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