Just a short one this week-- pins are still en route with estimates to be delivered by the end of the week! A few of the parcels have had some delays due to USPS nonsense, but that should hopefully be sorted out tomorrow as well. 

Hello! Apologies for the delay in getting an update out to everyone, my semester just ended and it consumed most of my time and energy the past week-- but this one is fairly uneventful, but good news! Pins have shipped, and are en route to me, and should be arriving soon!  

It’s another biweekly update, though a relatively small one for now. Manufacturing is still moving along, and more update photos will be on the way as I get them-- for now, these pin designs are completed and look stellar!

As for the looming question, the tariffs, rest assured that I’m working on a solution that hopefully shouldn’t impact delivery times by too much. Otherwise, I’m caught up in throwing out job applications to both absorb the unavoidable costs and pay the bills since for the foreseeable future, running the business full time isn’t particularly viable given the state of the world.

Hello again! I have another manufacturing update for everyone, with lots of photos! Different designs are in different states of production, the pins in the photos with the blue-ish gray metal have yet to be electroplated (and polished, in some cases) but there's a handful of fully completed ones, as well! 

Thank you so much for hanging in there, and so sorry for the delay in this update! I was working my school's art fair on Friday, and my table was thrown together very last minute and not a lot of sleep was had in preparation. 

To address concerns raised:
- Shipping addresses for all backers have been unlocked, you all are free to make changes as needed. An update will be sent out in advance of them being locked again, which will happen after pins are in hand, graded, and packaged. 
- For anyone who has sent emails-- I haven't received anything in my inboxes, I'm not sure if there's an issue with my domain email addresses or something else. If you could try again, either to [email protected] or my personal email, [email protected], I will get to those as soon as possible. 
- Custom ghosts-- communication will be dealt with over the weekend, short version is things had gotten misplaced in the move, which had lead me to believe they had already been shipped out, rest assured I'm not ignoring you guys/your concerns.
- As for update frequency, I think biweekly updates are the best middle of the road compromise based on the responses received. Moving forwards, I'll aim for an update every other week somewhere between Thursday-Saturday, since I am working around my school schedule as well. Of course, if there is a more dramatic update in between, I'll send one out as developments come in. 

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Furthermore, I have additional update photos to share! Actually, a couple of these were videos that have been converted to gif format to share here!