Midnight Springs
CREATOR
2 days ago
Project Update: Pins have begun production! Jewelery is starting soon!
Hello everyone!
All pins are in production now!! In the survey, the bonus pins for the $150+ and $200+ pledges will not be available a la carte, but will be added manually to anyone who newly-applies if they added more on! Chocolat Chaud has finished almost all of their portion of survey setup, so it's just up to me now to get my butt in gear and have that ready to go out ASAP. The preorder store will go live at the same time as the survey is sent out!
The jewelry manufacturer is still extremely swamped, so we have only just gotten the final invoice yesterday and subsequently paid. The physical samples of Chocolat Chaud's designs still aren't complete, but we will immediately show pictures when they are!! After those are approved is when the mass production will begin for those.
As for the guillotines, here are the adjusted enamel colors for white and pink:
All pins are in production now!! In the survey, the bonus pins for the $150+ and $200+ pledges will not be available a la carte, but will be added manually to anyone who newly-applies if they added more on! Chocolat Chaud has finished almost all of their portion of survey setup, so it's just up to me now to get my butt in gear and have that ready to go out ASAP. The preorder store will go live at the same time as the survey is sent out!
The jewelry manufacturer is still extremely swamped, so we have only just gotten the final invoice yesterday and subsequently paid. The physical samples of Chocolat Chaud's designs still aren't complete, but we will immediately show pictures when they are!! After those are approved is when the mass production will begin for those.
As for the guillotines, here are the adjusted enamel colors for white and pink:
I'm very happy about these! That dark-dark pink that was unedited and used in the black/red mockup (the gem color was mocked up) is still going to be used for that colorway as it's a great rose-red color, and we are still working on the purple shade. Stone colors have been picked!
There is something we had to decide: there will be no pink CZ Vitrail de Cristal of any design available in the surveys, because no one pledged for them during the campaign run. We know there is the super slim chance that someone who pledged for a set wanted pink, but if that's the case please reach out via email ([email protected]) if you don't want any other color so we can help resolve things in a satisfactory way. Because of the way we have to order things, there has to be a minimum produced of every colorway for everything, and Chocolat Chaud really can't risk having dead stock indefinitely, I certainly couldn't either. Especially given how hard it will be to ship to the US once the remaining stock has been sent to Japan where they are located. I really hope you can understand!
Where we left off with payments was that there is $553.50 from 7 backers that remained errored through the payment deadline, and the next POT payment of about $910 is dropping in about a week. Some of you did reply to me letting me know you'll pay the errored balance during the surveys - I really appreciate you getting back to me about it!
Thank you for your patience!!
PS: I have some notes after wearing my guillotine sample to Colossalcon weekend! I was also wearing a lanyard of course, which kept twisting the pendant around. If the chain gets twisted, it will not move properly and the blade may even get "stuck" in an odd position. This is not an issue when the necklace is worn normally, and it doesn't do the...chopping motion unless deliberately moved to do so, even if you're moving around a lot! Technically it's reversible: either CZ in front or CZ in back, doesn't matter, just don't let the chain twist and you're good to go! I was really happy to hear the compliments it received over the weekend and I'm really looking forward to sharing the next updated samples with you!
There is something we had to decide: there will be no pink CZ Vitrail de Cristal of any design available in the surveys, because no one pledged for them during the campaign run. We know there is the super slim chance that someone who pledged for a set wanted pink, but if that's the case please reach out via email ([email protected]) if you don't want any other color so we can help resolve things in a satisfactory way. Because of the way we have to order things, there has to be a minimum produced of every colorway for everything, and Chocolat Chaud really can't risk having dead stock indefinitely, I certainly couldn't either. Especially given how hard it will be to ship to the US once the remaining stock has been sent to Japan where they are located. I really hope you can understand!
Where we left off with payments was that there is $553.50 from 7 backers that remained errored through the payment deadline, and the next POT payment of about $910 is dropping in about a week. Some of you did reply to me letting me know you'll pay the errored balance during the surveys - I really appreciate you getting back to me about it!
Thank you for your patience!!
PS: I have some notes after wearing my guillotine sample to Colossalcon weekend! I was also wearing a lanyard of course, which kept twisting the pendant around. If the chain gets twisted, it will not move properly and the blade may even get "stuck" in an odd position. This is not an issue when the necklace is worn normally, and it doesn't do the...chopping motion unless deliberately moved to do so, even if you're moving around a lot! Technically it's reversible: either CZ in front or CZ in back, doesn't matter, just don't let the chain twist and you're good to go! I was really happy to hear the compliments it received over the weekend and I'm really looking forward to sharing the next updated samples with you!
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