Everyone should have their orders for the 1st Forgotten Forest (2024) by now except 1 may still be in transit and the one person who wanted me to pack all their past campaigns from the last year all at once in a huge packing video! (You know who you are lol)
If there were any issues at all with fulfillment or the pins please let me know! Thank you all again so, so much!
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This year, Forgotten Forest is back! This time supporting a charity that is dear to me. In-Sync Exotics Wildcat Rescue. A place that supported me and helped keep me straight all without ever knowing what I was going through as a teen-young adult. I credit a lot of my journey to their teaching and support and getting to be around all the magnificent animals.
They’re wonderful people who rescue exotics cats who can’t be returned to the wild and they give them a forever home. If you’re in the DFW area, I’d highly recommend visiting!
A portion of each tiger pin purchase will be donated to them!
I got some exciting news! All but 10 orders are out the door and on their way to yall!!!
If there’s any issues at all email me ([email protected]) since I’ve been training my sister some things may have slipped through the cracks! I also had a case earlier today where USPS pretty much punted the package into concrete and broke the enamel.
Moving forward, my sister is getting the hang of it all and it seems like she can do about 200 packages a month. So in the future, I’m hoping we can have campaigns fulfilled within 2-3 months of the campaign closing! I try to get the molds made before the surveys finish so pins can go into production asap. This said, we’re still figuring things out so I will keep my long solo-fulfillment autoimmune-stricken timelines lol.
Thank you guys again for being just so incredible. I’m looking to make this process as efficient and enjoyable as I can for everyone in the future! Afterall crowdfunding is just a fun group experience (coming from someone who spent way too much on pins this year lol)
The remaining 10 orders have a few issues. 1) requested to be combined with 3 campaigns. I will personally fulfill that one tomorrow so it should be out the door on Sunday!
2) One didn’t load any items into the order for some reason I have to go back in and cross reference the campaign pledge with it. I will personally fulfill that one tomorrow! It’ll be out the door on Sunday.
3) The remaining 8 include an item I cannot find for the life of me. Since I moved some items have vanished into the aether. I reordered a new stock of all of them except the Tshirts. They should be here in August. I will include a free glow in the dark sticker by way of apologies for the delay! (It’s the white/red Kitsune, vaporeons (which is weird because I have the rest of the Eeveelutions), and the person who ordered 2 lanyards. I can’t find my second bag of lanyards so I just have 1 left from my convention stock.
Because I have a new apartment and an entire basement office now, losing things shouldn’t happen once I have time to unpack everything.
Forgotten Forest 2 WILL be the last major pin campaign I do this year! After that it’ll be Media Monsters for Pintopia with plushies and Ita Bags.
Finally, I’m most active in my discord and I do share behind the scenes things there and more general day to day updates. If you want to join you absolutely can join and lurk and occasionally share art and never speak. That’s pretty much me in 75% of my discords lol https://discord.gg/rPPf4NUejw
Cat & Dog Tax
Cat Tax
I will post 1 more update when all orders are out and 2 weeks before I close the campaign! And then once more when Forgotten Forest 2 is live.
I’m doing my best to get everything out! Please bear with me as I had said I’d get them out before July. If you need/want your order out ASAP please email me ([email protected]) and I can prioritize it first! While I know crowdfunding campaigns are often delayed, I want to try my best to always stick to the timeline I’ve given.
We’ve gotten about 108 crowdfunding orders out so far. Having my plans to move get disrupted and then pushed to last month really messed up my schedule. As I had to move (and the moving company I hired to help canceled on me last minute) during the peak of my fulfillment period. I still haven’t really unpacked my apartment because I’ve been nonstop busy. I also hired on 2 new artists to help and so I’ve been training them. But they’ve gotten busy with con season and getting off waitlists so I’m still trying my best to get things out on my own as well. The goal is to get all forgotten forest and non-plush Adventure Buddy orders out before August.
Hopefully there won’t be too many delays going into the future as I’m working to hire/train new folk to help. Because of this though, if you have any issues with your orders please let me know! As training new people sometimes leads to some errors!
I just wanted to pop in and let everyone know all orders should be fulfilled this month! I have finally hit the point where I have to acknowledge I need help lol! I’m bringing on KatzeKreations and RexusIllustrations to help me with the 533 orders I have between this campaign and Adventure buddies to hopefully knock both of them out this month! Go give them some love for me because I’m so hugely appreciative of their help!
I’ll post another update once we’ve gotten through all the forgotten forest orders!
Also! Media Monsters just went live and is already fully funded! This will be my last campaign (probably) for a while until Forgotten Forest: Endangered Species shows up for Pintober this year!
Finally flying back from The Cheesecake Factory Fire Con… I mean SakuraCon! Once I get back I’m going to start working on Forgotten forest orders in earnest. I should have all the add on items I need to fulfill all the orders within the week. I’m touring some apartments and will probably be moving in the next two weeks but besides from that I have no other pressing tasks besides finishing the Media Monsters & Helluva Boss pins and restocking for Fan Expo Phili.
I tend to fulfill orders from smallest to largest because my current apartment doesn’t have space to put all the pins out at once and it’s easier once I get through a bulk of the pins to do the larger orders. However, if you want your order sooner let me know and I can prioritize it! It may also still be a month or two as I can normally do 10-15 orders a day with my autoimmune + rest days. All items will still be fulfilled within the current timeline! (I always budget time for cons and autoimmune flares <3)
If any of yall will be at fan expo Phili let me know and I can bring your order with me in person!
