I know I said you'd heard the last from me about this project but HAHA I LIED! >:D
I wanted to send you guys an update on how much we raised with the Trans Smut pin, which I stated that 100% of the money earned would be donated to the Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund.
I'm so excited and proud to announce that ~90 of the pin sold which brought the total donation amount to $1,350. That's CRAZY and I'm so proud of us!!
I decided to add my own personal donation to round it up to $1,500, and sent the ITMAF the donation today!
Thanks to everyone who purchased one of the Trans Smut pins! In addition to identifying as nonbinary myself, I also have a lot of close friends and family members who are trans, so it means a lot to me that we were able to raise so much to donate to help our community. Thank you a million times over!!
My plan is to do the same for any leftover sales of the pin going forward - 100% of every future sale of the pin will be donated to the ITMAF!
Okay NOW I'm done. I'll catch you in the next campaign!!
Hey all! Got fantastic news - I just packed up the last of all the orders for this campaign! Very happy to have this done now :D
About ~100 packages are still in my office but are set to be picked up by USPS tomorrow, and then they'll be off to their destinations :)
Please allow 2 weeks for USA orders to be delivered before reaching out with concerns. For international orders, please allow up to 4 weeks for packages to be delivered before reaching out with concerns.
If your package arrives and the goods are damaged or incorrect, please message me at [email protected]. If your items are damaged please attach a photo of the damage to your email so I can see what happened.
Unfilled surveys & uncharged cards
As has been stated many times, any surveys that are unfilled or with card errors will not be fulfilled and no refunds given. Anyone with unfilled surveys or errored payments have ONE WEEK FROM TODAY to fix their orders!
After that, I will close the project and any remaining orders that are not corrected will be canceled & any partial payments will be considered a donation. Consider this your final warning.
With that, this update brings the campaign to a close. Thank you so much for your support and I hope you love your pins!! :D
Upcoming projects
Before I go, I did want to remind you that I have a few projects coming up!
In October, I will be launching The Dark Wood, a pin set based on fairy tale characters with a dark twist! You can follow the teaser page to get updates here.
After that, I will be participating in Pintopia in January! For Pintopia, I will be launching a set of enamel pins of original designs based on cosmic objects such as galaxies, nebulae, and more. It's called Celestial Incarnations and you can follow the teaser page here.
I also have the following projects planned after that:
I have some exciting news - as of just a few minutes before starting this update, all the Sugar & Spice pins are finally GRADED!
This means that I can begin finally shipping out orders!
Locking Addresses
The first step in beginning shipping is locking addresses. Once this process starts, you will have 48 hours to make any last-minute changes to your address before they lock in.
Once addresses are locked, I will begin shipping next week. :)
UK Backers
To those of you who backed from the UK, I will be sending out your custom Etsy listings for you to pay next week. I will be sending the listing link directly to your email, so please keep an eye out for it and make your purchase as soon as possible.
Incomplete Surveys & Uncharged cards
This is a reminder that any surveys that remain incomplete and/or ones that have errored payments by the time I am done shipping orders out will be canceled and considered donations to the campaign. NO REFUNDS will be given to people who do not complete their surveys. This has been stated in many places throughout the entire campaign since the start. Please fill out your survey if you want your rewards.
The Dark Wood Pin Campaign
As many of you have likely already seen, I am launching my next pin campaign this October as part of Pintober! The theme is fairy tales with a dark twist (and genderbent, of course).
You can view rough sketches of the pin designs as well as follow the campaign for updates here: The Dark Wood
If you need to contact me directly about your order, you may do so by sending an email to [email protected], or you can utilize the shiny, brand-new "ask a question" button on the right-hand menu in the FAQ section on the campaign page. :)
That's all for this update. Hopefully next time you year from me will be when I'm finished shipping orders!
Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on where things are at. Honestly there's not much to share. 😅
As I believe I mentioned before, I was traveling the first 2 weeks of July for Fan Expo Denver and then a family wedding right afterwards. The rest of this month I have a lot to do to prepare for my next con in August, Ecchi Expo, which is in about 3 weeks on August 8-10.
Once Ecchi Expo is out of the way, that will clear up a lot of my brain space to give my full focus to grading and fulfilling this campaign. I'll probably start as soon as I can after getting back from the convention around mid-August, and if I recruit some friends to help, hopefully it will go fairly quickly!
As always thanks for your patience, and I’ll get these pins out as soon as I’m able to! ^-^
I'm here with a quick update for you on the status of fulfillment for Sugar & Spice.
I've received the rest of the pins, and I haven't looked through them super closely yet, but on first glance, everything looks great! I'm really glad I took the extra time to make the shadow daddy pin look how I imagined because it turned out SO well! I can't wait for you guys to see it!
Since I have all the products in-hand now, I will be charging cards soon.
I will be charging cards for shipping & survey add-ons this coming Monday, June 16th.
Please make sure your payment method is up-to-date and that you have the funds available to avoid errors in payments!
Even though I have everything in-hand now, I still want to reiterate that I will not be starting fulfillment quite yet. I still have to go through and grade all the pins, and there are A LOT of them in this campaign, so even if I recruit help, it may still take some time to grade all of them.
That said, I'm actually on track to fulfill orders sooner than I initially predicted on the campaign page. The campaign page says September/October, but I will likely be able to start shipping pins sometime in August.
Thank you so much for your patience as always!
However, I have one last thing to share before I wrap up this update!
My good friend Foxpirate just launched his 2nd pin campaign ever, Zodicats! He put so much work into this set and his campaign page and I'm so excited that his campaign already hit $10k in funding! I'm so happy for him!
If you love cats, space, and/or the zodiac, I promise you'll love his campaign, so go check it out~!
Anyway, that's all for this update. If I encounter any issues while grading the pins that could potentially cause any delays, I'll let you guys know, but from what I've seen so far, I don't expect that to happen.
Thanks for reading and I'll catch you in the next update!
