Hey all, just a quick reminder to please check the status of your pledge. A few pledges that were charged for payment by Backerkit did not successfully process. You must manually update your payment information and process the payment or your pledge will be cancelled. And I will not be accepting any additional pre-orders outside of the Backerkit survey due to the quantity of information I'll need to keep track of so please make sure to check your pledge processed successfully if you'd still like to receive the shoes. Thank you!

Hello! The crowdfunding campaign for the shoes has officially ended! Designing and sampling these shoes was a long process so I’m really thankful to have so much support for my first design! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!

Now that the campaign’s over, I want to explain a bit what to expect next. Over the next two weeks, Backerkit is going to begin the process of charging the cards for the pledges. If a pledge isn’t successfully paid for, Backerkit will email you with some reminders to fix your payment information until the cutoff date. If the payment is not successfully processed before the cutoff date, Backerkit will automatically cancel the pledge. Once a pledge is cancelled, you won’t be able to pay again so please make sure to pay attention to this if you’d still like to receive the shoes.

Shortly after cards are charged, Backerkit will begin sending the funds to me after taking their percentage of the payments. Then, I will be able to begin sending the survey regarding your shoe size and color selection. The survey will be sent to your email and you’ll just need to answer to make sure I have properly recorded your shoe size and color for the bulk order. At the time, if you want to order any additional pairs of shoes, you may do so. If you don’t answer the survey, your order will be cancelled so please make sure to answer as there will be a lot of shoes I need to organize and I cannot guess what extras will be needed due to non-reponses so unfortunately I’ll have to cancel outright. For those who did Pay Over Time, Backerkit will not let you receive the survey until the payment plan is finished. You can finish the payment plan earlier if you’d like but just note you cannot officially answer the Backerkit survey until then. Because of this I'll be contacting payment plans by email with a Google survey to record your shoe size and color choice separately. When the time comes, I’ll make Updates here regarding both surveys.

Once payments are processed, the funds have been sent to me, and the survey responses are all gathered, production will begin. The estimated delivery is August 2025 with factories in China being closed from January to February. There were more shoes pledged for than I initially anticipated so this might get delayed a little but hopefully not. I’ll be sure to post updates as this progresses.

Because the campaigns exceeded its goal, I’ll be able to do some upgrades on the shoes! I’m going to investigate making a more cushioned insole as well as more nicely branded boxes. I’m going to discuss the possibility of having more removable bows made in case people want to mix-and-match since this was requested before and was originally cost prohibitive. Please stay tuned for these developments as well.

Thank you SO much again for supporting this and just showing there’s still a lot of people passionate about this kind of shoe design existing. I really want to make some wonderful shoes for you guys so I will do my best! Thanks again! :)