Hello friends! Thank you all so much for being so prompt with filling out your surveys. I'm at 90% of surveys filled out which is fantastic. I'll be closing surveys August 18th, so if you haven't filled out yours or if you need to update you credit card info, please do it this next week. That way, once surveys close I can get the pin order in to my manufacturer and get production started. I've already started picking out the Pantone colors and readying all the artwork so it should be a super smooth process to get these pins underway. I am SO excited to see them come to life!

This campaign will feature felines in different costumes for spooky season! I'll have some fun designs including everything pictured above and more, and some of the designs in different color variants. There are rewards for Early Backers, Returning Backers, and Mailing List Backers -  so make sure to click the button to be reminded of when the campaign launches!

XO,
Nikki

Hello friends! Hope you're surviving this incredibly hot summer. Our smoke tests just went out this morning and so far they all have looked great, so I should be set to send out the survey to everyone tomorrow morning ahead of schedule! Please make sure to complete your survey so I can get final counts and get everything into production. I'm so excited to get this project rolling!

We still have some outstanding payments, so make sure to check your credit card info! Please make sure to update it as soon as you can so you don't miss out on your pledge or rewards.

There are a few designs that are new you can add-on in your survey! I included the two designs that we didn't unlock, and four other designs I'm hoping we can unlock in the campaign. You voted for what animal you'd like to see in Victorian and Gingerbread version, and the winner was a penguin, so that design is available as an add-on. Here's what you'll see that's new that I'm hoping to unlock:

If you missed out on pledging to the campaign, our pre-order store is also open! Our pre-order store includes all of the designs from the campaign that have been unlocked and also we are hoping to unlock. Check out the pre-order store here! We'll be ordering very little extras of the designs in this campaign, so if you have your eye on anything please take advantage of add-ons and the pre-order store!  

For those of you that backed all 6 projects in the Pin Kids Collective, your free jumbo pin reward will be included on the Hearth Warming's campaign, so no need to worry when you don't see it on your survey from me or the other campaigns.

You voted for what kind of campaign you'd like to see next from us, so we are thrilled to announce that in November our third BackerKit campaign will be...

I'm so excited! The poll I gave ended up tied between a cottagecore and celestial theme, so I am combining the two! Similar to Victorian Villages, we'll have two variants available so you can pick and choose which designs you like best in traditional cottagecore style or starry celestial. Make sure to follow along here for a free reward for pre-launch backers!

That was a lot of information but I wanted to make sure you are all completely informed about what's happening! If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at [email protected].

XO,
Nikki

Either way, I cannot thank you all enough for your support of this campaign. You once again blew me away and I cannot wait to see all of these designs come to life. I am attaching a poll for some potential add-ons in the survey; I'll have a couple designs that didn't make the campaign that I'll add on to the survey to see if we can have enough backers to make those come to life as well!

Please follow along with Sunset Road here on BackerKit and on Instagram and TikTok @sunsetroadco for updates. I also sell pins, stickers, claw clips and other accessories outside of BackerKit as well!

Let's make this last campaign day great!

XO,
Nikki

Hello my friends! Thank you SO MUCH for such a successful second BackerKit campaign. This was a project I had in my brain for a long time and I'm so happy we can make it come to fruition. I'm currently working on the surveys and hope to have those out in 2 weeks. We unlocked so many designs so the survey will take me some time to configure!

Charges have already begun processing for the campaign. If your payment fails at first, no worries! You have time to go in and change your card information or update it. Reminder that if don't pay for your pledge, add-ons, or shipping costs, you will not receive your rewards, including the collaboration pins and freebies.

AUGUST 3 - Surveys go out
AUGUST 18 - Surveys close
AUGUST 18 - Completed surveys charged for add-ons and shipping
AUGUST 31 - All items ordered
OCTOBER - All items (hopefully) received
NOVEMBER 15 - Remaining surveys charged for add-ons and shipping
NOV/DECEMBER - Orders packaged and shipping begins
FEBRUARY 28, 2026 - Project fully closed and rewards are no longer provided

I created a few more designs that I will put into the add-ons on the survey to see if we can get those made! I will also add the two designs we didn't unlock during the initial campaign: the Rosy Maple Moth and Mexican Bluewing Butterfly. I also will add two creatures you voted for to see in Victorian or Gingerbread: the penguin and the fox. I think you'll really like the new designs I came up with and hopefully we can pledge for enough of them to get them made!

If you pledged to both Victorian Villages and my partner project Make The Yuletide Gay! you'll receive free pins from both of us. If you pledged for all 6 campaigns in the Pin Kids Collective, you'll receive a free jumbo pin. From me personally, freebies include an early backer sticker, a returning backer sticker, a mailing list subscriber sticker, and a free sticker for ALL backers that we unlocked when we hit $7,500 raised. That's a lot of freebies! In order to receive them all, remember you must have successfully pledged and paid for my campaign and the other campaigns.

I've attached a poll to see what you may be interested in for our next campaign! I have plans to do all of these campaign topics at some point, but I'd LOVE to get your guidance on what you'd like to see from me. If you have any other suggestions, please leave comments as well! I love to hear feedback and really value it from those who are supporting my art.

Please take a moment to follow me on Instagram where I post updates, stories, and other items I make that weren't in the campaign. I post a lot of pictures of my three cats, too, which is the real draw to following along!

Again, I can't thank you enough for all of your support. The BackerKit community is absolutely lovely and welcoming, and I'm very excited to get the ball rolling on putting this campaign into production and getting you your Villages!

XOXO,
Nikki

Our next stretch goal reveal after the Theatre is what YOU voted for in the poll on which butterfly or moth you'd like to see me create next. The winners were...

I'm so excited for these new designs! I would love to see these come to life. There are still 13 days left in the campaign so plenty of time to reach these goals. If we reach this stretch goal, I will have a VERY special stretch goal after this that all backers of the campaign would benefit from.

Thank you once again for all of the love you've shown Victorian Villages on our second campaign!

XO,
Nikki