Pin Production & Add-ons
I don’t want to hold up any backers who have paid already, so I’m going to put forward some of my own money to get the pins into production Friday.

If you have not completed your survey by Friday there is a chance you may not receive the pins and add-ons you want. Surveys completed after Friday 25th October, 2024 - will still receive the amount of items they have paid for, however priority of styles goes to the backers that have already paid and completed surveys before that date.

If you are having trouble paying or completing your survey, please reach out to me via email [email protected]

Production Finishing
I have been notified that pins should be finished production in the first week of December, so I’ll have everything prepared to get them out to you to hopefully get there before Christmas. This is of course if there are no production delays. If they do stumble across a delay, I will do another update to let you all know.

Postage Charges
As part of your surveys it will notify you of your postage costs and any extra costings for additional add-ons. These will be locked Friday and charged sometime next week.

Once the pins and other items are here, you will receive tracking in your BackerKit Dashboard. All parcels will be sent via Australia Post, tracking portal is here.

Thank you again for your work on making this product come to life! Next update will be about pin progress!

Hey team,

Production Update
Just letting you know the pins are in production now and should hopefully be finished by the end of November! We might be a week or two ahead of schedule which is nice, most people might actually get them before Christmas (unless they are delayed getting here in shipping).

Preorders
There’s only 2 more days to order pins at the cheaper prices, after this time they’ll go back up to $20 AUD on my website. Shipping is also cheaper through BackerKit & BackerKit preorders, so take advantage!

Next Project
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of Pintopia 2025! This is held in Jan/Feb next year. My theme that I’ve chose is: Pokemon Cafe!
Please check out the project here: https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/6a97f960-da08-4d34-9399-1ffb72d5f3fe/landing
I’ll be posting pin style teasers in December on my Instagram!

Shop Updates
I’ve started adding new acrylic keychains, sticker books, playmats, old pin styles and more to my website! Be sure to check it out!

Surveys
Survey links have been sent out, if you missed yours you can log into your account to grab it or just contact me via email and I can send you a link.

Please fill these out in a timely manner, preferably by next Friday so that I can order all the items required and we don’t hold other backers up!

There are some pins that need to be ordered as an add-on as we didn’t hit them with our initial funding and the money collected for shipping doesn’t count towards the pin total. These are the: Charmeleon, Wartortle, Venusaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Crash Bandachu & Three Friends pins. I’ve put them up at reduced prices to try and get them funded, you can grab the regular ones at $11 and the large at $20!

Missing Payments
This week BackerKit will automatically try to collect payments again from those missing. There are 7 people who are still missing payments. If you’d like to fix it now, you can log in and do it yourself.

Samples
Some samples of items came in today! 
Here’s a look at them!

Hey community,

Survey Links
Today the smoke test was sent out to see that the survey works - please check your inbox and spam to see if you got a survey link! If you did, BackerKit randomly chose you and the bold and beautiful guinea pig that you are #blessed!

Once they come back in, I'll see if the survey worked and then send it out to all of you! I'll do another update so that you know when that is!

If for whatever reason you lose the link or need to change something, you can just log into BackerKit and there is a section in your dropdown menu about your pledges and your surveys!

Missed Payments
So far we have 7 people with failed payments, BackerKit will try taking the payments around the 15-16th and then 20-21st of this month before they cancel your pledge. If they cancel your pledge, you can still go through and order items but I can't guarantee items you want will be available and they might be at higher pricing!

Locked Designs
In the last 24 hours we had over $700 of pledges cancelled. So unfortunately that means some of the pins have not been funded and can't be picked in your surveys. However, I have added these in the add-on/pre-order store for discounted pricing:

Note: If they don't get funded, you will be refunded for it!

Help!
Some of you are new to these fan-funding campaigns, and don't worry I'm still getting the hang of it. If you do need assistance, don't be afraid to hit me up on social media (less likely to check this) Instagram @handmadebytenille or email [email protected]

Preorder Store
You may know someone that missed out on backing this project, you can give them this link here to go to the preorder store. Note: There are limited number of items here.

Congrats everyone 🎉

The project is mostly funded, we missed out on unlocking the Ditto pins, Crash Bandachu and Three Friends - but I’ll add these during the survey stage and if we can get enough people to preorder them, then they’ll get made!

What next?
BackerKit will confirm your pledges, process your payments, then after 14 days your pledges will be loaded into pledge manager and I can send out your surveys. The quicker payments are process, then the quicker I can get the money to the manufacturer and the quicker items will be heading to you!

Please make sure you complete your surveys in a timely manner so that we don’t delay the project for other backers.

New to this project!
This time after I have collected your surveys I will open the pre-order store. Here there will be some pins available for purchase at their RRP. So if you have friends that missed out or you want to grab some extra pins, you can do so there! Note: this will be the leftover stock after pins you pledged for are deducted, so not all styles might be available. 

Thanks again for your support!
T.