Thank you so much for your patience while Crystal and I finished prepping the surveys! We'll be sending out a "smoke test" round later today, where a few lucky backers get an early opportunity to help us resolve any potential technical issues with the surveys before we send them out to everyone else, which should happen in the next day or two.

Please note that we're testing out a beta feature where you will not be charged for shipping until closer to the fulfillment date. We're hoping this will allow us to get the most accurate shipping prices and ensure we're giving everyone the most economical shipping prices possible.

We've put the finishing touches on all of the artwork for the pins, stickers, and acrylic charms, so as soon as we've got the majority of the surveys in we plan to send quantities to our manufacturers and get production started on all the rewards.

And if you missed out on the live campaign, there's a second chance to get the pins in the Pre-order store!

That's all for now, but we'll check back in soon with more updates!

<3 Carrie

Hello dear backers! We hope you have been doing well. 

Carrie and I took a much-needed breath after the excitement of Pintopia before getting to work on prepping the survey and pre-order store. Since this is my first campaign, I've been learning how the Pledge Manager works. It turns out when you have 12 different pin designs + variants, things get a bit complicated! I have learned a lot in the past month.

We have finally cobbled it all together and are submitting our Pledge Manager for review shortly. Once BackerKit gives us the go-ahead, we'll be sending out a smoke test to a group of randomly-selected backers to find & work out any issues. After any bugs are fixed, the rest of the surveys will be sent out so you can tell us which pins, keychains, and stickers you'd like.

Some of you may be wondering what the survey is! For those of you new to crowdfunding, the survey is where you confirm your campaign rewards and make choices about colors. You will also have the opportunity to select additional items if you'd like to (in case you'd like to gift a Fuck No Marquee to all of your friends!). Once a majority of backers complete their surveys, we'll have an idea of how many of each item we need to order from the manufacturer.

We are eager to move on to the next stage of this project and look forward to seeing what you all choose in your surveys. Thank you for your patience as we get the admin stuff squared away!

That’s a wrap on Just Say No and Pintopia 2024 and we can’t even begin to express how grateful we are for all of your support! 

We smashed through all of our original stretch goals in the first few days of the campaign, you helped shape the collection by voting on new designs and products, and in the end we unlocked EVERYTHING! If you didn't get a chance to add on the dragon design while we were live, rest assured it will be available in the survey.

We anticipate sending out the Backer Surveys in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye on your inbox for those. The survey will be your opportunity to choose your pin colors, free stickers, and add on any extra goodies you might have missed or have decided you can’t live without.

We’re also going to be finalizing all of the pin, keychain, and sticker artwork to send to our manufacturers and get production started as soon as possible! And as with previous campaigns, we’ll continue to communicate our production and fulfillment timeline as things move forward with the manufacturers, so you’ll always know where things are in the process. 

That’s it for now, thank you again for backing Just Say No, and we can’t wait to get these pins into your hands! Get ready to tell the world: NO.

As we swing into the final few hours of Just Say No and Pintopia 2024, I wanted to reach out with a heartfelt thank you to absolutely everyone who has supported us through this campaign, whether you've backed the project financially or just been here to cheer us on in spirit and love.

It means so much to me as an artist to get to work on creative projects like this with my friends, so we can make cool stuff to share with all of our other friends (that's you).

We're getting so close to unlocking the final pin, our medieval dragon breathing a fiery "Absolutely Not". It's less than $400 away from unlocking, so now's a great time to share the campaign! Repost to save a life!

Also, if you haven't checked in recently to see the newest pins, free stickers, the winning keychain designs, and ALL the stuff that comes with the All-In Tiers, check it out here: Click ME!

And our cross collab partner, Mark Monlux with Killer Klowns from Outer Space has fully funded so now every backer who backs both projects gets two FREE pins, one from each of us!

That's it, see you at the finish line!

Our $18K stretch goal has been reached and we now have three acrylic charm options for you in the add-ons: the Never Raven, The More You No Jackalope, and the Fuck No Marquee. I personally can't wait to put these on all of my purse & backpack zipper pulls, so THANK YOU for helping us unlock them!

We're now 4 days out from the close of this campaign and moving right along toward our final stretch goal. At $21K, we'll unlock the "Absolutely Not" Dragon pin. Once it's unlocked, it will be available to add on to your pledge (or in the survey after the campaign ends)—and for those of you who pledged at any of the "One of Every Design" or "Absolutely Everything" levels, it will automatically be included. 

One thing to keep an eye on is our Pintopia partner Mark Monlux's Killer Klowns from Outer Space project: his campaign is currently 75% funded! When he hits his funding goal, backers who pledged for both campaigns will receive 2 free pins. Please join is in supporting Mark's campaign and rooting him on toward the finish line! We would LOVE to send out some free pins.

We have one last poll just for fun (we know y'all love polls)! If we have a followup Just Say No campaign in the future, what would you like to see? Feel free to share your favorite way to say no to help inspire us.

The people have spoken and our $21K stretch goal will involve a charming—yet obstinate—dragon! I'm pretty pleased with this result—one of my favorite books of last year was a novella entitled Travel Light, in which a little girl was raised by dragons and dreamed of one day having her own hoard to protect. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from dragons about protecting our resources!

Without further ado...we have a dragon design for you!

Also, as promised, we have a new poll so you can help us choose which designs will be featured as acrylic charms when we hit $18K in funding. We'll pick the top 3 to include as add-ons. Let us know which designs you'd love to see most.

And finally, with just 10 days left of Pintopia, please pay a visit to our partner project Killer Klowns from Outer Space. If both projects reach the funding goal and you back both, you'll get 2 free pins!

We also recommend hopping over to check out these projects that could use some support (shares, comments, and/or pledges) to get fully funded before April 18th!

We've reached 300 backers and counting! It is so cool to have so many folks helping us bring this nifty idea to fruition. We are still so thankful for your support (we hope you aren't sick of us saying so)!

The Acrylic Charm vs Patches poll is now closed and we have a clear winner. Acrylic charms won by a sizable margin, although it was pretty close for a while there. Once we reach $18,000 in funding, we'll add another poll so y'all can help us decide which designs should also be offered as acrylic charms. 

While we wait for word to spread further about our crusade to Just Say No, we have some additional ideas that we are hoping make it into this campaign. Our $21,000 stretch goal will add another (final?) pin design to the collection, most likely with the phrase "Absolutely Not." But we need YOU to weigh in and tell us which creature deserves a place alongside our other cheeky animal friends. Please vote—and feel free to lobby in the comments for your personal favorite! 

Popping in with a quick update with new design reveals and a new poll. Pintopia has been a whirlwind, but we are thrilled that y'all are showing up to set some boundaries and find your No! You all are helping to shape our campaign and this is what we love about crowdfunding. If there is anything else you would like us to keep in mind as we plan for future stretch goals, please drop a note in the comments. We love hearing from you!

The discerning among you may have noticed we added a cross-collaboration stretch goal in there at $9K – and we achieved it so quickly we didn't have a chance to properly announce it! Now that Just Say No has flown past $9,000 in funding AND our friends over at Hex! reached $4,200, all backers will receive one of these stickers for free (you'll choose which one in the survey after the campaign ends). We had so much fun designing these two stickers and we hope you love them as much as we do. These stickers are also available as add-ons in both of our campaigns in case you'd like both.

While we were working on those sticker designs, we ALSO unlocked the $15K stretch goal, and by popular vote this opossum has entered the collection. The Oh No Opossum is now available as an add-on (and included at no extra charge if you are backing at the "One of Each Pin Design" tier or higher).

We have some more fun things in the works, so please be sure to vote in our next poll to weigh in on what you'd like to see. 

Thank you again for your support!

Carrie and I are gobsmacked at the enthusiasm y'all have shown for Just Say No! You're unlocking our stretch goals as quickly as we're adding them—and it's only been two days!

We are hustling to finalize some new art and goodies (acrylic charms, anyone?) to add to the collection (while being mindful of our own limits and the ever-sneaky "scope creep")

Right now is the best time to pledge for one of the All-In tiers—the Early Bird discount gets you best price that's possible for us to offer on all of the pins!

The next best time to pledge would be tomorrow, before 10am PST, because we're extending the Early Bird offer to 72 hours! We discovered that our launch announcement email encountered a glitch and most of you never got to see it, meaning you missed out on a big chunk of the Early Bird time. Sorry about that!!! 

>> Vote in Our Backer's Choice Poll to help us choose the featured animal on our next unlockable pin ends tomorrow. Please get your vote in if you haven't already—it's neck and neck!

>> Share our Campaign Page to Help unlock more Stretch Goals and new pins! Social media shares are always, always appreciated. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell anyone you think needs to say NO more often. <3

>> Check out Killer Klowns from Outer Space by our Pintopia collab partner Mark Monlux. If you back his campaign and ours and we've both met our funding goals, you get 2 free pins!

Finally, we wanted to give a special shout out to Carly K, whose amazing pin displays you will see on many a Pintopia campaign! We are so thrilled to be working with them again in order to offer a very fun NO display to coordinate with our pin designs. Thanks for being awesome, Carly!

That's all for now, folks. We will be back with more polls and more stretch goals soon!