Hello everyone~

The backer's survey smoke test was out last week, and so far there hasn't been any issues, so I just sent out the remaining surveys to everyone! Please fill out your survey as soon as you can, so that I can have an accurate count for the number of items I need to order from my manufacturer. Our target is to have at least 90% of surveys completed by March 11 (two weeks from now). Please help us achieve this goal! Finally, if you encounter any issues with the survey, please send me an email at [email protected]. This will be the fastest way to get a hold of me!

Charge Card Error

There are still quite a few pledges with charge card errors with this campaign. It is much appreciated if you can kindly have your credit card information updated with backerkit as soon as you can. Your pledges and support are very important in making this project successful, even though it has ended already. If the charge card error is not fixed by March 11 (two weeks from now), I will go ahead and cancel your pledge. Thank you so much for your understanding.

Pre-order Store Open

Lastly, our pre-order store is now opened. If you missed our campaign and is still interested in getting them, here is your chance!


That's it for now. Here is a character I have been working on lately. Have been wanting to add this to my RPG monster collection. Have a good day!

-Catherine@WalnutAndClam












 
 

Hello everyone!

Thank you so much for supporting our Pintopia 2026 project - Kitties' Space Dream! The campaign has ended and we are successfully funded with all the stretched goals unlocked! Thanks again for believing in our project!

I've already finished setting up the survey, and now we are just waiting for backerkit to approve it, then I will start sending out the smoke test surveys to 5% of the backers. If there are no issues with the smoke test, then I will send out the rest of the surveys. Once you received your survey, please kindly have it completed as soon as you can, and if you found any issues with it, please reach out to me via email at [email protected], as this will be the fastest way to get a hold of me. 

My target it to send out the smoke test by the end of next week, all depending on when the survey gets approved, and the rest of the surveys the week after. 

It's been decided! The names of our mini planets are Naptune and Catellite! Thank you so much for everyone who helped come up with names for the new mini planets! It was so difficult to decide which names to pick, but we think these two names really do fit well with the theme!

 

Thanks again for all the suggestions! I will contact the individual contributors for the freebies.

I am going to add these two mini planet designs to the sticker sheet! The addition will not affect any of the other stickers,l but I did have to reduce some of the texts on the sticker sheet in order to have enough room for the new stickers. Please see below for what it should look like in the end. Please be reminded that there will be glitter effect on some parts of the stickers, but that is not currently being shown in the below image.

If you are in the UK, and you are interested in getting some of the products from this campaign, I've created a UK preorder listing at my Etsy store! The listing will be available from now until Feb 21tst. Here is the link to the listing:

https://walnutandclam.etsy.com/listing/4455150970

For all other project followers, if you missed our campaign, I will be opening up a pre-order store here on Backerkit soon, and you will be able to grab these pins/stickers there, as well as a huge selections of products from my previous projects! Please note that backerkit campaign freebies do not apply to the pre-order store. 

Just a quick reminder that shipping fee has not been collected yet, Instead it will be collected when we are closed to project fulfillment.

Canadian Backers 
If you order 1-3 pins, shipping will be $5 CAD (no tracking). Tracking upgrade is available as an add-on ($10 CAD) in the pledge manager. If you order 4+ pins (approx. 60g), shipping will be $15 CAD. Please note that I am currently using weight to determine how much shipping is going to be, so if you order 10 mini pins, your shipping will still show up as $5 (no tracking), as the weight will still be less than 60g. Please feel free to add the tracking upgrade in the pledge manager (highly recommended), or if I happen to notice it, I will manually add the $10 shipping upgrade fee in the pledge manager for you. Thank you for your understanding.

US backers
In addition to the shipping fees, I will also be collecting tariff in the pledge manager, and remitting it to the US government via my shipper when I ship out your rewards. The % of tariff differs among different items, and it will show up in your pledge manager for your review. Please note that tariff rates may increase/decrease from now until fulfillment, and I will update the rate in the pledge manager if needed. I am also seeking out cheaper shipping alternatives to the US. No promises made right now but I will send out an update as soon as I have something. 

That’s it for now! Have a good weekend!

-Catherine @WalnutAndClam

Hello Everyone!

Thank you so much for everyone who voted for what items I should add to the campaign! The result shows that mini enamel pins is the most popular choices. So I have taken some time to work on new designs (and scrapped a lot), and finally I settled for these two mini planets! 

These two mini planets are going to be hard enamel pins with only one pin post at back. The size is approx. 0.8" for the orange one and 0.9" for the purple guy. Since they are very small, there will not be a back logo on them.

I've decided to turn the orange planet into a freebie, and in order to get that, you will need to pledge for $30 CAD or more during the campaign. Below are some scenarios to help you with the calculations:

1. Have two or more standard size pins in your pledge
2. Have one premium pin set and anything else (ex. mini pin, sticker sheet, standard size pin, etc) in your pledge
3. Have three or more mini pins in your pledge

*The freebie pin will be added after the campaign is over in your pledge manager. So you will see it when you fill out your survey.

These planets are considered unlocked and you will be able to get them from the campaign. However, to make things less complicated, I am going to add them to the same pledge level/ add-on as the mini alien. And I will go ahead and change the name of the pledge level/add-on to just "mini pins". But please be reminded that the aliens are soft enamel pins, and the planets are hard enamel pins. 

The orange planet will be added to your full set as a freebie, but if you would like to get the purple planet, please make sure you add-on an extra mini pin to your pledge!

Since I exhausted all my creative power in designing these designs, I didn't get a chance to name these little guys. Help me come up with a name, and if we decided to use the name you come up with, you will get a copy of that mini planet pin as a thank you! Please note that you must be a backer with a physical pledge for this campaign to participate. You can reference how I named the other planets/ moon~ Can't wait to see what we got! Please leave your ideas in the comments section!

Thank you everyone for supporting this campaign! There is only less than a week left! We can do this!

Catherine @WalnutAndClam