First, the biggie!
We are introducing super sized teddy bear for all you valentine love birds. The teddy is about 3 ft. tall and wears a t-shirt which bears your picture or message. And going by the hugs he’s getting from the girl in the picture below (thanks Bulbul for posing!), they already love it.

It’s a no-brainer girls love teddies (See What Girls Say) . Moreover even Himanshu, our design team member, fancies them and gladly poses away :P (No, he was neither threatened, nor promised any perks to do this – he willingly volunteered!)

When they say love is in the air, we say, well let’s make it a little more real – love is in the bear! So gift your valentine a super-teddy and get ready for super smiles and super hugs!

Here is ours. Freedom to us so far has meant pursuing the path we choose in our lives. But we didn’t confer this freedom unto ourselves. We didn’t make the colleges we went to or the jobs that our parents had with which they paid for our education. We’re enabled by the opportunities and choices that our India has let us have. Standing on the shoulders of everyone doing their two bits to make things work, India has grown and given us a broad horizon to think and play with. Everybody working to make that deadline, or protect that two inches of land from prying enemies, or educate that child is earning all of us one more bit of freedom with every single act.

It’s not sung about but every small extra effort you put to make things work is heroic. That’s when you exercise your Freedom to make things happen.

On a lighter note, itasveer is our attempt to give you a new freedom. Freedom to gift. So we try our best to give you the most choices and the best of customizable gifts that are made especially to make somebody feel special.

Out now is our exclusive two day 15% site wide discount on the occassion of 15th August. You can use the coupon code IDAY09 to avail of this offer. Vande matram!

Here’s a sampling of the ways in which you can play Holi with your friends there -
Dauda dauda ke rang lagao, Keechad me letao, Rangeela bhoot bana do, Nahane ke baad phir se rang laga do, Bhaang pilao, Daanton pe rang se manjan kar do and lots more. Do share your top tactics for Holi (we all have a few ingenious ones under our sleeves don’t we!) and we’ll add them to the list.. just drop in a comment :)

होली है!!

PS. Holi discounts are on. 20% off sitewide and free shipping on all orders above Rs. 100 – use the coupon code ‘HOLIHAI‘.

Edit: We’ve been robbed. Facebook just updated our user count and its down to a more humane 700 users. Happiness was short lived :((. And one would assume that this data would be correct, but we just looked up and found that many more developers have also noticed huge discrepancies in facebook’s reporting of app data.

Update: So the final count reached about 4000 users on Holi. Not bad I’d say :)

And of course, that means we have been paying special attention to making it a special month at itasveer!

Have you been keeping track of our special ‘Satte pe Satta’ offer - seven offers to be announced in seven days?

In case you haven’t, you should now because we have announced all the offers! You can buy the lowest ever priced prints online @ Rs. 1.99 only (3.5″ x 5″ sized), get Rs. 100 off our entire range of coffee mugs, get a 20% discount on T-Shirts, 40% on Large sized prints (6″ x 8″ to 20″ x 30″), Free Shipping and more! All the details are here. All of them are valid till 20th Nov so you can shop till you drop! Also, you can’t couple the offers – but then again, you can just place another order with a different discount applied!

There is also a specially created Diwali Store (much like our Rakhi store which was a great hit). You can buy Diwali Themed Mugs and Keepsake boxes here. I am going to put some photos of these products soon! [Also, a shout-out to Mukesh Kanojiya for helping us with some of the designs!]

So we sign off with a huge,

15th August has a special significance for us. Of course, one reason is that it’s the anniversary of India’s independence :D, but also because our first promotional campaign was structured around 15th August. We came up with these (somewhat serious) posters, and had them plastered around colleges, markets and sent out as emailers.

This time around we have decided to sweeten up the freedom celebrations by offering Free shipping on all orders at itasveer.com. And by all orders, we mean all orders: even if you buy 1 print, you can get free shipping.

(Oh, just one thing though: you can’t couple this with another offer. So for e.g. you can’t get 10 free prints (which we offer on sign-up) and also free shipping.)

Just use the coupon code ‘FREEDOM‘ on the Shopping Cart page when placing an order before checkout.

This April enjoy 25% discount on large sized photo prints i.e. 6″ x 8″, 8″ x 10″ and 8″ x 12″. Use the coupon code APRILSPECIAL on the Shopping Cart.

Watch out this space for more. Happy Shopping!