Hey guys!
Thank you all for responding to your surveys so swiftly (and there's still around 25 of you who haven't responded! Consider this your reminder - it's not too late!). 

This project has reached levels that I didn't dare to imagine! We had 9 main series pin, one last minute stretch goal pin (the etagere) and a post-campaign rude boba pin. That's 11 dersigns with 172 pcs average - remember, I've ordered 150% of the needed amount - that's an average 115 orders of each design!

The most popular design is the Starry Tea Cup with a projected 147 orders, closely followed by the other pins in the starry set. For all the sets, the Tea Cup was the most popular design (which I didn't expect!), but usually the numbers within a set were roughly the same.

For the mini pins, the cherry blossom filler pin lew it out of the water - the cherry blossom pin was picked 104 times as either a single pin order or as freebie, additionally around 50 times as the whole set with the petals. We're making over 200 of the cherry blossom pin alone!

We also got 222 eligible backers for the cross collaboration reward - isn't that crazy? Fun fact, throughout our campaigns, Witch's Brew and Magic Tea Party were taking Pintopia's leaderboard for most popular Cross Collaboration campaigns with almost 70% of backers backing both - THANK YOU so much for liking our collaboration pins! 

Well from now on it's going to be a little boring - we wait for manufacturer updates. I've placed the final pin order with the finalized amounts, and I will post an update whenever we get something new! I have yet to order the stickers and the charms, but those will take very little time to produce so I will do that when I have time. 

If you have missed the campaign but want to join the fun, feel free to check out the Pre-Order Store.
All the campaign freebies like Cross-Collaboration and Mini Pin Freebies do not apply anymore for Pre-Orders but you still get to buy the pin sets at the BK price! 

That's it for now! Thank you so much again!
Averil

 Hello all!
First of all thanks a lot for the helpful feedback of the smoke test backers! We did manage to find a problem with the survey thanks to them. Now it's confirmed to be fixed and no further issues seem to have appeared so all backers are getting the survey now.

Here's the next steps:
- I will wait until 80% of the survey have been filled out. I expect that to be the case within a couple of days.
- Once that is done, I will calculate the total amount of pins to order based on those survey responses. I will of course order more than projected (~150%) to account for quality control and other problems. After that, the pins go to production!
- Your orders will then be locked,. meaning you can't change your survey answers anymore. The backers who haven't filled out their survey till then can still do it.
- Your addresses can still be changed after your order has been locked. It will only be locked when fulfillment is within reach!
- The final charge with shipping and post campaign add-ons will soon be made too. If your final charge fails, you can still correct it or reach out to me. 

That's it! Thanks all again ❤️
Averil 

Hello all!
This is an update for the few backers who got their survey already. We caught an issue where some backers did not have all the freebies in their survey, and it should be fixed now.
If you go to to your survey again, it should now ask you for the choices on your freebies. Please let me know if it fixed your issues!

If you have not received your survey yet, don't worry - I'll send the survey out to everyone once I hear back that everything works fine now.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Averil

Hello everyone!
Finally we got green light to send the survey to a small portion of backers to check if it is understandable and correct.
For those of you who have gotten a survey, please do pay attention to:

- whether all the choices are easy to understand
- whether the charged shipping cost matches your expectation
- whether all the freebies you received during the campaign are working correctly

Feel free to let me know if anything is not as expected! Once I have sufficient answers from the surveys and fixed all problems that occur during the initial smoke test phase, I will send out the survey to the remaining backers - probably in 2-5 days.

Cheers!
Averil

Heya all!
I got a few smaller news for you - a new pin designs that you can pick up together with your pledge as well as addressing some questions!

Together with the Magic Tea Party batch I'm ordering one extra design which I'm also offering up for Pre-order.  It's still tea, but... a little more sass and less magical :D You will be able to pick it up together with

Surveys are being prepared and the back and forth with my manufacturer has begun! We're already in the process of proofing, and are just waiting for the final order amounts that will be set after I get enough survey responses (~80%) to realistically guess the needed amounts for everything.
Expect the surveys in the first week of march, maybe second week. A handful of you will get it a bit earlier to test it out, and I'll send another update when all surveys are out.

For those of you who are confused on what the surveys are - it's just a questionaire where you will make your final picks for your pledge and fill out your address etc. You will then be able to add more stuff in case you forgot something and pay the shipping fee which was not collected during the campaign.

Then next - remember to check if your pledges could be successfully collected! For some people the payment is still failing. Please re-check, in some cases you need to talk to your bank. But if that fails - it's not the end of the world!
Once the surveys go out, you will have another chance to pay and I will try to allow Paypal as an option (there's some technical difficulty with it still). If that fails or if it's also not an option for you - email me at [email protected] so we can figure something out. You keep all your incentives if you have pledged during the campaign!

A few of you have asked me to ship some stuff from my Etsy shop together with your pledge - and that is totally possible! Just reach out to me so I set the items aside for you, and when time comes, I will create a custom order for you that will be free shipping since your campaign shipping fee should cover it.

That's it for now! I will 

Averil