Iron Ladies enamel pins

Created by Yangtian Li

a mini series of lady knights enamel pins

Latest Updates from Our Project:

everything is shipped!!
over 4 years ago – Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 08:24:16 PM

Just came back from the post office and everything is officially shipped!

Again, for domestic orders, you should receive them about next week or so if you haven’t received your order already. If in 2 weeks you haven’t gotten them, please reach out to me!

For international orders, please allow 2~4 weeks. But if it’s taking too long please also get in touch!

Thank you so much for your support and hope you enjoy your rewards!

Best, Tian

shipping is happening!
over 4 years ago – Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:39:59 PM

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your patience, I am still busy packing and shipping! They are taking a little while because I’m doing all of them myself, but I have dropped off about 60% of them today, and the rest will be packed and shipped out this weekend or early next week. So please keep an eye on it! For domestic orders, if in 2 weeks you still haven’t received them, please definitely get in touch!

For international orders, once I ship them it will take about 2-3 weeks to get to you, so please stay tuned, after 4 weeks if you still haven’t received it, please get in touch as well.

Thank you so much for your support and hope the parcels will get to you safely soon!

Best, Tian

shipping next week, please check your address!
over 4 years ago – Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 07:39:25 PM

Hi everyone,

This update is to let you know that the pins have arrived here and I will start shipping next week. I will lock the address soon through backerkit, and once I do that you won’t be able to change the address. So please double check and update your address if you need to.

Thank you and I’m excited to ship out these pins to you all!

Best, Tian

Almost over...!
over 4 years ago – Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:22:29 PM

Happy October everyone!

This super short update is to let you know that the pins have finished production and they are on the way to me, which should arrive in about a week or so. Fingers crossed! As soon as I receive them, I will lock the address and start shipping them to you. So please also check your address and let me know if you are moving. Thank you and hopefully talk to you soon!

Marcella sample reveal!
over 4 years ago – Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:54:31 AM

Hi everyone,

It's been a while! Now I have finally have some samples of Marcella for you! 

Marcella standard edition
Marcella standard edition

Those are actually pictures from the manufacturer so it's not staged super sexy, but I hope it's enough for a peak at least :)

We are going to slightly tweak the skin color on the limited edition one, at certain angles it looks too pale but at least I think overall it looks pretty good. :)

Marcela limited edition
Marcela limited edition

There has been actually quite a bit happening behind the scenes here, I am changing my manufacturer, and this Marcella pin is from the new manufacturer.

Here's the story, just to keep this transparent with you - those previous samples I showed, i think even though overall it looks ok, but i see a some little bubbles, which is especially obvious on the limited Ylva pin. So I talked with the manufacturer, and asking them what's causing the bubbles. They were defensive and said I shouldn't zoom in on little details like that and that's very common, they can't guarantee every pin to be 100% smooth. I really didn't like the attitude, and even though I am expecting some defects when I do the batch order, this is highly alarming to me and I do not want to take the risk of getting a lot of defected pins. 

I had a simpler design enamel pin for another project, and the first manufacturer didn't have the metal color I needed, so I had another manufacturer making those for the other project.  I showed this picture of the defected Ylva pin to the second manufacturer, they told me what was causing the bubbles and said they can avoid it, and yes they also say they can't guarantee every single pin to be 100% perfect but their attitude seemed much more honest. So I decided to give them the Marcella design and testing them out, and as you can see I think the metal parts looks much smoother. 

However, obviously changing manufacturer means I need to swallow the sample making fee from the previous manufacturer, and i will need to have the second manufacturer re-making samples for Gloria, Aurora and Ylva again, but does this matter to you in terms of schedule? Actually, NOT AT ALL. I'm just telling you a story here lol. I scheduled some buffering time for unfortunate events like this, so if nothing crazy happens, you are still going to receive your pins in October.

So the batch order is already placed with the second manufacturer, but I am still making them do samples just to ensure they get the colors correct for Gloria, Aurora and Ylva. Yes I am using Pantone colors, but things can still turn out different than expected so better safe than sorry. It will take them 12 days to make samples, then another 15 days to make the batch order, then I'm expecting them getting shipped to me early to mid September. At the meantime, all the sticker, bookmark and tote bag orders have been made and I will start to receive them later this month.

Finger crossed that everything will go well from this point onwards! I will be trying my best to ensure the quality of these pins, and get them to you as soon as possible. :)

On a side note, there are still 10% of you that haven't filled the backerkit survey for some awards, and some credit cards have been declined. Please answer the survey when you have a chance! Thank you!


Best,

Tian