Hey everyone ~

Test cards did come back but they're still not 100%. We're still having trouble with variation in shades of green on the back of the cards and the language barrier is making it very hard to explain the problem - its not super visible unless you hold the cards in your hand and turn them in natural light. We'll be ordering another set of samples asap, though. We might need to change the colours on the backs of the cards to something more stable but still complimentary. 

We have charged cards and started shipping orders that do not contain any tarot decks. The first of those should start to go out this week. 

This month's artwork is... more crabs!

The queen cards for each suit will be the ones that get the pins, the bloodmoon colouration, and the notebook covers etc. Hoff crabs don't come in red unfortunately so we used a similar colourscheme to the spidercrabs.

Card pins (above) and critter pins (below).

And lastly, the knave/page.

Hello;

Alright we're back with some previews. Check the end of the update for some important shipping news!



Hoff Crab, King of we're thinking pentacles. I'm going to make a tiny suit symbol to add to the top of the card so its easy to see which suit it is. I'm not entirely sure how to show which court card it is though, unless I just add the text at the bottom. Which I might. 

Underway is the Queen, who's getting the blood moon variant and probably will be the pin design too, although I could choose any of the court cards. I decided to finish up the court cards first since the practice should make the more detailed piece for the numbers easier. I tend to switch back and forth because its a bit of a beast.

New backing cards for both the large and mini critter pin designs. The large card design is pretty simple because the pin itself is so complicated. The mini ones have more of the decorative border since the mini pins are just the plain critters. These are much better than the cards I was planning to use so I'm glad I never showed you those!

The replacement spider crab pins, and card samples from the new manufacturer are both in production. We also have the limited edition holo major arcana decks back now, from the same manufacturer, but its nearly impossible to photograph them due to the holo effect. They're veeeeery shiny.

With all of that said, we now have nearly everything apart from the tarot decks themselves. So next month, we're going to start locking orders that don't contain tarot decks so we can prepare to start shipping those out. 

That's so we can start the mammoth task of sorting, backing and shifting some of these masses and masses of pins. Anyone who backed BnB knows that shipping takes us a very long time, so starting to get those orders moving out now will mean we can do the ones that do have tarot decks faster later down the line. 

That won't be before May, though. There will be an announcement (probably in the May update), and then an email that lays out when cards will be charged etc. 

Other than that, work continues. Stay tuned ~

 Hey everyone ~ 

Alright everything is settling down again so I'm zeroing in on this project. Its been unacceptably long but we're still having major production troubles. 

So where are we?

Next couple of months, we're focussing in on getting the minor arcana done. Work is already underway. 

I have a couple of very rough sketches to illustrate the concept;

I know these don't look like much but bear with me. For the numbered cards, we're going to have one image with ten individual creatures. For each number the right amount of creatures will be coloured/detailed, the rest up to 10 will be silhouettes. Then the four court cards will have one more detailed individual, similar to the major arcana. The Queen card will have a blood moon alternative colour (I can't remember if I promised more than one court card per suit would have an alt, but I will check). 

(More work is done but its not really something I can show until its ready to come together.)

First up we're doing the Hoff crab, so named because they have a hairy chest. Amazing. They live on deep heat vents in colonies so large you can't see the rock beneath them. They will get much more detailed art than this paltry sketch, I promise!

We also have the pearl octopus, which live in huge octopus gardens. And lantern fish, which are among the most abundant vertebrates on Earth, although they are much more common in the twilight zone they have been recorded in the midnight zone. Our fourth is undecided, and we're taking suggestions. We do have crow pins for this campaign, so if you make a suggestion and we use it I'll send you a feather. 

Orders for the new crab tarot pins will go in soon, we were waiting to add them to the PnP pin order. The bulk of the notebooks and sticker books and stationery is due to arrive this month. 

Overall I want to say we'll be getting to fulfillment by Q4 2026 but a lot could go wrong before then. Or right! But I am wary of making promises at this point. Just know I'm working on it as hard as I can. 

Thanks for your patience.

Hey everyone ~

We've had another pin set back, sorry guys. I missed a massive mistake. 

They missed this part of the design on my order sheet. Unfortunately, I didn't notice it on the proofs. So all the rest have it coloured in, as far as I can see; but none of the spider crabs do. Including the BM and glow versions T_T. So they all have to be re ordered. I only just noticed it. Fortunately the molds don't need to be remade so the cost is less, but even so.

So that's underway right now. Work is continuing in the background. We are currently moving house, we'll be moved end of Feb and after that updates should increase. 

Thanks for your patience. 

Hey

Sorry everyone. I really wanted to make a big update but things are changing quite rapidly in the background, and I don't want to say anything that's immediately rendered incorrect again. 

Most of the pins have arrived, but a portion are MIA right now (they were in the same order as the missing Mythical Garden pins). We're not sure if they were sent out but to the wrong address, or if they're not finished yet. 

Half of the stationery stuff is here, but the notebooks and sticker books are still in production. 

We're having issues with the card production. Initially the manufacturer said they could work with the artwork we provided them, but the samples we keep getting back are unusable as a deck (the colour is varying between the cards, so the backs aren't identical). On the first samples before the project launched we were told it was just the specific finish we'd picked out. Since changing the finish, they are saying its the colour profile and specific shade of green/blue that I'm using. This is an ongoing issue that we're trying to fix. 

Unfortunately, changing that around is taking so much time that the minor arcana hasn't progressed much. Right now, we're of the opinion that if it gets to a point where everything else is completed and ready to go and the minor arcana isn't, or at least very nearly completed, we'll have to remove it from this campaign. If we do go ahead with that, we'll refund everyone that paid for it already. I'm not 100% if its necessary yet, but it might be. 

Otherwise, we've done a total overhaul of our shipping fees. We had a lot of emails about it jumping up from low to very high with just one item, so we've added a lot of steps in between. We also added a few more country specific prices. We will be applying the US tariffs soon - it should be 10% of your item total. It might come up slightly less, but it absolutely shouldn't be more, so let me know if its not totalling up correctly. 

Keep scrolling to get a preview of a couple of the pins we do have (I need to schedule a photo shoot asap). We're taking a short break from now until after Christmas, but hopefully in Jan I'll be back with good news.

Happy holidays, everyone ~

Not the best pictures. When they're all here we'll do the full set one by one so you can be sure of your choices; the designs have been changed slightly due to manufacturer's requests.

The designs and colours are pretty identical on the cards as they are as minis.