November Pin Club Designs + Password + Production Updates

I hoped to have the new designs up earlier today, but the final November design took me just a tiny bit longer than I wanted, but that said, I have ALL 3 of November's designs ready for the reveal! A lot of blue in our water cuties this month, which is fine by this little crab (cancer, here!). Plus, three cute kamaitachi variants for the yokai club!

For M3rcury, we somewhat combined M3rcury's powers of Shine Aqua Illusion on the right side (my personal fav power of hers) and her harp on the left. Between M3rcury and P@lla P@lla, I tried to tie some of the blues and the shade of purple into P@lla P@lla's design, while also including the same colors we used for the orbs and base from C3r3 C3r3's design last month. For the kamaitachi design, Taka thought it would be fun to do a sort of "Manga" variant of the kamitachi like in the famed Hokusai manga illustrations.

November Shop Password

The Password this month for both the secret shop and updates page is: BHML

Now if you want to know what that stands for, it means "Blue Hair Magic Love" which both M3rcury and P@lla P@lla definitely fit the bill for. 

However, if you want the inside joke of "Blue Hair Magic Love," it's actually the unofficial name of the song called "Angel Hair Veins" that a former bandmate wrote about a blue-haired girl that broke his heart when I was briefly in a band called Gallowmaker. If you're interested in hearing the 3 song demo we wrote before I had to quit to run around the world with Taka during his immigration process, you can hear it here. Blue Hair Magic Love wasn't my favorite song, but I loved "Sunbathing with Vampires" which is perfect for Halloween vibes. After I left the band, the lead singer that replaced me was the guitarist's girlfriend, which you can hear the second demo which features me on backup vocals and keyboard. So some fun backstory for y'all. :p

Production Updates

Next up, I'd like to share the latest updates from our manufacturer. No pics of the remakes, but our manu has assured me they are in production. But we do have a handful of new pics of the last few month's designs in various stages of completion:

H3lios isn't as far as I would have hoped, but it seems his skintone is done. And if you're wondering why there is blue on sections, these are how the manufacturers keep recessed areas from being filled.

N3h3l3nia is nearly done and seems to only need screen print, so hopefully she'll be on her way soon, though our manu may decide to wait to send her 'til a few more designs are finished, which I admit is frustrating because we easily pay a few hundred in shipping fees monthly. -_-

Princess Lady restocks, including this pastel variant is just waiting on screenprint. I know a lot of you have been eager to get your hands on a collector variant of princess lady, so she should be available soon! :)

Lun@'s coloring seems to be about halfway done on the original variant, but is fully complete on the pastel variant.

Ikuk0 mama looks like she just needs one more color for the background and then she'll be off to plating and screen printing.

Cutie Moon version 2 is pretty much complete besides the screenprinting.

Those are all the update pics I have at this time, but hopefully more pics soon! Please be aware, as I'm sure most of you are, that the majority of manufacturers for most industries in China are backed up and limited in time, manpower, and energy as China has been somewhat bottle-necking the electric supply, which has caused so much production to be slowed down altogether. 

Regarding the Pin Club Move

If you're reading this on our website, that means you've already made the switch. Thank you so much for that! :) I've tried to be vigilant in refunding anyone who paid both on Patreon and the website, but if I've missed you, please feel free to reach out and let me know so you're not charged twice.

Because the password will change monthly, please be sure to add us to your email list so that you can receive notifications when there is a new post and the new shop password each month so you can see these posts and access the secret shop.

Anyway, I'll be migrating all the past posts from Patreon over to here this week so you can all still access old posts when you move over in case you want to see our old sketches, etc... Feel free to message us here or email us at Shishidocreative@gmail.com

Thank you all!

- Mandy + Taka