Quick update here~ The pins finally arrived and I’ve started going through everything to start the pin grading process 🖤
🔐 Locking Addresses:
If you haven't seen the email, I've already locked down shipping addresses! If you need to make any changes to your address, in your survey, click 'Need help?' on the top right corner, and then select 'Contact Us' from the left sidebar to contact the Backerkit team for assistance on changing that 😊
For those that are combining orders with the Pinned & Preserved campaign, I'll be confirming your address again once the other pins arrive~ So no worries if things might change later, I'll hang onto your order until the other pins come in 💕
🔗 Deluxe Chained Pins:
The Cerberus and Fenrir designs will take a little extra time to grade since I’ll also be adding the chains on each pin myself before they’re packaged up.
Before chains are added~
Black Fenrir
Cerberus
White Fenrir
After chains are added~
After playing around with many chain possibilities, I've landed on this layout as the final look 🖤
📝 Grading Process + Timeline:
This part takes a bit of time because I inspect every single pin by hand to make sure there's no errors or accidental B-grades going out. After inspection/grading is finished, I put each pin on its own backing card and wrap it up in tissue paper. Then I start packaging all the orders according to their packing list and everything gets double-checked before being sealed up.
➡️ This entire process should take me a few weeks, but you should start seeing shipping emails slowly trickle out as I work through each order ^_^ Just keep an eye out for your inboxes with a tracking number~
Thank you all so much for your patience while waiting for these to arrive! These pins turned out incredible to look at in person and I can't wait to get them shipped out to their forever homes!! 😻🏠💖
I wanted to share a long overdue update on Pin Quest: Myths of the Underworld. I’m really sorry this campaign has been quiet for a bit, there's been a lot happening in the background and I want to be transparent about the delay if you haven't followed my other campaigns.
Long story short: the delay came from running 3 campaigns (Pin Quest, Pinned & Preserved, and Pintober) back-to-back with very little downtime in between campaigns. On top of overlapping campaigns, I was also dealing with several unexpected family emergencies that made it difficult for me to keep everything moving on the original timeline I had planned out.
🙏🏼 The long version for the delay (if you didn't see updates from the other campaigns)
➡️ Back to back campaigns: While running Pin Quest, an artist that was part of the upcoming League of Science pin event asked me to join and asked if I could do more insect pins like in my Rebirth & Ruin campaign. I happily agreed, but I didn't fully anticipate how tight the schedule would be in between setting up & running multiple back-to-back campaigns, cleaning up lineart, and preparing artwork for the next event. I originally planned to have more time between Pin Quest and Pintober to clean up/vectorize the artwork, but with the added insect pin campaign I had to put a pause on cleaning up the Pin Quest designs in order to run the events on time.
➡️ Family emergencies: During the middle of running Pinned & Preserved after Pin Quest, my mom was hospitalized due to a severe spider bite infection that required multiple surgeries to clear out of her system. Thankfully she made a full recovery 🥹🙏🏼 Shortly after this, there was a cancer scare that required more testing back at the hospital, but thankfully that all came back negative. After this happened, my closest grandma passed away which was a very difficult loss to deal with on top of everything.
Once things settled down, I jumped immediately back into my work cleaning up the Pin Quest lineart for my manufacturer. Balancing campaign work in between these 2 family emergencies caused some delays getting production started, and I ended up a little overwhelmed and slower to check in than I meant to be. For that I sincerely apologize 🙏🏼 I just want to be transparent about everything and I want to thank you all so much for your incredible patience during this time. It really does mean a lot right now (I also hope you all are taking care of yourselves too, I know life can be rough to everyone sometimes 💖)
🙌🏼 The great news is that pin production is finally finished after their super busy holiday season, and the pins will ship out to me soon! 💖
📸 Take a look at the pins! They look amazing! 😻✨
Jörmungandr- Chibi Snake/Japan
Underworld Skull Key- gold/white
Jörmungandr- green
Jörmungandr- rainbow metal
Underworld Skull Key- red/black
Jörmungandr- rainbow metal in the sun ☀️
Hydra- rainbow metal
Hydra- rainbow metal in the sun ☀️
Hydra- rainbow metal
Baphomet black rainbow 🌈🖤✨ (before epoxy)
Cerberus before chains are added
Baphomet white rainbow 🌈🤍✨
Black Fenrir before chains are added
Gray Fenrir before screenprinting and before chains are added
White Fenrir before chains are added
➡️ Once the pins arrive, I’ll be grading everything ASAP so I can ship out pins to their new homes~ Shipping will probably start at the end of this month/beginning of next month so keep an eye out for your tracking number email ^_^
And one last announcement:
💀 Coming Soon: Rebirth & Ruin II: Consumed 🌿
🚀 Pintopia 2026 launches in one week on Jan 22nd @ 1pm EST~!
Rebirth & Ruin II: Consumed is a part 2 series from last year's Pintopia! This campaign continues to celebrate the dark beauty of decay, consumption, and renewal in nature 🖤🌿🥀
📣 Sign up for notifications on the teaser page link here below so you don’t miss out on these new pins ^_^
Thank you for filling out your surveys so quickly!! 🙏🏼 If you haven't filled out your survey yet, please do so as soon as you can~ If you lost your survey,you can recover it here.
➡️ If you didn't see the last email, orders will be locking automatically soon so I can get the final counts over to my manufacturer! Since the last update, they have been working on rendering the art to create the pin molds while they wait for my final pin counts to start mass-production. That also means I’ll be charging cards this weekend to pay for all the extra pins that were added during the survey period.
If you need me to hold off charging your card for any reason, just leave me a comment here on this update and I’ll make sure to make a note to wait.
👉🏼 As a side note, everyone seemed to love the new chibi Jörmungandr red chrome pin featuring Japan/Asia! I'm so happy this pin had some love 🐍❤️
Thank you so much again for your support for Myths of the Underworld during Pin Quest!🙏🏼 I’m so excited to see what these pins will finally look like, I'll be back with another update as soon as I get some news! 🖤✨
After a lot of back and forth with the BackerKit team, I’m happy to share that the Smoke Tests have finally been sent out! 😊🎉 These surveys were emailed to 17 backers as a final check to make sure everything works smoothly before sending them all out. There were a few errors in the original survey I had setup, but luckily the BackerKit Support Team caught all the glitches in it and helped me fix everything!
🚨 If you were one of the 17 backers to receive the survey, please fill it out ASAP! If you see any errors in the survey or have any questions, please leave a comment here 🚨
If the majority of Smoke Test surveys come back without any issues, I’ll release the survey to everyone in about 24 hours 😊
In case you missed it, I launched a new enamel pin campaign last month called Pinned & Preserved for the Super League of Science Backerkit event! This is a series of XL insect enamel pins celebrating the science of Entomology and Insect Pinning~
We’ve already unlocked some cool stretch goals including the Death Hawk Moth, Dragonfly, and Black Widow Spider pins, as well as the Honey Bee and Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth mini pins! 🐝🦟🕷
💌 Free Combined Shipping 💌
Since these are being produced alongside the Myths of the Underworld pins, I’m offering free combined shipping if you back both campaigns! That means you only pay for shipping once here in your Pin Quest survey, and I’ll ship both orders together when everything is ready! 💌
⏳ Pinned & Preserved ends September 9th at 3:21pm EDT, so you only have 6 days left to back the new campaign and take advantage of the free combined shipping discount 💖
🧬 All 9 Live "Super League of Science" Projects! ❤️
Just a friendly reminder that anyone who backed my Pin Quest Myths of the Underworld campaign can get free combined shipping with my new XL insect pin campaign Pinned & Preserved~
We've already unlocked all 5 main campaign pins and 2 stretch goal pins including the Death Hawk Moth + Dragonfly!
Since the new Pinned & Preserved insect campaign will be in production at the same time as Pin Quest pins, I’m offering free combined shipping only for my returning backers! 🖤
I’ll waive your shipping costs for the new campaign.
Once both sets of pins arrive, I’ll ship everything together with your Pin Quest order in one package!
This way, you can grab any new pins you love without paying double shipping costs! Free shipping combined shipping = more pins to put on your display board! 😉
💖🪰 As a big thank you for supporting the new Insect campaign, all returning Backers will get a free iridescent Bottle Fly vinyl sticker! <3
Don't forget: Early Bird Tiers end today @3:20pm EST!
