I very, very strongly value honesty and transparency so I'm a little upset with myself for making this decision, but I really want to bring all of them to life: I'm going to try a pt 2 campaign later.
I think that Gorgon (so close!!) and TV Cat are very likely to be unlocked through these surveys, as long as there aren't a ton of failed pledges (I'll know in a few days). My goals do include buffers in case of failed/declined pledges so 🤞.
My goals for the other campaign would include Dullahan, Mummy, Angel, Mermaid, a Harpy, demon Onmyouji (she was actually the first pin I drew but I dropped her because her clothes were stressing me out lol), and I'd like to try to pin the jirai kei Succubus I made for a recent coffin button.
I have about 40 of her so she will be available in limited qty in this survey!
The reason I mention honesty and transparency is because I hate if I've falsely instilled a sense of urgency in anyone, I really did intend for this to be my last pin-centric campaign. 😣 I guess it's not technically a lie since it's more of the same thing...
I won't start building the 2nd one until I have the moths fully shipped out (their last remake batch is being made currently) and once the paws are at least halfway sent out (some have gone out w/moth packages already, remakes of those flawed ones are still in progress). It'll be a short runtime of about 2 weeks also. I'm going to try to get them made before tariffs go back to over 100%...but that might be impossible.
I've been increasingly very ill for most of my life and designing these pins has brought me a joy I haven't experienced creatively in years due to burnout, so I'd really like to get them all made if possible, at least the ones I've already "pinned" (so Harpy and Succubus I don't feel as strongly about, technically both are drawn but need to be reworked entirely in order to become pins).
Thank you for your sincere support of this campaign and the joy these designs have brought me 💗 I hope you might consider supporting part 2 as well!
PS: I expect surveys to go out LATE this month or the first week of July. I will be paying for the funds-raised pins as soon as I receive these initial funds in 2 weeks, but since I'm hoping to fund Gorgon and TV Cat via surveys they, if met, will join production after surveys are charged (I'll give them 2-3 weeks before charging depending on how fast they're filled). Meaning I may get them shipped separately and orders containing them could potentially be relegated to back of fulfillment queue, but that doesn't necessarily mean they won't meet assumed Halloween fulfillment date. However, depending on when I can launch pt 2 I may be able to combine some pledges for later fulfillment if requested.
I spoke with my manufacturer, and I'm able to lower qty for most designs. Ghoul I have to order even more than originally planned, she's super popular and so many of her were snatched up at EB pricing!
Necromancer can unlock by herself at $5,000 if I flip her and Gorgon. Gorgon will apply to all 5+ pin pledges if we reach $5,700. TV Cat is still planned to be available to pledge for at that point and fully unlocks at $6,350 ($250 earlier than before).Mummy would become available then and fully unlock at $6,850, and Dullahan would unlock at $7,300.
However, even though we're not at TV Cat, I'll still take this opportunity to reveal the final designs of the other 2 girls I was working on before, in hopes we can fund them through surveys/the preorder store:
would be 45mm tall; NONE of the accent colors are final but it will indeed be mostly white. The wings need more details, hair is likely to have shadows but not highlights, and I'm needing to rework the thorn halo... but most of the lines/compositions are final, just a bit messy.
They do still require edits (Mermaid is almost fully cleaned up but Angel needs a lot of work, probably another 2+ hours) and the final-final graphics in survey/preorder store will reflect that. Mermaid's skin (it's actually "sand"!) and aquatic body would all be glittery. Everything else would just be normal hard enamel, and her metal would be a deep blue color. The gradient printing under the clear enamel would have all the fish/shadows, while the highlights on the "water" would be screenprinted. Still not sure how I feel about the wobbly irises though. My inspiration was the original "she turned into seafoam" end of The Little Mermaid. Mine can just shapeshift to and from being water, I guess, except for the tentacles? Maybe she's a magical cephalopod or something? I'm really not sure. An enigma lol.
Angel is comparatively really simple. I was thinking "Abomination" would also be an accurate name but scrapped it.
What do you think of them? Angel came to me randomly at night like most of them, but Mermaid took a lot of contemplation. Ultimately, the answer I went with hit me randomly at around 3am too lol, but she was one I'd been trying to turn into a bust design for months but couldn't figure it out (vs most of these girls being sudden inspo from the ground up that I wound up liking).
Thank you for supporting this campaign!! Let's see where the last hours take us! I won't be updating again until after I know how many pledges have errored post-campaign.
We're super close to Banana's unlock so I added Lemonade to pledge tiers and add-ons 🕷️
I attached a poll to see if anyone wants the stretches after Lemonade's funding at $2.7k to be reordered, I hid the results this time until the poll's over in a couple days
We hit our base goal! Thank you so much to everyone!!! im so excited to see everybody's (mine included) pins be brought into reality, I appreciate everybody's support. Strawberry spider is next, now let's see how many stretch goals we can hit! 😊🕷🕸
