My pin manufacturer for Tiny Warriors has shared our first photos of the pins!!! There are thirteen photos here that I am so excited to share with you all!

I'm absolutely thrilled with how they are coming out so far and can't wait to have them on hand to take even better photos. I hope you are as excited as I am!

Pins: In production
Banners: Finished and on-hand (I'm very happy with the quality of them, the print came out beautiful and the fabric is nice and soft! I tested one by sticking a pin onto it multiple times, and it hides the holes very well.)
Sticker sheets: Making adjustments to the layout and getting samples to find the best product

After some minor delays I can finally say TODAY is the day surveys will all be sent out! (No, it's not an April Fool's joke... the date is a coincidence!) At this moment a small pool (15) of you have already received your survey email. We are starting with a small batch to hopefully catch any errors in the survey.

In a few hours if there seem to be no major issues then the rest of the surveys will be sent via email! Please keep an eye out for them! Your swift response will help me finalize the pin order for manufacturing by determining how many of each pin set I'll need to order, if I'll need to get extras, etc.

Thank you all for your support, keep an eye out for your survey today, and please let me know if you run into any issues! You can contact me in the comments here, through email [email protected], or through twitter dm @yypuos.

Which pin set(s) will you be selecting?

As of now, all backers should have received a survey. Please fill your survey at your earliest convenience to secure your preferred rewards and get your shipping address sorted! You will have until April 15 to fill and make edits to your survey before orders are locked. If you can't find your survey in your email, please let me know and I can get you a new survey link!

Also please make sure that your pledge payment has gone through correctly. Some card charges failed totaling almost $1,000 - Please double check to make sure this wasn't yours! If for any reason you must cancel or refund your pledge please contact me and I can get it sorted for you.

The pin banners are currently being manufactured! Manufacturing for the pin sets is expected to begin within the next 2 weeks. I will share progress photos of those when they are ready! I am making final adjustments on the sticker sheets for manufacturing as well.

Thank you to everyone who has already submitted their survey! A swift response helps me out a lot. And thank you to everyone who has supported Tiny Warriors!

Thank you all so much for your support for Tiny Warriors! Now that the campaign has wrapped I'm sure a lot of you are wondering what the timeline looks like for surveys being sent and shipping being charged so I wanted to provide a quick update.

Short explanation: Expect surveys no later than the 28th of this month, but hopefully a bit sooner!

Long explanation: During this last week I've been extremely busy between my finals at school and helping my family move on short notice. It's been taking all of my time but at least my finals finally end on the 23rd! After that I will be free to devote all my attention toward finalizing the surveys to be sent out. As soon as it's ready I'll be posting another anouncement to let you all know! I'll give over a week and plenty of reminders to make sure everybody is kept up to speed.
After shipping has been charged and pledges are all sorted I'll also announce when production of the pins, stickers, and banners have started! I can't wait for everybody to receive their rewards!

Thank you all again for all your support. I truly never expected this project would suprass 21,000! It's absolutely mind boggling! I hope you guys all enjoy the final products, and maybe stay tuned for more in the future!

If you have pledged for the full set of pins or are planning to please read this quick update!

There are 43 total pin sets and 2 special pins, for a total of 88 individual pins in this campaign. Long story short, I somehow miscalculated and accidentally set the "Full Set" tier to include 46 pin sets. Basically, there are three extra pin sets included. The 35% off price was also calculated based on 46 pin sets quantity.

Since people have pledged at this tier already, the simplest solution is to leave the tier as is- including 46 pin sets- and allow all backers at that tier to choose which 3 extras they'd like to recieve. I hope this solution is fine for everyone but please let me know if you have any issue with this!

I've also added this same information to the description of the 46 Pin Sets pledge tier. The description for the pin banner reward was also updated to reflect this as it also alluded to the incorrect number of pins in this campaign.

I'm really sorry about making such a silly mistake like that, especially if it caused confusion or inconvenience. 88 cat designs is a lot to keep track of 😵‍💫.. Thank you guys for bearing with me!!