Hello, popping in for an update! Sorry things have been a bit quiet on my end, I had to wait for all the surveys to finish so I could lock my final quantity for the bulk orders! Thank you for waiting!
Here is the current status of everything: Pudding Pins: Completed Pudding Bags: In Progress Pudding Socks: Not Started (Starting this Month) Pudding Hats: Not Started (Starting this Month) Pudding Bear Plush: Completed
The enamel pins have been finished and arrived to me safely in the US, I'm still doing inspections but I'm overall happy with how they turned out! Here are some pictures:
I started the order for the leather & vegan leather versions of the Pudding Bags, they will look slightly different from each other color wise due to the nature of the materials and custom painting!
Leather Swatches: (Mint is being custom painted to my requested Pantone)
Lining swatches:
The bag manufacturer had to wait a bit for the leather company to finish customizing the leather, they've recently received everything and have cut the pieces for assembly. They have started assembling the lining and internal pockets.
Regarding the bucket hats and socks, there were some slight changes to the documents I wanted to make to the drip shapes for the bulk orders so I haven't started those yet but I've been in contact with the manufacturers so those should get started this month!
I'll post again when I have more information to share! Thank you! :)
Hello! The Pudding Party Collection campaign has successfully ended! Thank you so much to everyone who pledged, we were able to unlock a handful of things during the campaign including the Pudding Bag, 4th enamel pin, and 2 new colorways: Pink & Mint!
Backerkit has started processing payments and will continue to do so for the next week, please make sure to check if your pledge's payment processes successfully. Pledges that are not updated with unfortunately be considered abandoned and then cancelled.
Surveys have now been sent! Please fill it out, it will help me get an idea of how much inventory to order for each colorway and design. Backers who chose Pay Over Time during the campaign, you will not receive the survey until after your payment plan is completed. Once your installments are completed, Backerkit will automatically send the survey to you!
If you missed the crowdfund but are still interested in the products of this campaign, I've opened the Pre-Order Shop! Everything that was unlocked during the campaign is available to Pre-Order until June where all additional inventory counts should be locked by that point.
if you have any issues with your survey or any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! Thank you!
hello everyone! with our campaign launching in just four days, I wanted to share some extra photos and info with you guys!
as a reminder, we're part of the fur & food pintopia collaboration - if you back our project and two others, you'll get a free sticker from each of the projects you backed!
you'll also be able to purchase a cottagecore critters enamel pin (from our last campaign) as an addon! returning backers will get an extra mini pin of their choice added to their orders at no cost.
Good evening everyone!! I just wanted to post a lil Update!!
My manufacturer and I are still discussing the Rainbow Tiger bag's face, my apologies!! This bag is by far the most detailed design of the bunch so unfortunately it's taking awhile to really nail down the final design while remaining true to the aesthetic and vibe of the original design. I will be posting the revisions as soon as we have figured it out! Thank you all so so much for being so patient! 💖💖
I have also noticed that some Backers' cards did not go through and process the payment for shipping/added-on items. Backerkit should be emailing you reminders to update your card information for this but I wanted to make an Update reminder as well!!
👉 PLEASE be sure to check your card information on your Surveys. If your final payment for shipping and added-on items does not process and I do not receive it unfortunately I will not be able to ship out your pledge items and you will not be able to receive them!! 😭
Once I receive the funds I will be locking addresses on your Surveys so that I may continue onward to start shipping out the small items (for those who pledged for only small items). You will receive a Backerkit email 48 hours in advance so that you can make edits to your address on your Survey in the event that you've moved, etc.!!
If you have any issues, questions, or concerns you need a response to please be sure to email me at [email protected] so we can figure out a solution together!
I really appreciate all of your support and patience! It means so so much to me!! 💖💖
As of yesterday, ALL REMAINING ORDERS HAVE BEEN SHIPPED! I spent most of this past weekend and Monday packing orders at the speed of light so we can get this wrapped up and I am very proud to finally be able to say that all available orders have been packed and shipped and are now on their way to their forever homes! I've even gotten a couple messages from folks that their orders have arrived already!
As always, please let me know if there are any issues with your order or if I missed anything :)
Now that these have all been shipped, the leftover pins are now available in my Etsy shop here! Check out the Beetle Bakery Collection for the pins and stickers from this campaign. For my lovely backers, there is a special discount code at the end of this update for my Etsy shop. This code is valid through October 1st and will give you 25% off everything in my shop!
However, there are still a few stragglers with unanswered surveys or failed payments. I'll leave these pledges open until next Friday, at which point I will consider these orders abandoned and will cancel them. If you haven't received a shipping notification, please go to your profile, click "Your Pledges and Surveys" and check if you haven't answered your survey or if your card was declined. If your order shipped, it should show up there as well and you can grab the tracking number that way :)
That's all for this campaign! Thank you all so much for helping to make this project come to life, and for sticking with me through the ups and downs!
I wanted to address some concerns that were brought up in my last Update. Unfortunately an update on the Rainbow Tiger Boba Buddy bag was not included in that recent post and I am very sorry for that. I was so so excited to have received the stickers in the mail and have the last of the smaller merch items in my hands that it slipped my mind. I will be doing better to be more consistent with updates regarding EVERYTHING in this project in the future and I truly appreciate any and all feedback sent my way 💖
The Rainbow Tiger Boba Buddy sample bag was ordered awhile ago and my manufacturer and I have been grinding out the details together since. I 100% take full responsibility that it took awhile for me to be able to order the sample. There were multiple outside factors at play for that (mental health, convention prep/trips, moving homes, and the financial strains after having moved and the house not being in tip-top shape) and it took way longer than I wanted and originally anticipated.
The Rainbow Tiger bag is my most complicated bag yet design-wise and my manufacturer and I have been working on what will and what won't work for the physical bag. My manufacturer had originally told me everything was doable when I first sent them the design but as we are closer to physically making the sample we have found there are some problems that need solving. The face of the tiger is going to have to be simplified unfortunately but I am working with my manu to try to preserve the original design/idea for the bag. It's because of this back and forth that there hasn't been any sample photos/updates yet.
I understand the concern on the delays and miscommunications, especially with the recent Update about Backers being charged for their shipping/additional items. Backerkit recommends that creators only charge their Backers for these payments when they are ready to start shipping out the merchandise. Because I have all of the smaller items ready (and some Backers only pledged for the smaller items) I had decided to go ahead and make this charge. I didn't want these Backers to have to wait months for the bags to be completed and in my hands, when they did not pledge for a bag. All Backers were given a 48 hour heads-up (from Backerkit, you should've received an email about this) before this charge was going to be made. Right now, as this post is being made, you should not have been charged yet but it is scheduled to happen within the upcoming days.
In hindsight I realize I should've only charged those who pledged for smaller items rather than everyone and I apologize for that mistake. Sadly at this point I cannot undo it.
👉 In light of this Update if you don't want to wait for the Rainbow Tiger bag sample to be completed (and the bags made) please email me at [email protected] to discuss a refund (please include your Backerkit email and name)!! There are no hard feelings and I take full responsibility for the delays and lack of communication regarding this bag design.
I will be posting an Update once my manufacturer and I have fully come to a conclusion on the Rainbow Tiger's plush face design. If the edits are not exactly what you want you're completely free to email me for a refund as mentioned above.
I hope I have answered some of your questions in this post. If you have any other questions, comments, or feedback you'd like to share please feel free to add them in the comments of this post! 💖💖 Thank you so so much for your support and love on this project, it means so much to me and I am so excited to get the samples in the mail and the bulk order in my hands.
The Frog, Raccoon, Fawn, Wolf, Bat, and Calico Cat bags have been fully paid for in advance and I am just waiting for my manufacturer to send me the samples so I can give them the full go-ahead to start the mass production.
We have amazing news! After months of back and forth with our manufacturer, we finally received the new shipment of Veggie Stand Shaker Keychains!! 🥳 They look AMAZING and are accurate to the previous charms we've had in the past.
We are so sorry for this incredible delay. This is definitely not what we expected but finally we are ready to ship the remaining Veggie Cats orders!!!
If we have not shipped your Veggie Cats yet and you have had a change of address, please send us an email to [email protected] ! We will update that for you right away. If all of your information is the same, feel free to comment on this post! If we don't hear from you, we will give you a week and also send a personal email just in case before we ship your Veggie Cats to the previously approved address.
There are six orders left to ship and two people who need to answer their surveys still. We are at the finish line! Thank you all for your incredible patience with the manufacturing issues during this campaign. We are so grateful, and so excited for everyone to finally get their Veggie Cats!! 📬
It's been a long five months of revisions, but we got there! Please see the photos below. I'm happy with how these versions turned out, and they have been put into production last week! There are a few color tweaks to make on Mint Chocoturtle, but once the production prototypes are approved, the manufacturer estimated it will take about 2 months to finish and ship the plush.
I will be working with this plush manufacturer in the future from prototype to final plush, so this gap between a project ending and production starting shouldn't happen again. I apologize for the wait, and thank you immensely for your patience!
I'll be working with my pin supplier this week to put the pin designs into production, and am working on surveys as well.
I hope to have surveys sent out by mid-September. Shipping will not be charged until all items have arrived and all orders are ready to be fulfilled.
Great news- the remade pins are finally here! I meant to update you all a couple weeks ago that production on the new pins was almost done, but I didn't have any photos of the new pins and thought it would be a boring update. BUT now they're here, and I'm happy to share with you all photos of the NEW and IMPROVED Challah Centipede design:
The new pins are now mostly flat, with recessed eyes and a screen print over the whole top for the darker areas, whereas the old ones had wells with enamel fill. For some reason, there were issues with the color of the enamel filling, which made it look green in most lighting. This new version is warmer, and better matches the other bread designs (Sourdough Spider and Bread Beetle) and I love how they came out~
Here they are all together! They are much more cohesive as a set now, and I couldn't be happier! I hope you all like the updated design, and I can't wait for you to see them in person :) What's next? Now I can finish packing and shipping the rest of your orders! First of course I'll need to go through the new pins to count and quality check everything (again), but I plan on only looking through the Challah Centipede and Boston Cream Spider for now so I can finish packing your orders before I go through the whole lot. I also have a friend coming over this weekend to help check, sort, and pack your orders so I can get them out ASAP! Please keep an eye out for an email from BackerKit with your tracking number and shipping notification :)
I want to thank you all so much for your patience with these, so for everyone who waited for their order, I will be throwing an extra sticker or two in your packages! I'm so thankful for your kindness with this whole mess, and for all the sweet messages and comments you sent me when I first discovered these flaws! Seeing the miss-colored, scratched, and flawed pins pile up was really disheartening, and your kindness really helped me push through to finish this project, and encouraged me to continue planning more projects in the future. Once everything is packed and shipped, I'll begin working on a brand new campaign and I hope you all will join me on my next adventure (whenever that may be).
That's all for now, but if you have any questions or concerns please let me know! I'm available to chat through comments here or via DM on Instagram (ApothecaryOctopus), and of course if you want to share photos of your pins you are more than welcome to post them and tag me <3
