In addition to the backer-only news attached below, I want to mention this campaign going live at 10AM PST on May 5th:
This is a campaign that is ran through primarily my ...
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Midnight Springs
about 1 month ago
Jewelry Campaign masterpost!
Hello! While I'm publishing this here, it is actually being sent to all of my past backers and followers. I've found through sending them to myself that using the email li...
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Midnight Springs
about 2 months ago
The finished snakes!!
Sorry, I'm just realizing now I didn't actually show what the finished ones look like in-hand... 🤨 I thought I had, but I checked update history and don't see it, my bad.
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Midnight Springs
about 2 months ago
Snake preorders being sent out soon!!
Sorry for the delay. My hand pain was only diminished for a few weeks - it's back to being pretty terrible, along with increased migraine and ice pick headache frequency. Bee...
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4 months ago
Handful left; snakes OTW
Hello! I actually have 6 left to go out still, weather has been a significantly-contributing factor to this as the extreme cold is bad for my health as well as making PO trip...
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Midnight Springs
4 months ago
Happy New Year! 🎉
29 packages were dropped off at the PO! 28 orders are now fulfilled, one had both a priority mail box and also a separate package.
More will go out next week, probably Tues...
In addition to the backer-only news attached below, I want to mention this campaigngoing live at 10AM PST on May 5th:
This is a campaign that is ran through primarily my account but also is managed by Chocolat Chaud!! These are primarily ideas we've had for quite some time but didn't think we'd ever have the chance to bring to fruition, so they are "bucketlist" designs for us.
For me, that is because I came up with the concept for this guillotine necklace all the way back in April 2023 and, along with the bandage designs being produced right now that will be available as add-ons, were the "last miscellanious things" that I desperately wanted to have produced before I close my online shop - aka, bucketlist designs. Thanks to Chocolat Chaud, that's possible if this campaign goes well!!
The base goal covers the Vitrail de Cristal collar pin sets, and all the freebie mini pins and holographic stickers for qualifying backers! The new colorway of the thorns design mini bat pin is also unlocked in the base goal.
The first stretch goal is the Cœr de Chat necklace with 2 colorways:
It's a very sentimental piece inspired by grief and love in regards to losing our beloved feline friends and family.
The 2nd stretch goal will be the silver colorway of my guillotine necklace!
The guillotine is a fidget necklace, and is a statement piece at 2" tall. I don't have a good name for it yet but I'm thinking of a couple candidates! There are gifs of it functioning in the campaign bio, but they are apparently too big for me to attach here.
I will be doing fulfillment so that the horrible tariff situation between Japan (where she is based) and the US will not impact fulfillment for anyone other than people in the EU, who will unfortunately not be able to back the campaign. It will be fulfilled sometime this Fall as long as everything goes smoothly!
Thank you for your patience, truly and sincerely!! I can see myself posting 1 last update here if there is another Holiday Market this year, but otherwise that's a wrap!
Hello! While I'm publishing this here, it is actually being sent to all of my past backers and followers. I've found through sending them to myself that using the email list feature from BK leads to them basically being sorted as promo spam... so this is the best way of reaching interested parties.
This is primarily a jewelry campaign, with necklaces, rings, and collar pin sets. But there are also some enamel pins (mini bats, the porcelain one being Chocolat Chaud's artwork), and the freebie stickers. There's also 1 other pin design I'm working on and may be able to squeeze in as the final stretch goal.
My included designs are just the black spoon, silver spoon reorder, the recolors of the thorn and skelebat mini bat pins, and my pride and joy guillotine fidget necklace.
The "blade" is attached to the chain, not the structure of the guillotine itself, so it will be possible to move the "blade" up and down. It features enamel and recessed metal detailing throughout, as well as a CZ heart embedded up top. I'll do my best to have a 3D model ready in time for campaign launch in order to better be able to describe it.
Chocolat Chaud's designs are the gold and white porcelain-patterned mini bat, and beautiful gemstone pieces - the memorial/locket-inspired cat pendant necklaces, and the stained glass window rings, necklaces, and collar pins!! ✨️✨️
These collar pin sets will be the base goal, along with our 2 freebie stickers. The magical kitty is my design and for Early Bird backers, while the mystical window is hers and for Returning Backers (of either of us)!
We'll also have a lot of add-ons of my pre-existing jewelry and pins, and her stickers (and hopefully her existing jewelry also)!
The reason we're running this together but through my account is so that it can be fully fulfilled from the US. Some of you know due to pending orders from her that Japan's tariff agreements with the US are super extreme. A simple single order package to the US costs around $30 USD to ship here now from Japan, and that is excluding tariff costs once it gets here! 🫠 So please be patient with us while I work on fulfilling of hers what I can in addition to my own orders. We'll be seeing if it will be possible to include her pre-existing jewelry as add-ons too, but please keep in mind that thanks to the above it may not be possible.
The guillotine necklace was on my bucket list of merch for years now, but had to continually be put off throughout last year due to all of these global financial circumstances. I'm hoping that now it can become reality!
A lot more info including all jewelry sizing and detailed material composition will be present in the campaign bio. Mine are always plated brass and Chocolat Chaud's are looking to be stainless steel this time.
Sorry, I'm just realizing now I didn't actually show what the finished ones look like in-hand... 🤨 I thought I had, but I checked update history and don't see it, my bad.
They came out great, which was sorely needed after so, so many pins needing remakes over the last several years.
I did actually receive a comment of interest for the 3 new snake designs I impulsively purchased, so I've reopened the preorder store for 2 weeks only. There's the listings of 11 possible choices (the ones pictured above), possible gacha, and a new listing of choice or of a set of those 3 in particular (discounted at $30). It would have been too complicated to edit the 11-listing one to just add the 3.
Unfortunately, since this is linked to a ready to ship campaign, the preorders for this campaign also auto-charge immediately. If you have an existing preorder purchase or a pending order with one of the monster girl rewards and want it merged, please email me and I will immediately refund you the shipping cost!
Also, I had originally forgot to hyperlink the teaser page for the jewelry campaign we (Chocolat Chaud and I) are attempting to launch next month...it doesn't yet have a placeholder banner but will soon. Thank you for bearing with my brain fog!
Sorry for the delay. My hand pain was only diminished for a few weeks - it's back to being pretty terrible, along with increased migraine and ice pick headache frequency. Been really depressed about it to be frank.
I paid for the Cupcake remakes about 3 weeks ago, along with small quantities of these:
Sorry the background is black, I took screenshots of my psd since I'm posting from my phone and I guess I saved it transparent
Same here except opaque... so now the bg is white
This one is legible, woo.
It was a poor decision on my part I think, but I was hit with intense FOMO about it since I don't see a reason to revisit the mold later, even though it means a lot to me...idk.
Thank you all for supporting me. Those still waiting on monster girls, thank you for your patience. 🙇♀️
This will be a little featured pin (20mm wide): My friend's designs are amazing!!!
Will be getting many more packages shipped out first before launch, I HATE having so many loose ends before starting new projects. My shop opening-for-closing-sale date is still TBD because of this too.
As always, please contact me ([email protected]) if you have questions or need help with anything! Thank you
Hello! I actually have 6 left to go out still, weather has been a significantly-contributing factor to this as the extreme cold is bad for my health as well as making PO trips difficult.
They should be out within the next week and hopefully the ice has melted again by then too!!
Preorders:
The snake pins are also on the way but the Cupcake one wasn't made right and I wasn't informed until after they were already packed and headed to the courier.
Given the emotional significance of the design to me that really stressed me out a lot, and I've decided to pay to have them remake that specific colorway.
Editing in after writing the rest of update: they also seem to have not given her an enamel outline at all - I thought at first the color was just too light for that one but no, I think they left off the enamel outline in the grooves entirely for this colorway. ...
You might be scratching your head wondering what the issue is, because I know as the creator (and due to the subject matter) I'm way more particular than others would be, but the green is NOT the pantone I chose. For some reason - with printed greens specifically - this has happened to me multiple times over the past 4.5 years with different factories, where they used a random pre-mixed much darker green instead of the various pastel colors I picked.
Exhibit A: this green was supposed to be 3375 C, this difference is so dramatic that I have always sold these ones at seconds pricing and still have many.
Exhibit B: this green was supposed to be 317 C, but since this was a tiny, entirely self-funded gacha collection (no preorders) and I wasn't as emotionally invested I just dealt with it.
There are more examples but I digress.
When I raised the issue of the snake's bad green, the rep told me I should have picked a color code from the "pastels & neons" book....I did. From the very front page. 0921 C, which has always come out just fine for me as an enamel color. I wasn't very happy with that response, but it's why I'm paying for the remakes as the mistake was not acknowledged or forewarned.
Because this is a repeated issue and specifically surrounding green it has honestly really upset and confused me. So, since time is running out before CNY, it won't be remade until March... but I need this collection at Katsucon so I can pay bills, so I'm going to include the ones with too-dark-green sprinkles on the gacha graphics and in the machine at the con. Preorder customers for this colorway will receive the remakes with all-pastel sprinkles in the Spring. I'm sorry for the hurdle but it's too big of a difference for me to be comfortable with it. I can refill preorders for the other snakes as soon as they arrive, I'll sort as I pack instead of all upfront.
Here are the images I was sent of the other finished screenprinted snakes (did not receive an image of final Toffee Coffee):
And as a refresher, here were the UV printed ones:
The Sugar Skull one had both UV and screenprint and I haven't been sent a final image of that. Only the image above that doesn't have the final glow pupil.
If you'd still like to preorder with the above in mind, they'll be open until the end of this month.
