Since we're super close to the last stretch goal, I've decided to go ahead and unlock the Pink ita bag! 🩷🎉✨
All day yesterday, we were sitting about 1-2 bag pledges away from unlocking the Pink color variant. So I decided to cover the rest so we could officially unlock all 4 ita bag colors at the end of Bag Bazaar!! 🥳
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Thank you so much for the incredible support and for sharing the campaign with your friends 🥰🙏🏼 I'm super excited to get all these new bags to their forever homes!! 😻
📣 Don't forget: there's a new add-on for (5) holographic pin insert colors! 🌈✨
We did it!! 🩶 The Gray/Black gaming ita bag has officially been unlocked!! 🎉
~Mario theme~
~Music festival theme~
Thank you all so much for the incredible support and excitement for this campaign!! It means so much seeing our little community come together to make something incredible 🥰
I'm so excited about this new color, my inner goth dreams are coming true lol 🖤🔮 This is basically what I'm imagining people wearing with this new goth style bag at conventions 🥰🤘🏼
🔒 Our next goal is the pink gaming bag!! 💪🏼💖✨
I've seen pledges fluctuating a little bit back and forth this past week, so I’d love to keep this momentum going strong so we can safely keep this new gray color unlocked! 🩶 Not only that, but it would be amazing to push for the final goal: the pink ita bag!! 💖✨
✨ Here's the best part about unlocking this bag!! ✨ I did the math and we only need about 25 more ita bag pledges to unlock all 4 bag colors!! That means we are *soooo* incredibly close to unlocking the last pink bag together in the last week of Bag Bazaar 😻
The best way you can help right now is to simply share the campaign link! 🥰🙏🏼
Please help share the link below with all your loved ones~
🎮 Gamer friends & family 👜 Ita bag collectors ✨ Convention friends 💖 Pin communities 📲 Facebook, Instagram, other social media, Discord servers, anywhere online really! ^_^
It may not seem like it, but every single share genuinely does help!! 🥰🙏🏼✨
📣⌛️ Reminder: Bag Bazaar ends in 8 days on June 2nd @10pm EST~
(That means only 1 more week to share the campaign!)
Thank you again for making Bag Bazaar such an amazing experience!! 💖 I'm thinking if we reach the final pink bag goal, new holographic insert colors will unlock next?? 🙊✨ Until the next update~
Wow!! I can't believe how successful the first day of Bag Bazaar was!! 😻
✨ Let's look at the highlights of day one! ✨ ➡️ 1st bag unlocked in 3 hours! 🏆 ➡️ 2nd bag unlocked less than 24 hours from launch! 🚀
Thank you for all of your support on the 1st day!! 🎉 We unlocked BOTH the (Red/Blue) and the (Blue/Green) ita bag color variants together as a community!! I can't thank you all enough 🙏🏼
If you didn't see these options, I snuck in the Mega Bundle tier today! This upgraded tier includes (2) Regular pins, (2) XL pins, and (2) Mini pins of your choice!
➡️ With the fully customizable Create-A-Bag Tier, you can change pretty much any color inside and out! We can even customize your (2) insert colors if you so choose~
All pink inside! Normal bag color is black inside
🗣️ But will I lose my Early Bird freebie pin if I upgrade tiers?!
The answer is nope!! Not at all!
➡️ Early bird rewards are linked through your original backer timestamp on the backend, not necessarily by which pledge tier you picked! The pledge tiers are labeled "Early Bird" mostly for the price differences! 😊
So if you want to upgrade your Pledge Tier later, your Early Bird freebies are still safely linked to your account! ^_^ 💖✨
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Thank you all again for the incredible support during the Bag Bazaar launch!! 👜🚀
My manufacturer has come back at me with new prices for the bag inserts.
It would mean editing the cost for you all by another 10-12$ per.. Which I really really REALLY do not want to do, and I’m actively trying to negotiate with them to break down the costs per set.
The only way I could keep the current cost is if you were all okay with accepting just ONE panel at the currently set price rather than a set of three.. this would be for everything except the candle early birds. The added on later /extra sets would be edited as well.
I’d love to hear back from you with opinions on this.
My only other option would be to try and see how much it would cost ( which might end up being the same ) to attempt making them myself with my sister’s help as she’s a seamstress with more experience than I.. but I wouldn’t also be able to Guaranteed the same level of finish on the pieces if I go that route.
I’ll edit this post with updates on any negotiation I can get through with my manufacturer, but in the mean time please let me know what routes you’d like me to do..
This is a reminder that you only have 1 week left to fill out your survey for your Basic Witch Ita Bag reward.
If you do not fill out your survey by July 9th, your order will not be included in my counts when I order the bags & pins.
I do not plan on ordering a ton of extra bags, so if you do not fill out your survey, you're at risk of not receiving your rewards, and your pledge will be considered "bonus support".
Please submit your survey ASAP!
Pay Over Time Backers
As I've mentioned in previous updates, POT backers will receive the official survey link 48 hours after your order is paid in full.
However, please do use the deadline of July 9th to fill out your pre-survey. If you don't fill out your pre-survey by July 9th, you'll also be at risk of your orders not being included in my counts.
If you missed the link to the pre-survey, please email me at [email protected] and I'll send you the link so you can submit it.
That's all for now. After the survey closes on July 9th, I'll tally all the counts and start getting the bags and pins ordered!
A better shot of the colors in the mini lantern size! Full art swatches will be produced and started with me shortly! I’ll update this post with them when I get ‘em
Reaching out to let everyone know I’m locking down final counts now so I can get orders placed appropriately with my manufacturers!
We are still in a pretty hefty list of failed payments though, and that doesn’t include all of you in the pay over time darlings! You’re well accommodated, and I am doing what I can to over order a few bags of each so there’s plenty of coverage !
Please do what you can to Correct you’re payments soon, I’ve got over 20 currently!
The preorder shop will also be closing soon so last chance to grab goodies while possible!
Most everyone has filled out their surveys, so thank you for that! Orders will be locking Wednesday July 1st, cards will be locking the following Friday the 3rd.
Now I know that's early, but we had a lot of failed pledges, so I need to charge cards to help make up that difference. Don't worry about the shipping costs, that all gets transferred to a separate account just for that!
