Sweet Spiders: Eight-Legged Treats Enamel Pin Collection

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)

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

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!!

Thanks for making my first crowdfund such a success since we met almost all goals!! I think dango will be unlocked via surveys/preorder store too. Here's their final design:

Mostly we swapped the lighting because we realized I had left-side lighting for everything else, since she did the digital art for these ones Elena defaulted to right-side for sketch since that's what she did with most of her pins. We also made the eyes bigger (the eyes will be the only enamel) and swapped recessed hearts with printed stars. There's another version of highlights though that's just glossy, can you vote in the poll below on which you prefer?



They'll have the same backstamp as the moths ("Cryptic Midnight")!

If hanami dango are unlocked as hoped for, their set of 3 is a possible part of random grab bags of 5 and 10 pins. I'm considering doing the gradient gummy candy moth (2nd place in poll) as a freebie for 10+ pin backers since there's a few of you, so they would get both freebie moths and any other freebies they qualify for

Thank you again, this is really exciting and helps me so much in building inventory so I can properly launch a shop too!! I'll send surveys around the end of this month once I'm shown how to use the pledge manager and it's set up. Apparently it's extremely complicated... Pins will be paid at the same time as Elena (Midnight Springs) since they're being made together. Might just figure out how to pay for dango upfront and limit their available pledges so they don't get overclaimed?

Getting ahead of myself but for next pins I'd like to do something related to gems!

Also: There's 13 errored/failed payment backers at over $500 total, please fix when you can! It might not've told you the payment didn't go through, so if you're not sure you might want to check so you don't "lose" your pledge/what you reserved

Hi! There's 48 hours left. I don't think I'll update again until it's over to not spam people

There's 2 things I did with Midnight Springs for our campaigns: adjusted the funding quantities, and finished the dango concept! So what that means is Caramel Apple is unlocked! Bonbon will now unlock at $3,000! I'll update the rest of the goal amounts in the description now.

The other thing is the dango. From the start we wanted it to be a set of 3 and not just 1 pin of them stacked! But I wound up not having energy to finish it because of work and then Colossalcon so it wound up being a collab, and this is a WIP of them:


I was thinking just having them separate would be nice, but this chain idea is hers. If this gets unlocked during (from reorganizing) or after the campaign we can offer it as just a set of 3 and also with an add-on of this chain. To make sure it wouldn't tarnish, the star charm would be from her jewelry manufacturer since she has to order Elfling's hearts from there anyway. The chains would be 2 separate sizes so that one is big enough to connect the pins (the posts have to be able to fit through). From the added bulk you'd need to use locking backs to attach these to fabric or an ita bag or something, but should be fine sticking on a normal pin board as-is if you want to! The chain add-on will probably be another $10 and I'd include 3 locking backs, has to be hand assembled at home and we don't know yet the cost of the star but would ballpark based on her existing quotes.

Each dango would be 25mm like Blueberry!! So if you got the chain it would still only be around 4" tall to stack them with it!

I'm really hoping we can get the last spiders unlocked after all. Thanks everyone for your help!!

Hi, Caramel Apple (and the sticker version) is added a bit early for pledges!!! It unlocks for real though at $3,200 🍏🕷️

I'm finding out the complaints of the notification system here are true, there was a post asking about having an option to back all spiders at once that I didn't see until I checked later out of curiosity if there were any discussion posts.

I did add one after thinking about it, with a disclaimer that if all of the 6 in the image aren't unlocked, you'll still have to choose a total of 6 from the ones that have been, but I still think we'll get there!


The cost is based on early bird pricing but discounted a little further, instead of based on blind bag pricing because these aren't random. Otherwise though, this update by Midnight Springs explains why she suggested I also format my first campaign mostly with the pins being per choice and not bundled.

If the strawberry milk tea and the dango idea we're messing with (Midnight Springs has an idea to make the set of 3 have a way to connect and also separate) get unlocked also then they'll be add-ons or their own separate tiers for people to choose from. The dango set is planned to be $25-$30 anyway since it's 3 pins 🍡 we'll try to coordinate that design over the weekend even though we're at Colossalcon for her business

Thanks!!