Happy Thursday everyone!

I'm here to give a small update - during quality checking of the pins I found over 60% had what I'd consider B grade flaws or worse. If you do find I've accidentally sent you a heavily flawed pin, please reach out and let me know and we can get it sorted right away. [email protected]. 

As such - I'm currently attempting to get remakes done with my factory so that I will have A grade pins to replace any mail mishandling or misses on my part in grading. This process will take a bit of time - so for full transparency if something were to happen to your pin there is a possibility a replacement won't arrive to me until closer to the end of October. (This is especially true on the Gelcatinous cube and Dragon as they were both the most popular as well as highest flaw rate). 

In addition to this, you will likely see me on social media posting the flawed pins for sale. I usually keep these prices right around presale cost, but will be lowering them more than usual. My hope is to remake the more popular designs with a new factory by selling these flawed pins. Unfortunately, that again is a process as I've been using the current factory for my last 40 pin designs! I'd like to be more confident in quality before producing more pins. I am still looking at some other merch items and will keep you all updated!

Overall, I am excited for the pins to arrive to you all - and I hope you love them. 

Hello my lovely people.

Our adventurers are on their way to me - so I will be locking your surveys this weekend for packing and shipping! Go ahead and check your addresses are correct. If your card charge fails it will notify you - and I'll be able to hold your package until it's fixed. Keep an eye out for reminders from the pledgemanager as well if you'd like to be reminded again before the charge posts.

Our stickers have also arrived - here's a preview of the smaller set. 

Stickers are now live as individual add-ons! Feel free to go update your surveys if you'd like them. Our Bard had to be remade due to some fill issues and enamel cracking so we have another week or so of production. I'll keep you all updated and give a week warning before cards are charged and surveys are locked.

This was my first time using backerkit for a campaign and we are pretty early into Backerkit being a crowdfunding platform. As such I'm super interested in getting everyone's thoughts! Did you find the backerkit interface to be better than kickstarter? Worse? The same? Is there anything you'd like to see done differently were I to run another backerkit campaign? Or - would you prefer it all go back to kickstarter and the pledgemanager be handled separately?

A look into my noggin: I'm working on another campaign, right now my top choices are a fanart disney spinner series for Moana and Stitch, or a follow on to Astroanimals with the ever popular Commander Corgi!

The previous astroanimals series:

The previous spinner series - frozen 2. The snowflake is free spinning!

I have sample stickers! We have a 1.5" size and a 3" size! The free sticker packs will be 1.5" for all you early birds. Both are available as add-ons too. I didn't add as individuals originally mostly because I forgot about it! They'd be $3.50 for 3" and $1.50 for 1.5" as presales.

I have some photos of the pins from the manufacturer to share with you all!! I think my favorite is the Gelcatinous cube, what about you?

Preorder store:  https://catplay.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Woohoo! It's time to answer some questions.

5% of you received your survey - this is for testing to make sure I didn't miss anything major before sending them all. I expect to be able to send the remaining survey's late tomorrow or early the 16th. You will see your incentives under your pledge tier and any add-ons from the campaign have transferred over ready for your selections. If you click through the images of the add-ons each one has a picture with the pins named to match their drop down - but if you have any questions or concerns about selecting the right pin feel free to reach out to me! [email protected].

Our main 11 pins are as below - their photos will also pop up under the options in your survey. Have a  great rest of your evening!

Hello all!

The backers list finally transferred over to backerkit Sunday, unfortunately it did not include any of your add-ons. I'm working with the backerkit team to fix that as your add-ons should be ready and in your cart for you. Apologies for the delays here - but not to worry this isn't impacting our timeline.

I've gone ahead and put pins into full production and ordered 20 more of each variant than I'd normally expect to need to be safe since I'm unable to get these surveys out in a timely manner. 

We are currently driving through Wyoming with sporadic internet connect but if you have any questions/comments or concerns please reach out to me here or via email [email protected].

Here are some roadtrip cats for your time.