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Hi all,

The cookie badges have arrived and are all sorted!
Here is how the 2 new colorways look.

They arrived before tariffs kicked in but I had a snafu with the lenticular keychains I self-funded in the same order arriving damaged, and had a back and forth with the manu. I wanted to see how that resolved - aka my likelihood of ever being able to restock these badges or not - before posting the final reveal. Thankfully, that worked out in my favor, so if I ever need to reorder these cookie badges I can. And they were great quality!

All ordered badges have been reserved already/sorted out. However, I realized very belatedly that I don't have any kind of signature on these, so I put a small name stamp (a transfer sticker) on the backs of all of these button badges. That will not impede the function in any way.

I also want to share this info I accidentally omitted from the last update about the pin flaws:
 
I've been referring to the epoxy coverage flaw as "shrinkage" because the epoxy doesn't go all the way to the edges in random spots. Sometimes these spots that are uncovered are absolutely massive, which are the pins I considered as seconds. It makes the pins lumpy and the way they reflect light is completely non-uniform as a result.

This can happen to a degree even with attempts to solve it because surface tension is occasionally fickle, but in this case it's pretty clear they globbed the epoxy on and just kind of hoped it would even itself out, it may have even been too partially-cured to do so given how thick it is. So I am not comfortable letting those pins represent the kind of quality I'd be okay passing off as standards, when it is clear from 2/3 of the order being fine that this is actually avoidable - which is why I graded those as seconds. There's also a couple colorways with a significant amount of print misalignment (calico and siamese) or dust in the epoxy (donut's paw and a couple others), so there is that as well.

The rep wouldn't have agreed to remakes if she didn't agree from the videos I sent that this was a significant issue, which took me a few hours to record as I sorted through all several-hundred seconds pins again a second time beforehand. If I were to send any of these out I would feel an obligation to refund the difference ($7 for seconds grade pins) and I simply can't afford to, I'm sorry.

They will arrive before production begins for the monster girls, at least...so, at this point I'm guessing that means 2-3 weeks from now.

Lastly, here is a pic of 1 standard grade per each colorway. I don't have updated graphics finished yet for the gacha signs themselves since I won't be using them in machines in person for a while.

I will update again soon once I have more news on remakes! Please read my previous update if you have questions about fulfillment timeline! 

I was short on getting everything sent out before Matsuricon. There's just under 30 remaining. I caught some vague painful cold at the con, as I unfortunately always do because I'm immune-compromised, so I'm taking the week "off". I'll resume shipping next week, and I should be able to get every remaining package out in that timeframe - except for the couple with paw septum ring preorders.

Those are still in limbo because I haven't been able to find a new cutter for the raw material (the synthetic opals) after mine stopped working with lab opals entirely earlier this year. It was sudden and shocking and as a result I was only able to secure enough stones to get the little paw pads (hearts) filled in for about 30 rings, BUT I don't have any toe bean opals for them! And each ring requires 8 of those tiny round ones... 

Where things stopped was that they're all plated, but none have gems in them yet. So I still have to pay a hefty sum for the gems once I have a new supplier for that, and I also have to pay another roughly ~30% of the cost of the metal rings themselves in order to have them ship. That's why those are still in limbo...but a lot of the production has already been paid for and is mostly done.

I will continue to update those who preordered the paw septum rings separately via email after I've gotten the rest of these packages out. Thanks for your patience! 

Hi all,

I'm going through a rough time physically and mentally right now so I apologize for not making this update earlier. I'm about halfway through the remakes and so far they look really good. No epoxy coverage issues, but some do have print smears, dust, or chipped plating again. A small quantity it looks like, though. I'm not sure what in particular about these is giving them so much trouble but I'm glad that this means I can bring fulfillment to a close.

The current fulfillment count is 31. There's 82 left to ship who have paid survey balance already, and 1 who submitted their survey recently and owes a bit; I just locked that because I didn't know it had happened, notifications aren't sent to creators about things like that. So 31/114 have gone out, that's just over 1/4. (I EDITED THIS... I AM APPARENTLY VERY TIRED AND BAD AT MATH.)

My last convention of the year is Matsuricon at the end of this month. I hope to have all paw orders fulfilled by the 2nd week of Sept.

Thank you.

Hi everyone, 

By the next upcoming weekend I will have around 30-35 paw packages shipped out (mostly ones that are also with moths that were delayed). As I've been sending those combined ones out, I've been refunding all excess shipping costs! 

That will still leave me at about 80 left to go, but once I'm done with Tekko in Pittsburgh (July 18-20) I will be able to focus more on getting them out. If anything comes up I will let you know, otherwise I will continue chipping away at fulfillable orders at that point.

I will update next with news about the remakes when I have it.

Thank you! 

Hi everyone,

Here are the final sticker sheets with the adjusted cutlines! (Sorry for not having shared this before, I thought I had!!)

They look great! I also got the Pintober sticker sheets remade one last time with this person and those are the ones going out finally.

I am resuming packing/shipping Pintober packages now that my June events are over and I've started to more significantly recover, however, I'm dealing with a pretty bad infection right now...so far I'm only about 30 packages in and have nearly 50 more to go out for when I'm feeling better (already on the mend!!!). I'm doing my best. 😣

I'd already begun combining some orders of outstanding moths + paws (and then refunding the extra shipping paid via paws surveys) last month, and will continue to do so until all moths are sent out! Then move to paw-only fulfillment by the end of July!! 

Thank you!

PS: thank you for selling me out of my pill gacha!!!!!! I only have constellation, red nebula, and r18 left. I am super super grateful. 

PPS: I will have seconds grab bags available soon online!! So sorry I somehow left this out when I published it ...