Hello friends,

I have to admit, I didn't expect this to get as big as it got! I thought we'd have the three deaths and the Alleyman and maybe get the Alleyway Oracle, and I wouldn't be changing much. But then things kept unlocking, and I added more and more because I can never help myself.

But I wasn't done with the pin designs we unlocked, and sitting down and finishing them has shown me that I wasn't happy with others, and before I knew it, we had an assortment of reimagined pins! So let me introduce you to our final pins for the project.

These two haven't changed, but they're still lovely! The Alleyway Oracle, and the Alleyman himself.
The Alleyway Oracle was based on the amazing photoshoot I had with KP11 in my Alleyway garb. The Alleyman is based on the photo done by Nicolas Bruno, artist of the Somnia Tarot and two-time collaborator on the Alleyman's decks.

Then we have the sets of 3. I have lightly touched up our Death Pins, adding the darker red I added in the Final Tarot pin. Largely I'm happy with them as being a bit simpler from being my earliest designs on this project. Now, the Sun, Moon, and Star had a HUGE facelift. I was trying to base the card designs in the Alleyman's decks, and as it stood, the Sun, Moon, and Star were not that at all. And that's because though it's a trio I wanted to offer, I didn't do any of those designs in the decks!

The Star is based on Janice Pedersen's Star in the Alleyman's Tarot, my mother's design. The Moon is based on Yve Lepkowski's incredible Moon in the Alleyway Tarot, from the Tarrocchino Arlecchino which you can see here, The work on this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and so Yve was happy to offer it into the deck, and now I have extended that ShareAlike license to this modification for the pin. The Sun was complicated, as neither Suns in the original Alleyman's or the Alleyway were public domain or available for me to use without looping that artist in on the project, and I've been trying to stick to NOT needing to split things different directions on this project, so I drew out the Radiance face from the original edition of my Oracle Dice set as the base of the design.
If this new celestial trio is blowing your mind like it did mine but you missed a set, you'll be able to grab it in the survey when those go out next week.

For the final three, I have put together The Bogeyman, the Final Tarot Card, and the Queen of Bombs!

And I lightly updated the Justice card pin to give it a little more going on. A goodie if ever there was one.

And this isn't even really a pin design as it stands, but it's just going to be the logo. Pretty straightforward! There will be light simplification to take it to manufacturing, but it'll still be clear.

And of course, we had the collab pin! I haven't determined how many people got them yet, but we'll check that soon!

And that's our project!! Overall our numbers look like this:

We're going to wait a little bit to get the surveys out. This is because I'm going to figure out shipping costs now and have it applied to your orders when you go to check out on the survey. This should speed up the process as opposed to charging it later and having people confused about how to do it and cards failing etc etc, it's just better to set it all up at once.

You'll be able to add any additional pins at that time, and in the mean time the pre-order store will go up for people who missed the project entirely! There will also be plenty of extras (planning to do about 500 of each design) for people who missed the project, so you'll be able to get them later on my online store or at conventions. 

For now, hang tight! I'm going to send the pin designs to the manufacturer and figure out the weights for the items and what shipping will cost. There are less than 300 of you so I can figure out the order combos fairly easy I think!

Thanks all, have a lovely day and see you next week!

7DA
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