Hello everyone! 
I hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season! 

I just received some excellent news from my manufacturer, the base ita bags and their initial inserts/claws/titles have finished! 

To try and avoid any possible shipping delays or monetary issues due to incoming tariffs, I've decided to not wait until the plush are done, and ship the largest portion of the order overseas to me asap. 

The plush are not far behind, as well as all the extras. Unfortunately, if I do face issues with tariffs there is a very real possibility that anything outside what I'm shipping now, could be delayed further until I have enough money to pay the extra 20% that wasn't accounted for when creating and funding this campaign. However, I want you all to know that no matter what you *will* be receiving everything. I have a loan offer I have been waiting until some such emergency happens to take out, and if it does come to it, I will take that offer to get the plush and remaining add-ons here. I have taken out a loan with them a few times before so I'm confident in their practices and am confident I can pay it back. (Basically; please don't worry about me taking out a loan! I promise I'm being safe and know what I'm doing. It's through a payment processor I use for most shows, and I've paid off a few of their loans before! I appreciate any concern!! <3) 


Anyway, on to happier news!! Here are pictures of the completed bags before being packed up for shipping!! 

If everything goes well, the bags should be here by Mid-Late January! However, with the plush, there had to be some changes made (it was just Latte's head, we had to size up Latte just a little bit) and that prevented them from being on the same timeline as I'm getting them made with the same manufacturer. The good news is, 300 plush takes a lot less time than 400 full ita bags, so they shouldn't be that much longer! I'm also on track to receive the pins and charms before February, and will be posting pictures of them as soon as they're completely finished. 

If you ordered a plush, you might have to wait a little longer for shipping. However, I plan on offering to ship separately if it does seem they'll be arriving too long after the ita bags initially get here. 

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! 

Thank you all so much for believing in me and trusting me with such a big project, it truly means a lot to me. I'm able to live my dream because of people like you and it really fills my heart. Thank you all again, and I hope you look forward to more updates!