The Curiosity Shop || Enamel Pin Collection

Hello, everyone!

After an amazing opening, we've unlocked everything I had prepared (and then some) in the first 48 hours. If you check out the front page, you should be able to see everything that's unlocked and which category its in. Let me know if you spot anything I missed. Not everything has a sticker version at the moment. 

So, what's still missing? First we have two standard designs on the artificer tier, the first of which is done now!

The tea cup dragon. Two inches tall, with gold plating and screen printed details. 

That leaves one more 2in design, preview should be along soon. 

After that its the rat tier! We're not going to be adding any further tiers, only rats. The rat pins are all made with different coloured metal plating, soft enamel with an epoxy coating and special effects. 

Otherwise, keep an eye out for other notebook or sticker designs popping up here and there. We're also considering other mystery bag 'themes'. Someone asked, and yes we will try to ensure you don't get any doubles between your purchases and your bags - although we can't gaurantee it at higher numbers. Same for mystery sticker packs.

I think that's all for now :). Back soon with more previews, hopefully ~

Less than a day until launch ~

Our Early Bird poll was at a tie right up until the last moment, but the cobra lily took it by a hair. So here she is;

This will be a 1.5" mini pin, with gold plating and one layer of screenprinted detailing. The stripes will be metal too. The sticker design will be added to the general sticker choices as well.

The gourd will be going into our third stretch goal tier too;

The finished design is a little more complex, with several screen print layers. 

Also revamped from our launch page is Minnow. We've had the design up since the beginning of the teaser page, but I felt it was lacking something compared to the others. Minnow is the companion pin on the third tier. Our second strange customer is an artificer with her own aquaponics system... Minnow snuck in to steal her fish, and never left. 

Not quite all of our higher stretch goals are ready for launch. All of our initial pin designs are ready to go! But a few of the loftier goals are still being finalised. If we reach high enough in our funding goal, they will all be ready before any surveys are sent out (and should be before the campaign ends!). There will be place holders on the front page. We have a lot of pin designs this time, and we may not unlock them all, but I'm excited to see how far we get.

See you all tomorrow, I hope! ~

Alright, disclaimer; I'm still making final tweaks to designs, and figuring out exactly which tier to put things in. So it might be slightly different on launch day. Also! We are previewing (most) pins with black lines this time because its clearer to see the details, but the default metal colour will be gold. Please bear that in mind.


With our first strange customer - the Scavenger. The kind of girl who keeps her favourite rock in her pocket and is determined to one day find the perfect pinecone. 

All glow effects are done with a UV printed finish.

This will also unlock these 2024 designs;

The pastel alt moth is rose gold plated. Wizard frog will always be a favourite of mine though.

Oh, and I keep forgetting. We do have an incentive for following the project pre launch! Its a snazzy sticker of this fellow;



Since he nearly won the poll for freebie. It will have some holo/transparency effects, and will be automatically added to your pledge if you signed up to follow the project before it went live :).

The poll for early bird freebie is neck and neck, so make sure you vote before it closes. You might just be the tie breaker at this rate.

That's it! Just under a week left so there may not be another big preview update. There are two more stretch goal tiers in the works; the Alchemist and the Rat Lady. 

Stay tuned ~

Alright, disclaimer; I'm still making final tweaks to designs, and figuring out exactly which tier to put things in. So it might be slightly different on launch day. Also! We are previewing pins with black lines this time because its clearer to see the details, but the default metal colour will be gold. Please bear that in mind.

However, I bring to you, our initial goal tier;

The large pin for this tier is the Shopkeeper, who has a lot of screen printed details. He's wearing his best customer service face. His companion is Imp, who might be kind of familiar to some 👀.

Each goal is quite large, but unlocks a whole bunch of stuff. That's easier for me to manage and also allows us to have a variety of freebies this year.

The first couple of tiers are going to unlock some of last years designs into the main pool too, which means you can get them as part of the bundle deal choices if you want. This tier opens up;

These three plus a couple of mini pins.

One of our bundle extras this year is mystery bags, of different sizes. If you get a mystery bag, you'll be able to choose which collection of pins might be in it (or go for a truly random selection of everything). You can preview what's in each collection on the front page of the campaign, under 'Currently Unlocked'. Everything is gonna be laid out there, as clearly as possible. These are the ones that unlock for tier one;




Also also! We have some new stationery designs. They're also previewed on the front page. If you add 'sticker book' or 'notebook' to your pledge from the add-ons, you'll be able to choose which pattern you get at the survey stage. There may be more to come. We have both a6 and a5 sizes and a variety of notebook pages.



I thiiiink that's it for now. Make sure to vote on our early bird poll for your choice of mini pin. 

Tier 2 is our first strange customer 'The Scavenger', keep an eye out for that soon ~.

Early Bird mini pin poll results are in, and creepy plant inched it out by a smidge. A few of you wanted to see R̷̢̨̨͓̳̗̟̤̮̙̲̮̟̗̀̀̍̅́̒̆͜à̴͕̱̦̗͎̞̗̲́̀͊͊͌̍̉̓̓t̸͕̬̼͎̞͍̙̪̠̝̘̣̦̋̌̚ͅ though, and here they are;



They'll still be included, just in a higher tier, hopefully with a few buddies too. He has more effects as a fully paid pin :). The freebie version would have been simpler. 

As for the creepy plants, there are three options;

- Aristolochia Salvadorensis, or the Darth Vader flower
- The Cobra Lily
- A decorative Gourd

... Admittedly some are creepier than others. 
These are SUPER rough sketches, these designs are definitely not final. Finished mini pins will have two-three layers of screen print details, at around 1.5" in size. 

Make sure you vote to let me know which you prefer. Also I'd love to know if you have creepy plant suggestions, there will be more in the campaign itself. 

More to follow soon ~