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Malus Hortus boardgame box art. A malevolent orchid and lightening.

I think this is the first time I ever backed a #boardgame based on box art and title alone! Malus Hortus from @atikingames.bsky.social is here and I can’t wait to get stuck in! I’m sure my thoughts will be on the blog real soon 😍

I hope it lives up to expectations 😊🤞

Haha yes! I'm more worried about how long the ones in storage will be there eating up storage fees 😅

Absolutely. On arrival day we filled my storage unit, the kitchen and the dining room with boxes and I've nearly emptied all the dining room boxes now 😊

What do you mean it's wednesday already?! 🤣 My week has been lots of boxes, towers of boxes with Malus Hortus being collected from my house every day. I hope to have them all boxed up by the end of tomorrow and give myself a long weekend to recover 😊🤞

Me holding Malus Hortus

Happy Valentine's Day. I thought I'd share a photo of me with my one true love now that it's here 😊❤️. Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen, I love you all!

(Actually spending the day with my wonderful husband of course, and got his permission to call Malus Hortus my one true love 🤣).

Roughly 250 games on a pallet. 169 boxes of 6 games in total.

I can't wait to get it to you 😊❤️

Hehe I cannot wait to be sending it your way ❤️

Hehe thank you so much 😊

Malus Hortus is here 🥳 these are two of my four pallets of games, orders start going out on Monday! This morning I carried a total of 1.9 tonnes of boxes, I'm really quite proud but I don't know if I'll be able to use my arms tomorrow 🤣

Elemental Sprite Plushies These adorable little elemental sprites are crocheted by hand with a handmade crocheted emblem for each element. Starting with Fire, Water, Earth and Air, let's see if we can unlock more elemental plu...

My #BoardGamersLift news is: Malus Hortus is nearly here, so I'm getting everything prepped!

Also the adorable Elemental Sprite Plushies have 55 hours left on BackerKit, there's still time to grab a handful of cute and help fund Elemental Island review copies 😊
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That would be lovely 😊

I'm afraid not. It's on my list to try one year if they'll have me! I'll next be at Paradice at the end of the month in Worthing and then UKGE 😁

I'm very excited to have unlocked the rainbow D20 enamel pin on the Elemental Sprite Plushies campaign. We're just a few backers away from unlocking the Feline Felonies cat now, come along and check it out why not 😉 they are rather adorable.

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Thank you! You too! 😊💛

I've been sorting a lot for Malus Hortus admin as I should have them next week 🤞 and making more elemental sprites to fulfill the Backerkit project as quickly as possible when it finishes in 8 days

That's amazing! 😍 I'm so pleased for you, congratulations 👏🎉

Little Elemental Sprite Plushies being made and waiting for their arms and emblems. There's still 8 days left to back the campaign and get your own adorable little sprite.

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Me too! They should be with me in the next week or two 🤞 getting everything prepared so I can send out orders straight away 😊🥰

Malus Hortus by Atikin Games - Gamefound Welcome to the mystical and frightful world of Malus Hortus. It's a cooperative game for 1 to 4 players, ages 12+, where you take on the role of fierce nymphs with unique powers. Along your journey yo...

Last chance to late pledge for Malus Hortus for the pre order price of £38 and subsidised postage. You can find it on Kickstarter and GameFound

On Saturday 7th February it will change to full price and be available to buy for the RRP of £39.99 plus full postage costs

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Oh it was wonderful to have a convention at such a perfectly nerdy location 🤓 it made me very happy and there were lots of tiny humans running around being adorable 🥰

...@dissentgames.bsky.social @unfringedthings.bsky.social @getintogames.bsky.social @ludusvulpes.bsky.social @molinariusgames.bsky.social and so many more wonderful people I can't even name them all!

The @aireconuk.bsky.social team put together an amazing event ❤️ thank you all!

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