Whew!! I tried to have this ready hours ago, but I think I'm still struggling with the side effects of a cold because I've been SOOO sleepy today 😭 Everything is taking me 10x longer to do and its a pain in the butt. 

Nevertheless it's always a joy to look through the submissions here, even if picking only a handful of winners is next to impossible!! Thank you all so much for participating (there's over 150 submissions!!) and making my life hard in the best way imaginable.  

That each one of these is a different medium happened by complete accident, and is a great demonstration of the crazy amount of creativity in our lil' plush community! 

As you can see I kinda failed at picking just 3 lol. The color choices and techniques featured in these pieces really caught my eye, and narrowing it down any further was just too hard! 

Everyone who shared a link to their social media post was also entered into a random drawing, and below are the 5 winners! Like the runner-ups, these folks will receive a $15 credit to be applied here or in the store. 

Prizes will be applied post-campaign, during the survey period! If you won, it is recommended that you pledge for something small like the add-on or pin pledge level, and add any big-ticket items post-campaign after your credit has been applied. Other than that, you don't need to do anything!

If you would like your credit applied to the Tiny Teeth shop instead, you can email me at [email protected] with the subject line "Contest Winner" and I can apply it to your customer account!

If you have any other questions, feel free to comment or email me as well 💖

ALL participants will be receiving a FREE digital copy of the Bedtime Bestiary coloring book, to be distributed by backerkit's digital reward system post-campaign, and an exclusive sticker! The sticker will be a colored version of one of the coloring book pages, so stay tuned for that reveal in the next few days.

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You made it to the end of this update, hooray! Come celebrate with me because  the gargoyle is now officially unlocked!!! It's very common for a campaign to pick up steam in the final 48 hours, so I feel it my bones that we'll unlock the wyvern any time now 😉

I should also have some fun behind the scenes plushie development stuff to share tomorrow if that's the sort of thing that interests you-- see you then, cryptid cuddlers! 

Heya critters! Sorry once again for my absence. Both Charmsey AND one of our dogs came down with a cold shortly after me (what are the odds?? 😭) so I haven't spent much time online over the past few days. I have some fun stuff to share today to make up for it, though!!

First of all I'd like to announce a small contest extension. Since I wasn't around much this weekend to comb through all the submissions and make sure everyone is added to the google drive like I wanted to, I'm moving the contest deadline to 

That means everyone has until tomorrow night to share their submission here and I will then announce the winners Tuesday afternoon!

We also finally had a break in the rain this afternoon, so we ran outside to grab a few plushie videos. It's really hard to grasp the size of these guys without a human for scale, so enjoy Charmsey lovingly abusing some bedtime beasts lol. Longer videos for each plush can be found here!

And soon our cuddly family will be growing! The kelpie and werewolf samples are tentatively finalized and finally on their way to us. Some small things may change once I see them in the round, but any adjustments I make will be shared here and the sample re-made to avoid any confusion or misunderstandings over what the final plush looks like.



Last but certainly not least, did you notice we've almost hit 120k?? Only 5k away from unlocking the gargoyle!! I'm admittedly a lil biased over that one cause they're modeled after my real life dog 😉 (and I will absolutely be taking pictures of the two of them together once the sample is finished!)

Edit: It looks like image uploads on backerkit's end may be broken at the moment, so if you're seeing empty boxes check back later this afternoon!

Apologies for dropping the ball these past few days, critters! Been a bit under the weather and fatigue keeps hitting me hard, but I'm still trucking! And of course always lurking, which leads me to my next topic--

Prototyping will start right away (along with our other unlocks) and I'm optimistic that the shape is straight forward enough it won't take too long to settle on something amazing.

I know it looks like we've got a long way to go before we unlock the gargoyle and wyvern as well, but I want to stress that even if we don't unlock them during the campaign, they can be unlocked post-campaign when the preorder store opens and surveys go out! I don't want to jinx it of course, but just based on the performance of past campaigns I'm 95% certain we'll get there one way or another 😉

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Despite my absence on the update front, I've found working on the coloring book very relaxing and continue to chip away at the inside. I've decided the final book will have 18 illustrations and I only have 5 to go now!

I've also decided to release a digital version for a fraction of the cost to make it as accessible as possible and you can now find this in the add-on section! If you purchase a physical copy you'll receive the digital version with your purchase by default, so no need to purchase both.

Click here for details on how to enter and links to the full res coloring pages. We already have so many tremendous entries, and I have a LOT more to add to the submission folder later this afternoon. I love finding new ones every time I check the comments or bsky! 💖

By popular demand, I've decided to add a coloring book to the add-on section!

This 8.4"x7" book will feature 15+ unique illustrations on single-sided paper, allowing you to color each page without worrying about bleed-through or sacrificing the image on the back. It will also be professionally printed with a glossy cover and staple binding!

This is my first ~professional~ coloring book and I'm so excited to finally be taking the plunge 💕



It will ultimately include the 4 (now 6!!!) coloring contest illustrations, as well as some new, surprise ones!  The pages are still a work in progress, so the final page count and illustration total may change, but MINIMALLY it will contain 15 color-ready illustrations and all bedtime bestiary species will be represented in some way.



I'm cooking up new illustrations as fast as I can so we can get the ball rolling on a sample book!! I can't wait to hold it in my hands and flip through the pages. It's gonna be so cool! 👀

I received some great sample updates over the weekend!  There werewolf is finally COMPLETE after some small edits to the face markings and the size of the eyes. I adore them and can't wait to hold them in person!!



The kelpie is looking MUCH better and I suspect they'll be finished in the next 1-2 iterations! Below is the original images on the left, and the adjustments I sent our supplier on the right. Please bear in mind these pictures are a bit on the saturated side and the in-person kelpie should be a bit less bright.


The tatzelwurm is undergoing some more drastic changes and I hope to receive a promising sample update later this week! The original samples were kind of disappointing in terms of floppiness, so we opted to go in a bit different direction and designed something that more closely resembled a snake.

I'm optimistic that this will give us the flexible plush that holds it's position we're looking for, and as a bonus they'll make an even greater cuddle buddy!



Lastly I'd like to remind everyone that we have a discord server!! Come join the Cryptid Cuddle Club and see updates in real time! 

I share in-progress photos as I receive them, as well as sketches and product musings on an almost daily basis. I'm also always soliciting cuddle club feedback, so if you want to shape the future of Tiny Teeth merch, joining the server is the best way to do that! 

That's all for today-- see you in the next update critters! 💖