Welcome to Floral Mythology Pt 2 - Witch‘s Garden! This is both a fresh new project and a continuation from a theme I did as theme before - flowers with a story!
This time the focus is on folktales about witches. Specifically, their connection to the fascinating family of Nightshade Flowers which are highly poisonous, psychoactive, and were said to be used in black magic. Famously, all of these were said to be used in flying ointments, the stuff that makes witches fly! If this topic interests you, please do follow this page for updates as I am still working actively on the campaign and will announce new things (goal structure, freebies, etc).
Like last time, I‘m commissioning a short poem about each of the flowers, and each pin will be shipped with a card with the poem.
And because this is part of Pin Quest, an event all about stories and folktales, each flower comes with a second pin design where it‘s turned into a (probably very poisonous) ink to write very evil spells with :D
Let me quickly introduce you to the flowers!
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Almost all post-campaign cat variants unlocked! & Survey reminder
Hey hey everyone! Quick happy news today: 3 out of 4 extra cat colorways are unlocked! This means the Calico Cat, Silver Cat and Orange Cat are getting made. Yay! For the tuxedo cat, we are at 8/10 orders currently, and around 50 of you haven't filled out the survey yet. If you are one of them and happen to want a kitty, make sure to confirm your order soon so I can take it into account when placing orders. I will wait another week or so before I decide on whether I order it or not.
In the meantime I've already prepared anything except the final order counts, so everything is ready to go! (And then I'll crawl back in the meowshroom fulfillment hell + summer sale fulfillment hell while waiting for manufacturing news on this campaign :D I won't run out of things to do...)
Hello everyone! I managed to get the survey reviewed and approved. 5% of backers have received the survey already as a test, but the survey may still have problems. If you encounter something weird (unexpected shipping cost, missing items, anything like that) then please do reach out! I will fix those issues before the survey goes out to everyone.
Once a bit of time has passed and at least 50-70% of smoke test backers have responded, the survey goes out to everyone. After that, I will wait for a few days to get some reliable numbers and then the pin order can be finalized. :)
That's all for today! Best Ave
EDIT: Theres currently an incentive that is wrong (cross collab). I am in touch with Backerkit to get it fixed
Campaign is over - THANK YOU! Here's the next steps
THANK YOU!
This campaign was incredible, and you all made it happen! When I started planning this, I thought it would be a small <100 backers campaign, since I didn't know how well this theme would be received compared to my other more accessible campaigns. But you guys totally rocked it and there's almost 300 witches who backed this campaign and we unlocked everything perfectly. It really makes me happy to see that there's some love for this. <3 (Floral Mythology Pt 1 was very different! We feared for the last stretch goal till the end but I was also a much smaller pin maker back then :D)
Here's what's going to happen next: - Until Mid/Late July: Payments will process, Pledge Manager setup/review - Late July/August: Smoke tests will be sent to a few backers first; if no issues are found, the survey goes out to everyone - After that, we wait for manufacturing updates! I do hope to fulfill around November this year, but factories are often a bit unpredictable so I cannot guarantee a timeline from here on.
I'm going to try my best to make this process as smooth and transparent as I can. It may take me a bit longer overall this time around because I'm dealing with an expected job loss and have to take care of finding something new asap (sadly pins don't cover my living despite high revenue numbers - I wish tho!).
Hello hello everyone! Whew, we finally did it - our last stretch goal is unlocked with some buffer even! That means everyone gets the free cat pin ❤️ I am currently on travel so i can't upgrade the graphic but just pretend there's a green check on the last tier too :D THANK YOU everyone who supported this project. I thought this would he a smaller/more niche campaign, but seeing this many of you support me in this project too is very heartwarming ❤️
Hello and happy Sunday everyone! Whew, the last few days were amazing - we are at almost 9.8k now, the last stretch goal is so close! With four days left I am sure we can hit the 10k mark still and unlock the freebies for everyone.
In the meantime I can happily announce that the free stickers are unlocked! These two derpy cuties will be sent with every pledge.
Unlocked!
We got this, let's aim for that last goal in the last days of the campaign!
Let's push through the middle phase! New Stretch Goals & New Add-Ons
Hey hey everyone! The hottest phase of Pin Quest is over. To keep things a bit more exciting, I've added two things to the campaign:
1. Mini Stretch Goals on the way to 10k
Just a little extra to make the road to 10k a bit more fun. I‘ve drawn the derpy kitties into stickers. They‘ll be waterproof vinyl, and around 6.5cm (2.5“) in size.
2. Floral Mythology Pt 1 Discounted Pins
Since I'm restocking on these anyways I have added a limited amount of discounted pins! These will also be available in the pledge manager but they're marginally cheaper during the campaign. And if you get them during the campaign, the raised amount goes into the stretch goals!
That‘s all for today. Thank you all for being with me so far, I‘m blown away with the support that I‘ve already gotten from you all. I expected this to be a much smaller campaign because I couldn‘t tell if the theme would be popular, and look at us now scratching at 9k! You are amazing and I‘m so lucky to have such a supportive and loyal audience (so many of you are returning backers!)
