Spring is upon us and while life has been busy, things have been moving along smoothly behind the scenes. I have placed the order and everything is in production! Majority of the surveys have been answered and we unlocked the field guides! So thank  you for that <3. This is going to be a long update with Production, Stickers and next project announcement. So grab a cup of flower tea and take a comfortable seat.

Fun facts: 

For those that have missed the campaign - the pre-order store is open now. Besides the pins from the campaign, there is the spring tea cup and the field guides that can be bought. Plus merchandise from previous projects. Hop on over! 

I always love seeing production pictures! I ordered the washi stickers which came in already. They look cute and the colours came out really well. The pins are in production. Which always look so nice to see them all together. I also received the samples for the spring tea cup with the pearl swirl effect.  Note these are unfinished! Everything still needs to be polished and plated.   

 

With spring being upon us, the energy of the new years starts flowing. And with new energy, new creative ideas emerges. For my next project I'll be returning to my roots and expand my collection of mushrooms & fungi.
This project will center around mushrooms and its folklore. I have been gathering stories surrounding mushrooms, fairies, witches and what not! It's going to be a fun project. Did you know that the Trumpet of the Dead is said to be used to play music by the spirits of those that have passed? And especially around Halloween?

Thank you for staying with me during this update. And I hope to see you in the next project <3 

Eyliana

The smoke test survey went great, and I didn't encounter any major hiccups. So I'll be sending the surveys to everyone. Yippie!  So please check your inboxes for the surveys!
The e-mail should look like this:

If  you encounter any issues, please contact me: [email protected]. Or contact me through Backerkit.

For the pay over time backers; You will receive your surveys once the 4th installment is paid, or the amount is paid in full. I'll order extra's and also might reach out to you to confirm what you want to have. It depends a bit on the timeline.

Survey add-ons: In the survey you can add additional items to your pledge! This includes all campaign-pins, but also existing pin designs, stickers & prints. The Spring Tea & Seasonal Field guides are also available!  The Field Guides will be unlocked with 5 orders, we currently have already 4! from the smoke test, so I'm very confident that we will get there. In case we won't, I'll remove the add-on and you won't be charged for it.

I have also added some new stickers, based on my mushrooms and other existing artwork! These are 2" Washi Stickers, so perfect for journalling. 

February 26th: Surveys are send out!
Mid-March: Order is placed at the manufacturer.
May: Arrival of pins in the Netherlands
May: Charging cards for add-on and shipping
Mid May: Quality check & assembling
End of May: Shipping the US orders to LanternArcana for combined fullfilment
End of May: Receive shipment from LanternArcana for combined collab orders 
June-July: Fulfillment of all orders

I'm already in the process of placing an order and checking the artwork with the manufacturer. I just need the final counts from the surveys.  I'll be placing the order when 80% of you have filled in the surveys! So the sooner things are filled in, the sooner you get pins ;). 

US Tarrifs: I'll be keeping an eye on the whole tarrif situation. On your surveys there is currently tarrif added based on the base cost of the items - Thanks for LanternArcana we are able to do this. The cost won't be raised. The might get lowered or removed, depending on how the situation evolves. 

Fulfillment:  I'll be fulfilling all EU orders from me and LanternArcana, they will fullfil al US orders. 
Rest of world: I'll be fulfilling all my individual orders and all collabs. 

I think that's all for now! Thanks once again for your amazing support and keep an eye out for your survey. 

And now it's time for a forest hike ;). 

Eyliana 

Hi fellow wanderers,

I spent the last few days figuring all the survey back-end stuff, but it's ready! I think.
And that's where the smoke test comes in. I just send them out, the smoke tests goes to 5% of the backers and helps me test if I set everything up correctly.

Failed payments
There are still a few people with failed payment, you can update your payment method following this instruction. Backerkit will retry to charge the cards a final time this Thursday, after that you can still correct payment when the add-ons and shippings are charged. 

- Please fill in the survey! I need a good percentage of them to go be filled in, before I can send them to the other backers.
- Let me know if something is wrong or unclear! Typos, sentences, wrong shipping cost, wrong items, etc. Please let me know.

Rest of the surveys
Once I get enough feedback from the smoke test, I'll send out the rest as well. I hope to do this upcoming Thursday! To sooner I get the surveys back, the sooner I can place an order at my manu. 

I finished up the design of the field guides - I hope you like them! I decided these will also be 2", because of the tiny details and lettering. We need 5 orders to unlock the field guides. If you add the field guides and they DON'T get unlocked, I'll remove the add-on and you won't be charged for it. The spring tea cup is also part of the add-on section! 

We went out with a bang! What a ride were the last few days. We had quite a few cancelled pledges coming in, but in the last hours you all really rallied and brought this campaign the an amazing end. Thank you who all pledged ALL-IN in the final hours <3. 

More fun! We unlocked the Spring tea cup, 2h before the campaign ended. And we are very close to unlocking the field guides! Both will be added to the add-on section of the survey, if you want to grab one. For the field guides I added a “stretch goal”, meaning we need 5 purchases to be able to unlock it. Since I didn’t think we would unlock the field guides, I still need to finalize the design. So I have some work to do ;)
 

- You are cards are being charged, some of you will already have charged cards, some not. This is a process and will take awhile. Some card charges might fail and you will have the time to rectify this.
- I’ll be setting up the surveys. Here you can pick all your rewards that you pledged for. There will also be de add-on store which let you purchase the tea cup, field guides and other already existing products.
- When about 80% off you have filled in the survey, I’ll do all the counts and place the order at the manufacturer. I’ll order a bit extra of course for b-grades and surveys that haven’t filled in yet.

Surveys go out at the end of February! Please fill them in ASAP, as I need that information to be able to place the order. 

Once again, thank you all for making this campaign happen. Results were behind imagination and I’m truly grateful.

Meanwhile I’m already full with ideas for more campaigns. And the next one is returning to my roots: Mushrooms! This campaign will be all about folklore, faeries and fungi. Check out a very early teaser page if you are interested!  

You’ll hear back from me once the surveys go out. Thank you all so much, once again. Very excited to gets these pins made! 

I'll keep this update short & sweet, since you already have gotten many polls from me now ;).
I enjoyed building the add-on together with you, but I hope it wasn't too much for you! I have attached to poll for the Holly-leaf and then we are done! But to give you all time to pick this add-on, I have made it available in the campaign already.

1) Go to your profile and click "Your pledges and Surveys"
2) Click this project "View pledge"
3) Click "Edit Pledge"

4) Click "Add additional itmes"

5) Pick what you want and confirm :)

We are going into the final week of the campaign and let's keep this energy up. We still have two open stretch goals which would be amazing to unlock!
Thank you all for your energy and support to make this project a success!