Hello everyone! Here's a check-in with midway progress from the campaign and to see what's new.

Starting off, there is still some of you who are having card issues, please make sure you fix those with the help of backerkit if you need it so that you get your rewards! If you do not submit all the information then I can't ship your items out!

Addresses will be locked once I start shipping in JULY. So you can change it as many times as you need until then!

All pins have been counted, formatted, submitted and paid for at the end of April, so progress on them has been steady. Lucifer was the only one that had a sample done- and because of the techniques used on it, it takes a lot longer to make.

(Backerkit doesn't allow videos, so this is the best I can do!)

The sample has been approved and production on it has gone ahead now. I am estimating for the other pins to be finished before Lucifer will be, so they will wait to ship everything out once they're all complete (which means we'll get photos of the other pins before shipment!)

I also got all the freebie stickers in with me now :)

So many!!

The wood pins I will start to make in June, as I am currently swamped preparing for Confuzzled Birmingham and Qcon Belfast in the coming weeks. They're not a high priority and won't take me super long to make.

That's all for now! Thank you all very much for your continued patience <3

If there's anything else you want to add to your survey, do it now! If you still haven't filled out your survey, you better get to it! If you haven't got your survey.... well then contact me and I'll see what I can do!

If you do not fill out your survey then I can't deliver the items to you! This is important. Your order will be considered as a donation if you don't fill the survey out.

I have fought tooth and nail with my manu's designer to get the Lucifer sample started on. It took a week of a gruelling battle... but we have succeeded.
The actual pin of Lucifer was very slightly altered to match the requirements of stained glass enamel (which are actually pretty restrictive!) It was a big learning process for me.

It's mainly the wings that needed to be changed as the membrane thickness was a big problem point for stained glass enamel. The metallic stickers will keep the old design though. Sample is currently in production and I hope it doesn't slow down the production too much but I will keep an eye on that!

As for the other pins- Everything has had its artwork finished, finessed, adjusted for pins, and the design documents made for my manu. I will be sending them all to be made this week as the majority of you have filled out your surveys and I have accurate enough counts for all the pins!

There may be very slight colour differences. While I have use a pantome colour palette for colouring the pins, some of the hues didn't exactly match pantomes, so there may be some discrepancies colour-wise. I did my best not to deviate too much.

I can also show you the backing cards.

Biblically Accurate Bugs keep their old design, and all Sinful Bugs will stay on this cute wee red one. I'm not entirely sure how I will back the wooden pins, but I am more than likely going to use home-printed kraft paper for those!
As for the pride angel bugs- I don't actually have a regular supplier that could print me similar sized backing cards without costing me an arm and a leg. And my regular business card printer doesn't do alternate sizing which is very unfortunate actually. I'm going to continue looking for a place that can get those done for me, but if I don't then they will come with the Biblically Accurate Bug backing card or a kraft paper backing card.

Currently waiting on supplies to arrive for the wood pins as well. I have performed maintanance on my laser machine last week so we should be good to go on making them now too.

That's all for now! Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates!

Thank you to those who have noticed yesterday's smoke test of 9 surveys going on and filling them out for me!

Now that means that today all surveys have gone out to every backer!

Now all you need to do is make sure that you fill it out before April 24th- when the surveys get locked the only thing you'll be able to change is your address.

If your pledge still hasn't gone through due to card issues, I urge you to fix that asap with the help of Backerkit otherwise you will be forfeiting your pledge altogether.

This is where your shipping will also be calculated! If your order is small you will get untracked shipping, if its big then it will be tracked.

There is now also a new pledge tier that you can switch to when you enter your survey. The All-In tier! Where you get one of everything that the campaign unlocked. (the button to switch tiers is right under the big green button when you first view the survey.)

I know some people were interested in this, and if you switch to this tier then you will still retain a small discount for ordering so many pins at once unlike if you ordered them all separately.

This is only available for previous backers!

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It's now open!

> Go Here if you missed the campaign!

If you're a backer, you won't see this, as the add-on section within your survey is basically the same thing!
Otherwise for those who missed the campaign but still want to get the goodies EARLY.... and continue supporting the insane finances that are tied to ordering over 700 pins, then this is the place to do it!

Will I have these pins available in my shop and in-person later on? Of course! But I don't know when I'll have them and how my summer is gonna look like, so for now this is your best chance to secure your items.

Pre-order store closed on April 24th as well!
That gives you about 2 weeks to get your orders in<3

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Sure! I have been rizzing up my manufacturer to get the Lucifer pin samples made for the past week or so. It's quite tough to speak in a timely fashion with them when the timezone difference is so insane. I got an image back from the designers, and... well.

Hopefully will get that figured out by tomorrow.
Either way, thanks to one little teeny tiny suggestion, Lucifer had one teeny tiny alternation that made all the difference.
The shade of red on the Cathedral variant was slightly shifted to the left and be more pinky. I think that makes it all the more solid in the end! So thank you for suggesting ;)

Now I will fight the uphill battle of pantome picking for the rest of the pins and creating the design docs.

Lucifer sample is going to take up to 25 days to make, and I have negotiated a shipping that isn't going to put a dent in my finances, but will take about 3 weeks.
With the sample unexpectantly taking this long, we are skirting on the very edge of our current timeline and the shipping out date of the pins. We should be able to stay on time, but if there are any hiccups or mishaps, I will let ye all know in May how the timeline is looking. Other pins don't need samples made, so they'll be going straight into production once the funds get released to em and I have solid numbers from the surveys and pre-order store. (That's April 24th!)

And now here's the entire rosted of the pins and their final designs!

And the two series all together....

Oh and btw! This is going to be the size of Lucifer! 3.3 inches or 85mm across. Ain't that just a big boy! Size of my palm even! (my hands aren't very big though)

That's all for now! Thank you everyone for keeping up with the updates!

If you're interested in following more of my work feel free to look over all my socials on my carrd here!
And if you're interested in seeing aaaall the tiny minute details of how these pins are progressing in between updates, as well as keeping up with my general store updates (while I don't have a newsletter yet..) I do have a discord server!

It's the final 8 hours until the campaign ends.... and I am so sad to say that I will be sleeping when that happens. I will surely be dreaming of drawing pins all night.... I'm excited!!

We're coming up to the nitty gritty of things now, and I spent most of today looking at building the survey, pre-order store and ensuring that the rest goes smoothly.

So in the first order of things....

I sat on his colourways for the majority of the day with many other iterations and took input from many friends on colour theory and theme accuracy regarding him. In the end we have ended with three choices;

Cathedral - A pure dark version of the angel that fell. It retained beautifully colourful wings, yet its soul tainted dark. I personally adore this colourway the most. As it stands very strong between all the other extremely colourful demonic pins with its monochromatic colour scheme and makes the wings pop more. I just think its a great contrast compared to all the other pins and feel like it stands its ground well from the others.

The Fallen - A compromise between whites vs darks. Pantome colours are actually quite limiting when it comes to light greys. So making white work is quite difficult to match while keeping the depth of the design- especially between its pincers. This is a combination of other versions to make the lights not as stark compared to the darks.

Vampire - At the very end I decided to do a complete opposite version to the Cathedral. Using a pure white version with the bright wings wasn't working well, so instead I painted the wings dark and came to this incredibly forbodeing 'vampire inside a cathedral' kind of vibe. And I really dig this one too.

If I we're to give my opinion on this, I would... make both cathedral and vampire. Actually I am extremely tempted to do that regardless.
If my manufacturer allows, I would possibly be able to make a smaller amount of each pin while still reaching the mininum order quantity......... only if you people are interested!

Lucifer will feature transparent stained glass enamel wings and will be a large speciality pin.

(And yes, you can pick the two colour split.) Unfortunately you can only pick one option in the poll, but if you've specific thoughts about it then do let me know in the comments!

VOTE ENDS ON THE 6th

I also want to say that Lucifer will be a speciality pin, and if he gets unlock he will not be included in the general 'Enamel pin' reward. Mostly due to production costs. If he gets unlocked during the campaign there will be a separate add-on for him. If not you'll find him in the pre-order store to potentially unlock!

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I had a small hiccup in my schedule last month, which is what made me a little late to designing the pins. It wasn't really something in my control, but still I have to take that hiccup into consideration!

For backers that we're here very early on, the timeline has been shifted over by 1-2 weeks. Here's the new schedule:

April 3rd: Campaign Ends
April 10th: Survey Starts
April 24th: Survey Ends
Early May: Production Starts
Late May: Production Ends
Late June: Receive pins to office
Throughout July: Begin shipping process

The production time will depend heavily on when funds get released to me and on my manufacturer's speed with the amount of pins we will be ordering!

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PRE-ORDER STORE + SURVEY

What's the pre-order store you ask?
Well it's the place where anyone who missed the campaign can still pledge to get their items! This store will open on April 10th along with the surveys.

For current pledge keepers, the survey will have an integrated add-on section where you can add additional items into your pledge, change your pledge, and pick the pins that were unlocked for your currently chosen items.

Survey locking will happen on April 24th. This gives you 2 weeks to get your answers in!

I will let you know when the pre-order store will be closing later on.

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NEWS!

I got images from my manufacturer on restocks of the Pride Beetle Angel! As well as the two new colourways which a lot of you have already added to your pledges!

Here's a first look at the nonbinary and intersex beetles!

They came out lovely! I can't wait to have them in my hands :]

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That's all for now!! Here's to the remaining 8 hours of the campaign 🥂
Thank you all for the great reception! :D