Kimchi Kawaii

Hi all,

I just got a first look at the first pin. My manu likes to send me pics at times to verify that stuff is in the right place. This morning, I got to see the initial stages of the hotteok as they wanted to make sure the glitter placement was right. I love it! It's perfect to represent the brown sugar filling in traditional hotteok. This is just the first round. They will then clean up the enamel fill, add the screen printing and the gold tone to the metal.


Glitter is kind of hard to convey in the mockups used to run the campaign, so if you're now really liking this one or future ones that include glitter, you can add on to your pledge using the pre-order shop (or jump on to the Seoul Food train here if you missed the live campaign).

Surveys are about 80% done, thank you to all who've filled them out! If you haven't, don't forget. This is the only way I can get your rewards to you and I don't want people to miss out. 

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that surveys have just gone out so check your inboxes. I'll be locking them down March 30 and charging cards on 4/2 so make sure to get your info in before that time. Remember, surveys are the only way I can make sure you get what you pledged for as this is where you tell me what designs you want and your shipping address.

Also, if you missed something during the live campaign, the pre-order shop is open as well and there will be an option at the end of your survey to add additional items at their listed prices.

As always, let me know if you have any questions!

While I was working on the surveys and waiting on the smoke test, I was moving things along with my factory so I'm fairly confident that we'll stay on schedule barring any unexpected twists along the way. I'll keep you all updated on progress :)

Hi all,

Thanks for bearing with me! This was my first time using Backer Kit - all my previous campaigns have been with Kickstarter and so there's been a bit of a learning curve here to figure out the survey build. But it's finally been reviewed and cleared! First step was sending out a smoke test to a small group of backers. This will allow me to catch if there are any issues remaining before I sent out to everyone. Hoping the rest can go out by early next week.

Also, if you missed out on things the pre-order shop is open now as well. So those who were following but missed the campaign can still get in in the first group of people to get these. You can also add additional items if you want when you do your survey.

It's taken me a bit to figure out as I've never done surveys on Backer Kit before, but I think I finally got it all set up and it's now off at review. Once I get the ok, I'll be sending out the smoke test to a small handful of backers to make sure things are working fine and then will send out the rest. I hope to have all surveys out by end of next week.

In the meantime, I finalized all files and sent them to my manufacturer to prep for production, we should still be on schedule! One of the things I learned is that they can now do gradient printing on pins. So the radish and leek filler pins will now feature a gradient instead of the halftone printing which was the only way to hint at gradient before. Super excited about this!

That's about all from me for now! Will update once I get the survey approval.

Hi all,

Was selling at Katsucon this past weekend and traveling which meant not much internet access. Am back home now and will be getting the pre-order shop up and the surveys out as well. I know I'm a bit behind as I'm seeing surveys going out from other campaigns, but it was just unfortunate timing with Pintopia ending right as I was flying cross country to Katsu. Oof!