I got everything moved into a temporary space until I can get it moved to the storage unit since I was not expecting it to be here until next weekend, but on my gosh! I adore all of them!!
I need you all to realize how amazing the oversized sturgeon is. (And I can confirm that he is an amazing pillow) I am currently waiting on the shipping supplies to arrive, set to arrive this coming weekend. And I will begin working on packing orders after this!! Super excited for everyone to be receiving their beans!!!
However a small issue that is the big salmon are currently stuck in shipping. Anyone who got an oversized salmon will have their order delayed until they arrive.
As well as the oversized wyvern arrived with much less weight than the sample held, my manufacturer has offered a new order of these. Or I can also refund any orders who do not want the lighter wyvern. I will contact each wyvern buyer individually to find out what you’d like done! Wait for new wyvern, partial refund, or full refund!
latt-rays! yay!
Good news! The latt-rays arrived and they look great ;O; yay!! I am currently deep in prep mode for Anime Expo (it's next week - see us in artist alley at table K56!) so I will need to work on the rest of fulfillment after I return. But this means I will definitely be finished with fulfillment for this project in July. :D In case you missed my last update, here's where I am with fulfillment:
I have completed fulfillment for approaching 300 backers (those without latt-rays as part of their order). There are still a few with more recently completed surveys/payments that I plan to ship Monday.
I have sent invoices to UK backers for shipping (for those without Latt-rays). Thank you to those who have already paid! I have shipped out the ones with paid invoices.
There are still some unfulfilled surveys and errored payments for shipping/extras. If you have not completed your survey, please do so! You can find your survey through this link. And if you have an errored payment, please be sure to resolve this issue so I can ship your goodies to you. I believe you can update your payment also through the survey link.
If you have any questions or have any problems when your goods arrive, please contact us directly at [email protected] as I do not provide customer service through social media or Backerkit comments for customer privacy/organizational purposes.
Thank you so much for your patience and enjoyment of the creatures!! Nicole
Thank you guys so much for your patience! I gave myself the deadline to get all the orders not containing Latt-ray out by yesterday ... and good news is I almost did it! Let's go through the counts of where I am with the total of ~368 pre-orders and pledges:
257 orders shipped
~75 orders containing Latt-Rays that will need to be shipped when they arrive to me (they are not here yet but have been on the ship voyage for about 23/24 days, so I'm hoping they'll arrive within the next couple weeks)
~30 orders that are packed but not sent because I need to buy and put the labels on them. This includes UK Backers (without Latt-ray bags) that I still need to email about paying for shipping through my shop. So, if you are a backer based in the UK (without a Latt-ray bag), you can except an email from me on Monday (USA time) with more information on that. Otherwise, these remaining orders (that do not contain Latt-rays and are not to the UK) will be shipped Monday.
8 unfulfilled surveys. If you have not completed your survey, please do so! You can find your survey through this link.
8 errored payments. If you have an errored payment, please be sure to resolve this issue! I will be attempting to re-charge these cards again on Monday, but if you update your card, it will likely charge immediately.
If you have any questions or have any problems when your goods arrive, please contact us directly at [email protected] . I'll begin looking at the inbox on Monday since it's the weekend now. I do not provide assistance through Backerkit comments and on social media for privacy reasons, but I am happy to help through email! Please note that I do not offer refunds or returns for the items in this campaign, but if I goofed with any of the items sent to you, we'll help resolve no problem!!
Thank you so much for supporting this campaign!! Nicole
PS I would like to mention that our project collab friend (Loppy Rae with the Hurtsies plush!) has had an unfortunate circumstance where they had some of their funds from the project stolen. They are of course working to fulfill their project despite it all! You can read more about it on their GoFundMe and support them if you wish. And since I've been getting some emails about that project, I wanted to clarify that it's an entirely separate project run by them so all fulfillment questions for that project need to be sent directly to them. <3 Thank you so much. Wishing the delightful Loppy Rae all the best!
After a busy few weeks, we have successfully completed our Dress-Up Beary fulfillment! We are now at 100% fulfillment rate! 🎉
Most, if not all of you should have received your tracking numbers and your goodies should be well on the way to you right now! :)
I've began seeing cute photos and videos that you guys have uploaded on IG and X on your goods and they bring me so, so much joy! I can't wait for your goodies to start reaching you and hopefully you will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed designing them! 💖
For those who might have missed out on our project, we will be uploading them on our online store sometime in September and also bringing them for all of our upcoming events! So there's still a chance to grab them! :)
Thank you all once again for your patience and love throughout the whole project!
We just received a new batch of photos from our manufacturer, and we couldn’t wait to share them with you all! 💌✨
Although we’ve already shown you a bunch of pins that were well underway in our last update regarding Pins (some were nearly finished, some just missing screen prints or plating), now it’s still super exciting to *finally* see more of them progressing — slowly but surely! 🐾
This new batch includes close-ups of several characters, and we’re happy to report that the quality looks on point so far. 🥹 While don't have all the photos (maybe some of the designs are waiting to reach the very final stage?), it's a relief to see that things are still moving forward — even if at a snail’s pace 🐌
But for now… can we just appreciate how adorable they look already?! 🥹💕
Our manu told us that actually more pictures are coming soon, so we’ll be keeping a close eye and sharing those as soon as we get them!
Thank you again for your incredible patience — we know this process has been waaaaaay slower than expected, but every small step brings us closer to getting these pins into your hands, and we’re so grateful to be on this journey with you 🖤 We truly can’t wait to send these out to their forever homes – you all deserve the cutest pins ever! 🏠✨
Hi everybun! With the project officially launching TOMORROW 🎉 I wanted to go over some of the details regarding the project! If you have any questions not addressed in this post, definitely feel free to comment on this post or email me ([email protected])!
The project will feature a variety of Soft Serve themed goodies such as: the 14" plushie, wooden pin, plush orb charm, acrylic keychain, large vinyl sticker, heart button, and a standard sized signed print!
Included in the project as add-ons only (for those who were eyeing these plushies and may want to consolidate the plushies they want) will be Swirly the pup plushie, Hyacinth the lamb plushie, and both chibi and jumbo Valentine plushies. These 4 will be priced the same as they are on my online shop, and are added only as add-ons for consolidation purposes, plus they fit the theme! These 4 will be available in very limited quantities.
Incentive freebie rewards for returning backers and early bird backers will be available as well for this campaign.
The ~ main attraction ~ aka the 14" Soft Serve plushie will be priced at $44 + shipping. Shipping is charged separately after the project is over based on your location and will not be charged until closer to when the items are due to arrive to me after being made up. Please also note that once she's up for preorder on my main online shop, she will go up to $48 + shipping, so make sure to back for her here on Backerkit if you'd like her a bit discounted.
The 14" inch size does NOT include her ears, so including her ears she's a bit closer to 16-18" but her main body and head is 14" in size. Her dress is removable and can be swapped with BaB clothing if you want! Her features are embroidered and she'll have a bit of pink blush airbrushed on her cheeks as well.
For orders $150+ payment installment plans through Backerkit are available!
The total final goal for this project is $3,500 and the duration of the project is 2 weeks as this is a more mini campaign with no stretch goals. If we raise the $3,500 in 2 weeks before the deadline, you will be charged right when the project is officially over and closed up. You do NOT get charged immediately upfront for your pledge the moment you pledge, so you can secure your pledge beforehand and pay once the project's actually ended! You can also add extras to your order after it's over later on as well, but only those who backed the project can do so (pledge tier does not matter for this).
Pledge tier prices do NOT including shipping which will be charged SEPARATELY and later, depending on your location and closer to when I'm due to ship everything out. Please plan accordingly!
If you have any other questions that I did not address in this novel of a post (sorry I just want to be thorough 😭) please feel free to comment or send me an email ([email protected]).
I hope you're all as excited as I am but without the mixed in worry and nervousness haha 😭 I can't wait!! See y'all tomorrow at 2pm EST! 🥹💜🎀🍦
We’ve got a trashload of great news today — more Bin Buddies plushies have finally arrived!! 🎉🦝💖
After their loooong journey across the ocean, we can finally welcome home the rest of the plush gang: Peanut, Cupcake, Spike, and Nugget!! 🐶🦴 (Kiki and Bin had been waiting for them here! )
Pin Banners arrived some time ago too!! 🧷 As we previously said, they look g o r g e o u s in person, we personally love them so much! 🥹✨
📦 That means… we’ve officially started packing all the pledges that include them (and the other items we have in hand) — and they’ll start shipping out very soon! For those of you who got them: get ready to welcome them home! 🥹🖤
📸 Just look at all those parcels ready to roll!! 😎🖤
Here’s a little behind-the-scenes sneak peek from our studio — we’ve already packed lots of rewards and more are being packed every day! Your trash babies are getting closer and closer to your doorstep 🏡📦✨
📌 Enamel Pins
We just heard from our manufacturer and the pins are finally making good progress — they’ve promised to send us new photos tomorrow, so we’re keeping everything crossed they’ll follow through this time! 😭🤞 We’ll share those updates as soon as we receive them!
👕 Peanut Apparel
Still no news here — the joggers and hoodies are still in transit. As you already know, sea freight is a slow (and unpredictable) beast, but we’ll keep watching it closely and let you know as soon as it reaches us!
As always, we’ll post a new update as soon as we have news!
Thanks again for being the best trash fam ever 🖤 Stay tuned and stay cozy~ 💌🧺🗑️
It’s summer con season, so I’ve been a bit busy! I’m sorry about that. I have been slowly making progress on the orders not containing latt-rays - I’d say I’m about 50% done with shipping those - i’ve been happy seeing some folks getting them! But the plan is to have all of them by end of next week (by June 20 but likely sooner!). I also will be contacting UK backers soon about paying for shipping since that had to be handled at a date closer to fulfillment.
And for the latt-rays, they shipped out to me at the last week of may!! It was expected they’d arrive within about a month’s time, so I really hope they can arrive within then so I can finish all of the fulfillment before the end of June.
I haven’t been selling any extra stock from the campaign (other than some b-grade pins that have snuck into my b-grade bin 😅), but I hope to bring leftovers to Anime Expo next month then have an update in July/August where other leftovers hit my online shop :)
Thanks for all your patience! If you have any questions, please email [email protected] with all relevant backer info.
EDIT- Here is the link for the series two pocket pals. I didn't realize it wasn't added. https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/bee51e7d-1827-4268-8d8f-fd37ac49d667/landing
Hey everyone there are still several of you who have not yet completed your surveys. I cannot ship your order to you if it is not completed and shipping paid for!
I am sending out a reminder email for the uncompleted surveys, please check our email!! And please complete your surveys!
Also, June 30th your address will lock, and until that date you can change your address. So please make sure that EVERYTHING is correct on it. I am not responsible for inaccurate addresses being given to me, and my team for shipments. Everyone will also receive tracking on their orders as well once they are shipped out in July.
Now for the update! We are working on getting into contact with aquariums to attempt getting the aquatic members of pocket pals into gift shops! We are working on getting the plush toys CE tested as well as other required tests for this purpose. We hope to do the same with the 2nd series, prehistoric pals, but for museums instead!
Thank you to everyone for the support on this project!! Please don't forget to check out my currently running campaign as well, OODLLES OF NOODLES! A campaign for weighted plush noodle dragons! Here is a link to it! https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/lily-moon-suits/oodles-of-noodles-plush-dragons
And please do follow the teaser page for Pocket Pals series 2, set to launch at the start of august!
Here is a link to the teaser page for this campaign as well!! We hope to be able to achieve the same amount or even more designs in this campaign! With each backer receiving authentic, fossilized shark teeth complete with a small case and label for the species! All teeth were found by myself, Lily, during summer adventures scuba diving for and excavating larger fossils.
I hope you’re doing well, and thank you so much for your continued patience. I've had a packed schedule of shows and quite a bit of logistical wrangling—much of it to plan around tariffs that, in the end, were basically reversed. While that’s great news overall, the course correction took a lot of time and energy to navigate.
That said, I didn’t want to wait any longer to share some really exciting progress!
🕯️ Monty Approved for Production! 🕯️
Monty is officially ready to begin production! 🎉 We're currently finalizing some negotiations from a previous order, but once those are settled, the factory can begin work. This is a huge milestone, and I’m thrilled to finally move forward with him!
Monty Mothman and all of his candle making props!
Close ups of Monty's candle making props: Candle, thermometer, spatula, cup and apron!
🌙 Laisy’s Suit in Progress 🌙
Laisy is fluttering along nicely! Right now, we're working on their outfit, which is being designed to accommodate characters with or without wings and tails. This will be the most complex clothing piece we’ve tackled so far, but it’ll be well worth the effort—this pattern will become the foundation for many future outfits.
You may also notice there are no stars on the current blazer sample. We’re experimenting with a hybrid approach: printing the map details and smaller stars to avoid overstimulating textures, and embroidering the larger stars for contrast and durability. This middle ground should help the design remain detailed yet gentle on the eyes and hands.
You may notice their white shirt is a bit small, especially with the fluffed chest piece, and the blazer doesn't quite close yet. This is a work in progress, so your patience is appreciated, as always!
Laisy's clothing WIP and wings.
🦋 Dottie News! 🦋
Earlier, I mentioned we're wrapping up some negotiations. That’s related to the previous Kidd Krampus order, where unfortunately, several plushies arrived with tears—most likely due to shipping damage. I’m actively working on solutions to prevent them from going to waste and am coordinating with the factory on a fair compensation plan.
The silver lining? Thanks to how this order was handled, the number of pre-orders needed to fund Dottie has decreased! We now need just 45 total pre-orders, and we’re only 12 away from making her a reality. I’ll be at a show this weekend doing my best to help get us across the finish line!
🦋 Pre-order now or share this link with your friends!
Dottie's pre-order page
📦 Add-On Timeline & Charges 📦
Add-Ons such as stickers and pins haven’t been ordered yet—I'm just waiting on a few final survey responses. Once June 1st hits, we'll be locking things in and checking if Dottie has met her pre-order goal. At that point, cards will be charged for shipping and any extras shortly afterward.
🗓️ Heads-up: If your survey is complete, you can expect your card to be charged soon after June 1st!
🦋 If you pre-ordered Dottie, and we don't meet our goal: Dottie will be removed from your order and you will not be charged for her.
🎁 Kidd Krampus Freebie Reminder 🎁
If you pre-ordered Kidd Krampus through the Plushpanions/WildnCrafty website, your golden metal pin freebie has already been added to your order. If you don’t see it listed or have questions, feel free to reach out via [email protected] or open a ticket in our Discord server—we’re happy to help.
Thank you again for your support, your patience, and your excitement. I can’t wait to see these little moths spread their wings and head to their forever homes soon! 💚
