Hey y'all,

I'm about to send out surveys and wanted to say thank you again for supporting this project! I'm thrilled about how well it went and I'm already planning out a sequel campaign for sometime in 2027.

A few quick notes about surveys:

- All freebie items you were eligible for should already be added to your order. This includes the lantern freebie*, sticker sheet (design TBD), early bird reward, returning backer reward, and cross-collaboration freebie pin. Most backers will get to choose between the Day Lantern and night Lantern designs, but Greenhouse tier backers will receive both!

- All of the additional pot pin colorways that were not selected during the Cultivators poll have been added as post-campaign stretch goals. You may purchase these add-ons after selecting your rewards and they will go into production is a minimum order number is met. Any designs that fall short of their minimums will be automatically removed from your order before cards are charged.

- If you don't see your country or if the shipping fee is coming up as "$999" email me at [email protected] so I can get that fixed.

With love and creativity,
Max

Hey y'all,

We're in the final 48 hours of this campaign! I have a few more announcements and reminders to share before I shift to building out the backer survey that will be sent out in a few weeks.

This campaign might be ending, but I'm definitely open to expanding the collection with a follow-up campaign in the future! Most projects start with a list of ideas in the notes app of my phone and it's time to start brainstorming more ideas. Comment on this update with any designs you'd want to see in a sequel project.

The poll for which additional colorways will unlock if you reach $12,000 has ended. The winners are the Rainbow Woven Pot and the Yellow Ornate Pot! Any designs that are not unlocked during the campaign will be made available as post-campaign stretch goals during the backer survey. Anything unlocked after the campaign ends will not be automatically included in the Greenhouse Tier backers (it's a financial/logistics thing, sorry).

Finally, I want to share a few of my personal favorite pot + plant combinations from this project. My top pick is probably the blue hydrangeas and ornate blue pot, because the color combination is so good. My family also had a big blue hydrangea bush in the backyard growing up!

I also wanted to feature the work of my wonderful  cross-collab partner, Angry Gato Designs, and their project Welcome to the Cat Café. If you back both projects you'll get a free pin from each of us, in addition to the other freebies we're each offering with our campaigns.



After a very successful opening, the Cat Cafe has unlocked all its pins and even some new designs! Their campaign includes 1.5-2" Cafe Pins and the the most adorable little Treat Pins to fill in your collection! I'm definitely getting Honey the baker cat and a mini muffin pin for myself, but the recently added Reginald (the butler cat) is also calling my name.

My next project, Phoenix Family, enamel pins in memoriam, will launch next month as part of the Pin Forge Collective's Pin Quest 2026 event. The phoenix has been my family's mascot for most of a decade and I'm making these pins to commemorate my father, who passed last month. The small campaign will help to fund three designs (plus freebies) - a connected pair of phoenixes (pictured) representing my parents and two individual designs for my sibling and myself.



Thank you all for your ongoing support of this project and my art!

Max

Hey y'all,

Good news - we've securely passed $10,000 and everyone is getting their free lantern pin! You'll get to choose between the Day and Night colorways and they're now available as an add-on item if you want both.

We're also closing in our the $12,000 goal, which would add four new plant colorways and two new pot colorways to the collection. I've gone ahead and chosen one plant from each season to receive a new colorway based on the real color varieties that flowers have to offer. I need your help to pick out the new pots - I've created a poll that will be open 11:59PM on Monday and the top two will be added to this campaign goal. Go vote!


Pot colorways that don't win the poll may still be available through post-campaign stretch goals during the pledge manager. This means that they'll be brought to life if a minimum number of people want to order them after the campaign ends.

This is my largest non-Pintopia campaign so far and I'm so excited about it!

Max