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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you are interested in acquiring some isopod pins, jewelry, and stickers, the campaign will be running on Backerkit until Tuesday, September 9th at 3:20PM EDT. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Isopod Colony - Enamel Pin & Jewelry Collection

Terrestrial isopods serve an important role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem; many can also roll into adorable balls! Isopod Colony is a hard enamel pin collection for those who love these tiny fr...

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Isopod Colony Backerkit campaign will be ending soon. This week we unlocked new stretch goals; in addition to being able to produce the isopod leaf pins & jewelry, the star candy isopod pins & blind bags, we’ve unlocked a series of mini pins. #isopod #enamelpins #backerkit

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Aug 15

I can get rough estimates together this weekend for general regions.

The exact shipping fee will be calculated in the pledge manager post campaign based on pledge weight and address. But the estimate should be a good ballpark!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you so much for the shout-out! <3

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Isopod Colony Backerkit campaign is live! bit.ly/BK-IsopodCol...

This campaign is for a collection of hard enamel pins and jewelry featuring isopods in two themes: earth tone leaves, and candy colored stars.

#isopod #enamelpins #backerkit

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 26

The red lighting against the Smokey blue grey is so gorgeous. And the knots/smoke! <3

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 26

I appreciate that they’re low maintenance and don’t take up much space. It is definitely about the cumulative routine though. I also have 88 houseplants and the aquarium is a 165 gallon monstrosity.

I always loved animals, but sadly my energy levels are at capacity for doing a good job for them!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Like… I don’t need to know all of the dominant, recessive, and co-dominant ball python genes… but the research rabbit hole beckons!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 25

Isopods (among other invertebrates and reptiles) are things I enjoy researching and imagining keeping. Alas, I know my daily creature maintenance plate is full with my cat, dog, and fish. It’s still fun to learn about.

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 25

I plan on doing 3 more unique pin shapes with 1-2 variants each. Dairy Cow, Orange Dragon, Ember Bee, Gestroi, and Cuban Spikey are what I’m looking to design for next! bit.ly/BK-IsopodCol...

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 25

I recently learned that Clip Studio can save a timelapse of your process, so I thought I’d try making some short videos. I admit that I’m still a creature of the 2000’s, and prefer still images with long blog posts and giant, threaded conversations. But this was still fun to do. #isopod #enamelpins

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Toadstown @toadstown.bsky.social · Jul 22

We are down to the last week on this campaign - we've got even metallic dragons! kobolds! Maybe even Bahamut, if we can crush the last stretch goal 💪 #dnd #5e #dungeonsanddragons #enamelpins

🔗https://tinyurl.com/chromaticpins

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 18

I got some rubber duckies in for the first design. The cappuccino and ember bees are also really neat!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Spiky guy!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m working on a series designs for an Isopod enamel pin collection on Backerkit. (Prelaunch here: bit.ly/BK-IsopodCol...)

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m working on additional isopod enamel pin designs. To get the most out of each mold, I’d like to do one color variant per design

I have personal favorite isopod morphs, but I’m also curious if there are any specific species or color morphs people would like to see included? #isopods #enamelpins

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 16

No worries. I can see how the wording on the dragon pin comment was confusing.

Most enamel pins are manufactured in China, including those with middle-men in other countries. Right now there’s a pause in tariffs which took US to China tariffs from 150% to 30%. Not ideal, but more manageable.

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Though having experience with a manufacturer independently might be useful and something I could bring to the table, there are also concerns about what happens when the tariff pause is over.

I’m glad you’re still interested in them though! I really liked the designs that Sin and May made for them!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

The pins I’m talking about are ones that I am producing as an independent artist!

The pins with Flight Rising are somewhat on hold. They are something that is produced by the art team and FR as a whole, and will have logistics fulfilled by Hivemill.

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Nothing quite this organized! I’ve been trying to do more studies this year so that I can expand my anatomy knowledge. Still unclear how much of it is sticking, but if even a little is retained, it’s worth doing. :)

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

She’s beautiful! I especially like how her hair frames her face.

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you! I’m getting samples made up of both!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

After discussing it a bit with my manufacturer, we moved the glitter accent from the wings to parts of the cloud/star swirls. That way we can have the details of the screen print and the glitter (in a place where there might be sparkles anyway!) at the same time.

I hope I didn’t overdo it, haha!

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

In May I received a couple of my isopod test pins, which had one spot color and 4 colors of hard enamel fill. So I feel good about the production process on things that don’t involve specialty finishes! (Need more experience with those for stuff like the dragon pins.)

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Strange Little Creatures @jpeffer.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’m working on getting some finishing off some isopod pin designs for a project on backerkit.

I have a few species and morphs I’d like to include, but if anyone has any favorites, I’m all ears!

#isopods #enamelpins

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