Everything is here and my basement is now a warehouse of bird related items. Sorry for the few weeks silence here but things are moving quickly behind the scenes so here is a big update. It's a long road ahead to get everything quality checked, packed, and sent out, but luckily I'm getting some help!

BackerKit was kind enough to send out their very own Sweta to give me a hand and experience the birds first hand! We had an awesome weekend chatting about crowdfunding, taking photos and videos, packing, and just generally eating a lot of good food. It was a huge help and I appreciate it so much. Everyone at Backerkit has gone so above and beyond for me I'm forever grateful to be working with this platform.

I'm also enlisting my parents, boyfriend, and any willing friends in packaging activities. I'm doing the item picking/packing into bags parts so that if any mistakes are made with the order, it's on me. And no one else has to learn my system of 10000 pins lol.

When is my stuff shipping? There is not really a specific order I'm going in, but I'm packing most of the single bag orders first and will tackle orders that need boxes later on. Keep an eye out for tracking info emails. But you might also get the email up to a few weeks before I'm actually able to ship, since I purchase everything in bulk. Sorry for any confusion! I am also confused often!
 
Everything is ahead or on track with my original shipping timeline (Nov-Dec), my goal is to get this done by the end of the year but I may need to take a bit of a shipping hiatus around Christmas since USPS gets pretty crazy around that time. 
 

Locking addresses: I will lock the remaining addresses over the next week or so. If you need to update your address, please do so when you get the email with the 48hr lock warning.

I can ship about 50-100 orders per day, and am about 1/3 of the way done. It will be another 30 USPS business days before I can get everything out regardless of how fast I pack. It takes 3-10min to pack EACH ORDER so if you want to you, you can do the math there and feel very bad for me.  

I'm trying to be more active on my TikTok with packing videos so you can see the process 

Thanks for your patience and support! <3
Rachel / @corviforms

PS. Here's a fun drawing I did of a cedar waxwing feeding its baby aesthetic berries when I took 1 night off from packing bags lol

Thank you all SO MUCH for completing the surveys quickly - we are already more than half way completed.
 
And sorry for the multiple emails in 2 days, but wanted to make sure I clarified things as needed!

All surveys have been sent. If you DID NOT receive an email with your survey, make sure to check your spam folder. You can also access the survey via this link and your email address: https://bird-ita-bags.backerkit.com/

Baby bird pins and a few other bird add-on pins which were missing for the first 1-2 hours of the survey have been correctly placed into the add-ons section!

Surveys will be open until July 28th. This means that you may make edits to your items up until that date. On that day you will get a "Lock Survey" 48hr warning email for any final edits you'd like to make.

Once surveys are locked on July 30th I will send out a notification that I am charging cards for shipping and add-ons. Again, it will email you a 48hr warning in case you need to make any updates. That means that cards will be charged on August 1st.

Your shipping address will not be locked until I am ready to begin shipping. For pin-only orders I expect this to be August/September. For any orders containing bags and wallets, production and shipping is a lengthy process but I am still on target for the Oct-Jan timeline and will lock addresses when ready to ship. I will keep you all updated on the manufacturing/shipping process. 

Each bag comes with it's matching strap and insert. Any Extra straps and inserts can be added in the add-ons section. Check images for strap and insert colors. The strap/insert for a bag cannot be swapped out, please purchase extra straps/inserts if you would like other colors! I kept them as cheap as possible so that people can get multiple.

(Everything is accurate in images except for the duck, which will have a "more accurate" grey insert. If you want the duck and prefer the original green insert I can handle this on a case by case basis since this was last minute change.)


Hope that helps clear up some of the questions, I will continue to edit this update with more FAQ if there are any more common questions. 

Have a good one!
Rachel / Corviforms

Hey everyone,

I hope you are having a great holiday season! I'm still on track to have everything complete by the end of January and am down to the final few packages.

Sorry to those of you who got shipping notifications in November and haven't seen package movement yet - most of my December I was unable to pack as I was away to visit family on the other side of the country for a week, and then got knocked out by sinus surgery for a week. But I'm healthy (and can smell!) and back at packing now. Yesterday my dad helped me out and we managed to pack nearly 100 boxes, so my house currently looks like a hoarder situation until I can get USPS to pick them all up lol.
 

I'm taking as much care as I can in packaging but of course still make mistakes. If there is anything wrong with your order, please contact me via email at [email protected]

Thanks again and have an awesome New Year!
Rachel / Corviforms

Hello everyone!

Here is my check-in to let you know I'm still working on it! Been continuing to work hard packaging, sending out 50-100 packages per business day. We are now at 73% completed!

If your order has a tracking number but no tracking info yet it just means I haven't sent it! I have boxes of packages ready to go over the next couple weeks. I really appreciate your patience. I'll get the rest out as quickly as I can without making mistakes!

Since I'm packing things as quickly as I can I'm tending to make a few more mistakes than I'd like, but I'm correcting them as soon as possible. Typically a missed pin here or there - or my horrible habit of forgetting to check the item count next to the item name.
Maybe a dozen or two of these out of nearly 2000 packages isn't so bad though!

Keep sharing photos of your bags, seeing them on twitter, instagram, tumblr, etc makes my day! I try to re-share as many as possible :)

Thanks!
Rachel

PS. I'm currently doing a fundraiser for the Audubon Society - if you're interested in donating to help birds you can do so through my campaign here - https://birdsneedus.audubon.org/p2p/276109/corviforms

Donate $10 or more and I will send you a sticker, $25 or more gets you a sticker and a wood pin! Just fill out the quick form here (you know i love google forms by now) - https://forms.gle/yPcuLPzL2R8mrL1g7

PSS. If you are one of the 50 people who have not answered the survey yet i am staring at you sternly and wagging my finger disapprovingly