I am here with some good... and with some slightly bad updates! 

I am here to remind you that it's last 3 days to fill-out surveys! I am still missing responses from 13 of you!
It's also last 3 days to order anything from the pre-order store!

After this date, I will be locking every pledge & order and will be finalizing orders for my manufacturers! 

For my pay-over-time backers – as you might have noticed, you haven't received your surveys yet... This is because Backerkit sends it either when the pledge is fully paid-for, or 4 months after the first charge happened. If I counted right, you should expect your surveys around middle of June! 
(Thank you to the backer who asked me about this!!!)

As for the bad news... the new fox socks haven't hit the new lower order goal of 10 (as of writing this update), so I will be removing them the same day I will be locking orders. 

It has been a few days since we last saw each other! During that time, most of you filled-in your surveys – thank you so much for that!

Right now, there are last 8 days to fill them in/change anything in them and order from the pre-order store!

And as I mentioned in the previous update, here are some updates on the unlockable products:
Sakura Fairies are FUNDED! They are actually even over-funded, haha. Thank you so much for everyone who showed them love ♥
As for the socks... they are not funded, but 7/17 orders were reached! So I was thinking...
if we do hit 10 orders, I will make them nonetheless and just fund the rest myself! ♥

I bet most of you saw this already, but I have planned a new fox campaign for the end of March, Gaming Foxes! It's gonna be a small campaign of 5 designs, but believe me – they are absolutely adorable ♥ These will be available as stickers, prints and enamel pins!
AND! –> if you back it, you can join the reward from Café Foxes with this one! So you save up on the shipping fees 😎

Important Information
I got the surveys reviewed sooner than I thought, and decided to send tests yesterday – it seems that everything is (hopefully) alright, so I am sending the rest of the surveys NOW! I figured out some of you might welcome the bonus day or two before I will be locking them! :)

The locking date + charging the cards date stays the same. So 12th March is the latest to fill-in/change surveys (and order from the pre-order store!), and 10th April I'll be charging all the cards.

On the topic of surveys...
Some more info – I added quite a... lot of stuff to the survey. Apart from everything I have already mentioned, I also added a completely new pin design and fox socks design that will be unlocked if enough people order them! In case there won't be enough orders, I will be removing the designs from your orders (and will let you know if that happens!)

But that's not all – I created new plush keychain designs, AND I also added some of my pins from previous campaigns to the surveys! 

That's all for today! 
Rest well, sleep well, stay hydrated and eat something nice ♥

I have been busy working on the surveys, so I can send them to you as soon as possible... and I was also putting up together the Pre-order store!

Pre-order store
Pre-order store should have everything now ready to order – and one of you even managed to do so before I sent any update, haha ♥ You can find the store from the campaign page or under the title of this section :)

Failed pledges
Almost 1k of funds were unsuccessfully charged. If this includes your payment, please fix that as soon as you can ♥ There is however a chance later to repair this – after surveys, when I will be charging for the shipping (in case your bank is very wary of Backerkit right now, since they do tend to hate Pintopia-like charges :) ) 

26th February    – testing surveys sent
27th February    – rest of the surveys sent
12th March        – surveys locked, pre-order store closed
10th April           – charging cards, locking addresses
30th April           – sending out rewards (hopefully)

In case of any delays, I will notify you! ♥

Local pick-up
I think I mentioned this in a previous update already, but I know my con-schedule for May... so you can choose to have a local pick-up (and save on shipping!) if you attend any of these cons:
Austria Comic Con  - Wels, 2-3 May
Fantasy Basel           - Basel, 14-16 May
Animefest                - Brno, 22-24 May
Dokomi                   -  Düsseldorf, 29-31 May

Sticker tiers
For anyone pledging sticker tiers – as I mentioned, I will be turning collab pins to stickers for these pledges, but I take it these tiers want the cheapest shipping possible, which means no enamel pins can be sent (so no freebie pins from the campaign incentives). In case you do add any enamel pins during surveys, I will of course update your pledge with the collab reward pin ♥

It's the end, the campaign ended! And as I mentioned 2 days ago, it certainly was an interesting ride... and I am more than glad to be on it with all of you. Thank you so much for all the support, love and warmth for this series ♥ You can't imagine how grateful I feel towards all and every single one of you. I actually didn't believe we would unlock all the stretch goals, but we... somehow... did??? And even went into Over-Time? Whaaat? 

- yap session incoming - 
Anyway, I am not sure if I've spoken about this before (I know that I certainly did on Instagram), but Café Foxes has been my favourite project up to this date... and I had MANY different projects in the past years, even though not every single one of them was pin-related. It even made me watch anime again, after a 7 year break 😂 (I watched To be hero X and Gachiakuta, if you are wondering!)

I hope you could see my favoritism from all the updates, new stretch goals and a number of designs, haha. I used to draw only ducks when I started Moon Duckling, and started drawing foxes only a year ago, but... I still felt like I had to stick to the ducks...
Well, during autumn, I decided I want to mostly go away from duck designs.
While I still love all of my little pins with ducks, I also don't feel as strongly tied to them as I used to... and never felt towards them the same way I do towards my fox art.

What I wanna say – expect the next campaign in the future to be foxes again lol ♥ Speaking of the next campaign... it might be something with fairytales and foxes. Some fairytales you already know... and some will be taken from my country, Czech Republic, like this cute little friend! But you will see everything in a few months 🤭

I also received this photo today, from one of you! And it has been making my whole day better, I can't stop glancing on it from time to time, because I am just... amazed T-T

Sol has also drawn some designs from my last campaign, Café Ducks! But it was nowhere near THIS perfection and love and... aaah, I am just so thankful.
To all of you. Again, seriously, thank you so much for your support, and I can't wait to fulfill & send every single pledge in a few months ♥

- Moon Duckling

P.S. – went crazy and already opened up the pre-order store –> everything (and more!) you'll see in there will be in the surveys, too, don't worry ♥