Sorry for the unplanned hiatus

For those of you that weren't aware, I have not been on dA for some time, so many group activities are behind. I know there were a bunch of you who were aware and were worried, and I'm sorry for being the cause of that anxiety If you want to know the reasons for my absence, they're on my own journal - it seemed a bit personal/unprofessional to put them on the group page so I put them there instead.

I have messages from as far back as March that I need to catch up with - I will start this in earnest from Monday. I know also there are a bunch of you waiting for gifts to be sent to you in return for those you sent out - I will get that arranged as well, but in order to do so of course I need people willing to make and send the gifts. (Here's the Send Art how-to if you need it.) I might assign a few over the weekend but a lot of them will probably wait til Monday too.

If you've sent something and want to know if it got there, or received something and don't know who it's from, please be patient and I'll get through all those updates as soon as I can (starting from Monday or Tuesday, depending on how much of the other stuff I get through on Monday). It'll be more efficient if you let me inform everyone of the stuff they don't know has been received and then if you haven't had a note ask me where it is, rather than asking me now if it's been received or not.

What else? You can resubmit deviatons to the gallery and so on, but they probably won't get accepted til later in the week next week (it'll need to come after I update the "gifts that've been received" blog, which will come after I've gone through all the notes saying what's been received and have updated all those people). Join requests are back on again (they temporarily stopped). Um... that might be it?

Thanks everyone for your patience whilst we get things back on track. Particular thanks to art-of-amie for doing her best to hold the fort whilst I was gone.