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 ♥

It's finally here – the last 48 hours!
It has been definitely a roller-coaster of different emotions, I must admit. So much so I am kinda looking forward to finally sit down, work on the Surveys, send them out and finalize counts for my manus! And I also can't wait to see all the pins made and in front of me~

We managed to unlock most of the Stretch goals! Currently, all these pin designs can be pledged for:

We are missing last two stretch goals! The design made based on all the polls, and Eternal Embrace! ♥

And last, but definitely not least! I was working these past three weeks with my manu on a plushie keychain of a fox – and gif below is the result!

There are still some changes left to do, but we are pretty happy about the result! It will have its premier this weekend at a con, but I am also adding them to the surveys, HOWEVER – at surveys, they will be for 15 €, instead of 19 €!

That's all for today! I hope you stay warm and cozy, and see you soon ♥
- Moon Duckling

I am here today with very exciting news – I have the community fox ready!
But are you ready?
As a reminder, the results of polls were:

Here you go!

As promised, this design will be added to every pledge as a freebie sticker, and was added to stretch goals!
We are currently missing 256 € to reach this design in enamel pin form. 
So please, if you know anyone else who would enjoy foxes (or like Japan!) feel free to share this campaign with them ♥

After a lot of thinking, I also changed some things about the snail mail club you could see in the freebie list (to be able to receive another free pin!) – it now features mostly foxes! This means that some months, it might show a fox featuring another animal (just like the design we made together :))
This month, since it's the month of love, features a Cupid Fox ♥

I can't believe it – there is only 1 week left! And it went so quick. And today, I have multiple updates! 

As of now, Taiyaki Fishing has been unlocked!! It made me actually cry and scream at midnight last night, I was so happy. Thank you so much to everyone, no matter how big or small your pledge is, you are an absolute sweetheart and thank you for supporting me and (frankly) my most favourite project I've ever did!! ♥

We are also very close to 100 backers, which will unlock the freebie sticker for everyone! And after some thinking, I decided to choose the Eternal Embrace design for the sticker! ♥

This also means our next stretch goal is the design we are currently making together! Which brings me to...

Last poll, the option Add another animal won! It was again very close to another choice, which was very interesting to see :)
So this time, the poll decides which animal it should be? This is also the last poll we will be having! If nothing much changes in-between, I would like to complete the design and share it in an update on Sunday or Monday ♥ 

I talked with some of the Pintopia creators, and most of them agreed that screen-printing, which was supposed to be used on the pins, tends to get scratched off or (in case of using UV) yellows over time. I don't want to deliver enamel pins that year or two down the line look nothing like they used to.
So I decided to change the designs so there is minimal screenprinting used (as of now, only Oh My! Strawberry & Sakura Haven use screenprinting for a shadow under the fox's head), and make the pins 1.5" / 3.8 cm big!
I am including the map used in Stretch Goals section to showcase quickly the new changes (and excuse me of being absolutely terrible in showing the gold accents lol)

That's all for today, thank you so much and let's see each other soon! ♥
- Moon Duckling