A little piece of nature in every enamel pin.
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Hey guys! Like the title says, the pins and stickers have arrived! I'm going to post some pictures at the bottom. A few things first.
Next up is grading. There are a whopping 34 different designs (including colour variants) of the main designs, 9 different colours of mini pins, plus I got my winter birthstone pins with this order and a few people did order those! This is going to take me a little bit to do, but I'm going to work as quickly as possible on my days off and at night. I'm going to pick out the best of the designs for all of you though!
International shipping: unfortunately, with the dates that we were given, I already can't guarantee that packages will be there before Christmas. I use chitchats to send things in bulk because it offers tracked and insured shipping, unfortunately for international orders (outside of US and Canada), they use Asendia, which can be slow at times. I've seen things arrive over in Europe three weeks later. I've seen it arrive three months later to the same destination in a different shipment. There's really no rhyme or reason to it. I'm really hoping they try to push things through as soon as possible.
That said, I'm going to ship out as soon as possible. A few people did order some additional preorders that I don't have on hand yet (the ornaments, pokeballs, and special rainbow crystals), so I'll be holding those packages until those come in. If you want me to send your kickstarter rewards first and other things after, I can send an invoice for the cost of shipping.
You'll be getting a notification about locking your addresses within the next week, so keep an eye out for that if you need to change it. Now, lets look at everything! (Please note that the lighting in my house is notoriously bad. I've complained about it many times before.)
Let me know what you think, and thank you so much for making this project a reality!
Kaylee
I wanted to give you all a quick update to know that the pins are on their way to me. After that I'm going to quality check them all, then start packing and sending.
Please note that if you ordered another one of the preorders (Christmas, Pokeball Board Fillers, Special Edition Rainbow Crystals), that those are all in production, but there were some delays. The rep I started with just kind of...vanished, then they kept tossing me around between reps, and I thought the pins had been started but apparently they hadn't. Never using that place again. It's different from the place where I got our pins for this project made.
So the pins will be here next week, I should hopefully be getting the stickers in the next few days (the tracking is one of those ones that stops updating once it gets into Canada), and I have all the shipping supplies! I'm going to try as hard as I can to beat that international cut off date before Christmas (not that I can't send them later, it just isn't likely to get there before Christmas), but it's SUPER early this year. This doesn't include the US. Your cut off date is actually later than the Canadian one.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I also know there were a couple people who never bothered to fill out the survey. Please note that you can still reach out to me via DMs to select the pins you'd like, but if you don't, there's no guarantee a design you want will be available later on.
Hey everyone, it's been a while, so I thought I'd give an update.
Stickers - Are still on the way to me. Tracking is spotty (as is the norm, since tracking numbers rarely work properly when going from one country to the next), but I hope for them to be here next week.
Preorders - I'm once again having limited preorders in my shop this weekend, at 12pm est. These are for pins that are already ordered (for the most part), but I want to try and get as much as I can out before the Christmas deadlines, so I thought that this would speed up the process for some people. You can check out the designs on my instagram.
Packing Supplies - They're on the way but keep getting delayed. Here's hoping they beat the pins. Everything is ordered though.
Pins - This is what you're most interested in, I'm sure. I got a new manu pic. Check it out:
I think they look AMAZING! I'm SO happy with them! Keep in mind that manu pics tend to have not so great lighting, but despite that, these look so good. I'm actually loving the way they set them up too. I think I want to make a pinboard very similar to this myself.
From the sounds of it, these are going to be sent to me within the next week, and then it's onto grading. I'm going to try to do this as quickly as I can, but that's a lot of pins to get through.
48 hours before I start shipping, I'll give you guys the notification on backerkit to lock your addresses. The other pins that were ordered SHOULD be here in time (ornaments, birthstone pins, the limited pokeball set, and the limited rainbow crystals set). That's also when the code for combined shipping will expire.
I'm SUPER excited. Thank you so much for helping to make these!!
-Kaylee
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