as a necessity to keep the contest moving - and I readily hold my hands up to say that things didn't go as planned at all. There's been a lot of hiccups, tools that I needed that I didn't have access to, a lack of entries, and as with any job you've suddenly inherited without warning you tend to go, "I wonder what happened to art gallery this wee- oh crud, that's me!"

That said, Slash stepped in with the sensible idea of asking you guys what you want to see changed since new hands means it's a good time to hear new ideas, and we're taking some of those ideas on board:

We've fixed it so that I can edit the Art Gallery page - which will be a massive help since now I can make sure the information correctly reflects the current theme, and gives a permanent place outside of the news post to see what's coming up.

With the up-coming theme list it will also state whether that week allows Aywas stock or not, so you know and can prepare for it properly. I think it wasn't announced before so that it was definitely a piece of work that entrants had done in that week, rather than prepared beforehand, but we're interested to see how this will work for everyone. More entries means more winners, because I'm meant to pick 6 people, and as you can see I haven't been able to so far!

I will also be trying to think of prizes ahead of time and adding them to the page too - this part might take a couple of days because there are so many amazing shiny things to choose from to enthuse you to enter. The prize will be at least 20GP in value.

The time limit had already been extended to two weeks and it seems that while it wasn't noticed, it was something that people wanted to see happen, so that will be kept. We'll see how we do with this, hopefully the extra week (and therefore extra weekend) will help everyone.

I'm going to take a day or two to set things up so I'm not rushing it and potentially forgetting information that will be important to the people who want to enter, and when it's all ready I'll post our Cutthroat Winner (and since there's only one, I do think they might have slain their competition... oh my...) and get everything started on our new schedule.

Thank you for your time in reading this, I know walls of text are the least appealing thing to see in a news post - but if you've gotten this far then you now know to skip over to the Advent Calendar for a gift for getting this far ;)