Sorry for the delay, critters! We had a market event on Sunday that I spent all of Saturday prepping for and then when we got home last night I immediately passed out lol. Even with a super simplified setup, lugging out all those tables and gridwalls is a workout!

The market went great though! If you saw us and/or adopted a snughoul, thanks so much for coming out 😊 Definitely going back next year, so if you're in Pensacola around this time come check out the Punk Rock Flea Market!

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NOW onto campaign stuff! We finished at an incredible 326k and a whopping 29 unlocked 'ghouls!!! What an accomplishment!
 
First I'd like to address declined payments. If your payment failed, don't panic! Backerkit will automatically continue to retry failed payments periodically over the next 14 days. If you need to change the card on file but are struggling to do so, please reach out to [email protected] for assistance. I'm not able to trouble shoot payment issues until the pledge manager opens in two weeks.

I'm also not able to make adjustments to your pledge until the pledge manager opens. When surveys go out in two weeks, you'll be able to add/remove items and customize your order to your liking. At that point I can help with adjustments and other order issues as well, so please sit tight until then!

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Secondly, some new sample pics are here! I'm sharing them along with the notes I sent back to the supplier so everyone can see the vision!

Beyond a few materials that need swapping around for better contrast, the first draft of the gryphon is looking INCREDIBLE. The beak is constructed in such a way that they can't embroider a mouth like they would normally, so I've opted to define it with a color change instead. I think this adds to the bird of prey look, and is an improvement overall. Yay for happy accidents!

We also received a mini Gutsy revision, and he's coming along swimmingly! My notes with this one are very minimal, just dialing in those final proportion tweaks for the perfect lil' guy. I'm especially excited to see him in motion because I just know he has the cutest flops.

I'm hoping we receive the first backpack sample later this week, and possibly our first look at the guardian lion! Next on the agenda for this week is paying for all of the giant samples, the jersey devil and the minotaur. My goal is to sample all the snughouls with "unique" shapes first, since they will likely take the longest. After that we can start on the color swaps!

That's all for now my friends, but if I receive anymore pictures this week I'll be sure to share them here asap!

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