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!! 👜🚀
First Batch of orders have shipped! Dropping everything off at the post office monday.
Anything that was in stock items, or pins only have shipped!
Orders that have the dark grey glitter pin with white triple moon will be shipped once the remakes come in (early august) Keep an eye out on your mail in the next week or so!
Bags are still in production so all is quiet on that front. Still waiting on the clutch sample in the new color. Will share pics when i get those.
POT people will get their pin only orders once they finish paying for their surveys, and if they have bags those will ship once bags come in.
It has been a little while, but bag production takes so much longer than enamel pins!
I am excited to show off the new side profiles for the bag and case! The bag now has significantly improved side pockets, and the case now matches the top and bottom edge designs!
Great news!! The smoke tests were sent out over the weekend, and everything is looking great with no errors reported! 🥰🙏🏼 Since I haven't seen any issues pop up, I'm officially releasing all surveys tonight! 🎉
🎮 Keep an eye on your email!! Your BackerKit survey should be arriving there shortly! 💌 ➡️ If you can't find your survey, you can recover it here~ https://gaming-ita-bag.backerkit.com/
Please fill it out as soon as you can so I can finalize quantities and keep production moving forward on schedule ^_^ If you notice any issues filling out your survey, please leave a comment on this update and I'll get it fixed as soon as possible! 💖
Thank you all again for your patience and support. I can't wait to get these bags into your hands very soon! 😻👜✨
Here is an updated sample for the swamp pal bag and the wallet! Please keep in mind the colors look worse because of the lighting (or lack there of)
The Swamp pal bag looks all good, I am waiting to receive it too confirm and start bulk production. I want to make sure these bags are absolutely perfect! I might end up changing the main bag color, but I am holding off judgment until I can see it in person.
And the wallet! Of course it's Green where it should be blue. So just look at everything else. Like the swamp pal bag I will be holding off on approving it for bulk production until I can see it in person. And I have picked out the correct color blue for the outside as well!
First I just want to send a huge *THANK YOU* to each and every one of you for making this ita bag campaign such an amazing success during Bag Bazaar! 💖💖💖 I know this update is a little bit overdue, but I want to be transparent and let everyone know what's been happening behind the scenes 🤗 Nothing bad, I've just been incredibly busy on the road~
🌲The Journey to the middle of nowhere lol ⛺️📵🌲
So immediately after Bag Bazaar ended, I had to go straight to vend at a convention for the weekend. Then I traveled to vend at two separate week-long flea market/outdoor events that were held on isolated campgrounds in the middle of the woods. Even though I brought my computer with me to finish the surveys in my tent when the event closed each night, I was stuck with basically zero cell phone service. So that means I couldn't connect my computer to my mobile hotspot to work on anything 😩
Here's a visual of how frustrating it was trying to work on surveys in the middle of nowhere lol:
Any time I did manage to connect my computer to my mobile hotspot, I'd run into these weird error pages that I couldn't fix/lookup how to fix because of the internet connection that was worse than 90's dial-up internet lol 🙃🙃🙃
Getting so fed up by life and technology at this point lol
Now that I'm finally back home (and not living in a tent lol), I've gone into overdrive getting the surveys finished! ✅ The BackerKit team has been working with me since I got back to make sure there's no errors in the surveys, so I'm hoping to get the final survey approval by tomorrow and release the Smoke Tests!! (I'll send a new update when that happens~)
📅 Production timeline on schedule!! 💪🏼
The great news is that while I was traveling between shows, I was still able to contact my ita bag manufacturer on my phone to start the production process! That means that everything is on track with the original timeline which I'm super happy about! 🥰🙏🏼 I'm hoping to have the ita bags in hand around the middle/end of September~
‼️ To keep production on track, Surveys will be open for 2 weeks until the end of July!‼️ This is so I can update the final quantity if anyone wants to add an extra bag or anything else from the Survey Add-on shop ^_^
📸 More updates coming soon!
If you've backed any of my previous campaigns, I'll be posting photos + updates on those platforms soon that I missed posting because of the whole no service fiasco. Here's a sneak peak of the finished insect pins and some of the other pins in production🪲🖤
In progress
In progress
In progress
📣 I'm excited to announce a new addition to these Aztec skeleton pins: they will also be glow in the dark!! 🖤💚
Glow in the dark mockup!
Thank you again everyone for your amazing support, patience, and encouraging words throughout this entire campaign!! 🥰🙏🏼💖 I'll share a new update ASAP when the surveys are finally approved and sent out!!
I will be charging cards with final notice, about 48hrs warning. All of the pins are almost finished, i'm getting 1 of the mini pins remade as the color turned out wrong. (the rest are already on the way aside from the remake)
But the pin only packages will be shipping out as soon as they are here. About half of the backers on this project were pins or instock only items. charging and then addresses. If you are bag/bags pledges addresses on those will remain unlocked but cards will be charged for everyone.
Thank you for the support,
Here's some pics of the mini pins; and some of the inserts, the spiderweb is being reworked and not included in the pics.
red drip
teal cross
black triple moon
blue moon
purple moon phase
pink hearts
black hearts
teal spider
pink triple moon
green cross
orange bat
green drip
yellow moon
yellow moon phase
white triple moon
red spider
orange moon
purple bat
batilda
this triple moon is being remade to look more like the black hearts color.
black triple moon
black hearts
Heres a preview of the inserts, spider web is not final.
