Hello hello ~

Well, we have good news/bad news again.
The pin package did arrive!
Several designs were missing. The manufacturer did not complete them all in time. Although they did send me what they had, they didn't tell me until the package was here. 
I won't charge cards until the pins are in my hands. We've made that mistake before lmao. Still, preparations for shipping have started, so once they're here and charges proceed then things will go out asap. You'll get an automatic email giving about a week's warning before charges go through.

Until then, here's a peek at what we did get. Just a note that taking photos of pins is extremely hard and I suck at it, but I did my best! 

Mini bees! Blue and red banded. 

Rainbow bee/Pintober freebie pin. Look this is a dreadful photo of that pin, but it IS here, and they look awesome I promise T_T.

All of the branch pins, including a backing card preview. They all use the same backing cards this time. 

All three foxglove designs.

Acer pair/single acer leaf/conker minis. The pair are so tiny, they're very cute. One of them only has one post on the back though there was no space for two.

Its hard to get a picture of this guy but the blue jay is one of my absolute favourites from this collection. I'm gonna stick 'em on everything. 

These are rubbish pictures. We're back dating the crow prize feather to this campaign. Its a freebie you get by being in the top 10 engagement list, pointing out a mistake in a news post, or making a suggestion that I use in the campaign. Its something we're going to be doing moving forward as a little thank you gift; each time we run out I'll have them made in a new colour. Also the stained glass physalis are much prettier in person, you can see through the 'glass' but it is definitely strongly coloured. 

Cat skulls/Mantis. I know it was a bit odd to have two sizes but it helped a lot deciding how to move forward. We probably won't make our other skulls in the larger size, 1.75" feels about right. But it is nice to have, and damn they got a lot of details into both of them. Also I much prefer the mantis in pin form, the gold just makes it pop way more. I hope that you guys like them too. 

Harvest mice, or why my manufacturer hates me most this campaign. They have several layers of screen print to make up the effects. The fade effect on the last one was achieved with UV printing in the end, but I actually think it turned out well. I didn't want to go with a pearl effect for flowers and it made a nice medium. The colours are not super accurate here, but as close as I could get. 

The manu did some serious magic with the spines on the venus fly trap, I swear. I thought they might have to make them way thicker than they did. 

Poppy/Dahlia/Sweet pea mini pins. We're still missing a couple as you can see. There was a big oops with the other sweet pea screen print, and I think they're remaking the whole batch on rush order right now. Hopefully it won't be too long. 

Oh! And I totally forgot, but we do have the picture window quicksand pins in. They are plated in black nickel and not gold, so I'll be making a post about it on its own soon. I will say though, the black I think looks very good; much more like a silhouette than the gold would have. I just really need to get a clear picture to show you guys what I mean and well. As you can see. Its not going well haha.

And that's it. I'm not sure we'll be actively sending packages before 2026 now, but I've asked for a production update and as soon as those pins are in my hands, we'll get the ball rolling. 

Thank you for your continued patience, and happy holidays :).