Since these pins ended up fine (I had one really flawed one), I paid for the bearded dragon pins today since that's the same manufacturer I make my Nebula designs with and they had the sample anyways.

I am getting a quote from my other manufacturer for the smaller designs. I was originally gonna have with the same manufacturer, but frankly I am too impatient to wait for them to do those + the other Nebula designs (Waffle & Nuggets) when they are already slow.

Also yes I am slow on this project bc $3k did not cover production for all the pins + just .. forgetting it existed when I was busy/having family things to focus on last year. The 3 large dragons that just completed cost $2k, and I had previously put the freebies into production last year and I can't remember that cost anymore so I am still making sales to help pay for this and the piles of plush projects to close both of those projects out.

I won't be saying yes to unlocking everything in the future because of how much debt I put myself into on backerkit projects lol.

I do have a project launching in September which is fanart focused so we'll see how that goes compared to these. 

I did two mail drop offs (one Monday, one today). I need to move a lot of orders from here over to my shopify which .. I never made listings for. Either way wanted to do a quick update on pins. And anyone who is upset I'm doing those monthly pins, those have increased my online and in person sales, so it's helping me slowly get out of my $30k plush debt that was draining me and helping me.. I guess be in more debt for a temp time to get these produced. 

I really just want to get everyone their products because I messed up a LOT with unlock decisions I made in 2025 + sampling issues with plush.

I refunded people who didn't fill out their surveys since I ordered the bare minimum of pins (50-100 depending on how many were ordered on surveys). I just need these filled.

Anyway... I will post more updates once I get pics from manus. Waffle and Nuggets will probably be the very last designs to complete since I probably need another $2k just for those so I'll be working my ass off to get sales to start those. At least I only have to order 100 Waffles and 50 of the Nuggets so I won't need too many total.

Thank you guys!

Update 8/12/2026: Bearded Dragon ETA is 1.5-2 months give or take I guess. I always do 50/50 with this manu bc the pins take so long to produce. Either way, that is the update for you on that design. I will get the other stuff into production probably after my cons are done and I see how much I to spend. Each of these design orders are around $2k for a project I only made like $3k on. We're what.. 6 designs in now? We have some mini pins, 2 dragons and a snake left to start. I am double checking Pantones this week on those before I submit them. I am ordering the bare minimum for all of these to fill the orders so I won't have any significant number of pins left afterwards.

Update 8/13/2026: Snakes are in production and will be shipped with the bearded dragons.