December preview + Black Friday Shop Update!

Hello everyone! 

This is a long update, just a heads up! 

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First off, this is a reminder to please update your addresses! I've had several packages come back to me lately due to an incorrect address or expired forwarding service. You can do so by clicking your icon in the top right on Patreon and going to "Manage Memberships". ^.^ 

I'll be pulling shipping labels later this week for all Sept/Oct pin mail, so make sure your address is updated! I'll be reaching out to anyone with returned packages this week to make sure I have your correct address and will reship them for you.

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December Previews

December's Hero pin of the month, Alexstrasza!

Alex may be the final Hero pin for a while, as next year I'll be changing up the hero tier to focus on a new theme. Consider her a little hint at what's to come. :)

For our Teaberry Tier..  A Bearmas? tree!

I originally wanted to do kitten heads instead of bears.. but I didn't want to butt heads with another pin creator that has a similar pin. I really like the idea of having multi colored bears, and I think I might do something with this CMYK theme in the future!

Going forward there won't be any real changes to the Teaberry tier next year. It'll continue to be an anything goes type theme with a mix of fanart and original pins. ^.^ The next pin will be probably be another FFXIV related pin since I'm not quite done with the designs I want to do!

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Shop Update // Black Friday Sale & Patreon Pre-Sale!

As last year, I'll be opening up the secret shop to the public on Black Friday for 12 hours only! 

I plan on having a Patreon pre-sale on Thursday just in case anyone wants to grab one of the newly released pins before they're available to everyone. The Black Friday weekend sales however, will not apply on Thursday. I think for the most part everyone will be safe to wait until Friday as none of the new pins are super limited. ^.^

The following sales will start on Friday!

• Free mystery pin with every $15 purchase! (Limit 1 per person, Friday only)
• Special small and large mystery bags ($10/$25)
• $10 off all Deluxe Fantasy Ysera pins 
• Select pins and B grades only $5 (Friday Only)

The mystery bags (freebie w/ purchase and regular bags) will have a chance at out of stock and older designs. ^.^  

A few of the mystery pins you'll find!

The Mystery bundles will come in a small and large variety -

$10 Small Bundles ($30 value): 

• 1 Random enamel pin (Standard or B grade) 
• 2-3 Stickers 
• 2 mini prints 
• 3 buttons

$25 Large Bundles ($75+ value)

• 2 Random enamel pins (Standard or B grade)
• 5 Stickers
• 5 mini prints
• 3 buttons
• bonus item(s) 

Bonus items can be anything from t-shirts, tote bags, zipper bags, books, and whatever other merch I can toss in. You'll also be able to pick what type of stickers and prints you'd like - Warcraft, Original, Misc Fan Art or Mixed.

I'll be bringing back the $5 pin deals! Select pins and most B grades will only be $5 for Friday only. These will mostly be older designs and things that I've got a bit of overstock on. Its the perfect time to get some pins as a gift to someone (or yourself!)

The remaining Deluxe Ysera pins will also be $10 off for this weekend only! The offer will end on Monday.

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There won't be any additional discounts for the weekend, but Patrons are encouraged to use their Patreon discount codes!

All discount codes are sent at the end of each month to your Patreon messages, so please check there for the last code sent! If you are a new member in November, you can use the base 10% discount code "BEARY10".

New items to be added:

A sneak peek at the new items coming to the shop! All July and August pins will be added to the secret shop - while the Jellycat and new Magikarp pin will be in the regular shop!

Restocked Jellycat pins / Version 2.0

The new Jellycat pins are slightly different! The molds had to be remade, since there was a bit of a falling out between the middleman I used and their original factory. Since its a new factory, they couldn't quite match the old version's color. This also resulted in a more "milky" opaque transparent enamel.
They also did not plate the mid level metal, so the bones aren't as prominent but I don't consider this a defect and is a cool looking effect on its own.

I'll have A and B grades of this available in the normal store, and I may also have some V 1.0 jellycats in the secret shop for the update. ^.^

Additional mini secret store update Dec 3rd!

Since I'm planning to ship out all Sept/October pin mail this coming week, I'll be updating the secret store once again on Dec 3rd! This update will only be Sept/Oct pins and stickers and will be the last update for 2021!

For all Domestic US orders, please be sure to get your orders in by Dec 11th to arrive in time for Christmas! I will be out of town from the 12th-17th for a mini family vacation, so any orders during that time won't be shipped out until I return. Just a heads up! USPS officially recommends all US orders should be shipped by the 18th to arrive in time for Christmas, so it may be very close.
For international  friends, I recommend getting your orders in by the 5th and choosing First Class INTL Mail or a priority shipping option (instead of Global Post). I can't guarantee that it'll arrive before Christmas due to the nature of how slow shipping is around this time of year, but I will try!