Hello hello, I successfully received the clothing from the Carnival Puppet collection, so every piece of the collection has arrived to me! That means I'm ready to ship this collection out to you all!
I'm currently taking weight measurements of each piece and calculating the shipping costs. Shipping costs are weight based and will be the total of the weight of everything you ordered together, please keep in mind most everything is natural fibers, which tend to be heavier than synthetic materials so the postage costs will reflect this. Please review the campaign once more for the initial weight estimates.
Once weight estimates are completed, you'll receive the notification to your email to complete the shipping payment. And once shipping has been paid for, I will lock addresses and begin fulfillment!
So looking forward to getting everything to you guys, everything turned out to my standards so I hope you will love everything too! :)
Hello! Happy New Year, hope everyone had a good holiday! I'm popping in to share that the Backerkit surveys for the Oxford Wooden Platforms have officially been sent, you can now fill out your survey to pick your shoe size and color selection. Reminder that if you are doing the Pay Over Time payment plan, you will not receive the survey until your payment plan is completed! As soon as it's completed, the survey will be automatically emailed to you. Once the payment plan backers have been able to complete their surveys, orders for final inventory count will be locked then we'll proceed with the bulk order! Please let me know if you have any questions, thank you!
Yay, so happy to share that the crowdfund goal has been reached, thank you sooooooo much everyone!! I'm thankful I get to bring my 2nd shoe design to life, couldn't do it at all without your help!
Because there's already many colors and sizes available right from the start, I will not introduce stretch goals at this time. However, due to one of your suggestions (thank you jaky!), I've been discussing with my manufacturer whether or not we can add a removable decorative tassel for the shoes! Here's a sketch below of what I mean:
He said that we could make one if we invest in the cost to create a mold for it and now that the crowdfund has reached its goal, I can commit to developing that with the bulk order!
There's still several hours left to go, thanks so much for supporting my last crowdfund of 2025! :D
Hello! Wanted to pop in for one last update regarding the campaign! As mentioned in the last update, all the orders have now shipped. All orders should have been delivered by this point so please contact me if you never received your shoes! Here's all the final shoe colors together~
Unlike the crowdfund campaign, this is a direct pre-order so your card will be charged within a few business days of you placing the order. If you'd like a payment plan, please contact me and we can arrange one through PayPal for 50% deposit. I will be placing the order with the shoe manufacturer before the end of the year.
Because fulfillment of the campaign took quite a bit of time to handle by myself (shoes also take up so much storage space!), I decided to discuss with my manufacturer about using a fulfillment company in China for the 2nd bulk order. Hopefully this will make fulfillment go faster as the shoes can be made and shipped more quickly instead of needing to travel overseas to me first. We are looking into shipping options that includes duties & taxes but I want to make sure we can still keep full insurance on the packages in the event anything happens so we're still investigating options.
The estimated delivery is March or April 2026 but might be earlier as I'll be submitting the orders on a rolling basis as I reach the amount needed to fulfill the minimum order quantity. The Spring Festival in China is coming up so it really will depend on how busy my shoe manufacturer is before the holiday.
Hello hello, here with another update! The bags have been completed and successfully delivered to me in the United States!
There currently isn't a way for me to charge for shipping for specific pledges separately in Backerkit so if you ordered just the bag and would like to receive it now instead of waiting for the clothes to be completed, please contact me and I'll send you a PayPal invoice! Otherwise, bags will be shipped out when the clothing is completed.
On that note, the bulk order for the clothing has officially been placed so clothes are now in production. We're estimating production will take around 50 days, which places things being completed around mid to late November if there are no hiccups. So at this time the, December 2025/January 2026 shipment date has not yet changed. I'll make sure to give an update if it looks like things will get delayed!
I very recently participated in a fashion show at Okashicon 2025 and got to show off the final mini hats and updated bag samples! Here are some pictures of my lovely models behind-the-scenes!
I'm looking forward to being able to share the final versions of the clothes with you guys, thanks again for the support!
We fucking did it!! Thank you all so much. :D We have a POST-CAMPAIGN UNLOCK thanks to the polls, and you guys decided you wanted to go see the World's Largest Ball of Twine:
NOW, Erik is hard at work not losing his mind and doing last-minute tweaks on designs and Laurie is working on Backerkit surveys, which will be out in a week and a half! First wave of jackets will hopefully go out by late September!
Also, in case you didn't know, ALL of our hoodies and pins from previous campaigns (and a couple secret ones!) are on our webstore here NOW: https://lagunastudios.net/collections/merch
As for the track jackets, they will be released on our webstore AFTER the backers receive their orders, along with DROPS of jackets that were NOT unlocked on this campaign or perhaps lost a poll. ;)
Hello, just wanted to pop in for an update! The last payment plans should have been completed recently, please make sure to check your pledge status! For pledges that have not made any payments at all for the payment plan, I have cancelled those pledges so you'll need to contact me again if you'd like to rejoin the bulk order pre-order. With the remaining payment plans complete, the rest of the pledges should have begun to receive the survey. Pleas make sure to fill out survey as soon as possible so I can know how many of each size and color to order for the bulk order. I will be locking orders August 1, after this date, if you have not completed your payment plan or finished your survey, you'll have to pick from the remaining inventory that gets ordered to fulfill your pledge. Once the orders are locked, I'll place the bulk order for the clothes and begin the final process for this campaign.
The bags have begun bulk production! My manufacturer sent me some photos of how the patterns will be arranged to confirm the placement and color. Looking forward to sharing more when they're done.
Leather swatch to fabric color comparison
That's it for now, please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions, thanks!
Just a little update as it seems this might be an issue....you cards have been charged by SCREENGIRLMERCH, which is what my Stripe account is set under. Please don't effect chargebacks.... its me, i am one and the same. This is still a learning curve for me, and I honestly didnt realise that this is what would appear on your transactions rather than "backerkit".
Hello! I wanted to share that fulfillment for this crowdfund has been completed! The last bags will be taken to the post office tomorrow and sent out to you! Please make sure to check your email for your tracking information. Once the bags arrived, please contact me if there was anything wrong as all packages have been insured. Thanks so much for supporting the campaign, I hope you'll like the bags and wristlets! :)
Hello hello, fulfillment of the socks are complete! Everyone should have received a tracking number in your email yesterday. All packages have been dropped off at the post office and will start being delivered this week. After you receive your package, please review your packing list and note if there was any issues with the delivery, all of the packages are insured so please don't hesitate to reach out. Thanks so much again for supporting this campaign, I'm looking forward to seeing your outfits with the socks! :)
