First of all, I just wanted to give a huge ~*THANK YOU*~ for all of your patience and support! 💚🙏🏼 I know this update is a little later than I had planned, but I want to be fully transparent and let everyone know what's been going on behind the scenes. Let's get into this update~
📦 The delay grading pins:
Shortly after my last update, the pins finally arrived which was great news. But around the same time, my mom had to have emergency heart surgery so I wasn't able to grade the pins right away because I was at the hospital a lot. After she finally recovered and came back home, I had to vend at several conventions & outdoor festivals that kept me on the road for a few weeks (and out of cellphone service at the outdoor shows 😩). I've also been going through some personal life problems during all this, so it's been *A LOT* going on in the background. But I promise I have everything lined up for shipping ASAP!! 🙏🏼
This is basically me trying to do campaign work:
lol
🪲 The great news: the pins look amazing in person!
These arrived around the same time my mom was almost discharged from the hospital, so I haven't had much time to fully grade them all. But I'm so happy with how they look, check it out!! :)
🪲 Egyptian Scarab Beetle Update~
There's one small change with the Egyptian Scarab Beetle pin~ When the original batch arrived, I wasn't really happy with how the black nickel plating looked against the darker body colors. So I asked my manufacturer if we could remake them in dyed black metal instead. Thankfully they were able to rush a new batch for me and these just arrived this past weekend!
Old black nickel:
New black dyed metal:
I think the dyed black version looks so much better!! I'm so glad I made this change before shipping these out to everyone 💖
I'll be turning the old black nickel "B-grade" pins into something really special soon 😻✨ Here's a sneak peak at some custom pins I've been experimenting with~ Posca markers and mica powder <3
📦 Shipping Update~
I went ahead and locked down addresses today with a 2 day notice to make any changes! If you need to update your shipping address, you'll get an email soon to confirm those details~
While I started grading these insect pins, I've also been organizing & grading rewards across the other campaigns that are all reaching the shipping phase together at the same time. I'm basically setting up one huge super efficient packing station for everything so I can just knock out shipping all at once. I'm hoping to get the first batch out by next week!! 🙏🏼
This will basically be me here below lol
➡️ If you also ordered something from the Muerte & Magic campaign, those pins are almost done!! By the time I ship out the insect pins, those should arrive and I can finish the last batch of orders who combined shipping between multiple campaigns ^_^
✨💚 Thank you so much again for your patience and support 🥺🙏🏼💚✨
Running several campaigns back-to-back definitely wasn't a part of my original plan. When I was invited to participate in the Super League of Science event, I was super excited and honored for the opportunity and decided to squeeze this insect pin campaign into my schedule. Looking back now, I really underestimated how much it would overlap with my other planned projects and how quickly all of the campaign work would blend together 😵💫
It's definitely been a learning experience, and one thing I've taken away from this is that I definitely won't be running back-to-back campaigns again. Moving forward, I want to make sure each project has the time and attention it deserves from start to finish and I'll be making that happen from here on out 🙏🏼 My #1 priority now is getting everyone's orders packaged and shipped out ASAP!! ^_^
Again, I really appreciate everyone's patience through everything, and thank you so much for your support 🙏🏼 I'll be posting more updates as I start to ship everything out in batches :) 💌 💌 💌
I’ll be copy + pasting the top part of this update across multiple projects and feature specific campaign news below the top update~ Sorry if you see this pop up more than once if you backed multiple projects 🙏🏼
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📢 Main update across platforms:
Production overview~
🐺 Myths of the Underworld: Over 50% done packing orders, shipping out soon!
🪲 Pinned & Preserved: Final stages of production, should be shipping to me in the next week or two~
☠️ Muerte & Magic: In the middle of production
🌿 Rebirth & Ruin: Already submitted art + final counts to start production!
Summary: everything is in either in production already or wrapping up for shipping, all we have to do is wait for everything to arrive now!! 💌🎉
My collab partner Allison and I placed both of our orders together, so it’s a fairly large order that is taking a bit of time to complete. Rest assured, everything has been coming together in the background ^_^
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📣 Pinned & Preserved additional update:
With production almost finished, we are just waiting for everything to arrive now! I just wanted to share pics of these beautiful 3" iron-on patches that came in the mail a few weeks ago :)
Cicada patch
Rhino Beetle patch
Praying Mantis patch
Death Hawk Moth patch
Black Widow Spider patch
Here's the Fire Ant + Bottle Fly freebie stickers! I'm so excited to get everything out to their forever homes 💚
Last year I signed up to participate in the Bag Baazar ita bag event this month, and it is launching next Tuesday, May 12th @3pm EST! You may have already seen these gaming ita bags in previous campaign add-on shops, if you want one this is your last chance to reserve a gaming ita bag!!
If you want to support the campaign and grab some pins you may have missed from my collection, you can earn the (2) Surfing Turtle pin variants below! 🌊🐢
📣 Early Bird pin (regular variant) + Group Collab pin (shiny variant):
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📣 All returning backers will also get a matching sticker~
The survey I sent last week had a few bugs/errors that showed up after it sent out. I had to wait until after the weekend to hear back from BackerKit support, but we fixed the problem together this week and everything should be running smoothly now! 🎉
If you notice anything still acting weird, please let me know and I’ll fix it ASAP.
📦 Combined (Pin Quest) Shipping info~
This shipping section only applies to those who who backed both Pin Quest: Myths of the Underworld + Pinned & Preserved campaigns:
➡️ International backers:
After doing some research about combining two separate international orders into one package, I found that this isn’t the best option for shipping. Combining the value on customs forms can cause some major delays, extra fees, or cause packages to get held up.
Worse case scenario, Customs can even destroy a package for incorrect documentation. Even if I gave a detailed list of both orders, combining separate orders creates a single higher-value shipment that causes a bunch of issues. So because of this, I can't offer combined shipping for international orders outside the United States. I know this is disappointing, but I don’t want to risk any of your packages getting stuck at Customs or even worse, destroyed 🥺🙏🏼
➡️ U.S. backers:
Basically everyone answered that they wanted the combined shipping, so the survey should now reflect the added shipping credit~
in other news...
🌸 Orchid Mantis + Madagascan Sunset Moth almost unlocked!! 🦋🌈
We are so close!! Just 11 more orders until we fully unlock both of these beauties 🦋💖 Feel free to browse the Add-on Shop one more time to help unlock these babies 🌸
📣 Last announcement! 📣
💀Coming Soon: Rebirth & Ruin II: Consumed 🌿
🚀 Pintopia 2026 launches Jan 22nd @ 1pm EST~
Rebirth & Ruin II: Consumed is a part 2 series from last year's Pintopia! This campaign continues to celebrate the dark beauty of decay, consumption, and renewal in nature 🌿🥀
➡️ Here's the freebies I'll be giving away for this campaign~
➡️ And the free pins you can earn for backing mine and my collab partner Allison's campaigns!
📣 Sign up for notifications on the teaser page below so you don’t miss out on these new pins ^_^
I sent out the Smoke Tests over the last few days, and everything went smoothly! There was just one edit I made to the surveys, so everything should go great from here on out! :)
📣 Orchid Mantis + new pins revealed! 🌸🦋
If you didn't see the last few updates, we have some new specimens available in the Survey Add-on Shop! 💖 The Orchid Mantis and the Madagascan Sunset Moth will be available for our Community to unlock in the survey at the same discounted campaign pricing <3
Orchid Mantis (Help unlock!)
Egyptian Scarab Beetle (sandblasted metal +transparent gradient enamel)
Madagascan Sunset Moth (Help unlock!)
Honey bee 1.5" gold mini pin
Sarclet-bodied Wasp Moth 1.5" gunmetal mini pin
Here's the full collection all together!! They look so good as a whole set!! 🥰
✨ New stickers/embroidered iron-on patches will be available in the Survey Add-on Shop~
~Stickers/Embroidered iron-on patches~
📸 Pin Quest photos!
Some other great news is that the Pin Quest pins are almost here and they look amazing!! Take a look at these babies 😻🥰
Jörmungandr- Chibi Snake/Japan
Underworld Skull Key- gold/white
Jörmungandr- green
Jörmungandr- rainbow metal
Underworld Skull Key- red/black
Jörmungandr- rainbow metal in the sun ☀️
Hydra- rainbow metal
Hydra- rainbow metal in the sun ☀️
Hydra- rainbow metal
Baphomet black rainbow 🌈🖤✨ (before epoxy)
Cerberus before chains are added
Baphomet white rainbow 🌈🤍✨
Black Fenrir before chains are added
Gray Fenrir before screenprinting and before chains are added
White Fenrir before chains are added
If you missed out on adding these, the leftover pins will be available in the Survey Add-on Shop~
➡️ If you are a returning Pin Quest backer and want me to hold onto your Pin Quest order until the insect pins are done, I can still honor the combined shipping deal for you 🙂 It should only take about 1-2 months until these will be finished. There is now a pledge question asking your preference in the surveys 💖
If you run into any issues in the survey please leave a comment here and I'll get back to it ASAP. Thank you for your patience!! :)
Hello everyone! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! I hope you are all staying safe, warm, and having a great time as we start off 2026~ 😊🙏🏼
I wanted to share an update on where things are at and why there has been a slight delay in surveys going out. I also have pics of the new and highly anticipated Orchid Mantis,Madagascan Sunset Moth, and Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth designs! Let's start the update~
📝 Surveys coming in the next few days!
At the moment, I am waiting on the Backerkit Team to return from their Winter Holiday Break so they can approve my surveys and release them to you all 😊 The team has been out of office since Christmas Eve and will be returning on January 5th. As soon as they are back and approvals are completed, surveys will be sent out ASAP so I can get the final counts over to my manufacturer to start production ^_^
🙏🏼 The reason for the delay (if you didn't see the previous updates)
Long story short, the delay came from running Pin Quest, Pinned & Preserved, and Pintober campaigns back-to-back with very little downtime in between campaigns. On top of overlapping campaigns, I was also dealing with several unexpected family emergencies that made it difficult to keep everything moving on the original timeline I had planned.
➡️ Back to back campaigns: While running Pin Quest, an artist a part of the upcoming League of Science pin event asked me to join and asked if I could do more insect pins like in my Rebirth & Ruin campaign. I happily agreed and was honored to be invited to the group and started working on some new designs. However, I didn't fully anticipate how tight the schedule would be in between setting up & running multiple back-to-back campaigns, cleaning up lineart, and preparing artwork for the next event. I originally planned to have more time between Pin Quest and Pintober to clean up/vectorize the artwork, but with the added insect pin campaign I had to put a pause on cleaning up the designs in order to run the events on time.
➡️ Family emergencies: During the middle of running Pinned & Preserved, my mom was hospitalized due to a severe spider bite infection that required multiple surgeries to clear out of her system. Thankfully she made a full recovery 🥹🙏🏼 Shortly after this, there was a cancer scare that required more testing back at the hospital, but thankfully that all came back negative. After this happened, my closest grandma passed away which was a very difficult loss to deal with on top of everything.
Once things settled down, I jumped immediately back into my work cleaning up the Pin Quest lineart for my manufacturer. I also finished the last insect pin designs for the survey, and started preparing for Pintober. Balancing campaign work in between these 2 family emergencies caused some delays getting the surveys out, and for that I am truly sorry. I'm doing everything in my power to get everything rolling out, and I'm really excited to announce all the new things happening~
💪🏼 The great news is that I am finally at the point where art/surveys have been finished and production is ready to start on these pins as soon as all survey counts are finalized! 🙏🏼 This part is easy because I just count everything up, send it over to my manufacturer and just wait for them to be made~
📣 Orchid Mantis + new pins revealed! 🌸🦋
All while these life events were happening, I was still hard at work in the background finishing up these last few pins for you all 💖 The Orchid Mantis and the Madagascan Sunset Moth will be available to unlock in the survey at the same discounted campaign pricing <3
Orchid Mantis
Egyptian Scarab Beetle (sandblasted metal +transparent gradient enamel)
Madagascan Sunset Moth
Honey bee 1.5" gold mini pin
Sarclet-bodied Wasp Moth 1.5" gunmetal mini pin
Here's the full collection all together!! They look so good as a whole set!! 🥰
✨ New stickers/embroidered iron-on patches will be available in the Survey Add-on Shop~
~Stickers/Embroidered iron-on patches~
📸 Pin Quest photos!
Some other great news is that the Pin Quest pins are almost here and they look amazing!! Take a look at these beauties 😻🥰
Jörmungandr- Chibi Snake/Japan
Underworld Skull Key- gold/white
Jörmungandr- green
Jörmungandr- rainbow metal
Underworld Skull Key- red/black
Jörmungandr- rainbow metal in the sun ☀️
Hydra- rainbow metal
Hydra- rainbow metal in the sun ☀️
Hydra- rainbow metal
Baphomet black rainbow 🌈🖤✨ (before epoxy)
Cerberus before chains are added
Baphomet white rainbow 🌈🤍✨
Black Fenrir before chains are added
Gray Fenrir before screenprinting and before chains are added
White Fenrir before chains are added
If you missed out on adding these, the leftover pins will be available in your Survey~ If you came from Pin Quest and wanted the combined shipping between (Pin Quest) + (Pinned & Preserved) orders: Since production was delayed for these insect pins, I won't be able to combine shipping right away like I was hoping to. If you are a returning Pin Quest backer and want me to hold onto your Pin Quest order until the Insect pins are done, I can still honor the combined shipping deal for you 🙂 Please leave a comment here so I can leave a note/adjust your order for shipping 💖 (It should only take about 1 month until these will be finished)
Now that these Pin Quest pins are almost here, I am clearing out my schedule for the rest of this month so I can focus fully on finalizing pin production and fulfilling Pin Quest orders! ^_^
After these survey counts are done in a few days, everything will go smoothly and consistently from here on out! 🤗💖 Thank you so much for your incredible patience, understanding and support during this time. It really means the world to me and I am so grateful to have you all here 💖💖💖
I'll send another update when the surveys are officially sent out to everyone!
