Inventory Restock For several months now I've had a box in my office. This box contained probably 100-150 random pins. Over time, some pins "escape" and then get thrown into the miscellaneous box to be sorted later.
Today I sorted that box and counted all my inventory. So...
Now is the time to check the shop to see if your out of stock favorites are back. I found several popular designs but for some the quantity was small.
Memorial Day Sale - Free Bookish Pin I'm still trying to move inventory out to make room for new inventory that's coming in over the next few months. For Memorial day I'm running a sale to get some of the current stock out. Here's what's going on in this sale:
40% off regularly priced pins 20% off everything else
In addition to the discount, every order placed during the sale, that contains at least one pin, will receive a free black and silver bookish pin. Please note that your order must contain at least one pin to be eligible for the free pin. There's no need to do anything when you place your order, as long as you place it within the sale dates, you'll receive the free pin.
There is no code for this sale, everything will be marked down on the site.
The free pin is: -Silver plated - 1 inch - has 2 posts and comes with rubber clutches
Hello everyone! Hope you are having a fantastic May. All of the designs are officially paid for and in production! They are in good hands with my manufacturer that I've been using for 6 years and I am so excited to get these in-hand and into your collections.
Here's one of the proofs for the pins so you can get an idea on the process! I hand-pick every Pantone color to make sure the colors are accurate.
I will keep you all updated as the process continues. Enamel pins are handmade so production can take up to 2 months; we'll still be very much within our timeline for shipping though!
In one month, on June 24th, we'll be launching our next crowdfunding campaign as part of the Pin Kids Collective again! Our campaign is called Victorian Villages and will consist of a series of enamel pin buildings that will enable you to make your own pin village. We'll have two different versions: a Victorian-era style using coordinating colors, and a class gingerbread village. We will have accompanying mini pins and designs to enhance your village and make it truly come alive. The image below shows a few of the buildings that will be included in the campaign.
We're launching this campaign in the summer so you'll have the collection in time for the holidays, especially if you are interested in the gingerbread village! We will be offering early bird and previous backer rewards for this campaign. We are a paired project once again with our friends at Oddment & Tweak for their campaign Make the Yuletide Gay! And if you back all 6 of the campaigns in the Pin Kids Collective, you'll receive a free large pin. Check out the Pin Kids website to see all of the upcoming campaigns.
Explorers, surveys have been locked and charges placed! I've also placed my order for pins.
🌙 Hello again! The Transcend surveys have been locked, and add-ons plus shipping have been charged. Additionally, those who failed their initial pledges have been recharged.
However, there are still quite a few funds missing.
This is a stern reminder to double check your payment information and correct it ASAP. Currently, this project is ONCE AGAIN missing over $2,200 in funding, and it really is very important it comes in! Please go into your Transcend survey and update your payment information ASAP. If your bank has blocked the charge (there are about 3 of you, $500 total) then contact them and let them know the charge is fine. Or change your payment method.
It is of vital importance that funds come in as planned so that YOU can receive your pledged rewards, and so that I can continue to create fun pins for you all! Remember, if you don't pay for your rewards or your shipping, you WILL NOT receive them. I plan to have the Pledge Manager resend survey emails (to those who haven't responded) and also recharge cards every Tuesday.
I have already placed my pin order, and will be ordering stickers soon. Packaging will be ordered closer to fulfillment time so I don't have hundreds of envelopes sitting around, heh. I have ordered only 5-10 extra pins of each design based on expected counts, so there will be very few leftovers when all items have been fulfilled. ☀️
CURRENT TIMELINE PROJECTIONS (UPDATED APRIL 29)
MAY 31 - All items ordered (pins, stickers, packaging) AUGUST - All items (hopefully) received SEPTEMBER 15 - Remaining completed surveys charged for add-ons and shipping OCTOBER - Orders packaged and shipping begins DECEMBER 31 - Project fully closed and rewards are no longer provided
Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for being part of this exploration! Please let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at [email protected] as discussions in the Community tab are not regularly monitored. My next update will be in about 2 weeks if I feel there is a need to nudge people again, or to provide an update when stickers come in.
Ad nova stellae! Carly K
P.S. disclaimer on all free items in any pledge from throughout this project... BEFORE DEC. 31, 2025, you need to successfully fill out your survey and pay for the final shipping costs to receive your pledge and any free rewards!
We're almost 100% on surveys but have just a few more of y'all we need responses from. Make sure to fill the survey out completely and click submit for your choices to be secured. We will officially lock them down and charge cards on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
Come hang out on Popshop Live tonight! http://www.popshop.live/oddmentandtweak We'll be live for a clearance show starting at 8pm eastern. New customers can use code ONTKIT for 10% off their entire order. If you miss the show, the code will work until 11:59pm eastern on Sunday 5/18 and you'll still be able to shop the Popshop Storefront even if we're not live.
Hope to hang with you tonight online! We'll check in next week.
🌙 Hello again, this is a reminder update to fill out your survey! 91% are completed, and only 22 surveys remain. Surveys will close on May 18, 2025. Anybody who completes their survey before they close WILL receive their chosen rewards. Any surveys completed after closing may not receive their chosen rewards. This is because I do not intend to order very many extras of anything from this project, so if you want a specific item you need to fill out your survey. ☀️
You should have received an email with a link to your survey. If you can't find it, you can access your survey from your BackerKit profile. Follow these steps: Click your profile icon in the top right corner of BackerKit > Click Your Pledges & Surveys > Click Your Surveys at the tabs at the top > Click Transcend > Fill out your survey and submit
You can also resend your survey email by visiting https://transcend.backerkit.com/ and entering the email you used to pledge to the project.
NEXT PIN PROJECT - HEARTH'S WARMING
I am back again with the Pin Kids Collective! Starting June 24, 2025, my project will be winter themed pins with a Christmas tree shaped pin display. Be sure to follow Hearth's Warming as well as the other 5 projects in this new PKC offering.
NEXT CAFE PROJECT - PRINTED COMIC BOOK
The Collectors Guild Cafe has been invited to be part of Printopia, which will start September 9, 2025. You can read about the project and follow for updates at this teaser page. We'll be offering an eBook, softcover, hardcover, unlocking MORE stories, bookmarks, stickers, and in general having a good time at the Cafe.
TRANSCENDPRE-ORDER STORE IS OPEN HERE - CLOSES MAY 18
For those who didn't join the exploration while the project was open, I have opened a pre-order store. This is only for those who were unable to support the initial project. Pre-orders will not receive the freebie rewards from the project. All rewards are available for purchase. The store will close on May 18, 2025.
CANADIAN EXPLORERS
I am keeping a close eye on the news about the potential Canada Post strike starting May 22. If Post goes on strike, and is still on strike when rewards are in hand and ready to ship, then I will package up but delay sending out your orders so we can avoid rewards being lost or kept in limbo.
Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for being part of this exploration! Please let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at [email protected] as discussions in the Community tab are not regularly monitored. My next update will be in about 1 week to remind you that I am locking down orders and charging for add-ons and shipping.
Ad nova stellae! Carly K
P.S. disclaimer on all free items in any pledge from throughout this Transcend project... BEFORE DEC. 31, 2025, you need to successfully fill out your Transcend survey and pay for the final shipping costs to receive your pledge and any free rewards!
I've just sent out smoke tests, and if all goes well, surveys should go out tomorrow. If you are in the random small group that received a smoke test, then you'll have your survey now. Please check your email tomorrow for your survey link. I expect to send the surveys some time after noon EST tomorrow.
Campaign Designs
Due to the niche nature of this campaing, I will not be ordering a whole lot extra to carry in the online store afterwards. If there are designs in this campaign you like, now is the time to get them, as there's no guarantee they will be available later on.
Lockdown and Charge Dates
The lockdown for these surveys is May 14th, 2025.
Once surveys are locked down your card will be charged for shipping fees and any add-ons. If for any reason you cannot finish your survey and make your payment by the 14th, no worries. We understand that sometimes life gets in the way, or you might be waiting for a payday, or you need more time to decide. The deadline to guarantee you receive your design choices is May 28th. If you aren't ready by the 14th, simply don't complete the last step of the survey. The last step of the survey is the confirmation page where you can review all your details and enter in your card details for shipping costs, if you're not ready to submit, just exit the page and you can go back to it later. If you choose to not submit your survey by the 14th, the next charge date won't be until May 28th, 2025.
After May 28th you will still be able to complete and submit your survey, but we may not be able to guarantee that you receive all your design choices. If we run out of one of your chosen designs while packing orders, we will reach out to you to choose a new design. It's very rare that this happens as we usually order more than extra of each pin. It's better to get your survey done sooner, and before Feb 3rd.
Pledge charged failed
If your original pledge charge failed, or you cancelled it thinking it was fraud, you will still receive a survey. The survey will allow you to make up this failed charge, so you can still receive your rewards.
Add-Ons
The purpose of the add-on section is to add extra items you may want shipped with your pledge. Add-ons are entirely optional, if you do not want extra items, please skip this step. Please note that any items added from this add-on section will ship with your pledge level, and not before.
You'll notice that as backers you receive a discounted price on most pin add-ons.
Stretch Goal Add-ons
You will see a few pin designs, stickers, and other items set as stretch goal add-ons. This just means that there is a minimum number of orders we need to meet to manufacturer that item. Some of the stretch goal add-ons were designs that didn't fit with the campaign, or they were too specific, or I just thought of the design after the campaign ended. If we reach the stretch goal quantity you will be charged for that item and it will be included in your order. If we do not reach a stretch goal for a specific item, we first determine whether we can manufacture it anyway, and if we cannot the item is removed from your order and you are not charged for it.
Changing shipping address
You will be able to change your shipping address up until the lockdown. After the lock down date, if you need to update your shipping address, please email [email protected], and we can manually update your shipping address. Please let us know as soon as possible that you need to update your address so we can amend the address before your package is sent. If you fail to notify us of an address change, and your package is returned to us, we will ship it again, however, you will have to pay another shipping charge.
We will post an update for last call address changes before we start shipping packages.
Pre-Order Store
There is a pre-order store for this campaign. The purpose of the pre-order store is to allow anyone who did not pledge to the campaign a chance to order these pins. You can access the pre-order store with this link.
Please note that the pre-order store is separate from your survey. All items in the pre-order store are in the add-ons section of your survey. On occasion backers have confused the pre-order store with their survey and placed a second order by accident.
If you have any questions regarding your survey or any of the above information, please email us at [email protected]
Surveys have been officially sent out to all backers! Please fill them out entirely and complete payment for shipping and any add-ons. Surveys are set to close on May 14. You’ll still be able to complete the surveys after that, but inventory will be based on surveys completed by the deadline, so lock in your orders now!
Payments have processed for your initial pledge amount. If your payment failed, don't worry. You'll have a chance to update everything in the survey. There are still some outstanding payments, so if that's you, check your card - we don't want you to miss out on the campaign rewards!
Reminder about all free items in any pledge from throughout this project: You must successfully fill out your survey and pay for the final shipping costs by December 31, 2025 to receive your pledge and any free rewards! If you fail to pay for your final shipping costs before then, you will not receive your rewards.
For those that missed out on pledging to the campaign, the Pre-Order Store is now open! There’s all sorts of goodies listed in addition to all the unlocked campaign designs. There’s even some highly requested restocks you can help us unlock. Check it out here!(If you pledged to the campaign, you have access to all the items listed in the pre-order store in your survey as add-ons.)
Current Projected Timeline (Updated May 1)
April 30 - Smoke test for surveys go out
May 1 - All surveys go out if smoke test goes well
Yesterday surveys went out to all backers! Thank you all so much for being so prompt, too - we're at 66% completion already. Surveys will close down in 2 weeks so I can get all the final counts to order the designs.
Reminder about all free items in any pledge from throughout this project: You must successfully fill out your survey and pay for the final shipping costs by December 31, 2025 to receive your pledge and any free rewards! If you fail to pay for your final shipping costs before then, you will not receive your rewards.
Our Pre-Order store is open as well if you missed out on the campaign and want to pick up some of the designs!
I'm also thrilled to announce I'll be partnering up again with my fellow Pin Kids Collective shops for a campaign this summer, plus two more additional shops. Get ready to celebrate the holidays with Candy Cane Lane!
🌙 Hello again! The Transcend survey has been completed and approved, and the Space Corp is very excited to start sending it out. They have informed me to release the Smoke Tests tonight (random 5% of surveys), and if they go well then the rest will go out tomorrow morning. You will still have until May 18 to complete your survey and submit your payment information and addresses. Now you will have an extra few days to do it!
This is also another reminder to double check your payment information and correct it ASAP. Currently, this project is STILL missing over $1,700 in funding, and it really is very important it comes in! You will have a chance to fix your payment method during the survey. Production will move ahead as scheduled. ☀️
CURRENT TIMELINE PROJECTIONS (UPDATED APRIL 29)
NEW - APRIL 29 - Smoke test for surveys go out NEW - APRIL 30 - All surveys go out if smoke test goes well MAY 18 - Any completed surveys close MAY 18 - Completed surveys charged for add-ons and shipping MAY 31 - All items ordered AUGUST - All items (hopefully) received SEPTEMBER 15 - Remaining completed surveys charged for add-ons and shipping OCTOBER - Orders packaged and shipping begins DECEMBER 31 - Project fully closed and rewards are no longer provided
Once again, THANK YOU SO MUCH for being part of this exploration! Please let me know if you have any questions by emailing me at [email protected] as discussions in the Community tab are not regularly monitored. My next update will be in about 2.5 weeks with information about completed surveys.
Ad nova stellae! Carly K
P.S. disclaimer on all free items in any pledge from throughout this project... BEFORE DEC. 31, 2025, you need to successfully fill out your survey and pay for the final shipping costs to receive your pledge and any free rewards!
Our survey is in review by the BackerKit team currently and will hopefully have approval today or tomorrow. Then I will send out a smoke test to 5% of the backers, see how that goes, then the rest of the surveys will follow post-approval! I have surveys set to close on May 18th if everything goes well, so that's still plenty of time to get the survey completed. If I run into any issues I can extend that date as well.
There are still some outstanding failed payments, so if that's you, check your card! I don't want you to miss out on the campaign rewards!
Thank you everyone - hope you have a fantastic week and I can't wait to get these surveys to you and these designs made!
