Alright so since the orange cats have to be remade - they are too small to get the enamel out without damaging them - I made a deal with my manufacturer that I will just make a new screenprint for it and keep them. Just getting a discount on remakes and we'll have some sort of fluffy garfield-esque orange cat pins as well. 

I'm rushing today for an event, but I will update with some pics later.

Cards were also charged today. 

Just a reminder cards will be charged April 1st.

I think the orange cats are fixed now? Maybe?

It's lighter so I'm happy. I don't think it matches the exact color I was expecting, but it looks fine to me so I am okay with it. I will drop some other pics below as well.

Some photos I was sent before they lightened it so you can see how there wasn't exactly enough contrast with the screenprint color. Should be better now at least.

And a dragon photo. Think the dragons just need screenprint really at this point so that is probably all that is left. I really need to get the keychains ordered so I can mail things once everything arrives!

I realized I didn't update about sushi cat progress.

Let's start with the good things! They look like they are doing well at least. My concern was the white cat since it's a mix of pearl and regular white (meaning two separate ways it's being handled). That ended up being just fine as of this point. These should finish up soon. 

For those unfamiliar with the process: Mold -> Raw Pins -> Enamel Fill & Firing -> Cleanup -> Plating & Polish -> Screenprint.

Now for the bad news! So I didn't expect to run into issues with the orange cat, but here we are. It seems extremely BRIGHT ORANGE compared to what I was expecting. Going to work on getting it fixed though. They asked if I wanted more white added to it, I will probably go that route but I asked to see the stripe print color next to the color of the cat itself first. 

I will say I have sped up my color selection process by using Pantone Connect + cross checking colors with my physical book. This particular color just happens to NOT be a color I have in my book and I was like "well they haven't steered me wrong yet" haha. Some of this could be a lighting situation. I think manufacturers take pretty terrible photos (and that's okay), but it makes it harder to actually make good judgement calls sometimes.

Either way, I am working on fixing this design, but feel free to panic with me in the meantime! :D

Custom Pins
I will actually be working on these when I get back from Awesomecon. I had some other things going on this month, so I never got them finished. I would like to start them in April and since they will be smaller quantities than the main order, they should not take as long to complete. Either way, thank you two for being patient with me. <3

I think that wraps up the updates for now! I do need to get the full keychain order into production as well so I can make sure to get everything out together.