It's been a while since my last update on The Dark Wood so I just wanted to do something quick. Pins are taking longer than I hoped, because there was a ton of back-and-forth with my sales rep about corrections that needed to be made to the artwork to stay true to my designs, and that took literal weeks. :(
However, the artwork has all finally been approved and the pins are finally going to sampling. When I have pictures of the half-complete samples, I'll share them with you all. I was hoping to have those pictures for this update, but alas, I do not yet and I didn't want to keep leaving you guys in the dark. 😩
The main artwork adjustment I had to make was on the Goose Girl pin. The hole in the blood trail on the horse head was too small for the jump ring to go through, so the artwork had to be adjusted to make it bigger:
The arrow is pointing to the area that needed to be readjusted to be able to fit the jump ring through.
It definitely looks a bit different than before, but unfortunately I had no choice. The other option was to make a separate ring on the outside like the one coming off his hand, and I really didn't like how that looked, so I decided to adjust the blood drips to stay as true as possible to the original design. Thank you for understanding 🙏 If this bothers you to the point where you'd like not to receive this pin, you can message me at [email protected] and I will help you edit your order.
Since all this took so long, I will likely have to push the fulfillment timeline back a bit :( I'm just going to say that the new estimated ship date for this will be May 2026 (previously April). I'll update the timeline on the campaign page to reflect this change.
Thank you all so much for your patience and I will share more updates just as soon as I can. Thank you!
