We reached the $12,000 target!!! (Patreon)

Thank you to all of you, because TWO wonderful things have happened. Yesterday we hit the $12,000 target, and today we made it into the list of Top 1000 Patreon Accounts - smashing in at number 992! That may not sound like a very high number, but there are well over 100,000 creators on Patreon, so we're in the top 1%!

Considering this group is only 4 months old, it's a staggering achievement and I feel the strangest mixture of pride and humility. Pride for having had the courage to post my first ever vlog online two years ago (believe me, it was nerve-wracking!), and humility in the face of your overwhelming kindness and generosity.

I also want to take this opportunity to add that I've taken all of your comments about the tv filming schedule on board, I think it's very important that we can discuss all of these concerns openly. I'm considering various solutions, the best of which would be to make private video updates available on this Patreon page for all of you during the renovations, whilst keeping the main public reveal on my vlog till after the episodes have been shown on tv. I'm chatting to the production company about that now. If that's not possible, I'll take the courtyard out of the tv schedule, and film the decoration of the Entrance Hall plus a secret renovation with them. I underestimated how emotionally invested you have become in the transformation of the courtyard. It shouldn't have surprised me - after all, we're a team now :)

To celebrate this double milestone moment, Michael Potts is giving you his favourite photograph of the chateau to download. Its the extraordinary night sky at the chateau - on clear nights the milky way is a brilliantly bright mass of stars floating above us. It's magical. I was saving this gift for a special occasion :)

Michael is retaining the copyright, but please feel free to print it out or use it for any personal projects, 

Love, Stephanie x