LCD shield and/or LCD serial backpack

Update: The PCBs are on their way and will arrive on Monday.
Now to chase up the components.....

Sweet! The more I build up my current project (an intervalometer for my camera), the more I realize I need some way to offload the LCD connections somewhere else. I'm using every single pin and I still want to do things like toggle the backlight and add another button or two. Ugh. And I'm already using 4 bit mode, which is noticeably slower than 8 bit!