At this point, everyone's orders are packed and labeled. There are 100 or so packages in my hands that are going into the mail today/tomorrow, but that's it!
There are 11 people who didn't do their surveys yet, but as they get them done I'll drop those in the mail as well. No worries or rush on this project really.

Thanks so much for backing, and making these pins possible. I really enjoyed making them and look forward to more pin projects in the future! I really like designing in this space, it's a great deal of fun.

Be sure to check your email for the tracking numbers, they have all already been sent out from Pirate Ship!

As always reach out here or [email protected] if you feel yours has been missed friends. But otherwise, this project is done! : )

7DA
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The Pins Arrived!!


You're looking at the full spread of items here, with a quarter for scale. Yeah, the Alleyway Oracle is a HUGE pin. 3.5" tall didn't seem like much until I opened the box.

Now, Im missing 11 boxes of pins still (they're coming tomorrow), so I'll hold off packing just yet, but that means over this next week I should be able to get quite a bit packed and moving. This weekend happens to be Denver Pride weekend, then my birthday, so please give me a little grace in probably waiting until the last weekend of June instead haha. In penance, I give you photos!






If you're one of the few people who didn't do your survey yet, hop on it! I won't probably get EVERYTHING moving right away, but I will be sending out packages here and there on the way to the big shipment weekend. If for no other reason than to clear out my apartment of boxes. : )

Alright friends, happy Pride month, hope you are as excited for these pins as I am to get them to you!

That said, I also did just launch a new From the Alley project today for the Queen of Bombs' home deck! So if you love that pin with the garish pink bombs, definitely hop to that project and help me bring that deck to life!


7DA
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Hello friends,

The pins were finished and in the mail a couple days ago to me, arriving on the 10th. The collab pins needed adjusted so those will probably come a week or so after. That means I'm about to purchase the packages to ship the pins in today as well, and that this month our packages will be heading out to all of you! This is an exciting and rapid turn around if ever there was one for my projects.

I'm too used to multi-month manufacturing and shipping!

That means it's a good time for you to check in on your survey here to make sure you have it done with the proper address. I'll be locking orders in and charging shipping June 14th, Friday of next week. There are fewer than 300 packages to ship here, so it will be a very quick process for me! I can easily do all of them in a weekend! I'll be shipping any packages that don't have the collab pins first, since they're coming later. But the collab pins-included packages will follow shortly thereafter!

And of course, as soon as they arrive, there will be phoottoooossss~~~~!

Talk again very soon my pin friends!

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As of now, all surveys are being sent! And manufacturing has begun!
In your survey you can grab additional pin sets-- check the previous update for the final versions of all pin designs. IT's worth looking at, promise!

Otherwise, let friends know they can still pre-order if they missed the campaign here: https://alleyman-pinset.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

And that's it! I have gone ahead and put your shipping in your pledge, so we can get that charged here soon each Friday until I ship. Pins don't take long to be made or to get to me, so we are very much going to be in the mail heading to y'all by mid June. And I'm excited!

That's all for now, go get your surveys done here in Backerkit, and we'll have these pins to ya in no time.

Thanks again you amazing folks, you made a small pin project something really special!

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Hello friends,

I have to admit, I didn't expect this to get as big as it got! I thought we'd have the three deaths and the Alleyman and maybe get the Alleyway Oracle, and I wouldn't be changing much. But then things kept unlocking, and I added more and more because I can never help myself.

But I wasn't done with the pin designs we unlocked, and sitting down and finishing them has shown me that I wasn't happy with others, and before I knew it, we had an assortment of reimagined pins! So let me introduce you to our final pins for the project.


These two haven't changed, but they're still lovely! The Alleyway Oracle, and the Alleyman himself.
The Alleyway Oracle was based on the amazing photoshoot I had with KP11 in my Alleyway garb. The Alleyman is based on the photo done by Nicolas Bruno, artist of the Somnia Tarot and two-time collaborator on the Alleyman's decks.


Then we have the sets of 3. I have lightly touched up our Death Pins, adding the darker red I added in the Final Tarot pin. Largely I'm happy with them as being a bit simpler from being my earliest designs on this project. Now, the Sun, Moon, and Star had a HUGE facelift. I was trying to base the card designs in the Alleyman's decks, and as it stood, the Sun, Moon, and Star were not that at all. And that's because though it's a trio I wanted to offer, I didn't do any of those designs in the decks!

The Star is based on Janice Pedersen's Star in the Alleyman's Tarot, my mother's design. The Moon is based on Yve Lepkowski's incredible Moon in the Alleyway Tarot, from the Tarrocchino Arlecchino which you can see here, The work on this page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and so Yve was happy to offer it into the deck, and now I have extended that ShareAlike license to this modification for the pin. The Sun was complicated, as neither Suns in the original Alleyman's or the Alleyway were public domain or available for me to use without looping that artist in on the project, and I've been trying to stick to NOT needing to split things different directions on this project, so I drew out the Radiance face from the original edition of my Oracle Dice set as the base of the design.
If this new celestial trio is blowing your mind like it did mine but you missed a set, you'll be able to grab it in the survey when those go out next week.

For the final three, I have put together The Bogeyman, the Final Tarot Card, and the Queen of Bombs!


And I lightly updated the Justice card pin to give it a little more going on. A goodie if ever there was one.


And this isn't even really a pin design as it stands, but it's just going to be the logo. Pretty straightforward! There will be light simplification to take it to manufacturing, but it'll still be clear.


And of course, we had the collab pin! I haven't determined how many people got them yet, but we'll check that soon!

And that's our project!! Overall our numbers look like this:

We're going to wait a little bit to get the surveys out. This is because I'm going to figure out shipping costs now and have it applied to your orders when you go to check out on the survey. This should speed up the process as opposed to charging it later and having people confused about how to do it and cards failing etc etc, it's just better to set it all up at once.

You'll be able to add any additional pins at that time, and in the mean time the pre-order store will go up for people who missed the project entirely! There will also be plenty of extras (planning to do about 500 of each design) for people who missed the project, so you'll be able to get them later on my online store or at conventions. 

For now, hang tight! I'm going to send the pin designs to the manufacturer and figure out the weights for the items and what shipping will cost. There are less than 300 of you so I can figure out the order combos fairly easy I think!

Thanks all, have a lovely day and see you next week!

7DA
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