HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Time for a super scary update!!!! Which is to say it is scary for my wallet oooOOOoooOOoo~

Manufacturing is always a boring dead air period where I'm simply waiting for time to pass while things get tested and sewn. However I finally have news! Manufacturing just wrapped up this week, so that's pretty much right on time for our original schedule! A whopping 60 BOXES full of unstuffed plush under pressure are on the way. I hope you can see why I had to swap to unstuffed... that's with them packed in so tight you'd expect them to explode with a pin prick. They literally burrito them in a heavy tarp and strap them down like you would a palette to keep their power contained. Here's a box of garths getting ready for shipment! You can see the sides of that box are still bulging.

Truly this is very early for how things turned since our manufacturing period was pushed back by Pay-in-4. That said, I am not reverting the changed fulfillment window. Shipping has been very unpredictable, everything has been arriving late for me lately. It's likely that these plush won't be on a boat until mid-November and holiday shipping chaos will be in full swing by then. These 60 boxes will be getting stateside just in time to hit an exhausted and overwhelmed workforce. I also didn't expect to be receiving these early so I stacked my schedule pretty full.

Speaking of pay in 4, there's still almost 2k that hasn't been collected for folks paying with this feature, and over a whopping 8 thousand dollars from failed card payments. That's a 4th of what was pledged that I have not received, but manufacturing has to be fully paid for now. This order after safety tests and current shipping prices clocked in at roughly 31k and is paid in two parts. All the rest of that has come out of my pocket to keep things moving. Cards have been charged, orders are being locked, and I am about to engage Very Annoying Mode for folks who need to get a working card on file or finish their pay-in-4, because the scary thing I needed to deal with for this Halloween was manifesting all that missing cash from my own savings right when it's time to take care of stuff like electricity and house payments. I apologize in advance for the pestering y'all, but only so much.

Anyway have some fun photos from the manufacturing wrap-up! Deflated lads everywhere. Just piles of em. They look like they threw themselves on the floor in a tantrum and they're all mad about how that turned out.

This does mean we're still playing the waiting game! It is just the next stage where I'll eventually have a tracking number to obsessively refresh twice a day. 

I'll be participating in Pintopia 2026! I'll be releasing pin sets of meat eating animals and meats for them to eat, along with a couple surprises thrown in the mix. Maybe one of your favorites will be a part of it? Follow the teaser page to get a freebie if you back, and there will even be a way to pledge early for yet another freebie soon!

This year I'm partnering with AsherBee and their revamped Rude Moods collection. Back both of the campaigns and you'll get a free werewolf pin and cannibal unicorn pin set! You can already find the completed werewolf in the updates!