Short and sweet update - I have gone ahead and hit send on all the surveys :)
We got about 75% of the smoke tests surveys back and everything went really smooth - so I figu...
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Jeszika Le Vye
14 days ago
Surveys started! :)
It took a few days longer than expected to nail down a few specific details on the survey - specifically the gold foil bundle turned out to be a real troublemaker to program ...
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Jeszika Le Vye
25 days ago
Progress Update :) Surveys Incoming!
Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their summer!
I just got home from a week-long art workshop in Milwaukee that was really incredible. It refueled my spirit...
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Jeszika Le Vye
2 months ago
✨ Advent Design Finished! ✨ All Designs Finished! ✨
I'm excited to be writing this update! :) All the designs are finished and handed off to my lovely vector artist. To start with, Advent:
✨ Advent ✨ She is the sorceress o...
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Jeszika Le Vye
3 months ago
✨ Illumination Design ✨
A much quicker turnaround on this update :) but I wanted to share a quick little update. I finished another one of the designs! Illumination (homing beacon) has always been o...
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Jeszika Le Vye
3 months ago
Update - with pictures :)
Hello!
To begin with, I wanted to apologize for letting two months go by between updates. I usually hope to keep new updates posted every month or two, and I have let...
Short and sweet update - I have gone ahead and hit send on all the surveys :)
We got about 75% of the smoke tests surveys back and everything went really smooth - so I figured we were good to go on sending the rest. So keep an eye out and if you could fill those surveys out when you see them, that would be super helpful so I can get proper counts on all of these and give the manufacturer the go ahead!
Love and appreciate you guys! <3 and I'll be back with an update soon to let you know they are being ordered :)
It took a few days longer than expected to nail down a few specific details on the survey - specifically the gold foil bundle turned out to be a real troublemaker to program into the pledge manager.
For the Gold Foil Print Bundle - I couldn't figure out how to set it up with 5 multiple choice questions and then backerkit helped out and gave me a way to add questions to an add on. (And then they helped me out again today to show me how to set it up properly so it didn't look so wonky with multiple question repeating across the page.) 😅 But that was the silly mess I got mired in for a few extra days.
But, all that being said - the smoke test is a go! :) and the first few surveys are out in the wild.
The smoke test sends surveys to a random 5% of my backers to ensure that everything goes smoothly before sending the whole lot. And in a day or two once I get those back, and fingers crossed everything goes smoothly, then I will send out the rest of the surveys :)
So please keep an eye out for those - esp if you get one of these early smoke test surveys. And if you have any trouble with anything, let me know and I will be happy to help. You can email me at [email protected] to contact me the easiest as I often don't get BackerKit notifications. But, I was pretty meticulous making sure the surveys were set up perfectly, so hopefully, everything will go smooth and simple.
I also tried to set them up to give you guys the most flexibility to change your pledge levels if you want to get more pins at the bundle prices of the higher tiers, or add-on pins as you choose. So hopefully everyone will be able to get exactly the set-up they want with their tiers and add-ons :)
It's so exciting to be jumping to the next step and getting the surveys finished - as my manufacturer is just waiting on the final counts to get started :)
Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their summer!
I just got home from a week-long art workshop in Milwaukee that was really incredible. It refueled my spirits a lot to be around other creative people and see so many amazing artists in person for the week. This year has been a lot of difficult but useful work to deal with long-standing problems, and though it has all been needed and good work, it did drain my spirits a lot - to the point that I wondered about whether I had the stamina to keep being a professional artist. But this last week definitely helped recharge my sense of purpose and love for what I do. So that has been a very positive, uplifting experience and I am excited to be making progress on everything, and what the future may hold.
And, I wanted to give you guys a quick update on how everything is progressing -- which is very well!
All of the vectors are finished and ready to go. They all look beautiful and the vector artist I work with did such a great job making sure everything is set up nicely for being made into metal and enamel pieces. She has a much better understanding of scale than I do, so her help with these is always invaluable and they turned out lovely. *As requested in the comment below, I am adding in here the previews from her vector files so you guys can see how lovely they turned out and how subtle the changes were :) Mostly it was just pushing a few lines over by a mm or two to make sure there was room for enamel or cutouts. Also, don't worry too much about the coloring of these as these were just her approximations of the Pantone enamel and gold metal (same as mine were approximations of the Pantone enamel and gold metal), and they will inevitably look slightly different in real life in actual metal and enamel.
I also have everything set up with the manufacturer, who is ready to make the pins. The manufacturer has suggested I collect the surveys first before finalizing the order to make sure we get the quantities right, as they say it will not be easy to increase the quantity once production starts.
So I've spent a lot of this week working on getting the surveys and pledgemanager setup properly - and I'm just about finished - just putting the final touches on it done today and sending it to BackerKit for review. My goal is to have the surveys ready to go next week. :)
So please keep an eye out for those next week so we can get a good count on everything and get the pins ordered. I'm so excited to be rounding the final lap on these and be able to get them to you guys hopefully soon.
In other news, I ended up getting accepted into GenCon this last week - which I'm super excited about :) I will have a vender booth - so if any of you are planning to go to GenCon, stop by and say hi! I'd love to see you there. And my hope is, if everything goes smoothly with the surveys, to have everything ordered before I leave for Gencon, so they can be getting made while I am away. And then I can do fulfillment afterwards.
Anyways, that's all the news for now :) I'm going to get back to work on the surveys lol and I will post an update when they start going out as well. Love you guys! 🖤
