Hey all! Surveys have been locked for a little bit, and cards will be charged soon. If you're not completely sure of your card info now is a good time to check it to make sure things go through successfully. I plan to close the pre-order store soon to make sure I can lock numbers in and get production going on the freshly unlocked designs. If possible I'd like them all to wrap up manufacturing at around the same time so no one's fulfillment is delayed! If you were planning to place a separate order there time is officially dwindling.

We're entering the quiet period where we're just waiting for manufacturing to wrap up, so expect things to be quiet around here for awhile. It's time for me to be concentrating on Big Brew Bash fulfillment which is a very labor-intensive process since everything is being hand stuffed/sewn and I have hundreds to do. I've also got my currently running campaign to be keeping an eye on!

The salmon, tuna, trash can, and sardine tin bags are all unlocked, with 4 new plush keychains confirmed! We're on our way to the cracked egg bag goal right now.

I hope you're all doing well and your March is going well so far!

Just a quick one today! The add-on pins that are up for unlock in the surveys/pre-order store all have sketches now! Those that had the super rough sketches before now have more refined ones, and the completely blank ones have equally refined sketches for the most part- all except the cockatrice, since I left that one for last and my arm is kinda dying at the moment haha. So I will probably have to do a LOT of touching up to it. But overall I'm happy with these.

Enough add-ons have been gotten via survey that I was able to adjust down the minimum order number for many of these designs! A lot of them range from nearly halfway there to over halfway there, so consider giving them a look. I think my favorite might be the african wild dog. I hadn't drawn one since high school and had fully forgotten how blocky they are other than their big ol radar dish ears. 

I hope you will all have a great week!

It's time to pick your pins y'all! I'm excited to see what ones turn out to be the most popular. I've been spending a lot of time on the final production sheets to make sure everything can get submitted as soon as possible. We ended up with 39 different pins that I have to go through and make sure everything is absolutely ready for. That's crazy! Thank you all for helping me put enamel pins in to the rotation of creative stuff I get to do.

The pre-order store is open for those of you who missed out on the campaign! There's some new stuff up in there that you can help unlock if you're so inclined, so it's worth taking a look.

There are a bunch of new pin ideas that I was asked for or really wanted to do but knew wouldn't work out in the regular campaign! They can be add-ons for your surveys for combined shipping or purchased in the pre-order store if you'd like them to ship separate. They all have different ordering goals based on the size and complexity they are likely to require. Not all of them have sketches at the time of this posting, but that will change soon enough, I just didn't want to delay surveys for them. These include:

Throughout Gnawesome Predators and all of February I've been chugging away at preparing my next campaign. It will be launching on March 2nd which is not that far away! If you have any interest in practical plush or novelty bags that are big enough to use as a daily wear item you're likely to find something you like there. Or if you'd rather get a plush keychain of some meats those will be available too. If you become a reserve backer you will get a free plush keychain with your pledge reward!

If bags and plush aren't your thing I'm working on some other stuff that I'm very excited for!  I was invited to participate in an event called TRIBUTES which is all about showing love to games the creators enjoy. Many of us are going the nostalgic route, including me. Mine will be about a bear and bird you could say were instrumental to my childhood. Yes, that was awful, please let me get it out of my system now. Jiggy Jam will be going live in November! You'll be able to find the rest of TRIBUTES here once the page is working, but I don't believe it is currently. I don't do a lot of fan stuff, so I'm excited to give it a go!

Sooner than Jiggy Jam will be a very self indulgent project: A Fancier's Guide to Cockatrices! I'll be taking real chicken breeds and combining them with real snake species, then using the temperaments, behaviors, or appearances to match them up. One made of parts I'm sure most of you are familiar with is a silkie chicken + ball python to make the seemingly perfect pet cockatrice! There will be bits of lore based on their real life counterparts too. If that sounds up your alley please give it a look!

Thank you again for all your support! I will continue updating when new milestones are hit in the manufacturing process for Gnawesome Predators, so check in whenever you're curious to see where things are at.

Pintopia is entering the last 48 hours! That means campaign exclusives (stickers, separate meat magnets) are about to go away. We're also down to our last chance to unlock the final extended stretch goals to add all the pin variants and the domestic dog!

Here's where we're at:

Extras will be available in my shop after the campaign is fulfilled, but I will be basing my stock numbers on the popularity of each pin among backers, so some of them might not have a ton of leftover pins. Backing remains the best way to guarantee you get the pin you want- especially for the higher tier variants!

With Pintopia winding down and Lunar New Year approaching for my manufacturers I'm about to be focusing on getting ready for Carrion Baggage: Second Bite since it launches in less than a month! Return backers will be getting a mini pin, and reserve backers will be getting a free plush keychain. If you have any interest in interesting bags with tons of space you might like what I have! You'll probably recognize some familiar meat designs among them.

I'm absolutely exhausted, we got home at around 5am this morning after a work week at a con, and I have a ton of work to catch up on. I look forward to finally bringing these pins to life for y'all and am sorry to not have oodles to say but even if we don't make those final stretch goals I am still beyond grateful for all the support you've shown and how far we've gotten- we're well beyond anything I would have imagined!

I didn't expect to finish these so soon but insomnia can turn in to some pretty crazy periods of art production, so here's the final art for these bonus pins! Currently the tree boa, gryphon, and orca can all be considered unlocked and will be available choices. The dog will be unlocked if we manage to hit our very few remaining stretch goals! I haven't gotten exact sizes determined on these yet, but they will be put up on the main campaign page once I've got em!

Which is your favorite? I am partial to the emerald tree boa. It was hard to do but I love how goofy it is without even really being much of an exaggeration.

Reserve backers will get a free plush keychain of their choice with their pledge rewards, so if you know you want to back you might want to consider that! I'm really excited to finally get these designs in to production soon. If you didn't know, many of the mini meat magnets directly match bags from the Carrion Baggage line!