This is a notification to let you know that this project is coming to an end and to provide you with the last shipping update, as well as end of project information.
All orders marked as "ready to ship" in Backerkit have been packed and are out the door, with the exception of Canadian backers.
If you have not received your package yet please check your email for a tracking email from Backerkit. Your package may have been shipped but has not yet made it to you. Your tracing email will have your tracking number for USPS.
If you did receive your order and are looking to order more Queer and Here pins, they are now available in the Etsy shop.
Canadian Backers
If you're a Canadian backer your order will ship out in 2025. I'm currently waiting for USPS to lift the restriction on shipping to Canada. Your orders/items are packed in envelopes and ready to go.
🚨 Incomplete Surveys
There are backers who paid for their pledge, but did not complete their survey. As well as backers with failed shipping payments. If you’re one of these backers, you have 30 days from today (December 20th, 2024) to fill out your survey and pay for shipping. If you do not complete your survey within the 30 days (by January 20th, 2025), per the terms and conditions of this project, that you agreed to when you submitted and paid for your pledge, you forfeit your rewards and will not be given a refund, or your rewards.
There are currently 2 backers with failed survey charges. This means that you filled out your survey and provided card details, but when we charged your card for shipping, the payment failed. If you do not complete your payment within the 30 days (today to January 20th, 2024), per the terms and conditions of this project, that you agreed to when you submitted and paid for your pledge, you forfeit your rewards and will not be given a refund, or your rewards
Please note that the project will close on January 20th, 2024. After that date we do not check the pledge manager. While you will still be able to complete your survey after that date, your order will not be fulfilled.
🚨 Charge Disputed
If your bank disputed your charge then you may have submitted your survey, but technically your order has not been paid for because the bank revoked the funds. If this happened to your order we sent an email with information on how to pay for your pledge. If we do not receive an email within 30 days of when we first reached out, you will forfeit your rewards and will not be given a refund.
📦 Orders that were returned to sender
If we receive an order that’s been returned to sender, we will email to let you know. That email will contain information on how to get your package sent out again. If we do not receive a response within 30 days of our initial email, you forfeit your rewards and will not be given a refund.
📦 Never received orders
If your order tracking email says “delivered”, but you did not receive your order, please first contact your local post office with your tracking number. Your post office is the best chance of finding the lost order. If your local post office cannot locate your package, please email us at [email protected]
If you did not receive your package because of an address change, or because you entered the wrong address, and did not notify us of an address change, we can ship your order again, but as backer you are responsible for paying a second shipping fee, per the terms and conditions of this project. If you did notify us of an address change but have not received your order, please email us at [email protected]
For any US backers who are unable to locate their package, you will have 30 days (today to January 20th, 2025) to notify us that you did not receive your package.
If you are an international backer you have 45 days to (today to February 5th, 2025) to notify us that you did not receive your package. If you fail to notify us within those timelines, that your package is missing, you will forfeit your rewards, a new package will not be sent, and you will not receive a refund, per the agreed upon terms and conditions of this project.
If you are a Canadian backer, due to the backlog from the strike, you will have 4 months to notify us of a package not received (April 20th, 2025)
We are willing to work with backers however we can to help get any missing orders into your hands. If you order is missing please contact us within the timelines stated above.
If you want to check the status of your order, please reach out to us at [email protected] with the name and email associated with your pledge.
Please do not leave comments on this campaign page asking for information about your order. Comments are not monitored daily and we do not respond to private inquires on this page. If you need information about your order, the best course of action is to email us.
📣 Ink and Enamel pins going for sale on Etsy
The remaining pins and b grades from this campaign are now available for purchase through our Etsy Shop. You can check them out here. ❤️ I want to thank all of you who have supported this campaign and any of my previous campaigns. You make it possible for me to run this business, and I am so happy and appreciative to have connected with and met so many people who enjoy my art.❤️
We’re super excited to share that the Keystrap (you voted for in the previous poll) has been added and it's already unlocked!! Yay! 🎉 It's now pledgiable through the add-ons section /ᐠ ˵◕ ヮ ◕˵マᯓᡣ𐭩
But wait, there’s even more! Some of you asked for two new designs: the Nutcracker (which is something we already wanted to make) and the Grinch! We heard you and designed them right away. They're now new stretch goals to unlock! For the Nutcracker moo, we have two versions, one spotted and one brown! ૮₍ ˵ᵕ ɷ ᵕ˵₎ა♡ Also, we added a colorful Christmoos Lights variant!
Hope you like everything as much as we do!
We can’t wait to hear what you think! And if you have more suggestions, keep them coming ♡
Your love for our creations and your incredible support for this campaign truly lift our spirits. It means the world to us, especially during what has been our toughest Christmas yet. This year, for the first time, we’re facing a holiday season with our family incomplete. We lost some cherished members nearly all at once —our sweet bunnies, Kun and Loki, who brought us joy for 9 and 8 wonderful years, and our forever-puppy, Yoshi, who was with us for 14 beautiful years... Their absence has left a profound emptiness in our hearts.
So, we can’t express how grateful we are for your kindness and support during this time. It brings us comfort and warmth amidst the sadness. We send you our heartfelt wishes, hoping each of you is enjoying a lovely and cozy holiday season filled with love and joy! 🥺🎄💕
This is a notification to let you know that this project will begin shipping soon. If you were in the stickers only tier, or your order was only stickers, then that order will ship Monday. All other orders containing pins and other items will begin shipping the first week of January. Apologies that this project was supposed to ship in December, but the manufacturer took a little longer than expected. The manufacturer is shipping the last of the pins next week.
If you need to update your shipping address for this project please email [email protected] with the name and email associated with your pledge, and the new shipping address.
I will be away from office from December 22nd to December 28th, so please note you may not get a response to your email until after the 28th.
Can't believe that it's almost Christmas! Happy holidays everyone! I wonder if the kitties of Whisperwood celebrate this holiday? Who knows...
It's been a bit over a month since our last update, and it's time for another one. First thing first, most of the backer's surveys have been completed already, orders have been locked, and production have started. However, there are still a few surveys that haven't been completed yet. If you haven't completed your survey yet, please take the time to complete them as soon as you can. Your response will be highly appreciated!
For now, everything (backing cards, stickers, sticker sheet) is done, except for the pins. Pins always take the longest to complete, and this time I did choose to use a manufacturer that has a longer production time (and hopefully better quality control). Most likely the pins will be completed before the Chinese New Year (end of January), as most pin manufacturers prefer to do that based on my past experience. Below are some pictures of the backing cards, stickers, and sticker sheet that I received from my manufacturers. I really like the quality of the stickers, especially the sticker sheet!
Hey! Did you notice something you haven't seen before?! Yes! I created a new freebie thank you sticker for all of you who pledged for a physical tier from my project! I meant to add more mini pin designs, and a freebie of some sort during the campaign, as this project did so so so so well (it is actually the best project I have done so far)! However, at the time of the campaign, I was pre-occupied with some family emergency that I was not able to create more designs as I wanted to. But I made a promise to myself that I will make the freebie no matter what. I hope that you like the freebie sticker we got!
Finally, I got a new project that will be launched in Jan 23rd as a part of Pintopia 2025! The project is called Build Your RPG Cat (click here for the link). For the first time, I will be making magnetic pins (the gears) and they can be attached onto the cat of your choice! Follow my project if you are interested in this project! Thanks!
Do backers who pledge >120€ get both free pins, or just the cow? Similarly, are the early bird and returning backer stickers otherwise available to purchase as add-ons? Thanks!
Just a quick update—I’ve sent out the smoke test surveys! If you encounter any issues while filling out the survey, please don’t hesitate to contact me at my email: [email protected]
If we don’t encounter any issues, I should be able to send out the surveys to everyone before 2025. Until then, wishing y'all a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Two important updates before I take a short break until the new year:
All of the packages to US backers have been shipped! Please expect some delays in shipping times due to the holidays, but if haven't received your package by early January, do let me know by emailing me at [email protected]. And if you discover any missing or damaged items, please email me so I can make it right!
(I'm working on figuring out how to export the tracking numbers from Pirateship to Backerkit, but they may all be delivered by then so in the meantime if you need your tracking number you can also email me for that.)
Canadian backers - I am hearing that UPS & FedEx charge very high brokerage fees on the recipients end, up to 60% of the package value. I also understand that the postal strike is effectively over, but they are dealing with a TON of backlog. With that in mind, I am going to hold off on shipping the orders to Canada until after the holidays. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
The manufacturing delays with the Foxwright Apothecary have resulted in the whole schedule for K&C shifted a lot further backwards than I expected or would have wanted them to, and for that, I apologize. I will readily admit I’ve been stretch waaaaaay too thin this year on all fronts, and am fighting to keep everything on the rails while struggling to grasp the passage of time.
Copied from the update over there: ----- On a personal note, the ongoing Sinus Saga™️ has finally had some light shed on the situation— as I’ve alluded in previous updates, I have been grappling with an ongoing sinus infection that never has completely gone away for 10+ months (though after some reevaluation, I think it’s actually been persisting for more than a year at this point) despite many, many visits to my PCP/urgent care. It oscillates between a level “status quo” level of something I’ve just been living with, constant mucus isolated to the right side, occasionally flaring up to be all-encompassing and prompting doctor’s visits for a round of antibiotics that bring it back down to the “normal” level.
I finally managed to get in with specialists and have imaging done, which has been very enlightening— evidently, I have a severe fungal sinus infection that has been growing unchecked in my head for over a year (which is a little horrific) and the entirety of my right side sinuses are obstructed. It certainly explains a lot. Surgical intervention is the only treatment, which I am waiting to get the call for scheduling.
Having now seen my imaging, coupled with what my daily life has looked like, I’m personally shifting blame for my all-encompassing and heavily debilitating malaise from my other chronic conditions to this beast that’s been growing in my head, horror protagonist style. Here’s hoping that after surgery I’ll be of a far more sound mind and body. Though an invasive kind of procedure, I’m unbothered by the prospect of sinus surgery— I had a septoplasty/ethmoidectomy/turbinate reduction in 2020 on my left side (after going my whole life to the age of 20 with one functioning nostril as a result of a severe deviated septum + bone spur) and of all the procedures I’ve gone through, sinus surgery is by far one of the easiest recoveries.
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My apologies for the delay in getting this update posted, it’s been hanging out in my drafts while migraines and the nightmare of the end of my semester has been kept me from proofreading and adjusting it. I also apologize for how long it has been since the last update, I didn't realize that it hadn't been only a couple weeks since it was posted.
