As per normal, yall tied the polls lol 💕

So I spent the night trying to figure out the best solution moving forward. The only way I can think to bring yall into the process is to make a new channel in my discord where I can poll yall and get ideas/suggestions when I’m designing plushies. This way yall can help be apart of the process before the campaign launches and so I can have the prototype in hand during the main campaign.

https://discord.gg/hftqNpajVS

This way anyone who wants to participate can and everyone can see the prototype before pledging. Just make sure you add the Plushie Design Polls Announcement rolls.

I know not everyone uses discord or likes having 10000 servers. I’ll also try to post polls to my instagram stories but I know those are easier to miss and only limit me to 4 options. So I can’t use them for larger polls and I’ll be combining the results with the discord polls

https://www.instagram.com/winterraart?igsh=aXcwcGxpcTlyaWNx&utm_source=qr

I also know not everyone likes/uses Instagram either so I’ll continue trying to brainstorm solutions but for now this is plan!

Right now there’s a discord poll for the Pintopia plushie. So if you want to help decide which plushie I start a prototype on, jump on over ^^

Hey everyone!

Good news, all the pin orders have been fulfilled by the deadline 😮‍💨 some 500+ orders got out this month. Exception being 10 orders in which I can’t find one of the items for. I moved and things have vanished into the aether. Most of the items I placed an order for restock halfway through July, the rest I ordered 3 days ago. I imagine they’ll be here sometime in August and my sister will get them out ASAP along with a free sticker for the delay. (Some of the items include the white/red Kitsune and all the leafeons except autumn, I weirdly enough have that one) 

Regarding plushies I mailed back the original sample for them to look at. My biggest issue is that their faces look so squished or bloated lol. Once this is fixed they’ll go into production. I can’t imagine this’ll be a hard fix but it’s been hard trying to explain what the issue is. So I just mailed them back the original sample (which was perfect) ^^ I think it’s just an over-stuffing issue. 

I changed the material of the crown so it wasn’t the flimsy felt, but they put it behind the ears so I had to get it moved back up in front like the old one. 

I can’t imagine these won’t be in production by the end of August. I’m determined to get them to everyone before Christmas. I’ll include freebies for everyone with a plush to make up for it! 

Hey everyone!

If you don’t like plushies skip this update! For those of you who do, I wanted to figure out what yall prefer. Looking through all the other pintopia projects, it seems I grossly underestimated how long plushies take lol as pretty much none of the plushie campaigns are done prototyping let alone fulfilling. So I guess this is normal. 

So I wanted to give yall a choice, either 
1) I keep doing a backer voted plushie but it may delay fulfillment of all plushies by up to 6-8 months (most likely 3-4 months)

or

2) I only fund plushies I have prototypes for and I do not have a backer voted plushie even option. But this way plushies should ship faster

Either way is fine with me but I understand both arguments and want to figure out where y’all lay!

Hey everyone!

Quick fulfillment update. We are almost halfway through the adventure buddies enamel pin orders! I’m hoping to clear them all by the end of the month but some orders may bleed into early August ^^

Regarding plushies: Still nitpicking samples. But they’re very close to being finalized. I apologize for the heavy delay on the plush orders. Moving forward I will not be funding any plushies I don’t already have a sample for! (Which is sad because I love designing things with yall but I feel real bad when the prototyping phase takes so long! I don’t want anyone stuck waiting and it takes weeks to a month sometimes to get edits back).

If you ordered Forgotten Forest + a plushie, I tried to fit as many of your pins into the forgotten forest order as I can so you can get them sooner!

However the totally generic fire dog is looking much better with the new sew pads ^^ there’s a few issues with the face shape on the Royal but once those have been hashed they’ll all be in production. That takes about a month or two and then it takes a month to get to me so I (hopefully) estimate I can start sending them out October or November and I’ll be cursed if I don’t get them to everyone in time for Christmas 💕

All the plushies have also been paid for (not counting tariffs lol 😭 ) ^^ so it’s good to start moving as soon as I approve the samples

For Pintopia 2 I’ll be doing Media Monsters and I’m going to try to get an Okami plush and maybe a Cerberus plush in the works so I have a prototype in hand in time!