I wanted to give another update on fulfillment progress and answer some questions via a short FAQ below.
➡️ Current Fulfillment Process
I am still in the process of fulfillment, but I've had a few short delays that have me moving slower than I was for the first 50% of the orders I have already shipped:
• I mentioned in the previous update that I was exhausted and burnt out from shipping almost 300 packages in the span of 2 weeks. I stayed up until 3am several nights to ambitiously get as many out as fast as I could. I realized pretty quickly that I could not keep up that level of momentum and that I needed at least a week of rest to help myself recover.
• I took a long weekend trip out of town and unfortunately came back sick. Fast forward to today and I am only just now recovered enough to get some work done, though I'm still fatigued and weak.
All of this to say, things are still making progress! I just cannot work at the volume I was before and need to take the remaining packages slower.
➡️ Enamel Pin Remakes
As a reminder from a Previous Update, remakes of some quantities of some pin designs are in production and in the process of being remade. I still have yet to run out of A-grades for fulfillment, so this has not hindered or delayed the packing of orders for me yet!
As soon as I have word that the remakes are on their way to me, I'll be sure to let everyone know here!
➡️ Received The Wrong Pin?
Early on in fulfillment I had mistakenly mixed up two pin designs and sent out a small handful of packages with an incorrect pin in the order.
I had begun to send out replacements to people impacted, but to make sure no one is missed, if you have emailed me with this issue and you have NOT yet received a replacement pin, please shoot me another email!
I'm juggling quite a bit and want to ensure the orders that were impacted can get the pin they wanted!
➡️ Packages Returned To Me
A few packages have unfortunately been sent back to me from the first batch I sent out due to no forwarding address or incomplete addresses. ❗❗
For those who had emailed me previously asking to hold their package while they move, your packages were on hold and were not affected!
However, for anyone who's package is listed as "SHIPPED" on their survey page, please review the tracking number sent to your email to ensure your order did not get sent back to me.
If your package was affected and sent back to me, you will have to pay the cost of shipping again in order to receive your items! I have no control over this, and once a label has been "used up" via being sent to an incorrect address, an entirely new label has to be purchased with new postage.
➡️ How Do I See My Pledge Status?
In order to view the status of your pledge, go under your account info and select "Your Pledges & Surveys".
Once you have reached the surveys page, you'll want to click over to the "YOUR SURVEYS" Tab.
If your Black Cat Botanicals Pledge is found under "ACTIVE", that means that your order has not yet shipped out.
If you don't see your pledge under Active, select "COMPLETED" to find your status there. If it's under the Completed section it should say "Your Order Has Shipped"
If your order is marked as SHIPPED, you can find your tracking number in your email inbox that you used to make the pledge. The email comes directly from PirateShip, the company I use to pre-purchase shipping labels.
➡️ Conclusion
All in all, I'm still working towards the finish line on this project and I appreciate everyone's patience on this!
As usual, any and all project updates will always be posted here publicly when there is news as consistently as I can manage.
I wanted to pop in for a quick update on fulfillment, please read!
➡️ Current Fulfillment Process
I have been fulfilling packages at mach speed, and I'm pleased to say at 287 packages, we have now crossed the threshold of over 50% completion for fulfillment for this project! 🎉🎉🎉
➡️ I Need A Short Break 😴
I've stayed up until 3am a few times this past week in order to fulfill as many as possible, but in the process I burnt myself out. I'm going to be taking this week as a rest week to help recover before I hit the ground running on packing once again. I appreciate the patience!
➡️ Enamel Pin Remakes
As a reminder from the Last Update, I am still waiting on enamel pin remakes to arrive, but I will keep fulfilling orders until I run out of the designs that are needed for replacements. Please be sure to go back to the previous update if you need a refresher on this!
➡️ Order Issues
Lastly, I've been receiving a few emails about pin mix-ups in orders (my brain did not want to tell the difference between the words Peony and Pansy at times). I've already begun sending out replacement pins for those who emailed me who were affected, but I'll continue to keep an eye on my email for anyone else that may have an issue with their order!
That's all for now! As always, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out!
Hi everyone, hope you're all having a good weekend!
I wanted to pop in for a quick update on fulfillment, please read!
➡️ Current Fulfillment Process
At this point in time, I have completed nearly 100 packages for fulfillment so far! They'll be dropped off at the post office this upcoming Monday and little flowers will start traveling to new homes 🌻✨
➡️ Enamel Pin Remakes
In some unfortunate news, a few of the designs that I graded last had a high amount of errors that do not align with the quality I expect of my pins. My manufacturer is aware of the errors and is working on remakes for the afflicted designs as we speak.
A few of the designs fell a few pins below the amount I need to complete all orders in the campaign. However, this should hopefully not slow down fulfillment. It's going to take me a bit to complete 500+ packages and my hope is that I won't run out of A-grades to ship out before the replacements arrive.
In the meantime, I will continue to ship out orders as fast as I can manage! I appreciate everyone's patience and I can't wait to start seeing little flowers and little kitties start to arrive. 💖
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out!
I wanted to pop in with a very quick update to let everyone know that I will be locking addresses on June 17th! ❗❗
Now is the time to double check the shipping address details on your surveys, as I'll be starting the process of getting your rewards to you asap!
If you are planning to move within the next 30 days, please email me at [email protected] so I can put a hold on your order until you are settled with your new shipping address.
I wanted to pop in with an update to say all the pins have arrived! 🎉🥳🎉🥳
I carded one of each to take photos of every design, which you can peruse below.
Next Steps 📦➡️➡️
With over 4,000 pins now in my hands, I have a lot of work ahead of me. As a one person business, I will be organizing, counting, sorting, quality controlling, carding, packing, and shipping this campaign by myself from my apartment.
However despite the workload, I do want to reiterate that we are still fully on track with my original timeline. I quoted that fulfillment would take place starting in June and would be complete before the end of July, and we're still well within schedule!
I feel confident with this timeline that everything will continue to progress in a timely manner, but it will still take time.
I'll be back again in June to give another update on how things are progressing and if anything changes, I will let everyone know promptly.
When will BCB be in your shop? 🛍️✨
I've had some folks message me asking about when BCB items will be in my shop and in short: I'm not sure yet! I won't be putting any leftovers up for sale until the fulfillment for this campaign as concluded, and after that happens, I'm sure I'm going to need to sleep for 3 days.
At this point in time for those waiting for leftovers, I wouldn't count on them until September at the earliest.
I wanted to give another update on fulfillment progress and answer some questions via a short FAQ below.
➡️ Current Fulfillment Process
I am still in the process of fulfillment, but I've had a few short delays that have me moving slower than I was for the first 50% of the orders I have already shipped:
• I mentioned in the previous update that I was exhausted and burnt out from shipping almost 300 packages in the span of 2 weeks. I stayed up until 3am several nights to ambitiously get as many out as fast as I could. I realized pretty quickly that I could not keep up that level of momentum and that I needed at least a week of rest to help myself recover.
• I took a long weekend trip out of town and unfortunately came back sick. Fast forward to today and I am only just now recovered enough to get some work done, though I'm still fatigued and weak.
All of this to say, things are still making progress! I just cannot work at the volume I was before and need to take the remaining packages slower.
➡️ Enamel Pin Remakes
As a reminder from a Previous Update, remakes of some quantities of some pin designs are in production and in the process of being remade. I still have yet to run out of A-grades for fulfillment, so this has not hindered or delayed the packing of orders for me yet!
As soon as I have word that the remakes are on their way to me, I'll be sure to let everyone know here!
➡️ Received The Wrong Pin?
Early on in fulfillment I had mistakenly mixed up two pin designs and sent out a small handful of packages with an incorrect pin in the order.
I had begun to send out replacements to people impacted, but to make sure no one is missed, if you have emailed me with this issue and you have NOT yet received a replacement pin, please shoot me another email!
I'm juggling quite a bit and want to ensure the orders that were impacted can get the pin they wanted!
➡️ Packages Returned To Me
A few packages have unfortunately been sent back to me from the first batch I sent out due to no forwarding address or incomplete addresses. ❗❗
For those who had emailed me previously asking to hold their package while they move, your packages were on hold and were not affected!
However, for anyone who's package is listed as "SHIPPED" on their survey page, please review the tracking number sent to your email to ensure your order did not get sent back to me.
If your package was affected and sent back to me, you will have to pay the cost of shipping again in order to receive your items! I have no control over this, and once a label has been "used up" via being sent to an incorrect address, an entirely new label has to be purchased with new postage.
➡️ How Do I See My Pledge Status?
In order to view the status of your pledge, go under your account info and select "Your Pledges & Surveys".
Once you have reached the surveys page, you'll want to click over to the "YOUR SURVEYS" Tab.
If your Black Cat Botanicals Pledge is found under "ACTIVE", that means that your order has not yet shipped out.
If you don't see your pledge under Active, select "COMPLETED" to find your status there. If it's under the Completed section it should say "Your Order Has Shipped"
If your order is marked as SHIPPED, you can find your tracking number in your email inbox that you used to make the pledge. The email comes directly from PirateShip, the company I use to pre-purchase shipping labels.
➡️ Conclusion
All in all, I'm still working towards the finish line on this project and I appreciate everyone's patience on this!
As usual, any and all project updates will always be posted here publicly when there is news as consistently as I can manage.
I wanted to pop in for a quick update on fulfillment, please read!
➡️ Current Fulfillment Process
I have been fulfilling packages at mach speed, and I'm pleased to say at 287 packages, we have now crossed the threshold of over 50% completion for fulfillment for this project! 🎉🎉🎉
➡️ I Need A Short Break 😴
I've stayed up until 3am a few times this past week in order to fulfill as many as possible, but in the process I burnt myself out. I'm going to be taking this week as a rest week to help recover before I hit the ground running on packing once again. I appreciate the patience!
➡️ Enamel Pin Remakes
As a reminder from the Last Update, I am still waiting on enamel pin remakes to arrive, but I will keep fulfilling orders until I run out of the designs that are needed for replacements. Please be sure to go back to the previous update if you need a refresher on this!
➡️ Order Issues
Lastly, I've been receiving a few emails about pin mix-ups in orders (my brain did not want to tell the difference between the words Peony and Pansy at times). I've already begun sending out replacement pins for those who emailed me who were affected, but I'll continue to keep an eye on my email for anyone else that may have an issue with their order!
That's all for now! As always, if anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out!
I've got another small update of pin images from my manufacturer to share as a few sneak peeks! They are looking SO CUTE and I can't wait to show you all more.
✨Production Progress
⭐ Mini Enamel Pins: Currently in production
⭐ Cat Enamel Pins: Currently in production ⭐ Freebie Collab Pin: Currently in production
⭐ Sticker Sheets: Shipped, on their way to me ⭐ Vinyl Stickers: In-Hand, though will be placing another order because you guys cleared me out adding extras to your pledge! ⭐ Freebie Sticker: Placing order soon! ⭐ Pin Backer Cards: In-hand
This is all I have for now! I will continue to keep you all updated as things progress.
- Zandra
🎪 Whimsical Woodlands Guest Artist Spotlight
My friend and fellow artist Liz Schmidt is running another big plush campaign for her successful circus animals series! 🎪✨
I've been a guest artist on almost all of her previous projects and this time I had the honor of doing two designs for two characters! I illustrated a shaker keychain for Hickory the Brown Bear and an enamel pin design for Nettles the leucistic raccoon. Hickory is a foodie and Nettles loves insects and it seemed like a perfect fit for them!
Hi everyone, hope you're all having a good weekend!
I wanted to pop in for a quick update on fulfillment, please read!
➡️ Current Fulfillment Process
At this point in time, I have completed nearly 100 packages for fulfillment so far! They'll be dropped off at the post office this upcoming Monday and little flowers will start traveling to new homes 🌻✨
➡️ Enamel Pin Remakes
In some unfortunate news, a few of the designs that I graded last had a high amount of errors that do not align with the quality I expect of my pins. My manufacturer is aware of the errors and is working on remakes for the afflicted designs as we speak.
A few of the designs fell a few pins below the amount I need to complete all orders in the campaign. However, this should hopefully not slow down fulfillment. It's going to take me a bit to complete 500+ packages and my hope is that I won't run out of A-grades to ship out before the replacements arrive.
In the meantime, I will continue to ship out orders as fast as I can manage! I appreciate everyone's patience and I can't wait to start seeing little flowers and little kitties start to arrive. 💖
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out!
