Hi everyone!

We're in the last day of the campaign. Yesterday we held a poll to see what additional designs you guys were interested in, and, wow, the four most popular designs are more or less tied!

Here's what we're gonna do:
- Designs 1, 2, 3.1 and 6 will get made for sure. 
- Since I do feel like there is interest in designs 4 and 5, I will tentatively unlock these as well. I say tentatively, because if these designs perform poorly, I might not have enough funds to get them made, and I may need to opt for swaps or refunds for backers who chose these designs. We will find out during the survey phase if this is the case- hopefully we can get them made!

Batch 1: Male cockatiel, lutino cockatiel, white-masked cockatiel, female cockatiel
These designs have been sampled and are estimated to finish bulk production and ship before November

Batch 2: Pearl cockatiel, white-masked pearl cockatiel, pied cockatiel
These designs have not yet been sampled. Orders containing these designs will likely ship after November, a better time estimate will be provided once samples are finished.
Note that for the pearl cockatiels, wing and back markings will be printed on the fabric, instead of embroidered.

Budgies: 

Batch 1: Blue budgie, green budgie, yellow-faced budgie, both male (blue cere) and female (pink cere) versions
These designs have been sampled and are estimated to finish bulk production and ship before November 

Batch 2: Rainbow budgie, both male (blue cere) and female (pink cere) versions 
This design has not yet been sampled. Orders containing this design will likely ship after November, a better time estimate will be provided once samples are finished. 

Batch 2: Pastel green budgie & pastel blue budgie, both male (blue cere) and female (pink cere) versions.
If these designs are unpopular during the survey, these designs may not be made. In that case, backers will be asked to switch to another design, or will receive a refund if they are not interested in a different design.
These designs have not yet been sampled. Orders containing these designs will likely ship after November, a better time estimate will be provided once samples are finished. 

Thank you guys so much again for the support, I really appreciate it and I can't wait to make these new bird buddies a reality! I will be back soon with an update on the surveys. I'll aim to send them out in the second week of June.

Have a good evening,

Doreen

Hi everybirdy!

It's been two weeks since the last update. I don't have a lot of new things to show as of now, but I wanted to let you know I'm slowly chipping away at the surveys. I'm a little slower than usual because I just moved offices and attended my largest convention of the year, but rest assured I'm getting things ready in the background :)

Surveys
I'm trying to get the surveys set up before the end of the week, after which BackerKit needs a few days to check and approve them. Expect them next week at the latest! (Note: Surveys will stay open until all samples have been finalized and photographed.)

Main campaign designs (shown on main campaign page)
These designs have already been sampled, and are ready to start production once I can finalize counts for each design. I'm expecting to receive these by October.

Newly unlocked designs (shown in last update)
These designs still need to be sampled, and I still need to pick fabrics and set up manufacturing files. Since the shapes and patterns are more or less the same as the main campaign designs, I don't think the sampling phase will take very long. However, I don't think they'll make it by October. I'll be able to give a better time estimate once the samples are done and production can start. 


That's all for now! See you next week when surveys go out :)

Doreen

Hi bird fam!

I'm in the middle of moving offices, and in all the chaos I did not really notice the campaign was heading to its end already. We're in the last 48 hours now, and we funded an incredible amount already!

We're a bit above budget, so here are a few new design for you guys to vote on. I want to at least make one more budgie and one more tiel design, but depending on how much funds we raise, there may be room for a couple more. No promises, though! Here are the designs to choose from, make sure to scroll down to the poll and vote for your favorite birdie. I'll probably decide on which designs will be made tomorrow, so you'll still have some time to adjust your pledge if you want.

Thanks again guys, you are amazing! See you in the next update tomorrow!

Doreen

Hi everyone!

Thank you SO much for the great start on this project! We hit all three goals overnight, so ALL current designs will be available to choose from. I couldn't be happier!

Since we're doing so well I'm going to look into designing and ordering samples of maybe one or two new color variants. I think some colors are pretty hard to translate into a plushie design (think of all the speckles on a pearl cockatiel..) but if there's enough interest I will consider it for sure. Let me know if there's any specific color you'd like to see! 

Have a good day!

Doreen