Updates

All the packages have been dropped off! I thought I'd be able to get them done immediatly last time but I was wrong, that was my hubris talking. And shipping to europe doubled what i thought it was goin to be and I had to actually get a bit more money in to pay for that. Anyway! Everything has been dropped at the post as of today, and hopefull will be arrive shortly! Thank you so much for your patience and for being part of this project. It took longer than I had hoped for but I think (and hope) you'll be really happy with the products 🖤

Hey everyone! Super excited to announce that the pins have shipped! Im currently still wrestling with some overseas packages, and canadian with the postal strikes, but at this moment 160 have been dropped in the mail and Im about to work on the rest.

Thank you all for your patience in this project, I'm really proud of how all the pins have turned out in the end. The grading and backing of the pins took me longer than anticipated because I keep getting sick, so I'm moving slower and the people who would usually help me cant because i don't want them to get sick.thankfully not any major illness but better safe than sorry. But i've been illness free other than being out of breath for about a week and a half so i finally was able to power through them with the help of a few friends! They're coming around again tonight to finish as many as we can, and im hoping to finish any scragglers sunday.

Im so proud of how all the pins turned out and also so glad to finally get them in peoples hands. If you get them, and you're also happy about it, I would love if you'd consider checking out my next Pintopia project! Its going to be a similar theme, but instead of deep sea mermaids, they will all be extinct sea creatures, going back in to the far past! It will be like this project, with larger 2.5 inch or so merpeople and 1.5 inch animals. It will be up in January. Im hoping to have some art work for it in the next three weeks. Usually id want to already have it but I spent several weeks unable to get much done so here we are 😅.

The pins are in! Im still grading them but the major issues i can see at a glance in the last pins are much better/gone. Hoping to start shipping next week and be done within the month, assuming everything is good to go.

Ill update again if there are any problems holding us up but im so excited to get these out to you guys! I cant thank you enough for your patience 🖤

The pins are not quite done yet, but I’ve been receiving a lot of pictures as they finish them and so far they look much better. Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know I haven’t forgotten, and give a small update! I’m hopeful to receive them in August so I can get everything shipped out immediatly. All the other merchandise is sitting together in a tub, waiting, staring at me. 

I had hoped to be working on shipping right now, but alas. Im having to get several of the designs remade, which my manu has greatly apologized for thankfully. I waited a bit to update on this so i could be sure they were going to do so. There were much higher flaw rates and one whole design has issues with the dyed metal which ill attach. For referenc  expect about 5-10% of the pins i order to be b grades. Thats acceptabl  to me and i order enough to cover it no problem. This was closer to 60-90% for most of them. I can only assume they hired someone new or were panicked trying to finish them too fast from the tarrifs, because ive seen a lot of pins from them, including other artists in this event, and none had these issues TT.TT

Regardless! They are being remade now, hopefully arriving this month in a few weeks. Ill keep you guys updated as i know more.

Im attaching some of the flaws so you guys can cry with me

Weirdly the two designs that faired the best were the squid and the whale.