The road to Steem Fest - The final post

I've done all the Road to SteemFest post apart from the first one because I didn't go last year. This one will be a wrap up covering who I will meet, preparation, budget, fear etc. If you've been reading my posts, you would have seen me mention preparing a SteemFest surprise. At one stage, I was so afraid that I wouldn't be able to complete it. Then I thought the only way to complete it was to scale it down. Yesterday I finally completed everything, ready for SteemFest next week. This is the surprise I've been working on.....
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I've been playing around with acrylic pour early this year and one of the things I really enjoyed doing was to pour on practical objects, coaster was perfect. My original intention was to do one coaster for each SteemFest attendee, but I had no idea how many would be going. Some say there were 300 attendees last year!! That would stretch my time and budget quite a bit, and I'd need a lot of space at home for the coasters to dry. To cut a long story short, I ended making 50 coasters. Each of them are made from wood and the design is unique as you can't get two identical pours.

Yesterday I added the final touches to my coasters.

I added a cork base as the wood base would be quite slippery on the table. And to make it even more special for SteemFest, I printed some SteemFest Bangkok labels. I nearly didn't get these done as I only got round to ask @roelandp for the logo on Monday. Then when I went to my normal sticker place on Thursday, they said they can only customise their own designs and can't use external ones. Luckily I bought some transparent stickers and printed them at home.

The final touch to my coasters is to individually pack them. I'm not a big fan of using too many plastic bags and normally I wouldn't do this. But giving that these coasters will be travelling all over the world to a new home, I want them to arrive in the best condition.

This wraps up me preparing my Road to SteemFest, all that's left now is to pack my gifts. I can't wait to see who I will meet at SteemFest so I can give them a coaster. I hope they will like it as these my first batch and a bit rough on the edges. I do have a bunch of favourite ones, and can't wait to see who gets those

See you all in Bangkok next week!!!

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