Hey all! Everything is prepared from my side to ship out orders, except that the reprints of some designs have still not arrived but I'm sure they will later this week. I'm trying to get everything done as soon as I can! The flat item orders should go out quickly if they don't contain designs that are awaiting restock/reprint, the glass cups will likely take me a whole week.
You should have gotten an e-mail with an invoice, but of course you all already paid it so no need for any action. This is more for my bookkeeping than anything else.
What happens now:
- when your order ships, you will get a separate shipping notification which includes info on how to track. This will probably take me all week to do, and if your order contains some designs that are still awaiting reprint or restock, it depends on when that arrives. - When you get your tracking number,please please please keep an eye on it! Losses and/or misrouted parcels can always happen so if you notice that your shipment is not showing activity after a certain point, contact me and I will ask my shipping company to look into it and I can replace parcels. - When you receive your package and it looks damaged, take pictures of it before unboxing. If the contents are damaged, contact me as soon as possible and send as many clear pictures as you can. - If everything arrives well - share a picture too and let me know if the products made you happy :D If you ordered a transfer, I would love to see what you used it on.
Also, I am working on guides on how to use the DTF transfers correctly, I will keep you posted :> There are a lot around the internet too which you can search, but I will try to make a detailed guide.
Some fun stats!
In case you wonder what the most popular designs were! For the actual glass cups... ... 62 total were ordered and not dropped ... ZERO opted for the plain lid, everyone wanted the print :> (this makes me happy!) ... 38 of them were from the soda girl main series ... 11 were Gyokuro alone ... 8 were from the flower tea series ... 5 from classic tea series ... two who did not receive orders were Oolong and Lotus Tea ... the most popular one was Shirley Temple, barely beating Gyokuro with 12! For the transfers... ... 43 total ordered and not dropped ... the popularity distribution was way more even! ... Gyokuro was the most popular at 6, followed by Elderflower and Ramune at 5 each!
... Every design was ordered at least twice! For the magnetic bookmarks... ... Shirley Temple was most popular at 13, closely followed by Elderflower at 12 ... Ramune and Herbs got 7 and 9 respectively!
First of all thank you so so much, we managed to raise 12.8k Euro, which is exactly 3k more than I asked for to make this book real. I'm genuinely speechless, knowing that this is all just my own art and work. This also means the edition quantity will be 500 books, with 232 being sold via Backerkit. The rest will end up in my online shop or be sold via conventions in future.
What comes next - Backerkit will start collecting payments and in the meantime I'll set up the Pledge Manager proper and set up surveys for shipping costs and all. Staff advised to send the surveys two weeks after end of the campaign. I'll make another update here before I do so, though. On the production side, I'll contact my printer again. I want another set of proofs for the safety of my mind to know that the art comes out well. My choice of paper for the pages is kinda wild but I adore it a lot due to natural feel including real wood. Printer already said our last proofs were "excellent", so that's pretty nice. Once that is done and I have the money from Backerkit, I will order the books. As mentioned in the campaign, I was offered to be physically present when printing starts so I'll schedule that in as well.
I noticed there was one person among the backers who pledged a bit more, which also coincides exactly with what shipping would have been for their tier. Shipping will be charged extra later, so if this was a mistakenly assumed to be shipping and the person wants to fix it, please let me know. In general, if there are any questions feel free to contact me, either via comment here or via my email [email protected]
We were not planning on sending them so far away from our estimated shipping date, but due to the fact we had over $10,000.00 in dropped pledges we had no choice. This was the only way for many to fix their payment errors, so we released the survey a lot earlier than we wanted to.
We will also have to charge credit cards for shipping and add ons earlier than we anticipated, so we have enough money to cover all the supplies we need, and get everything ready for fulfillment. As we’re sure you understand, we had to prioritise paying our wonderful artists and the printers ASAP, even with such a large shortfall.
Thank you so much for everyone who has filled out their survey and have added extra goodies to your pledge! Every single cent goes to running this project and paying our artists. So thank you.
Our entire mission is to bring income and an audience to our artists. It is why we are still running after all these years. Our passion will always be for our artists.
Which brings me to the next thing.
Calendars and Spread Books We have to buy a minimum of 500 of each of these, there is no better price point (trust me, I have been looking!). We had thought they would be more popular, but we have a LOT left over. So we think it is only fair to split them among the artists involved so they can sell them and make money from them. We hope you are okay with this. Otherwise we would just have to recycle them, as they are designed to be Backerkit exclusives! It’s better the artists make as much as they can with them ❤
One last thing, we are running about two weeks behind on production, because both Trish and I had to learn a brand new software due to us having to rapidly leave all Adobe products after they stated very clearly they owned the rights to everyone’s work.
We could not chance them having access to any of our work or artists work to train their AI, so we switched softwares and it’s been a bit of a learning curve. But we are making great progress and should only be about two weeks behind production, putting us in the first and second week of October to be delivering to you.
That is all for now, soon we will be launching our pre-launch party for our Fall deck - 78 Tarot Nautical - The New Wave! This is a revisited, revamped, re-edited, brand new edition of our popular nautical theme. We are keeping some cards the same (20) and have commissioned 61 new artists! Wait until you see this art!!!!!!!!
Hope everyone is having a good day, night, wherever you may be in this universe.
As always, if you would like to speak with us directly you can always email us! We do not always see the comments and posts so emailing us is always the best! [email protected]
Woo Hoo, we can't say THANK YOU often or loud enough! We reached our Deluxe Dragon Chair funding goal of $10,000 in under an hour, with just two backers.
Is that some sort of record or something? Who knows. That's not why we're doing this.
Why did we run this campaign? Because we wanted to make something awesome and we wanted to know if others found it awesome, too. Thank you for saying YES!
We plan to open up new reward levels soon for the $150 Dragon Logo Norse Foundry Aluminum Dice (Set of 8) and $35 Personalized Dragon Logo Velour Dice Bag.
Slight Redesign—to the Dice Bag from Mischief Loot!
The velour is too lush, our supplier said. It made the Dragon Logo look a little bit muddy. The Twill will be easier to keep clean, too (especially if your house has as much dog hair as mine). The bag will still be lined with velour so your dice are cradled in luxury and soothed for (hopefully) better dice results.
We'll have previews of the Aluminum dice from Norse Foundry soon.
You have 15 character spaces to use! What's going on your dice bag? Join the discussion by clicking the bags above!
A Word on the Deluxe Dragon Chair Design
We've already had messages about changing the design of the Deluxe Dragon Chair. We love hearing your feedback, and it's okay to post those as comments here on the project if you like! The current design is a pretty solid prototype, but we want to hear what people want.
Thank you all, again! --Jodi and Clint Black
Followers of the campaign, keep reading to find out how our Launch Day went and other "crowdfunding theory" notes...
For those who don't need new furniture, we've added the Dragon Mark aluminum dice set from Norse Foundry and the Personalized Dragon Mark Dice Bag as new Pledge Levels.
The set of high quality aluminum dice from Norse Foundry have the Dragon Logo in the "Ace" position (replacing the highest number on each die).
Each set includes 1 each of: 🐉 d20 🐉 d12 🐉 d10 🐉 d10 percentile 🐉 d8 🐉 d6 🐉 d4 (Dragon Mark in the center of the numbers) 🐉 A bonus d6 Wild Die! 🐉 And a matching case for the dice
The soft twill, velour lined, dice bag has the Dragon Logo embroidered in gold metallic thread. Each bag may come personalized up to 15 characters. [Our supplier reserves the right to refuse requests for derogatory language or slurs of any kind, but adds they're just fine with George Carlin's "Seven Words."]
If you were looking to add the Dragon Mark to your life without redesigning your home, this is the chance! Check out the new Pledge Levels and thank you all for your support!
soaps came in today and so i raced to pack and ship the rest of the orders. just finished dropping them off! postage went up a bit from when i ran the campaign originally so i wound up taking a bit of a hit on that, but uhhh >.> whatever that's how it is sometimes
if anything turns up lost or missing from any orders please don't hesitate to reach out to me! i have a few extra NB and rainbow soaps, and already need to order at least one more feather (a bi pride one vanished! where!!) and obviously i have plenty of books and stickers too.
Hey, everyone! Our pins are in production and I've gotten some updated pics. ^^ Most of these still need screenprinting and epoxy so they're not done yet, but I thought I would share some pics with you.
After a lot of deliberation, I've decided to run the 3rd Creatuary campaign on Kickstarter. You can join us there in August for Creatuary Companions, a mini pin campaign. ^^
There are going to be a LOT of mini pins to choose from and this campaign will be mix and match.
Hye here: It’s been a hot minute, and we hope you’re enjoying the summer sunshine as best you’re able. Before we bring any good news of great joy, we just want to say thank you for both your patience and support with this book as it's been through its development phase, as well as apologize for the delay in projected shipout. In between a litany of other freelance obligations and personal life events, we had to do a lot of back and forth with our printer for revisions and touch-ups to ensure Paradise Lust would be the best version of itself it could be. So, after a couple months of delays and production headaches, we’re so happy to say the books have finally been given the green to be bound, and will arrive at our fulfillment partner White Squirrel in Washington state in late August/early September at the latest!
While we’ll have our advance copies here in the next couple weeks for a right and proper photo sesh, check out some sneak peeks from the unbound interior pages:
Once we have word that the books are on the water (est. 3rd week of July), we’ll send out Backerkit surveys that’ll charge for the current USPS rates and offer anyone pledge add-ons should you want them. With the book embarking on its voyage, we’ll also have the updated and finalized PDF out for everyone as well: exclusive to backers until Backerkit fulfillment is complete!
Thank you all again for your support; we literally couldn’t have done it without you! We’re thrilled for you to see the final project and our advance copy photoshoot here in the coming couple of weeks. We’ll be in touch soon — rejoice and be glad! 👼✨
Hey guys! Your orders are now all locked and most of your cards have been charged shipping. A handful of your payments failed, so please review that. If you are experiencing trouble with using your card via Backerkit, please reach out to either their support or to me if you want to set up a different method to charge shipping. I will not be able to ship your order without collecting the second charge!
Everyone, please double check your addresses - they will lock in 48 hours. Check especially if you've given your apartment numbers if applicable, if your numbers and zip codes are correct and also if all info is in the correct field. All shipping info will be printed as entered, I will not be able to "spot obvious mistakes" since the address format is different in each country.
The final prints have not arrived yet so I'm shipping the ones first where I still have enough prints left over. Starting from this weekend you will all be receiving your tracking numbers which will mostly be trackable through DHL, in some cases for US customers it will be trackable via USPS. I will make a separate update for the shipping process and what to look out for.
