It's been a month since my last update and it's been with a big reason: I've been swamped with work, a 4 day con and another 1 day con back to back ^^; All with fun work and fun things but it's been very busy which meant that I had to place some priority on things other than the pins.
Good news, I've just emailed my manu contact to pick up the project and start the production. I have to wait for an update on the quote but the enamel pin files are all sent off so it's now waiting for a correct quote and paying that.
The pins have had some minor colour changes to be more accurate with the animals, so I wanted to show you all the (digital) colours as we've chosen now. Mind you, colours can still vary a bit due to screens and print work. (Picking colours is the biggest hurdle of enamel pin making if you ask me!)
All the pin designs in their (most) accurate colours (Colours can still differ due to different monitors and screens.)
Survey info The survey is still open for changes, you can still switch around any choices of pins you'd like. I won't lock the survey until we're closer to receiving the pins. This due to the tariff issue as well in the survey.
As a reminder for the tariff costs non-US backers might saw pop up: I will manually remove these before I charge the survey. The tariff percentage might still changes so I'm gonna leave this for the last moment so it's the most accurate for all!
If anything changes with the survey (locking them, charging the cards, etc) I will first give you all a heads up for this with another update.
The other products update The acrylic keychains have been ordered a few weeks back, those will have the first colour run but I think this is pretty fun to have the differences between the amphibians. So many have different tones of coloures between the same type of frog already, it's like a mimic of real life. After this print run is sold out I will update the artworks to fit the colours of the enamel pins.
The sticker sheets are up next to be ordered, these will have the same colours as the enamel pins.
The socks are now up on the to do list to finish up the product file. My sock manu reached out this week to let me know they are getting more busy and making a sample takes 3-4 weeks now instead of 2 weeks. This means that if the socks arrive later than the enamel pins, those with socks in their orders will have to wait a bit longer on their order being shipped. One way or another, Desert rain frog socks will be send to you if you ordered them <3
As always if you need to reach out to me, do not hesitate to contact me via Backerkit support (the 'Contact us for help' button on your pledge page). Or you can use the contact form on my website, that way you reach me immediately by email and I can help you out much easier. Please keep an eye on your email when you reach out. I usually respond within 48h to your questions.
