Hey all!

Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on where things are at. Honestly there's not much to share. 😅

As I believe I mentioned before, I was traveling the first 2 weeks of July for Fan Expo Denver and then a family wedding right afterwards. The rest of this month I have a lot to do to prepare for my next con in August, Ecchi Expo, which is in about 3 weeks on August 8-10.

Once Ecchi Expo is out of the way, that will clear up a lot of my brain space to give my full focus to grading and fulfilling this campaign. I'll probably start as soon as I can after getting back from the convention around mid-August, and if I recruit some friends to help, hopefully it will go fairly quickly!

As always thanks for your patience, and I’ll get these pins out as soon as I’m able to! ^-^

Cheers,
Rain

Hey friends!

I'm here with a quick update for you on the status of fulfillment for Sugar & Spice.

I've received the rest of the pins, and I haven't looked through them super closely yet, but on first glance, everything looks great! I'm really glad I took the extra time to make the shadow daddy pin look how I imagined because it turned out SO well! I can't wait for you guys to see it!

Since I have all the products in-hand now, I will be charging cards soon.

I will be charging cards for shipping & survey add-ons this coming Monday, June 16th.

Please make sure your payment method is up-to-date and that you have the funds available to avoid errors in payments!

Even though I have everything in-hand now, I still want to reiterate that I will not be starting fulfillment quite yet. I still have to go through and grade all the pins, and there are A LOT of them in this campaign, so even if I recruit help, it may still take some time to grade all of them.

That said, I'm actually on track to fulfill orders sooner than I initially predicted on the campaign page. The campaign page says September/October, but I will likely be able to start shipping pins sometime in August.

Thank you so much for your patience as always!

However, I have one last thing to share before I wrap up this update!

My good friend Foxpirate just launched his 2nd pin campaign ever, Zodicats! He put so much work into this set and his campaign page and I'm so excited that his campaign already hit $10k in funding! I'm so happy for him!

If you love cats, space, and/or the zodiac, I promise you'll love his campaign, so go check it out~!

Anyway, that's all for this update. If I encounter any issues while grading the pins that could potentially cause any delays, I'll let you guys know, but from what I've seen so far, I don't expect that to happen.

Thanks for reading and I'll catch you in the next update! 

Cheers,
Rain

Hey friends!

I have a fun update for you today! I received photos of some of the completed pins from my manufacturer, and they've been shipped & are on their way to me right now. I wanted to share the photos they sent me - they are looking great and I'm so excited to see them in person!

As you can see, this isn't all of them! Some of them are still being produced, including the rest of the books, and the shadow daddy slut pin.

Speaking of the shadow daddy slut pin - this pin is taking a bit longer to produce, because I have been going back and forth with my manufacturer trying to get the perfect glitter effect for the purple swirl area. I wasn't 100% happy with the first sample they made, so they've been making me more samples with different options as we try to find something that looks amazing, which is resulting in it taking longer to produce. Sorry about the delay with that, but I want it to look perfect! :)

As for the candy hearts - those have been finished, and are set to arrive to me this Wednesday, as long as FedEx stops making delivery difficult (they've already tried and failed to deliver them twice, so I'm hoping 3rd time is the charm with this 😅)

I've also received the bookmarks, they turned out great so here's a photo!

Once the pins arrive, I can start grading. I'm really hoping that since I got backing cards already included with my pins, it'll make that whole step go a lot faster.

I do want to mention however that July is going to be a busy month for me as I have a large convention and a family wedding to attend right after, and some of June will be used to prep for that. So, I'm going to say that I'll probably start shipping these in August - could be earlier, could be later, but that's my prediction at the moment. :)

Thanks for your patience with this, and hope you're having a great week so far! That's all for this update.

Cheers,
Rain

Hey friends!

Fun update for you guys today! I've received photos of half-complete samples from my manufacturer for the books & dirty talk pins. Half-complete means that they have made a sample of the pin without any plating or screenprinting to check the enamel colors before pushing designs to the mass production phase. So please keep that in mind when looking at these! They're not done yet.

I'm really excited about how they're looking so far! However, there are a handful of them that I've requested color adjustments for.

I will be adjusting the colors on the following pins:

All of the rest of the pins have been approved, and my rep has moved them to the mass production phase! 

The candy hearts pins are being made by a different company (trying to branch out a little!), and I have not yet received any updates from them. I've been informed that workers on China are currently on holiday until May 6th, so I think I'll ask if they have any updates after that date. I'll share photos if/when I'm able to!

That's it for this update! I wish you all a happy May 1st and blessed Beltane if you celebrate! ^_^

Catch you in the next update!

Cheers,
Rain

Hey guys!

First off, I wanted to notify you that I have a proper contact email now for inquiries going forward! If you have questions or concerns about your order, please email me directly at [email protected]. I don't have to route people to my shop's contact form anymore! Yay!

It's been over a month now since I sent out surveys, which I feel is ample time to give y'all to fill them out. So, I started the process of locking them. You will have the next 48 hours to make any changes to your orders before they are locked.

If you don't need to make any changes to your survey, you're good! No need for you to take action. If you want to make any changes though (adding/removing add-ons, changing which rewards you want to receive, etc) then please make sure you make those changes in the next 48 hours before your order locks.

This step will only lock in your order items. You will still be able to edit your address at your leisure.

Since I'm still not sure what the tariff situation is going to look like, I would like to wait to charge you guys for shipping & survey add-ons until closer to when I'm ready to ship your items. Just to be clear, this isn't because I plan on changing shipping costs - I promise I won't! It's only because I don't want to charge you all now, and then potentially have you wait even longer for fulfillment when I don't know how long it'll take at this point.

However, if you'd prefer to have your card charged around now instead of waiting, please let me know. You can let me know by contacting me directly at my email [email protected].

Note: If you want to have your cards charged now, it won't be until after surveys lock about 2 days from now.

I also wanted to drop a quick note that the candy hearts pins have been ordered, and the rest of the pins (books, speech bubbles, extras) will be ordered probably tonight, so they will finally be going into production very soon! 

As for the rest of the items (bookmarks, misc printables), those will be produced and shipped to me very quickly, so I haven't put the orders in yet, but I'm hoping to do that within the next week or two.

As always, thanks for all your patience especially with all the tariff uncertainty, having your support through it really means the world to me. 

Thank you!

Cheers,
-Rain