I am super excited to be working on Even More Cats Doing Science! I am busy brainstorming ideas, making sketches, and working on production ready designs for this project, and I would like to invite you to take part in that process!
I have a ton of fun ideas for cats doing science and science adjacent activities, but I bet you do too.
I would especially love to hear from people who work in fields that are underrepresented in terms of fun accessories to represent their work. I can find dozens of different pin designs of kitty bakers, but I'm pretty sure if you are looking for an astrophysics cat pin, the only one you will find is mine, haha.
Please feel free to comment below with any sciencey ideas you might have.
Maybe a kitty working at an archeological dig site, or a gastroenterologist cat, or maybe a feline using a microtome!.
I can't promise that I will use all of the wonderful suggestions, but it never hurts to have an abundance of ideas to work with.
My apologies for the delay, it was a very busy week with all of the holidays and some other deadlines I had to finish, but I am steadily getting everything in order for the surveys. I'm also planning to open the pre-order store, so if there's anything you wanted to add on or you were not able to back during the funding period, you will have a chance there as well. Thanks everyone for your patience as I'm figuring out this stuff!
In the meantime, I have a poll regarding how frequently to update, and I'd appreciate if folks took the time to give it a look!
I will be trying to have the smoke test sent out tomorrow, which is basically sending out a few of the surveys just to make sure everything is working okay before they are sent out to everyone!
I have finalized the sticker sheets that I'll have available! I really wanted to add more, but I decided that this was a good amount and I really needed to keep moving forward. As a reminder, the stickers themselves will be clear vinyl, so the backgrounds and colored borders will not be present on the final stickers. There will be a transparent border around them.
And lastly, there is one last revision on Sea salt Lynx. I've decided to make their saddle sandy after a really nice suggestion for some sand to be present, so thank you! ! I love how it looks, and I hope everyone else enjoy it too!
And that's all for this one, thanks for your time!
I hope you’re all doing well! Thank you again for your feedback on the smoke test 🙏🏼 You noticed that there are some duplicate add-ons. During the test, not everyone added the same version to their cart, so I prefer not to modify anything at this stage to avoid any complications. No worries, this does not affect the questionnaire in any way 🙂 I’ll now be launching the survey for everyone. It will remain open until March 10, 2026.
And for those who have been following the project but couldn’t support it, the pre-order store will also remain open until March 10 : Pre-order shop
If you experience any issues or have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me at [email protected] I'm always happy to help.
Hey everyone! It's been a busy few days behind the scenes but today I bring some more fun news.
Sticker Update
The final sticker freebie pack is finalized with two more additions (morel and lion‘s mane). And the edible shroomies have a sticker edition too now! Remember that everyone gets one pack of emote stickers for free, but you can buy extra packs in the add-ons/pre-order shop. The edible mushrooms are a new sticker pack that are also available in the add-ons/pre-order shop.
Pre-Order Shop Open
If you missed the campaign, worry not - the Pre-Order shop is open and you can grab some things. The campaign incentives are gone but some items are still offered at a pretty good price compared to later.
Plus I put a decent amount of old cat pin designs in the add-on shop at a favourable price since I freshly restocked them and my boxes are ever so slightly overflowing :D
Since I currently have sooooo many pin designs available, I decided to only add the ones to the add-on shop that were somewhat related to this campaign (cats!). If you still want to pick up some old designs or other goodies, you can contact me and I‘ll give you a free shipping discount code for my shop. (Business at doombloomart.com)
Survey Smoke Tests are coming
The survey setup has been approved on BK's side. I‘ll send out the smoke tests soon (meaning a small % of backers will get a survey to check if everything is working as intended) and once I have enough responses, everyone will get them. Keep an eye on your inbox so you don‘t miss them! You will then be able to choose your pin options, add any add-ons (to be charged together with shipping in a couple of months), preview your shipping+tariff charge and I will also ask a few questions to help me make future campaigns enjoyable for everyone :)
US Tariff situation remains unclear
As you may have heard, the IEEPA tariffs have been ruled unconstitutional. Yay! But it seems like new ones have replaced them and the EU is looking to re-negotiate some terms too, so I sadly cannot confirm anything at this point :‘) Your surveys will show a tariff value and I‘m planning to either stick to them or scrap them entirely if I can. I will not increase them unless something absolutely ridiculous happens, and in that case I will make sure to communicate clearly.
What‘s next
For now I will wait for the smoke tests to pass, and then everyone gets their survey. Once we have around 80% of orders confirmed I will finalize the order and manufacturing will start! In the time between now and fulfillment I will also finish all the digital rewards.
Not to be a downer and actually the opposite. Last week we had the terrible time of laying to rest a cat so I am grateful to have been able to add on the comet pin right now because I think that is fitting for her. However long ago it was when Carl Sagan explained how we are all star dust... that really changed my relationship with everything and everyone. I won't wax poetic longer and just say thank you ;)
I'm finalizing stuff to get the surveys out and they should be ready to go out as a smoke test to a handful of backers and then if we don't get any issues, will go out to everyone else.
Currently, we have over $400 in failed payments. Just want to send a reminder to check your payment status as I can't send rewards packs to failed payments and I don't want anyone to miss out. The deadline to adjust bank cards is rapidly approaching as it's this Thursday (2/26).
A little update on how the project is progressing.
Smoke Test : Some of you have received a test survey called the “Smoke Test”. This is a small test sent to 5% of backers to make sure everything on the platform is working correctly:
that the survey can be completed smoothly
that add-on choices and quantities are correct
that shipping fees are calculated properly
If you are part of this test, please complete it by Tuesday, February 24th at the latest.
⚠️ If you notice any errors or issues while filling out the survey, even small ones, please send me an email at [email protected]. Your feedback is very valuable and will help make everything perfect for everyone else.
Full survey for all backers : If everything goes well with the Smoke Test, the full survey will be sent to everyone on Wenesday, February 25th. You will have 2 weeks to complete it, until Tuesday, March 10th, so everyone has time to confirm their choices.
Pre-Order Shop : For those who missed the campaign, the pre-order shop is now open for a limited time. You can visit it here: Pre-order shop
It will remain open until Tuesday, March 10th, giving everyone a chance to join before we finalize production.
Thank you again for your patience and support Have a lovely day !🌷
I’m so sorry that I haven’t made a post since before the campaign ended.
There’s been months’ long family situation going on and it keeps getting worse and worse and worse. It has reached the point that I fear for my family members’ safety and I’m ~1,500 miles from them. So not being able to really help has left me mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted to the point where everything not involving them had been pushed to the wayside. Really bad timing for me to run the campaign, but we were still able to reach the initial goal! Thank you all!
Since we didn’t reach the stretch goals like the plush and bag, I will be adding them to the add-ons on the survey where they can be unlocked based on how many people add them to their order. I’ll also add the other pin designs in the survey in the same fashion.
I might add money towards the plush depending how much money I personally can spare, especially in case I have to travel to my family depending where things go.
If the purse/backpack doesn’t get unlocked during the survey, I plan to join the bag bazaar on backerkit in May. Even if we unlock the black cat bag, I’ll still do the bag bazaar, so we can unlock the others.
Again thank you for backing the campaign. I’m hoping to be able to send the surveys soon.
It's been great seeing all the updates for those errored cards! There are still a few of you that need to fix your payments. So please, PLEASE, go double check to make sure your payments have gone through.
I've been working hard on getting the surveys ready and I think they're just about there! I'm going to give them another look over, or two, before I send out the smoke tests, which I plan to send those out on Thursday!!
Smoke tests get sent out to only a few backers to complete. Once those are filled out, I can see if there are any corrections I'll need to make to the surveys. If all goes well, then I'll send out the rest!! Those will need to get filled out ASAP. This is how I know what to send you and where!!
I'm hoping, and itching, to get in contact with my manufacturer soon, as they've been out on CNY holiday, Though I won't know how much to order until I've gotten surveys back, again please fill those out as soon as possible, I want to at least give them the designs to look over.
Just wanted to send this little update to you. I'm excited to get those surveys out and get this ball rolling!! Thank you for your support and patience, -Fox
