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Decadent Orchard

Created by Key & Crow Studios

an elegant enamel pin set inspired by still life and myth 🍊

Latest Updates from Our Project:

🍊 Surveys Soon!
over 1 year ago – Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:26:57 AM

Happy spring everyone! Surveys have been completed on my end, and were submitted for review last night. Once I make any minor adjustments/resolve any errors caught by the BK team, the smoke test will sent out to a handful of backers to make sure everything is going smoothly, at which point surveys will be sent to all backers. 

I'll be making another update once the smoke test has been sent, along with surveys for everyone. Thank you so  much for your patience!

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Some other goodies available in the add-ons for surveys will be a selection of etching from my time in the studio at school this past year, and hand-embroidered brooches!


🍊 Surveys Coming Soon
over 1 year ago – Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:09:43 PM

Surveys will be coming very soon! I’ve been pressed for time to get them polished up between midterms and a surgical complication infection, but the midterms are at least behind me. Once surveys are out and enough responses are in, I should be good to place the order, all I have left on the design side is double checking my pantone selections for the final product. 


🍊 Thank you all so much for the support, and the surveys should be hitting your inboxes soon! 🌿

🍊 Success!
over 1 year ago – Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 07:02:58 PM

Decadent Orchard has been fully funded— all designs from the campaign will be going into production! 

Surveys will be headed out to all backers sometime in the next two weeks— with some fun extra options in the add-ons that I didn’t get the chance to get up during the campaign’s run time.  Surveys will most likely be left open for a while; as laid out in the campaign, fulfillment for this project isn’t slated until the final quarter of the year (though hopefully it’ll be sooner, if all goes well). 

Thank you so much to everyone who supported this project, both returning backers and new ones!

🍊 Celebration & Housekeeping
over 1 year ago – Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 03:36:45 PM

Decadent Orchard has been fully funded, and all the artwork for the fig pins has been finalized if you haven't seen them yet! 



Thank you so much to everyone who has back this project, it means the world! This collection has been in the works for a long time now, and I'm excited to see it come to fruition.

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And for the concerns raised by other members of the community-- yes, I have two prior projects that haven't been fulfilled yet, but are making their way now after a series of unforeseen obstacles creating delays last year. Both should be fully put to rest by the summer, as outlined in the most recent updates for both campaigns.

I have been relatively quiet online recently, as I needed to take a bit of time to prioritize my health and recovery--
I am currently a week and a day out from a very extensive sinus surgery to remove a large fungal mass (a fungal ball known as a 'mycetoma') from my right maxillary sinus, spreading upwards and deeper into my head; this has been an infection that's been physically taxing me and growing unchecked for over a year. I also started a new semester at the same time, and a lot has been piling up so these past weeks have been a period of "I've drafted and prepared so many things but haven't actually put them out in the world yet, shit," and for that I am sorry!

I'm still recovering, and given the nature of both the procedure and infection I'm being very closely monitored by my doctor to (hopefully) prevent a recurrence. Given my complicated history with some prior complications in surgery recovery (which made one surgery seven and left me bedridden for the better part of a year and half) and the nature of fungal sinusitis, severe infection only experienced by the severely immunocompromised, I'm not without concern, but things are looking optimistic (if not very, very bloody).


Thank you so much to everyone who has supported thus far, and here's to smoother sailing and brighter days ahead ~