Hello folks! I come bearing good news (I hope!) at last!!
Please see below the cut for details :)
I am plugging a quick little advertisement for my campaign launching on Monday - Pride Planet Parade! This campaign will feature solid colored minipins that can be arranged in any way you want. They will match the colors of a LOAD of pride flags, and as many of them share similar colors, you will be able to mix and match to a certain extent. I have a couple of ideas for a few more detailed 1.5" pins that will be self contained pride flags, for potential long stretch goals if there is enough interest for them. These will be revealed on launch day.
CLICK HERE, OR ON THE BANNER ABOVE, TO FOLLOW THE TEASER PAGE! Due to the last minute nature of this being put together, there will not be any pre-launch freebies, but there will be early bird, return backer, and 5+ pin backer freebies, to be revealed this weekend.
Starting this update with a shout-out of Midnight Springs’ and Chocolat Chaud’s upcoming jewelry project! It will be launching in the coming weeks, and I personally am so excited for the guillotine necklace and the cathedral window pins. Also the adorable kitty sticker 🥹 click the image below or THIS LINK HEREto follow for updates & notification when the project launches.
This is going to my entire audience, so backer-only updates will be below the cut~!
I meant to address this individually in packages but completely blanked in my rush to get them out - I handed Midnight Springs' and Cryptic Compendium's pins off to them, mistakenly leaving the ENTIRE batch with them vs just the leftovers (so I could send all pins together to those who qualified).
Therefore, in my packages youll receive my pin, Waxwing Cedrorum's, and Chocolat Chaud's; the other two will come in your combined shipping package from Midnight Springs and Cryptic Compendium. Apologies for this mishap - you WILL be getting all the pins, rest assured, but just at a more staggered rate.
I will be getting the vast majority of remaining orders out tomorrow & Saturday!
The orders remaining contain one or multiple of the following pins:
Frederico Froggy Chrome Sparkle Potion Pin Set White Hat Cat White Stretching Kitty Rainbow Witch Hat
I realized while packing all the remaining orders as much as I can that some of (or all of) y'all might be totally fine with the rainbow witch hat, chrome sparkle pin set, and one or both cats as they are - regarding the chrome pin set, the reason I am getting it remade is...well...it's not chrome. But you might be ok with that! The rainbow witch hat glitter is not at all how it should be, but is the same as the potions - y'all might be totally fine with it (I believe some said they were anyway lol).
The kitties do ALL have some level of darker specks of glitter in them - however about â…“ to half of the pins, at an arms length (which is typically how I grade pins) it's not really visible. The only reason I didn't stick to that grading mechanic is just because it was SO frustrating to have literally every single pin have some sort of flaw like that.
Unfortunately I was NOT sent the correct amount of the froggy pins (along with them being the incorrect size) and while I was able to fulfill some orders with the ones I had for those who were okay with it, but have reached a point of b-grades only. Since those are also being remade and I don't have enough even to fulfill orders, anyone remaining with a Frederico Froggy pin will have to wait until those come in.
I will be sending an e-mail to everyone who has ordered either cat, rainbow hat, or chrome sparkle, however, with photos and video of the pins - PLEASE respond if you are okay or not okay with receiving these pins as they are, so that you can receive your orders sooner than later. The manu is STILL dragging their feet, and with it being CNY and many factories being closed, I don't anticipate hearing back from them for several weeks (despite being told pins would be done on time...).
If I don't hear back from you I will assume you would rather wait, and will hold your package for the time being!
Some of you have ordered a LOT of other pins, as well - so for those of you with large orders, or who have combined Popsicle Panic shipments, I may go ahead and send your rewards in two shipments, covering the 2nd shipping cost myself. I am doing this partially so ease my own mind and get those items to you sooner, but it is depending on whether or not you have a lot of other items being held back by remake pins. I will reach out to these folks individually to let you know what's going on!
Thank you all so much for sticking with me through this all. This is unfortunately becoming a more common issue with manufacturers, but I hope that I can slog through the few dozen I've interacted with over the last 2 years to find those who will at least work at a reasonable pace and communicate a bit better!
E-mails will be forthcoming later today, once I've had a chance to gather everything together.
The first shipment has been sent out as of Thursday - I will be trying to get one shipment out a week until I've run out of packages to send; the only orders I will be unable to completely fulfill are those who will be missing pin remakes I am waiting on; I unfortunately do NOT have enough to fulfill frederico frog, because they only gave me 26 instead of the 50 I ordered and maybe half of those are standard grade (AND are they wrong size, ANYWAY...) and both white hat cat and the white stretching kitty are being remade, along with the rainbow hat.
I HAVE paid for the remakes; I will be bothering the rep DAILY for updates, and to ensure that they make things properly but also asap so I can close this project out. I should be able to fulfill all except about 25-30 orders which is a little under half of remaining ones; way more than I was hoping to have left, but I don't want to give anyone shoddy work :(
Thank you all for your patience, I hope to have an update for you toward the end of next week, and every week thereafter until I've run out of packages to fulfill
