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Sweet Spiders: Eight-Legged Treats Enamel Pin Collection

Created by Cryptic Compendium

Preorder store for the sweet spiders campaign from backerkit! all pins are currently in production, mostly finished.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Smoke tests sent out, rest of surveys go out tomorrow
6 months ago – Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 08:40:23 PM

Hi, so here's the survey info finally and preorder store link:

  • You'll notice all the pictures are of the finished pins except for the dango and the moths. That's because they are actually all approved already:
  • Most of them are finished fully, some are still in production. The pictures aren't the best, but you can finally sort of see the detail for the bonbon and what was intended for the bobas. But lemonade really is much bigger now because they needed the extra space between the eyes.
  • If I made any mistakes with the survey please tell me!
  • Since there are 8 available spiders, the "set of 6" options don't automatically include any specific ones, you'll have to choose and there is the option to do that. If you choose any of the dango spiders as 1/6, you need to choose the other two also because I'm not separating the sets
  • I did pay half of the balance of the dango in advance because the survey was taking so long to get out, so they are mostly done. The white one is fully approved with print now actually, where it's dyed off-white and printed white but the green and pink ones they reversed the dye color with the print color...making the highlights shadows. Sooo they're redoing that for the 2nd time because they just keep printing darker and darker...
  • The moth is the only other pin not yet in progress because having to remake the mold was an unexpected expense (had the old mold ship to current manu and it doesn't work with their machinery which is I guess different from the previous one) and doubles the cost of the pin. Then on top of that, we're now having a ton of issues with this manufacturer so since I didn't pay for that yet and the mold has now been trashed already I'm getting them made with someone else. And they're even more expensive unfortunately. So the neon moth, and the green sour gummy that's free to anyone who has 10 or more pins by the end of the survey collection, will be late because they're made with survey funds (which are also paying for the 2nd half of dango cost, and packaging supplies)
  • The dango's stars were finished already and we have them, that was mentioned in the last update, but we didn't get chains yet. That'll be done after the pins arrive to make sure they fit the posts. The dango will also be coming with gold locking back clasps and not rubber ones just in case anyone wants to convert to keychains or something
  • Backers who backed both me and Midnight Springs were given a credit to their survey that is $6 and will fully nullify your shipping cost if you're in the US, so you'll only be charged shipping with hers. If you're in another country, please fill out the survey anyway and I can adjust the credit applied before charging you!
  • Survey deadline is October 10th end of day, please fill out by then and make sure your card info is correct! I'll be charging 3 days later at 3PM EST (October 13th). This is to get you your stuff ASAP, I can't stop you from taking longer but it's not going to get you in the first wave of packages 

Because of the extended timeline from unexpected issues, anyone who qualifies for moths or ordered from both me and Midnight Springs probably won't get them in time for Halloween. Only a few of her pins have been approved, they've been giving her a lot of trouble with her proofs and printing things really wrong mostly, so they won't be ready as soon as mine were/are. They're shipping the finished spiders to me first without charging extra shipping thankfully

The manufacturer's quality has gone downhill this year unfortunately. So the pins are all limited to 10 claims each (this doesn't count for what was already claimed during the campaign runtime, you're fine), because I'm worried about the standard grade count

Because of these manu issues and burnout from work it's unlikely that I'll be able to finish my designs in order to cross-collab with the 2nd monster girl riot, but I'm still working on them on and off. I do have a lot of ideas but juggling fulltime work and this is hard even though I'd prefer to do this instead.

Thank you for your patience!! Please ask questions about specific orders via email but if it is general and you think it would benefit others to see, you can ask in the comments because I'll keep checking this post daily for about a week to make sure I don't miss anything. Thanks

More info
7 months ago – Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 07:30:53 PM

Sorry about the lack of updates, a lot has happened. As for pins, for some reason the plating process (their explanation) caused the purple of the taro boba to be a slightly warmer tone than was approved.



But these are now almost finished!
They gave a small discount for the dango spiders as an apology, so I just paid for a deposit to start those since things have been so delayed

Next is that the bonbon spider is nearly done:


Also, these are the star dangles for the dango spiders if you get the chain with them:


One of our pets just passed away, Elena's snake Medusa it was very hard. So that was our latest emotional setback. Next update will be when surveys are out ASAP

Survey info + proofs changes
8 months ago – Sat, Jul 19, 2025 at 06:28:26 PM

Hi everyone, this is Midnight Springs posting on his behalf again. He was discharged on Monday almost exactly 72hrs after admission and we are now in Pittsburgh for Tekko. I drafted this entire thing for him on Thursday when he still couldn't really use his hand, but he's able to now, so next post will be him again!


There are a couple designs that needed some edits in the proofs. For the most part, they're all fine but we also have some samples further along to show you, which show what's up.

These samples are majority still just metal that is showing the mold details, there hasn't been a lot of cleaning up done.

1) chocolate bonbon:


The area of transparent enamel (the goo of the bonbon filling) couldn't just be hanging out there like in the original, it needed a thin line of raised metal at the bottom of its body. Its mandibles also are super small so that cut out area there will be basically "recessed" instead.


2) lemonade has to have a different backstamp on it because it's majority clear enamel, and it had to be increased to 50mm so that the details could come through (the clear enamel requires thicker outline metal apparently...)

If lemonade's size difference is a huge issue with people we can work out swaps or refunds. The enamel in it is just showing the only solid/opaque coloring!

3) He wasn't warned when first being quoted that the boba pearl legs of the boba spiders were questionable even though we inquired, and the transparent enamel portions had to be made larger to work out...so their proportions have changed slightly.
I know it looks like the taro has no cut-outs around the head but I promise it does, it's the exact same mold as the strawberry. This is with some random metal flakes still attached and that gets cleaned off for final pins. These are still 35mm, the issue for lemonade was mostly that the space between the pearl eyes is really tiny...


Blueberry is approved so far, doesn't have printing yet.


Same for strawberry!!

Caramel apple's mold was made wrong, not according to the proof, and that's being changed. 

The stars for the dango are already made which was super fast, but for some reason they attached jump rings over 2x as large as they always do to my (MS) jewelry...I had a talk with them and they're fixing it. So that will be shown next update.

Otherwise, everything is still as indicated in the last update, thank you!! 

-Midnight Springs (approved of by CC)

OOPS, P.S.: The above sign-off also means there's no NEW info about surveys. I'm sorry about the misleading title, I have no idea why I did that. We'll both know more soon since he's recovering well!

Further delays + lengthy explanation (Midnight Springs posting)
8 months ago – Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 07:34:03 AM

Hi everyone,

I'm posting on behalf of Cryptic, he's been in the ER for going on over 36hrs, 24 of those already having been on IV antibiotics, and they want to keep him on them an additional day at minimum. An injury he got presumably at work started doubling in severity every day until it became a clear emergency, this was the 2nd time in an ED for it but the first time that it was taken truly seriously. He had to have a minor surgical procedure on his right (dominant) hand, is now staph, and can hardly use it. 

In a couple days I will post again on his behalf about how the pin proofing process went and a couple changes that had to be made (namely lemonade is now 50mm tall but I'll explain why, and we can offer compensation if that's not acceptable). I got sent manufacturer WIP photos of most of his spiders, since we're using the same manu, this morning - so I can include those in the update! 

Because of this, we had to cancel our Oddities & Curiosities appearance this weekend and lost all our expenses involved. I was and am incredibly worried about him and am so glad he finally let me drag him to the ER this week, but it remains true that now we're in a pickle until after Tekko this upcoming weekend (which will be...SO rough to do like this...), potentially further. Because we unfortunately still have to get ready for Tekko ASAP - I'm participating in 2 stamp rallies, one of which I'm hosting, and sunk cost for this one is even higher - surveys will be even more delayed because I'll have to do the bulk of work for both of them. 

I don't know what to say for us about our planned collab pin campaigns that we wanted to do at the end of this month other than it'll have to be delayed proportionately with the surveys which are now send date TBD. 

Thank you everyone for your patience and understanding! PLEASE take care of yourselves and your health!!

(posted by Elena, Midnight Springs, and approved by CC)

Preorder store and surveys will go up/out soon
9 months ago – Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 03:51:28 PM

Hi, so I'm just about ready to launch the preorder store/send out the surveys!

There's some changes to availability for the surveys. Since I just paid for the pins (aside from dango), there's now limits to how many people can pledge for for them. We also wound up with $246 left in errored funds, so with buffers in mind that means that strawberry boba remains unlocked (thanks!!!).

These are how many people can add on from surveys or preorder store

  • Blueberry and Strawberry are limited to 20 extra each 
  • Banana is limited to 25 extra
  • Pink Lemonade is limited to 25 extra
  • Caramel Apple is limited to 30 extra
  • Single pin blind bag is now limited to 15, 2 is 10, 3 is 10, 5 is 5, 10 is 5
  • Taro Boba is now available but limited to 30
  • Strawberry Bobs is now available but limited to 20
  • The blue moth is limited to 10
  • Ny colorway bat coin is available and limited to 10
  • Dango sets are limited to 30
  • Dango set chains are limited to 20

I don't think it will show you any of this on checkout except that it's limited in general. That's why I'm giving the numbers in this update

There will also be stickers available of the dango (1 each spider so it's a set of 3, all 3") and the Strawberry Boba.



And lastly I think, I'm working on getting more of those shakers so that there can also be a taro of the boba and a banana of the jelly drink style, but it's not certain yet and would only be affordable if dango is met (need $800 more raised from pledge manager/preorder store funds before shipping costs,  in order to make sure it and the metal add-ons are funded)

Any questions let me know! This should be sent to you to fill out around next week after approval from staff. 

I'm also going to try to have ready in time at least a few pins of my next idea (gem animals), so it can cross-collab with Midnight Springs' pt 2 for Monster Girl Riot. So I'll post about that soon also!!