Excellent news everyone! Not only are the tuna and salmon plush keychain prototypes done (and EXTREMELY ADORABLE,) I was also able to negotiate a new price for them and my other plush keychains... letting me cut the price in HALF. Plush keychains are now just $10!

This is because I can't edit the price of a purchased item or backed tier. I would have simply lowered the price but that was not an option. If 2 for what was previously the price of 1 does not appeal to you you're able to change your selections. There are now backer tiers for 1, 2, 3, and 4 bags, and 1, 2, 3, and 4 plush keychains! So there are easy options to jump to.

The tuna, made to match Mako Chow!

 The salmon, made to match Bear Chow!

What do you think? I love them, they're so cute! I'm excited to add these to my shop in the future and it will be so nice to have them in-hand soon. Between the 2 I think the salmon is my favorite, so the opposite of the bags for me in this case. Just like the original grilled meat plush keychains, these have the 2 different kinds of attachments so you can choose which you prefer- the sturdier grip of a classic key ring or the easier use of a lobster clasp.

That's all for now! We're officially over 37k which is amazing, thank you all for the support!! 

Hello all, great news! The sardine keychain and fish skeleton keychain are available as choices for the plush meat keychain. They'll be getting submitted to prototyping shortly! That means it is on to the spotted egg back with the crack in it, Sable Chow. That one is already in prototyping and is currently getting work on the second iteration- the first was accidentally big enough to fit a whole toddler in so I haven't shared it anywhere yet to make sure there isn't any confusion about the final size, haha.

Which of these keychains are you more excited for? I really want to see how the sardine turns out, it looks so sad but in an adorable way.

There isn't really much else to say right now. We're at that mid-campaign slump where everything is moving very slow until we get closer to the end of the campaign. Now is also the time where almost all new pledges are coming from random discovery or word of mouth! If you know someone who would be interested in these bags I'd be extremely grateful if you shared the campaign with them.

In just a couple weeks time we'll be attending Bewhiskered as vendors, and I'll be doing my best to fit the prototypes in to the display somewhere if you want to see them in person. We'll have our original Carrion Baggage line for sale as well! The campaign will be ending shortly after the convention.

See you soon!

The tuna and salmon are officially going to be options for anyone receiving a plush keychain! Tinned Chow is also going to be available as a full size bag! I'm super happy, those keychains were such early choices because they were my favorites, and Tinned Chow will be a great shape to have available as a daily use bag.

Up next are the Sardine and Fish Skeleton plush keychains! The fish skeleton is the matching keychain for Alley Chow and the Sardine is the matching keychain for Tinned Chow, so if we hit that goal that'll mean all the bags from this campaign will have matching counterparts. The next full size bag is Sable Chow!

Anyway! I bet most of you are here because you want to see some concepts! You know that community choice vote? I've been doing some drawing to lock some stuff in! None of this is finalized yet though, since I would really prefer to get community input.

Also something based on a suggestion! Someone said they would like the fish bone keychain as a bag. I don't think this is exactly what they meant, but I thought one where the skull is the bag and the spine is a printed strap would be neat. After getting it on paper I can say it is a neat concept but I'm not sold on it enough to add it to the vote right now. I don't like that I can't add more fins and ribs to it. An entire skeleton as a cross body bag might be better, but I haven't had the chance to draw it. What do you think?

For those of you who are unfamiliar with how my drawings usually go and who are nervous about how messy these are, a heads up: I have tremors, especially in my dominant hand. It means my sketches start off really, really rough. I have to draw something 3+ times to get it anywhere that feels like it could be finalized. On really bad days I might have to do it 7+ times. "Trust the process" applies heavily to my work. Try not to worry too much! Here's how Bear Chow ended up what it is, and these are not all the sketches it took to get there:

We did it!! We hit our funding goal in the first day despite it being a high all-or-nothing number to make sure all the bags folks wanted would be available. That's amazing and I'm so grateful!! Thank you all for contributing!

From here on we have stretch goals we can hit! They're roughly 5k apart in general. Our next goal is the salmon and tuna keychains which are absolutely adorable! Once they are unlocked I will submit them for prototyping, and then I can start sharing their progress. There were too many prototypes for me to start without knowing if they could be reached, but we're already on our way to hitting that next goal!

If this is your first update here's the most important bit:

Thank you all again!! 

In case you missed it, we've launched! Early Bird only lasts until Wednesday afternoon, so now is the time to get the best pricing. I'm excited to see how far we go. Thank you all so much for turning out. What are you hoping to get? A specific keychain? One of the stretch goal bags? I'm always happy to hear what it is people are the most excited for!!

If we manage to get very far there are community designs that can be voted on! If something is suggested enough I am also willing to add to the poll answers, since votes can be changed before the poll closes. So feel free to toss suggestions.

I don't have much else to really share other than my gratitude! I've gotten rather ill because I've been having trouble even sleeping anticipating this launch. I always think I'm going to open the browser to check it went live and I'll get obliterated by a cartoon boxing glove on a spring, you know? But! At the time of writing this we're already 15% of the way there, which was at a rate of about 1% per minute. That's amazing, thank you so much!!