Hello everyone! Just two days ago I complained about pins being stuck in customs and today I suddenly got a huge parcel! Yay!
(The tea pins are missing from the picture because I‘m an idiot)
But as you can read in the title, a few things went wrong… namely the factory just straight up gave the first samples from last year into mass production and not the actual approved version 💀 It‘s most apparent in the golden waxcap that has the wrong cap color still (it‘s supposed to be like the small yellow mushroom). They didn‘t send me a picture of the mass produced version before shipping either…. Yeah…. Most of the rainbow cats had some changes between the first and final version. Some pins also are missing a pin post (portobello; thats why she‘s so off balance on the hoop) or missing screenprint layers (the yellow and pink ones have no highlights).
The good news is, there‘s a plan and it probably doesn‘t delay everything by toooo much. Since the parcel contained literal thousands of pins, I will be busy for a hot second with quality control, packing etc anyways. The two most popular pins, the ink cap and fly agaric cats, don‘t need remakes. Neither do the tea pins or any of the minis.
And the factory is already remaking the pins, and told me that it should only take 2-3 weeks. In those 2-3 weeks I can already start to fulfill the orders without the affected pins. So if you only backed few pins then chances are, your pins will be out soon! Your cards charge today I believe, and after that I‘ll give you some time to check your addresses while I grade the pins.
Tl;dr: anyone who backed Caesar Mushroom, Gold Waxcap, Rosy Bonnet, Parrot Waxcap or Portobello has to wait a bit for remakes. In the meantime I‘ll ship out everything else.
I hope you all still enjoy the other pins - I personally am extremely happy with the overall look of the pins, it just sucks that the details aren‘t right in this batch yet.
