🌈 Welcome back to the magical world of the Foxwright Apothecary, introducing a curated collection of hard enamel pins to celebrate your Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Tucked away and dusky, old but well-kept, you might miss it if it's not what you're looking for, but you, traveler, have found your way to our creaking doors. Welcome to the enchanting world of the Foxwright Apothecary, stocking a curated collection of hard enamel pins — and more — for all your arcane needs! Here you will find but a small sampling of our wares, I'm sure you'll find exactly what you're after.
All collection pins are gold plated hard enamel, with the larger pins measuring at 2". As always, this collection will be on themed, exclusive backing cards!
This campaign once again features early bird pricing for the first 48 hours, on top of crowdfunding prices that are lower than they will be in my shop. Additionally, all returning backers will receive a free sticker of their choosing!
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Like the previous installment, this project has been a labor of love and is especially special as it is my first opportunity to bring Pride designs to my shop and portfolio! The support and enthusiasm for the Foxwright Apothecary has been amazing, and it makes me so happy that this little world I'm creating resonates with other folks.
Funding the full collection will go in stages-- reaching the first funding goal will unlock the Progress Potion, the second will unlock the Trans Tonic and Nonbinary Potion, and so on. This time around, I'm grouping a few designs together for each cumulative goal to hopefully make funding stages more digestible.
If you really want to see the success of the project, and get the full set/more than one pin including a design not yet unlocked, I recommend pledging as if they are already funded-- your pledge can be altered at any time during the campaign and you will receive updates as the project moves forward and nears completion!
There are likely further goals and surprises around the corner if all the present goals are met as well!
In the spirit of the season, Key & Crow has partnered with UltraInfinite for our Pride campaigns to bring even more pin flare to our joint backers! 🌈 If you pledge to bothPride Potions and Pride Angels, and both campaigns are fully funded, you will receive an additional two free pins, one designed by each of us to complement the other’s project! Be sure to check out Pride Angels and share the support!
If you qualify for the free Pin incentive for backing both campaigns, the Free Pin will be added to your survey post campaign. UltraInfinite will be shipping out the Polychromatic Feather and Key & Crow Studios will be shipping the Angel Potion!
During the campaign, you can pledge to support the project at any of the open pledge levels! Remember, you will not be charged for just your pledge until the campaign has ended (provided it is successful).
► You are able to adjust and edit your pledge at any time during the active campaign.
After the campaign has ended, you will receive your surveys from Backerkit to select your chosen designs and calculate shipping costs. Shipping costs are paid upon finalization of surveys, separate from your initial pledge. You will also have the option to choose any additional add-ons during your survey, such as other pins or products!
└─── A final 48 hour notice is sent out, and then surveys are locked and backers are charged for shipping costs. Details for manufacturing such as quantities and needed shipping materials are finalized.
MANUFACTURING ♦ LATE AUGUST
└─── Manufacturing begins and the waiting game begins.
RECEIVING/PACKING ♦ EARLY OCTOBER
└─── Inventory is received from manufacturers, which is then graded and packaged.
SHIPPING ♦ OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
└─── Rewards are all packed up and sent out to backers!
► Timeline is a rough estimate and subject to change to delays or unexpected hiccups along the way. Fulfillment time for both manufacturing and sending out rewards may end up longer due to quantity of backers/reward components.
Shipping costs will be charged AFTER the campaign ends, through your Backerkit survey. US backers can expect to receive their pins within 2-8 business days of ship date, and will not receive a tracking number as they are a hassle to wrangle for every backer in these large projects. International backers will receive a tracking number as international shipping tends to be more uncertain, and can expect to receive the product within 2-8 weeks of ship date.
▬ COST of SHIPPING & HANDLING BY REGION ▬ PRICES in USD ▬ SUBJECT to CHANGE ▬
Domestic US: 4.50
Canada, Mexico: 16
UK, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Vatican City, Hong Kong, South Korea: 20
Australia, New Zealand: 22
Everywhere Else: 18
► International backers are responsible for their own countries VAT or import taxes/fees.
Designs may be altered during production (if they are, there will be an update) and colors may look slightly different than what you see on your screen, as they are a physical object vs. a digital asset. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask! With many aspects of this type of work often out of my hands, delays are very possible, along with expected on my end at this point, but will not impact the quality of the product you will receive! Shipping time is the most affected by the circumstances, and you will be updated with any significant changes to the timeline.
Hello, hello! I’m Odessa, also known to some as Crow-- the artist, creator, and cryptid behind Key & Crow Studios and this campaign! I am a queer, disabled, and chronically ill creator, coming to you from a strange liminal era in my life due to a string of health issues, pandemic complications, and other events. I’ve been in the pin business for three years now, learning the ins and outs of the process for pin design and production, not to mention running and managing crowdfunding campaigns. I’m thrilled to be participating in Pintopia, since the pin world has become my professional home!
Perfectly Normal Deer was my first foray into wearing the pinmaker hat in March of 2021; the project I cut my teeth on and smoothed out the wrinkles in my process. It included five hard enamel pins, a sticker, and an acrylic charm.
The Tastefully Spooky Collection was my second successful campaign, which ran in September of 2021 to tune of funding all goals in just 48 hours! The collection includes four large hard enamel pins, three mini pins, two stickers, an acrylic charm, washi tape, and a tote bag design, and a small army of custom ghosts. This collection is inspired by the first garden ghost I made; I absolutely fell in love with the whole vibe and wanted to expand upon them, drawing further inspiration from the Art Nouveau style.
In March of 2022 I launched my third project, Flock, which was my chance to explore more product options and possibilities for the medium of the enamel pin, and I had an amazing time with it. Flock is a large, collector’s sized hard enamel pin paying homage to the painting I’ve more than internalized in my time on this earth. Anton Mauve’s 1894 oil on board, Shepherd and Sheep, housed at the Cincinnati Art Museum has been an ever-present image in my life, a work that I’m almost certain has influenced my personal sense of aesthetic and sensibilities as an artist. I consider Flock to be something of a love letter to my past self, nostalgia, magical overcast skies, and the feeling of exploring an all but deserted art museum for the first time as a child with wide eyes, discovering something that will make its home in your heart for years to come.
Autumn of 2022 saw the Retro Spooky project, inspired by the Halloweens of yore, heavily focusing on retro and vintage spooky ephemera and media, drawing upon our collective nostalgia for this special time of year. Costume photos taken on disposable cameras, Halloween tv specials, the annual excursion to the pumpkin patch, the “iconic” aspects of the season.
Late 2023 was a return to familiar spooks, with the Tastefully Spooky Collection Restock Campaign– Garden Ghost pins continue to be the star of the Key & Crow portfolio. This campaign also introduced the brand new Vampiric Visage pin, which is perhaps one of my favorite designs to date.
There are also some additional products that will be available as optional add-ons during the surveys after the campaign has ended.
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Perfectly Normal Deer pins are rose gold plated hard enamel pins, with striking black and white shiny enamel. Each pin measures 1.25" and comes on a backing card with a rubber clutch. Peryton charms are double-sided, double-board with a glitter epoxy coating on the front side.
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Tastefully Spooky Collection pins are gold plated hard enamel pins, with shiny enamel filling and come on an exclusive backing card with gold foil accents and a metal clutch. Each main collection pin measures 25mm, while the mini pins measure at 10mm. Additionally, the moon phases on the Lunar Pumpkin pin glow in the dark. The charms are double-sided, double-board acrylic, measuring 3". Washi tape is somewhat translucent, and will appear slightly different on different color surfaces. Each roll is 25mm wide and 10 meters of repositionable, non-permanent adhesive paper tape.
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Flock includes the giant collector’s pin in hard enamel, with gold plating measuring at 3in/76mm wide. Each pin will also feature a backstamp and number. Flock comes on a large backing card, designed specifically for this project, inspired by museum presentation and gallery tags. In addition to the large pin, a set of sheep mini pins is available Each of these wooly little friends is gold plated hard enamel, measuring at .75in/20mm.
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The Retro Spooky collection features six pin designs, and all of the pins are 35 mm / 1.25”, hard enamel, and silver plated.
