Hi everyone!

Packages are getting prepped for a bit over half of you, so it's time to go double check your addresses and get ready for shipping to get charged.
See my earlier post to check if you're part of that group.

Orders that do not contain any pins will be sent out in this round as well.
If you have combined shipping with Challenge Coin Critters and you already got charged for shipping, your payment is all set! But please do make sure everything is filled out correctly. 

If you're not in this shipping round, it's still a good idea to double check your address, since some of you did pay but never fully finalized the survey. A few others still have errored credit cards.

Shipping got more expensive again but thankfully I've managed to keep the rates almost entirely within the estimated range.
I'm bracing for the US customs process and fee, which seemingly keep getting more difficult by the day. Since I'm charging in advance, it shouldn't influence your payment.

I'm doing the quality control and packing mostly by myself and it's quite an undertaking, so thank you in advance for your patience!

In lieu of better photo updates of the second wave of pins, here's pictures of some molds from a little while ago.

Hi! I'm back from two pretty exhausting weeks away!
I have good news and (somewhat) bad news--

The manufacturer has finished re-plating the aardwolf pins, and they are en route to me, without having to wait for the next large batch of designs to finish. That means I can include all the orders where everything but the aardwolves is ready.

Now the somewhat bad news: I had slightly altered the screen print in shape and color after seeing the sample. Much to my rep's dismay, all these fixed up pins used the earlier version by mistake.
They will get replaced, however, if you're part of this group there's now the choice of whether you're happy with the current version and get your order sooner, or if you prefer to wait for the second round of shipments.
To be clear, they don't look bad! I'm just nitpicky and sometimes change details most people don't even notice.
I will email those who this concerns, please let me know if you think these look fine and you'd like to have your order shipped ASAP! If I hear nothing, the order gets postponed until the next round. I'd love to hear from you either way.

I only have these photos for now, I have not seen them in person yet myself.
Pins are small, and details look much larger on photos. The little aardwolf's head is the same size as the spotted hyena's paws and fits inside the tip of a pencil!

- Henrieke

Hi!

I'm happy to say that four big boxes of pins have arrived, and they look great! I still need to grade them, but it looks like the quality is high overall.

Sadly, though they were virtually done, the full body aardwolf pins aren't ready yet- they had issues with oxidising metal and screen print quality.
Also, the tayra portraits arrived, and look great as you've seen in earlier photos, but...

It somehow came out much larger than the other ones! I will probably get these remade entirely, but luckily it doesn't affect as many orders as the aardwolf. (Don't worry, the large ones won't be trashed!)

About half of the orders are now fully in stock.
Grading and packing will be happening as soon as possible, I'm caught with these arriving shortly before I'm away for two weeks. I'll try my very best!
Shipping for these orders will be charged as soon as I have everything figured out, so check if your address is still accurate! Of course, if you have combined shipping with CCC and have already fully or partially paid for shipping, this will be taken into account.

Half of the orders being almost ready sadly also means that the other half is NOT ready yet. I can currently not give a very certain time indication, they are in the works. I promise the pins will be worth the wait, thank you for your patience.

Here is the list of pins that are NOT in my hands yet:

Portraits:
Ethiopian wolf, African golden wolf, black-backed jackal, indri, aye-aye, golden bamboo lemur, crowned lemurs, fossa, binturong, kinkajou, tayra*, spectacled flying fox, corn snake.
Full body:
Aardwolf, African golden wolf, black-backed jackal, lemurs, fossa, binturong, kinkajou, tayra, wukongopterus, pronghorn, hare.

I'm also still waiting on a small amount of stickers, this would affect seven of you. I'll try my best to still include them in this shipping round!

Pins that ARE good to go are: the cockatiel freebie, sleeping spotted hyena freebie, full body spotted hyena, glow in the dark green spotted hyena, full body striped hyena, full body brown hyena, spotted hyena portrait, gold spotted hyena portrait, striped hyena portrait, gold striped hyena portrait, brown hyena portrait, gold brown hyena portrait, aardwolf portrait, gold aardwolf portrait, full body African wild dog, African wild dog portrait, full body maned wolf, maned wolf portrait, full body thylacine, thylacine portrait, full body harbor seal, harbor seal portrait, full body clouded leopard, glow in the dark cat pin, all three Kiki pins and both Jack pins.

Some of you have mentioned wanting to add more pins to your order. This is possible, but needs to be done manually by me, please comment here so I can contact you directly.

Now, let's end this with a couple of quick photos!

 Hi all!

So sorry for the long pause in between updates, things have been VERY busy here with cons, suit building, commissions and other things, and I've barely been home. This will be brief!

Hi!

I'm quite busy and away from home so I'll keep this limited in terms of text and video (it's still pretty long), but here's another batch of photos, this time with several finalized pins!

A decent number of pins area nearly ready to ship to me and I hope to have them in my hands within a month.
You can refer to this post to see which ones are the furthest along, more pins are being worked on but the list is still accurate.

Depending on when they arrive, it's still likely that I will have orders shipped out in two or more batches.
The first batch would also include the letter mail tier backers.

Unfortunately I'm away more than I'm home during August and September but I'll ship things out as soon as I possibly can, and will keep updating you.