The Great Pumpkin Bag

🎃Production and Shipping Update! You guys are completely awesome and have showered us with orders - I am creating these bags by hand and with love and attention to detail - in the order they were received. Once you checkout, we will send over your ship by date and save your spot in the production queue. Want to know an idea of the current ship by date before you place an order? Just be in touch and we’ll happily go over all the details and timing - but after all, Halloween is a year long obsession, isn’t it? We are based in and ship from Wisconsin. We do try to beat our estimates whenever possible but these take time and care to make - I want your special bag to be a wearable piece of art! 

🎃Now, onto the fun stuff!🎃

Presenting THE Great pumpkin bag - lovingly created with so much heart and soul - I dreamt about this bag for weeks, quite literally. Once I knew I was going to make him, I found each night it crept into my dreams - how I would paint it, mold it, sew it. What lining I would use, the strap. Everything. There were many points I thought I couldn’t do it, but in the end, something I’m truly proud of was born.

The original has sold. Your bag will be specially made just for you. You can even talk with me about customizations (like strap length, lining material and pattern)

✨We do have payment plans available - just let me know and I can send over more info✨

The bag takes about 25+ hours to create, because of this, I have an extremely limited number of spots I can open for them. Once this listing is sold out, please be on the lookout for a possible tiny collection of ready made bags before Halloween. I cannot make any promises other than the spots I have open here. I would never want to rush something so special.

You can watch a video of the making of this bag, here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOUDQnZgS1L/?igsh=MWxjdmc3azZqaHg4bA==

And a video if the finished bag here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOeN8L1gZx5/?igsh=MW9jb25sczQ2eHlvaQ==

*If you want a custom liner for your bag, just let me know! Brown suede is shown but we can also do a fun halloween or autumn print fabric! 

💚Measurements: 

✨The body of the bag measures about 10” wide and about 28” around the outside/circumference. The circular zippered opening up top is about 5” across and about 15.5” in diameter. The bag, not including the stem, is about 6.5” tall. 

While all bags are cut using the same pattern and sizes, they are hand molded into their pumpkin shape so their exact dimensions may vary once finished - some might be a wee taller, some might be a little more squat. They will all be adorable and unique!

✨The strap will be custom made to your requested size adjustments.

✨The lining will be custom, you will get to pick!

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🎃A special note - you may have found our shop by first seeing a confusing and questionable ad on Facebook that said they were selling the bag you see in my photos for about $35. They have stolen all my photographs and videos - used the text from my listing here and on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok to scam buyers. Their ad and linked site show my bag, even including the Mesa Dreams logo I made and sewed onto the lid. I have heard from people who were duped into checking out with this fraudulent site that they were soon after spammed with weird emails out of China and had to cancel their credit cards. I do not believe this is a site like Temu where you get a cheap, poorly made replica of my handmade work - I believe it is a phishing site designed to steal your personal information. Thank you for taking the time to search for me and find your way here. As an artist and small business owners, this has been deeply hurtful and scary for my husband and myself. We are incredibly grateful to the wonderful people who have reached out and gone the extra mile to find us and place an order for a lovingly handcrafted, genuine leather pumpkin bag. 

If you’d like to learn more about our shop and see thousands of glowing reviews from the 14+ years we’ve run Mesa Dreams, head over to our Etsy shop, here: www.etsy.com/shop/MesaDreams

Why isn't your leather waterproof?

All leather is a natural skin, it retains moisture, gets dry and can warp and crack without proper care.. Just like us ;)

For our tooled and painted vegetable tan pieces we use only the best eco & health conscious finishing products - eco-flo environmentally safe stains and varnishes. These varnishes are water-resistant but by no means waterproof.

For any of our pieces, remove before bathing, swimming, showering or hand washing. if your piece does happen to get a splash on it, blot it dry with a soft absorbent cloth immediately in order to lessen any adverse affects, then condition.

On all pieces, I add a conditioning creme to keep it supple and flexible. This is a wax based polish that really helps protect the piece from the elements.

You will want to condition your pieces over time as the coats I've applied wear away. You can use conditioning cremes like Fiebing's Aussie Leather Conditioner to keep your pieces supple and to rejuvenate them... This cream is a combination of natural and synthetic wax emulsions (with bees wax) and does an amazing job!