I also refunded the paw campaign shipping for those whose orders I combined, if I combined yours but you think I missed your shipping refund please let me know via email to [email protected]and I will check!
Now that this campaign is fully, and FINALLY, wrapped up - I will not be coming back to check on any comments/discussion posts left on here. The notification system is jank so previously I was having to come back regularly to see if anything new was posted (this is the case with all campaigns...). So please do email me if you have questions/comments/concerns. That's not to say you can't or shouldn't say anything here! Just that for whatever reason... I am unlikely to be notified of it.
As I was fulfilling these last orders, I was hit in the gut with the realization some of them should have gone out in the FIRST wave months ago, because they fit all criteria to be sorted into that segment (no "wood" or machine 2 spins, or catmoths) yet the system didn't put those pledges in it. It was 3 people and I feel terrible about it. I double-checked the pledges and there's no explanation for why they were excluded.
This sort of error has happened to me before with backerkit's pledge manager, where pledges that fully fall under the search filter still somehow don't get sorted correctly... So if (hopefully not!!!) a future campaign has enough road blocks to where something like this happens again, I will more thoroughly check to make sure everything is included that should be. This is also a slight plea that if you think something is particularly wrong or not as I've been communicating, to please reach out to me (via the email above) to figure out what's up. I am never intentionally misleading, but always exhausted with bad brain fog and may miss things, so if something is wonky I will need it pointed out to me to be able to address it.
The receipt with tracking for all 53 packages today is longer than a CVS receipt!
Just a super quick update: I finally got the last remakes today and they're great! I can start shipping again and they should FINALLY be all fulfilled by end of this month. Some of you still pending are combined with fulfillable paw pledges so I've been gradually tackling those and refunding the excess shipping charge as I do.
Since I have to hop into overdrive on this I don't think I'll have my shop reopened at all before Tekko but that's okay.
Hello everyone! So sorry for the wait on another update. Life has been hectic but we're almost done!
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Wondering where your pledges are? Look no further!
ׂ╰┈➤ I recieved the Rainbowtail remakes a couple days ago and have shipped out 80% of packages! ׂ╰┈➤ The other 20% are in progress and will be fully sent out by next Friday (the 15th)!
Here's some photos of the chaos that was the order packing process lmao.
With that said- some of you are already recieving your pledges and I'm happy to hear it! For anyone who wants to share photos, I recently revamped my discord to have a channel for reviews!!
Inside my discord is not only a reviews channel BUT there are:
ׂ╰┈➤ Free monthly 10% off Etsy coupons ׂ╰┈➤ Sneak peeks into upcoming merch ׂ╰┈➤First look into my next crowdfunding campaigns ׂ╰┈➤Early dibs on new merch going up on Etsy!
and much more! I look forward to seeing you there!!
If you haven't checked it out yet, now's your chance! Returning backers receive a free exclusive sticker, we're EXTREMELY close to the free enamel pins that unlock at $5,000 pledged, and we're close to unlocking some other freebies!
Some designs are still currently in the process of being finalized- but the general gist of how they're going to look are currently available! I just posted the final designs for Moonpaw, Tawnypelt, and Leafstar a little bit ago, so here's a sneak peek!
I am still going super strong for this campaign- yes we've dropped some backers but I KNOW we will unlock those locked stretch goals again and push to get EVERYTHING unlocked!
Also- here's a sneak peek of Scourge's design :>
Thank you guys so much in advance! Please reach out to me with any questions, comments or concerns here or in my discord!
We're excited to announce that all of the Phoenix pins have arrived! We will be beginning fulfillment over the next week or so as we'll be going through the batch of pins and making sure we only send out the very best.
All the Phoenixes hanging out in the library before heading to you!
Overall, we're happy with the production of the pins, but our manufacturer did have some trouble getting the blue glass ring around the miniature pin due to the sizing. It still came out super cute though!
We're waiting on one more piece before we start shipping, but that should arrive in the next day or two. We found some pretty fun colored bubble mailers, so expect your Phoenix to arrive in style.
Also, if you haven't had the chance to check it out, we'll be running another campaign during Pintopia 2025. We have a few fun cross-collabs during Pintopia, so if you'd like to get even more Phoenixes (and Cecil!) check it out!
First of all, holy smokes! You guys blew this out of the water. I’ve already gotten sappy enough in past updates but thank you all so much! You have no idea how much I appreciate the support.
So now what? You have 2 weeks to fix any failed payment methods or issues! After that the surveys will go out! Surveys will close on December 1st. The survey will give you the option to let me know if you want to be charged immediately or when the survey closes. As I know a few people on my last survey wanted to be charged immediately for budget reasons and others wanted to wait until the survey closed to get paid!
After that the pins will go into production! I will be out of town for most of the survey. But I’ll still do my best to respond to emails ([email protected])! Please note, I don’t always see/get notifications for comments left on the page. The fastest way to reach me is on discord. https://discord.gg/rPPf4NUejw
As for where I’ll be? Twin cities con, Anime Dallas, Anime Frontier, and Anime Weekend Atlanta! If you end up at one of those cons come say hi to me! And preemptive apologies if I look tired or out of it. My autoimmune makes conventions a little exhausting but I love to meet yall and it’s always so exciting when someone tells me they follow me on socials/kickstarter. Gives me a bit of imposter syndrome too lol.
It’s hard to predict when the pins will be done as there’s several holidays between now and next year, however I tried to plan accordingly in the original timeline. So keep an eye out for that!
I’m doing my best to get everything out! Please bear with me as I had said I’d get them out before July. If you need/want your order out ASAP please email me ([email protected]) and I can prioritize it first! While I know crowdfunding campaigns are often delayed, I want to try my best to always stick to the timeline I’ve given.
We’ve gotten about 108 crowdfunding orders out so far. Having my plans to move get disrupted and then pushed to last month really messed up my schedule. As I had to move (and the moving company I hired to help canceled on me last minute) during the peak of my fulfillment period. I still haven’t really unpacked my apartment because I’ve been nonstop busy. I also hired on 2 new artists to help and so I’ve been training them. But they’ve gotten busy with con season and getting off waitlists so I’m still trying my best to get things out on my own as well. The goal is to get all forgotten forest and non-plush Adventure Buddy orders out before August.
Hopefully there won’t be too many delays going into the future as I’m working to hire/train new folk to help. Because of this though, if you have any issues with your orders please let me know! As training new people sometimes leads to some errors!
I didn't manage to get everything out before July because I always jinx myself when I set specific timeframe goals; I wound up with a really bad infection pretty much out of the blue and for nearly 3 weeks it was just ruining my life. I finally got rx meds for it (vs otc) a week ago, and those have been sedating me really bad (but they're working!). I got 25 more orders sent out yesterday and now that my infection seems to be mostly gone and my course of meds is empty, I should be able to get everything else physically shipped out on Friday, after packing incrementally throughout this upcoming week.
Jinx or not, it has to be Friday at the latest because I have an event that weekend (Oddities & Curiosities in Detroit) and everyone remaining has been waiting long enough. So it will be done.
Fulfillment of these last orders is kind of at random; I'm not going in any particular order now, so about 20 combined already sent from before Colossalcon as well as in this recent batch included cat paws (and the extra shipping for those was refunded).
I truly wish this hadn't taken so long but I am doing my best. Thank you so much for waiting and I hope you all receive your pins soon if you have not already. 🖤
Look, I'm very sorry for being blunt, but at this point it's been months without any updates here and a few quick replies to me on Instagram (in dms, so I'm the only one who's seen that unless someone else also reached out there) that basically amounted to you don't know when you'll be able to do ship. Please, at the very least, update here with an explanation of what's going on. And probably also on your Forest of Sin campaign too, because I see that hasn't had updates since you said you were going to open the pre-order store and as far as I know that never happened. I had planned on buying something from that but right now I just want the pins I've been waiting way too long for.
If you didn't get an email notification last week with your tracking number, all US domestic packages have been mailed out!! Here's a pic of all the packages I managed to package up in between my day job and vending at events:
✨You'll get a package in the mail that looks something like this ^_^ ✨
➡️ For International orders, I'll be shipping your packages out this week! I already have everything packaged up and I just need to grab the shipping labels. They take a little bit of extra time to weigh/calculate the shipping in my computer, so it'll be no time before yours arrive as well ^_^
➡️ If anyone else backed my Pintopia campaign "Rebirth & Ruin," I am currently packaging those up as well! Those should hopefully be out by this week/next week, I already have half of them packaged up and ready for a label :)
I can't thank you all enough for your patience waiting for me to finish wrapping this up over the last few weeks, I'm so grateful for each and every one of you all who supported my art and help bring these Día de Muertos pins to life as beautiful art pins!! :) <3
I hope you enjoy your new pins when they arrive to you, take care of yourself and see you later in a future pin campaign!! 🇲🇽❤️
