Hello Everyone! Thank you for supporting the Elemental Myth Campaign!
This update contains an an updated delivery timeline, updates on production, a switch in manufacturers, photos of what went wrong, samples from the new manufacturer, and additional freebies I will be including as gift for Elemental Myth backers.
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Timeline Update
I've updated the projected timeline here and on the campaign page. Here is the new expected timeline given the delays with sampling and quality issues with the original print run.
January 22,2026 - The Campaign begins.
February 12, 2026 - The Campaign ends.
Mid-March 2026 - Surveys are sent to Backers to allow for design selection, additional addons, and shipping charges.
April 2026 - Pins, Pendants, Earrings, and Packaging go into production!
May 2026 | September 2026*** - Production Concludes
May 2026 - June 2026 | September 2026*** - Product arrives to be checked, graded, and packaged.
June 2026 - July 2026 | October 2026*** Rewards are shipped to backers.
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Production Delays & Switching Manufacturers:
There's been several delays with production. My original manufacturer will no longer be making the pins for this campaign, as the original production run of the pins ended up being a lower quality than I found acceptable. There were issues with pantone colors not being matched correctly, incorrect glitter being used, different shades of gold electroplating being used across the collection, and thick, grainy UV spot color.
This was unlike my prior orders with this manufacturer, which had good color accuracy and better quality control and thickness on the UV spot color.
It is disappointing to have to restart production with a new manufacturer. While getting the items remade will be costly, I want to feel good about the quality of the pins that my backers receive, and the first production run just wasn't up to standard. I apologize for the delays that this has caused.
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Production Round 2 with the New Manufacturer:
All pins have been reordered and are in production with the new manufacturer. I've been very pleased with the samples and updates that I've received so far! In addition, this manufacturer offers silkscreen printed spot color, which prints flat areas of enamel on the surface of the pin, resulting very smooth, even spot colors.
Below you can see the final gradient, sparkle effect on the elemental energy. I love the smooth, gradient transitions and fine-particle sparkle that these have. Please note that these pins were for sampling the elemental effects, and are not "finished" samples with the screen-printed areas of spot color, like the markings and the shadows.
The new manufacturer is hard at work getting these pins into production, and we expect a new estimated delivery time of October, 2026.
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Pledge Manager, Charges, and Information Lock:
The Pledge Manager will remain active, and all orders will be editable until the end of August, at which point I will send out a lock notice through e-mail. After orders are locked, backers will be charged for any additional items added in the pledge manager stage as well as shipping in the first week of September. All addresses will remain unlocked and editable until I have the pins in hand. I will send out email notifications and project updates for all of these milestones, so none of this will come as a surprise.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or are having any issues with the Pledge Manager, please reach out and I will do my best to address them! You can send a message through the Pledge Manager "contact us" form, or here in the comments if you prefer!
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Sticker Gift:
I've created brushed metal stickers as gift for the backers of Elemental Myth. These stickers have a matte finish across the surface, and the metallic characteristics show up in the elemental energy regions. These stickers will be included free with your order depending on your pledge amount. Everyone who backed the campaign will be getting one free sticker. Everyone who spent $30+ will be getting two free stickers. Everyone who spent $50+ will be getting all three stickers.
These stickers and the metallic effect came out nicely, and I wanted to show my appreciation for your continued patience as I work out the production issues this project has faced. Thank you again for supporting this project, and I look forward to delivering your pins to you in the future!
Hey Guys its been a bit, due to near constant conventions it's been hard to give updates but also hard to make updates due to just the plush shipping in general since it will take about a month for them to arrive! ((the first batch)) Jersey devil, Jackalope and Additional revised Mothman 2.0 will be in the next batch of plush! Due to the payments done after, we have 3 conventions in a row and secured funding we are expected 6 BOXES! of plush of this and previous campaign Jelly Stars, the pins will be ordered soon as they will be a combined order with JellyStars!
THE COLORS ON THIS MODEL WAS JUST FOR THE SHAPING PURPOSES!
Theres a limited fabric selection with this size of plush, so here is what I chose! I'm so happy to see some progress, and hopefully more will come my way soon!
Our Next conventions for May/June are AnthroOhio, Indiana Comic Con & Animate Columbus ! July we will have (1) inperson convention which is DokiDokon, we are hoping to get into TrotCon Online 2026 for an big birthday sale!
THANK YOU AGAIN! For your patience and understanding!
I've sent out the email for certain items to be removed, you should be refunded for those items if they did not fully fund. BESIDES for Glorp pin, Jersey Devil Plush, Jackalope Plush, and I thinkCryptid Crew pin, Those are from the top of my head but the majority of pins were not enough to be made.
Jackalope & Jersey Devil Plush will be 100 made of each. This is due to how many orders they had (18 each) and to test the waters at IRL shows as well. If they do well enough I MAY order a restock but its not sure at this time.
Plush are in production but we are still paying for the second half of the order, we found a loan but we are having some issues but hoping to hear back in 3-5 business days to see if the bank account used will qualify. We have a convention this week hoping to pay it off, if not we have FWA after but we have low stock as we have not been able to afford any Restocks due to this plush pay off.
Just thank you for your patience and understanding with this project, it means a lot! I wish I can provide more updates but I haven't gotten any pictures since the Glorp 2.0 update. I sent in the jackalope & jersey devil artwork yesterday so hopefully I can show the prototypes for those soon once they get back to me and I pay for the prototype fees.
REMINDER!
About 16 surveys have NOT been answered if you have not filled them out this is the time to do so!
Thank you so so much again and hope to post another update when I get them!
For faster updates, more updates, direct easier communication with meeee, a fun atmosphere and basically a wholesome weirdo family xD It is 18+ so please be aware.
Due to fabric Limitations of plush this size, this was the "closest purples" to the concept I understand this is VERY VERY PURPLE haha
I understand this may not be as accurate to the concept photo
Should we change him to an black/grey wolf
Keep the lighter purple and change body to black/dark grey
Keep the lighter Purples but change to a darker blues ((if available)
Keep the Purples
Vote in the Poll below which will be available for the next 4 days!
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Backerkit surveys are coming very very soon! I'm about done fixing things, just wanted some feedback on the wolf ((may not be final colors)) before proceeding fully. I did get some of the newer pin designs done so I would like to show you!
Hope you enjoy! And thank you so much for the feedback!!
Amazing job all of you to our loyal fans and new fans!
Thank you so much for getting us this far! We are in the home stretch! I’m setting up the surveys which will go out in a few days after campaign ends and will allow for further add-ons and the pre-order store.
But can we unlock coy ness before we end?? I think we can! If not you all are amazing and we are so grateful for how far we've gotten!
We need just a little more to unlock her so lets see if we can!
WOW! The support overnight has been crazy! THANK YOU!
I can CONFIDENTALLY SAY... GLORP IS UNLOCKED
Thank the stars!! aka.. you superstars! <3
PROGRESS AS OF 2/2/26... AT 6:06 AM EST...
WE ARE CLOSER... FINAL 10 DAYS... CAN WE DO IT CRYPTID CREW?!
Speaking of Cryptid Crew...
Did you miss yesterdays update, we are at now 135 Backers
if we reach 150 Backers
by the end of the campaign every PHYSICAL backer will get a FREE small enamel Cryptid Crew Enamel pin!
Vote in The Poll Below!
The 100 backer mini pin design poll is also going for another (2) days as of typing, go here to vote!
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR THE SUPPORT!
Lets start this week and hopefully end this week strong, mentally,emotionally and physically its rough out there y'all<3
Thank you again for all of the support on the campaign this is my 2nd Pintopia and it's been fun being back and creating more fun things for you guys, even with a few bumps on the way its been smoothing out.
CONVENTION APPEARANCE I was going to be attending anyways in Artist Alley, but I got an booth upgrade to be in the dealers, so I'll have a full table at MCFC, My first ever time at my Home State Furry Con! I'll be accepting Commissions, and have merch of course haha.
MOTORCITY FURCON Feb 13-15th Detroit, MI
With this Convention we hope to use the funds to smooth out Jellystars campaign... which i just found out the quote ALSO included the werewolves which.. is actually REALLY good for us! If we hit the NightCrawler too that would be so awesome! Two thunderbirds with...one ston- you know what I don't want to hurt the bird.. haha.
Anyways have a wonderful week and thank you so much again.
THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT SO FAR!! - Clean Ver soon! -
UNDER 2 WEEKS LEFT
$515 - Till NightCrawler Pin $715 - Till NightCrawler Plush!
AND....
NEW CROSS COLLAB FREEBIE COMING SOON!
150 BACKERS ... May include something Special :)
I apologies for the lack of updates, a lot of health junk going on, but I deeply appreciate everything you've given us, I hope we can make this awesome for everyone! Depending on how we do on backerkit add-ons and such we can also afford a re-stock for Glorp which can help us so so much, so it means a ton to us along with some help with jelly stars so it means a super ton! Thank you so much again!! <3
We were so close, yet so far.. We had a lot of pledge cancellations which is totally okay just pushed us back a bit! But we can do this!!!
We hit Glorp goal, then not, and now we are $64 away which isn't too far back but if you want the Glorpis its close enough to achieve!
Look Glorp is cleaned up !!
Here is a cleaner glorp.. like they got a bath or somethin' haha.
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-100 BACKER FREEBIE SURVEY-
Mini Nightcrawler Pin edition!
I did some doodles and thought they might look a lil funky for a lil funky fellow! (Final will be cleaned up! ofc!!)
Wow! Look at them go!!
I have a poll below with pictures! Which everyone can vote on, which would you choose to add to your collection of lil guys!
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NIGHTCRAWLER GOALS
We are in the final weeks and I hope to reach the plush goal for this lil lad but we'll see!!
In total we are about 80%ISH percent between both goals!
CROSS COLLAB FREEBIE!!! Oh yeah baby we didn't stop there! How about a CUTE Sticker with Jackalope and
Wyldefell Woods's Own Dust Bunnies! Isn't so CUTE!!
So cute!!
But anywho!!!
So be sure to vote below for the design for the freebie Nightcrawler pin for physical tiers! Have a hecking wonderful weekend everyone!!
What if the Lock Stress Monsters are shape shifted forms of the Dream Keep Dragons? Should they be a completely separate thing, or should they be connected?
If part of same characters and universe: In their natural forms, Dream Keep Dragons protect dreams, and keep them safe. However, emotions are deeply tied to dreams and somethings you need to go through them and work them out in your dreams to process.
When the dream Keep Dragons come down from their Comfort Kingdom they must always cross the vast ocean of emotion. To not get dragged down by the power of the raging waves of emotion, they must shift into the Lock Stress form.
They can sense and seek out the person who needs them most, and start in their small pocket form so they can be there for the human calling to them. However, as they grow with love just like their dream defender form, they can also grow into their “Emotion monster” form. Large enough to help you calm and settle your strongest emotions.
What do you think? Should this be tied to the dream keep dragons as their water forms? Or a cousin ajacent to the lock stress monsters, like how there are “Sea Ponies” in my little pony?” Or should they be something separate all together?
