Thank you all SO MUCH again for all the love and support since we launched! I'm having a great time working on this project thanks to all of you!
With that said, it's finally time to reveal the FINAL pin design -- the Backer Voted pin! Drumroll please... your winner is the Progress Pride Flag!
By an INCREDIBLY close margin once again, yeesh! Y'all almost had a SECOND tie!
As a cherry on top, though, I have the design ready for you all NOW! Here it is!
I do have one more exciting announcement -- I will be vending at a VIRTUAL con this weekend that all of you are welcome to attend for FREE! It takes place on Discord via the Spots application -- for more information, you can check out THIS TikTok. It's so cool and I'm excited to be part of a really cool emerging option for artists to get their stuff in front of folks!
Here's a sneak peak at my booth:
I hope to see you all there! I'll also be streaming on Twitch from 1-5pm CST!
The smoke test is 88% complete with no apparent issues, so surveys have been sent to all backers! Check your email for a link.
As a reminder, the survey is mandatory to receive your rewards. it allows me to collect item counts for manufacturing, but also addresses and shipping fees. If I don't have your address, there's no way for me to send you your pins.
FAQs
When are Surveys Due? I will leave surveys open until the first week of April. I am tentatively placing the survey closing date at APRIL 7. That's 3 weeks to fill out surveys. If you do not fill out your survey by the time orders lock, I may not be able to guarantee you'll receive your first choice of rewards.
If your survey goes unanswered by the time fulfillment is complete, your pledge will be considered a donation and it will not be refunded.
What about Pay Over Time Backers? Pay Over Time backers will receive their surveys when their payment is completed (4 installments total). I will be keeping these folks in mind as I finalize item counts.
Can I switch my Pledge Tier After I get my Survey? Yes, you can! Most pledge tiers are enabled for switching. If you'd like to easily upgrade your pledge, click the "Switch your Pledge Level" link under the big green Get Started button when you first open your survey.
The pledge switch button will allow you to change your pledge tier.
Please note, you are not able to switch your pledge tier back if you change your mind!
How is Shipping Calculated? As outlined before, shipping is not only based on location, but the total weight of your cart. A US backer pledging for the highest tier should expect about $10 in shipping. A US backer pledging for a single pin will see a shipping fee around $6.
Furthermore, if you add multiple add-on pins to your cart, expect your shipping fee to go up incrementally. The heaviest items are the dangling pins and the Six-Legged Stag pin. When will I be Charged? When you complete your survey, you will not immediately be charged for shipping & any extra add-ons. Cards will be charged at a later date, which I will post here via updates. I will wait until closer to fulfillment to charge cards—most likely after I have the pins.
Questions?
As usual, free free to email me at [email protected] or use the "need help?" button at the top right of your survey (next to where your email address is listed).
Location of the help button on your surveys
That's all for now! Expect an update early April when surveys lock. Thank you!
Hello everyone! This is a notification going out to EVERYONE this time to let you know that we have both surveys gone out AND the pre-order store open!
If you missed the main campaign and still want goodies, here's where you'll get em! These will be shipped out alongside campaign rewards. Shipping is charged later!
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SURVEYS!
Surveys went out two days ago at like 4am, don't ask me why I was awake.
A good portion of you have already answered it, in fact over half of ye did! That's an incredible stat for just two days. Let's get the other half answered now ;D
Here's a few common questions!
Can I change my survey after completing it? Yes, you can change the survey up until it's locked however many times you wish!
Can I change my address? Addresses will be locked much later so you can also change that however many times you wish!
Can I change to a different tier? You should be able to switch to any tier in the settings of your pledge! In the survey too.
When will cards be charged? Once the surveys end and are locked, which will be at the end of the month, so there's time!
Why isn't shipping being calculated? I'm testing out a new broker with my current Etsy orders so I can lower shipping costs for everyone. I estimate shipping to be charged around May once I have everything settled! This will be a third seperate charge. I normally wouldn't do this, but I would much rather the broker work out than charging obscene amounts for tracking.
SURVEYS CLOSE ON THE 31st of MARCH!!
Usually I would give it 10 days to be filled out, HOWEVER, we're waiting for new sock samples, and I want to give people ample time to make informed choices on their purchase! I can't guarantee I'll have the samples in my hands by then, but I will at least have photos.
That said, I would still like if everyone could fill out their surveys for the main pin counts asap. You can edit the survey later for the socks if you're waiting for that, but the sooner I have correct pin counts, the sooner I can put them into production!
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Thank you again for the continued support on this project. I don't think I can ever be thankful enough for everyone trusting me with this vision and being excited to learn about prehistoric creatures.
I'd like to mention as well that this year I will be at Dokomi! It'll be my first time vending in Germany and I will have all my past pins with me along with a bunch of bug stuff. So if you're attending too please come by and say hi and tell me what your favourite bug is!
That's all for today, next update I'm hoping will be about socks ;D
We're currently sitting at 92% of surveys complete! 🎉 At this moment, we have around 35 people left who still need to select their designs.
We're getting close, so I've went ahead and received the quote for the pins and will be sending the artwork to the manufacturer this week!
❗❗ IMPORTANT: This means orders will be locking on March 12th around 8pm EST ❗❗
With locking the orders, I will also be charging the cards on this day too! Please ensure your card info is up to date this week!!
You will still be able to update your addresses up until I start fulfillment, and I will give another heads up once I'm in that stage.
After the pins are in production, everything will officially be in motion! The stickers and sticker sheets have already been ordered and are well into production at this point. 🎉🎉🎉
As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out via email or comment below!
A few minutes ago I've sent off all the surveys! The smoke test (a small % of backers get the survey early to test if things go well) showed one hiccup with the local pickup but it should all be good now! In this update a short summary of things to keep in mind.
What to expect
In your mail you will receive an email with an url to my survey. Follow all the steps, add any items you might missed out on, fill in your address and hit 'place order'. This will make sure your survey is finished and I will receive a tally of all chosen enamel pin designs, which I need to place an order for all the enamel pin designs. Around the time the enamel pins are done with their production I will write another update I am about to lock and charge the survey. This means the choices you've made will be permanent and means you will pay the missing amount. This amount is extra added add-on's, shipping (and possible tariff duty fees) and any missing initial payments.
When the enamel pins are being sent my way (this will be late May early June) I will update again and lock the addresses. Until that update your got all the time to change your address if need be due to a move for instance. But no worries, I will write an update for that before starting fulfillment.
PLEASE fill in your survey as soon as you possibly can! I will need these choices to place an order. I usually wait until 80% is filled in to have an accurate overview.
For those that qualify for Early Amphibian sticker, Returning Amphibian sticker, Pin banner sticker and/or Cross collab freebie, you will find those items in your survey basket already set up!
Combined shipping -> "Local Pickup"
For those who backed both Birds of North America and Frogtastic Frogs you qualify for combined shipping if you want to. You will pay the shipping costs at Birds of North America but these won't be paid in Frogtastic Frogs #2. In my survey you will fill in your address as otherwise except for your country you choose 'Local Pickup'. I URGE you to fill in the rest of your address this due to administrative paperwork on my end. Important notice: this is only available if backed both of our projects. We will check if you qualify for this.
Also good to know is that actual local pickup (at cons or otherwise) is NOT possible.
Only backed Frogtastic Frogs If you only backed Frogtastic Frogs, you can ignore this information and carry on like usual for surveys and fill in your shipping information so you pay the correct amount.
Pre-order shop is open
For those who missed out or have friends asking about enamel pins, the pre-order shop is open. This is a shop via Backerkit which means it's credit card only and fulfillment of these orders will be done together with the Backer pledges. (In de pre-order shop you cannot get the Early/Returning/Pin banner freebies, nor the cross collab freebie pin.)
I believe that's all the important parts, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
I just wanted to post a reminder that surveys are due for this campaign on the 15th!
Thank you to everyone who has already filled it out! There are 11 of you who still need to, so please fill it out ASAP.
Outside of that, I've launched a new campaign as part of the A Pin Of Pride group collab! Love is Super Effective is an expansion on my existing Pokeball mini pins, now with pride flags! Follow the campaign HEREor click the banner!
If you back 3+ campaigns in the collab, you'll get a free pin from each of us! And since you've backed a previous campaign of mine, you will get a free sticker as well if you back!
I hope you all are having a good March so far! Thank you again for all the support!
We have been working on preparing our surveys, and we plan to start sending them by the end of this first week of March.
In the meanwhile, or if you missed the campaign, we have opened up our Pre-order shop for a limited time, here, in Backerkit.
With it, we decided to give another chance to the 'Vampi' Fluffypede Pin, and we have added it as a stretch goal add-on in the Pre-order shop. It will be unlocked if we get at least 10 units ordered.
And we have also added a new 'Flufflock' Vinyl Sticker add-on. Now we have one sticker for each of the 6 main Fluffipedes. And with that we are also adding one add-on: a set of the 6 stickers at a discount!
Both 'Vampi' Fluffypede Pin and the new Sticker and 6 Sticker set will also be added to the surveys.
With these surveys and in the pre-order shop we will not be charging shipping yet. We will do it later, closer to fulfillment.
Finally, the Pre-order shop will only be open for a couple of weeks. Don't miss it!
Thank you to all the backers who received the smoke test and submitted their survey responses. The smoke test survey responses look great with no issues so far! We have now emailed out all surveys. Please check your email inboxes (including spam folders) for your survey. Your survey email will look similar to this:
We kindly ask that all surveys be submitted by March 13th! Backers have until March 16th to update or change their survey responses. Cards will be charged on March 16th (the charge may appear as either Backerkit - Mochiville or just Mochiville on your bank statement).
Pay Over Time Backers: Backers who opted for the Pay Over Time option will automatically receive their surveys once the 4th installment is paid or their pledge is paid in full, whichever comes first. We will order extra pins of each design to ensure we have enough pins to fulfill everyone's pledges.
February 25, 2026: Backerkit surveys are sent out (please check your emails!)
February 26, 2026: Funds arrive from Backerkit
March 13, 2026: Backerkit survey responses are due!
March 16, 2026: Surveys are locked, and cards are charged
March 18, 2026: Pin production begins!
Mid - June: Pins arrive. We begin to package everyone's rewards!
Mid -July: Pins are shipped out to backers!
📅 Reminder of Payment Schedule 📅
Just a reminder that your payment will be split into two separate payments:
1st Payment (February 12, 2026): Includes only pledge level and campaign add-ons.
2nd Payment (March 16, 2026): Includes shipping fees, taxes (applicable in Canada only), survey add-ons, and any outstanding payments.
IMPORTANT: Shipping fees were not collected in the 1st payment. It will be collected in the 2nd payment (March 16th, 2026). Our shipping fees are as follows:
Listed shipping rates are in CAD (Canadian Currency).
Note: We understand shipping to the USA has gotten expensive due to the tariff situation. If we find cheaper shipping alternatives to the US by the time we fulfill orders, we will refund backers the difference.
Lastly, thank you all again for supporting our new pin collection. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us on Backerkit or via email: [email protected]
