Hey Cryptid lovers! 

Exciting news - the pins have arrived! I’m very excited to open them up to take a look, however I am currently on my way to my next convention in Denver (my friend is driving the car currently, don’t worry I’m not texting and driving XD)

But I was thinking—in the past, I have sometimes done hangout streams where I open up the pins for a campaign live on camera, and I was thinking it might be fun to do that for these! What do you guys think?

It would be sometime next week later in the week after I get back from Denver, maybe Thursday or Friday. Would you guys be interested in watching that?

Besides that, I wanted to give an update on what the fulfillment timeline looks like right now. 

I am obligated to fulfill my previous campaign, Sugar & Spice, first. It’s possible I will be grading all the pins for that one and Cryptid Crushes at the same time so I can get grading out of the way all at once. I plan to begin this process ASAP after I get back from Denver.

Once grading is done, I can begin shipping for S&S. I hope to be done with that by mid-late September. Then as soon as I’m done with that, I can move onto fulfilling Cryptid Crushes. Right now, I am confident we are still on track to get all the pins out by the timeline I originally outlined, but if that changes, I’ll keep you updated.

Thank you for your patience as usual and I will make another announcement once I know when I will do the box opening stream. 

I hope you’re all having a good week so far, and I’ll talk to you again very soon!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey cryptid lovers!

Quick update for you - I said I was going to charge cards on Monday, however, it totally slipped my mind. So this morning I went to charge them instead and in my rush, I totally forgot to remove the preorder add-ons that didn't get funded from people's carts. Ack!

The items I forgot to remove were the 3 Bill Cipher enamel pins that were up for preorder. They didn't get funded, so I am removing them now.

Around 11 people got charged for them, so I'm going through and issuing refunds now.

Sorry about that! :(

Declined Payments

There were over 70 cards that got declined when I charged them, which is a pretty hefty amount and honestly pretty concerning! This is a reminder that you won't receive your rewards unless you fix your payment even if your payment for the main campaign went through.

Please, please, PLEASE check your email to see whether your payment went through or not, and please fix it at your earliest convenience if your payment was declined.

That's it for this update, thanks for your patience, and talk again soon.

Cheers,
Rain

Hey cryptid lovers!

It's been a while since you heard from me, and I thank you for your patience with me! My manufacturer has been taking a bit longer than normal to make the samples for these pins, mostly because for whatever reason, this time when I submitted my files, a lot of the colors on the art proofs were wrong and I had to spend quite a bit of time correcting them.

However, I have some good news - I finally received half-complete sample photos! Both of the Fresno Nightcrawlers pins had to have the colors tweaked a little bit because of the glow powder changing the enamel color, but thankfully they've now been approved after some changes, and all the pins have now been approved and sent to mass production!

Here are the photos of the half-complete samples! :D

Full-size pins:

I think it's funny how silly bigfoot looks without his screen-printed hair 😂 He looks like such a baby!

I was told the mass production of these would take about 12 days, but it's still going to be a long while before they're ready to ship out since I have to fulfill my other campaign Sugar & Spice first. I greatly appreciate y'alls patience with this! :)

Very excited to see how these turn out after the plating is applied and see how they look in person!

The final payments for PoT Backers have gone through, so your surveys have been sent! Please fill those out ASAP as I will be charging cards very soon. 

I'll be charging cards for shipping & survey add-ons this coming Monday, July 14th, so please make sure your payment method is up-to-date and has enough funds.

If your shipping payment doesn't go through, I won't be able to send your rewards, even if you paid for your initial reward. So please, PLEASE make sure your shipping payment goes through if you want to get your rewards. 

If you need extra time to get the funds, that's ok, you will have until I start shipping to correct and finalize all your payments.

As a reminder, I no longer offer refunds at this stage of fulfillment, so if your payments/surveys don't get completed by the time I'm done shipping, your pledge will be considered a donation. These terms are stated in multiple places throughout my campaign page and have been since the beginning of the campaign.

I wanted to talk a little bit about the next campaign I have planned - it's something a little different this time! Instead of pins, I will be crowdfunding a full 78-card tarot deck: The Astral Arcana Tarot Deck.

I have been working on this tarot deck for around 5-6 years, and I'm finally getting close to being able to release it! I'm really excited about it and I've been really looking forward to announcing it to my followers :D

The Astral Arcana Tarot Deck is all original artwork, with the art and designs being inspired by space and geometry. You can view sketches of the major arcana cards on the teaser page here: Astral Arcana Tarot Deck

I don't have an exact launch date yet, but I'm hoping to launch sometime this autumn around Halloween/spooky time. I will say since I still have quite a lot left to do for this campaign, it's possible I'll have to delay it a bit further, but I'm still aiming to still launch sometime in 2025.

Other upcoming campaigns:
January 2026: Celestial Incarnations - pretty boy enamel pins based on celestial objects (part of Pintopia)
May 2026: Basic Witch Ita Bag - witchy themed ita bag + extras

That's it for this update, thank you so much and I'll talk to you again soon!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey guys!

It's been a while, so I wanted to send you a quick update about where things are at.

So far, I have received:

There was a mix-up when printing the stickers, and half of them turned out way too big..like, they're over 4" big. I wouldn't mind a ton except for that half of them were printed at the correct size, so they don't all look proportionate with each other. :( I'm thinking of having the 5 that were printed too big redone even though they otherwise look ok, but wanted to ask you guys your thoughts? Feel free to leave a comment below.

As for pins, production is taking longer than usual. There were several color errors in the initial artwork they sent me and because of the time difference and language barriers & having a lot of other things going on right now, it took a couple weeks for it all to get sorted out. I finally approved the colors today and they will now move on to getting half-complete samples made. Sorry it's taking so long. :((

I have been working nonstop this week to get prepared for selling at my first Pride festival this weekend and because of that I haven't had time to take pictures of anything, but I will have some more time next week, so I can take photos of the products I have received then, which means you'll likely get another update from me then.

It sure is a lot of work juggling two campaigns' fulfillment at once, but I'm getting through it! 💪 Thank you all for your continued patience and you'll hear from me again soon!

Cheers,
Rain