August wrap up - Conventions, Sketches, and Shop Updates!

Hello everyone! I hope you all have been well!

Its been a busy month for me with house renovations, convention prep, and working on the rest of the designs for the pin club this year.

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New Merch! / Fall 2022-Spring 2023 Conventions Prep

I've been busy prepping for my final 2022 conventions, as well as some early 2023 cons. I've got some new merchandise that'll I'll be debuting at conventions, and if there is enough demand I may offer preorders for them online. ^.^

Here's a little test of some tote bags! There are only 10 of each for now, but depending on how popular these are I may order more and add additional designs. Is there anything you all would like to see on a tote?

I also ordered a large amount of sample keychains! I'll be opening up some of these for preorder in the next secret shop ^.^ (Not pictured is a restock of the Astral Ysera design, so I'll have a few of those too.)

I plan to have a few of these up for preorder next shop update! They'll be about $8 each.

Convention signs and props

After being inspired by some other artist's tables at previous conventions, I wanted to up my display game!

These will be large foamboard cutouts!

I also had some EXTRA large stickers made that I'll be using as props for my booths. They haven't arrived yet, but I think they'll be fun and I can't wait to share them all with you. ^.^

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August pins

I was really happy with how Yu'lon came out! Some of you may remember I introduced her back in March/April when I asked for opinions on what pose I should use - (she originally had the Wilderlings pose) She was a popular choice, and as promised, she returned! ❤

The Spriggans/ Dust Bunny is one of my favorite creatures/minions in FFXIV - he's just so happy with his crystal!

I originally wanted to make a sticker sheet of the different poses.. but it just wasnt in the budget this month. Maybe someday in the future though. I'd at least like to finish the other little sketches and maybe make a mini print out of them but I just ran out of time this month.

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Shop Update!

This next update will be a big one for the secret shop! I'm aiming to have it go live next week on Friday the 9th at 12pm EST.

All the pins from May to August will be available to order and ship out immediately, along with the stickers. Pins from March and April will be moved and open to the public.

I may also have a very limited amount of zipper bags and wallets in the secret shop.

As always, stickers will be available in the public side of the store, with the exception of the Dragonwrath sticker. :)

The Dragonwrath sticker will be a secret shop exclusive for the next month as I have a limited amount of them left. I will try to restock them eventually, but it may be a while.

New pre-orders

We'll have 2 monster girl variants! As well as restocks of the original colors.

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They'll both be LE of 50! This is mostly to get the mold remade. The first few in the series were actually a lot more limited than the later ones due to the pin club growing, so I'd like to offer these again to those that might have missed them.  Since these will be a new mold and a new factory, they will likely have some small changes from the originals.

The Dryad and Spirit Healer will be getting variants as well in a shop update later this year. ^.^

I'll also have a small selection of Keychains up for preorder! These should be fairly quick to manufacture.

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I believe that's it for this wrap up! Digital Reward links and codes will be going out later tonight. All July and August pin mail will be shipping out this weekend! I totally forgot that Monday was a holiday here in the US, so I'll be attempting to get most of them out by Saturday instead. ^.^



Also as a small note, September marks 7 years of being a Patreon creator!! Its hard to believe its been this long, and some of you have been with me from the very beginning. I am so very thankful to all of you for being here and supporting me - its truly changed my life and I love what I do here. Thank you all so much. ❤

While I'm going to be a little busy this coming month, I'd like to do some giveaways to celebrate. I'll announce some things in a future update, but I'd love to do some art streams! It'll likely happen later in September after my conventions are over, but please look forward to it!

Again, thank you all so much for your support! 

-Kay