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Geode Pets - Glittery Enamel Pin Collection

Created by Cryptic Compendium

A small collection of animal-themed enamel pins inspired by faceted gemstones, ranging in size from 35mm-45mm.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Surveys start going out tomorrow
3 days ago – Sun, Apr 05, 2026 at 07:51:39 PM

Hi everyone,

Unexpectedly... sewage started to come up from a basement drain mid-week so this couldn't have been submitted sooner... had to throw a lot of things out and have a plumber come.

The smoke tests go out tomorrow and then on Tuesday I'll send the rest out. If you receive a smoke test survey and something's wrong with it please let me know

If you backed Midnight Springs' monster girl riot 2 you will not be charged shipping unless it's for some reason particularly heavy, please submit the survey and I will nullify the shipping cost of your order before charging

Anyway, here's what's new on the surveys:
  • Spiders are available to choose individually (not the ones that still are pending remakes)
  • Geode pets can still be chosen individually but are all $18 now
  • The neon and green gummy moths from the Spiders campaign are available
  • Preorder emerald frogs are available 
  • sweet spider stickers are available
  • standard grade wood moths are available 
  • seconds grade purple foxes are available
  • there's an option to be charged right away, or to just be charged automatically on deadline
  • here is what the geode pet stickers look like:

They arrived months ago but I forgot to take pictures!! :(


Since pretty much everything is here except the returning backer bats for both of us, those are what we're waiting on the most to be able to fulfill these...So we can start shipping out non-returning backer orders first. Survey deadline will be April 12th but you can choose to be charged sooner, it just won't go out any faster if there's pins in it that aren't in stock yet 

Also, this is STILL the most recent update I got about the bat, hopefully they all look like this when they arrive though, we were sent this picture months ago and they still haven't shipped


Lastly I know this isn't in the greatest taste since our manufacturers have made our pin fulfillments so slow, but Midnight Springs and Chocolat Chaud are doing this campaign soon with jewelry:

The pins will be with the least problematic manufacturer from these recent campaigns and they never had any big quality issues with their jewelry supplier in all 8 years using them!

If you want to bookmark the launch here is the link! thanks!

Update on remakes and shipping.
9 days ago – Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 11:29:05 PM

Hey thank you for waiting. A while ago we got the remade geode pets , and were able to gradually look them over. They all look much better except for the dragon, which we decided since it was the freebie I'm just gonna have to send out as good of quality of it as I can. The issue with it now is the plating is on top of the epoxy on them so now the plating coloring is on the metal in some places. It still looks good from some angles but not what I intended. The rest are great


I've been dealing with my shoulder getting worse after a work injury, (torn rotor cuff) dealing with workers comp for another separate issue and briefly had a pretty bad respiratory infection.  So that's why I've been really quiet, but I got back to packing things last week though i'm still waiting on some spiders. So for this, the survey will finally go out this week. If you add a frog to your survey, then I will hold your order back until the frogs are made.But if you don't add a frog , then yours will ship out as soon as possible right after charging shipping. I'll release the exact timeline once surveys have been sent

Thanks i truly appreciate everybody's support and patience! 

Pin update
2 months ago – Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 12:17:45 AM

HEY everyone sorry this did not get posted...once again this was a completely typed up update that I thought I published but I didn't!!

This was written about a month ago:


The pins came out super disappointing and the manufacturer is remaking almost all of them because of it, only the catfish had a really low flaw rate but all of them weren't made nearly as sparkly as promised (the biggest feature of the pin) and there's a ton of metal chipping issues. The print of the facets is also super grainy, more than usual and not lined up so there's huge white outlines. The snake's giant head gem and the dragon's frame's outline also shouldn't have been printed inside but they were

So they arrived a couple weeks ago but we needed to sort through our shipment (the angel pin was made with them) and Midnight Springs took videos of each one of them to send to the manufacturer to show all the issues, so that was over 300 pins, sorry for how long that took. 

Here are some of the repeated issues:

So they're remaking enough of every single design to cover those that were ordered and also another potential flaw rate of up to 40% because the colorful metal just has a lot of issues in general. 

Changes being made: black glitter enamel eyes instead of printed glitter eyes, more glitter everywhere, more attention paid to plating, more attention paid to how the print lines up, light purple frame outline for dragon will be glitter enamel instead of print, big gem on snake forehead will be completely clear no glitter or anything. It was that way on half of the proof but the other half showed printing in it for some reason so they agreed to fix it

Since Chinese New Year is coming up all the factories are in a hurry and I think that's why these were rushed. The rep was really understanding though and they're faster than the company that's taking forever to remake the jumping spiders so we should have these corrected before February hopefully [that didn't happen but they're shipping next week]. The molds look really good and the pearly blue in the catfish looks awesome, and it's hard to see in pics but the snake pupil really is shorter than the clear enamel like I wanted so that's cool, so hopefully better communication makes the next pins much nicer

This I'm writing right now instead of making another update:


this was just finished this week, and the remakes are almost completely done and look much better, so once those arrive I can start to fulfill!! We have to go to Katsucon first though unfortunately so I apologize for the additional delay



Not selling my stuff there, just helping out!

Quick update
5 months ago – Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 11:03:16 AM

Hey, just a quick update that I'm trying to pay for the pins but no final invoice from the rep yet. I was quoted before already but I still need a final invoice set up before I can actually pay them. Will update again when production has really started

Thanks!!

Happy Halloween!
5 months ago – Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 02:30:17 AM

Happy Halloween!

I'll send out the survey ASAP next month! There'll be some other stuff on there too like other collab stuff I've done years before that there is stock left of, like keychains and T-shirts.


Thanks everyone for helping with the project and believing in my designs, once I have these first ones funded and can show what the effect actually looks like then I'll try doing a 2nd part. But for now I'm still pretty confident we will safely get the garnet snake funded too through the survey funds.