Our plan to take over the world is progressing nicely.  Here is a glimpse of our latest coverage, plus international sales this week to Ireland and England.

States Rocking the MollyGear.

Around the world, everyone is celebrating today.  December 31st is famous because its the day we ended our Ugliest Scripture Bag contest.  Millions are gathered in Times Square for the big event, which was weird because one only had a few hundred votes.  Dick Clark and that skinny version of Carson Daly will probably forget to announce it, but we won’t forget.

The ugliest scripture bag is:

Mary William’s Floral Medley:

As Mary points out, she is not, in fact, a 7 year old girl as this bag suggests. 

Well Mary, we can’t offer you the frills, the plush, or the limitless color palette, but we hope you will get by with one of our bags.

Thanks for everyone that posted or voted.  To those of you that didn’t bother to do either, your loss. 

Its exciting to see people writing about MollyGear and the MollyGear awesomeness.  Here are just a couple of people you should check out:

Family Goldman writing about all the cool stuff going on.

Magda Mondaca entered the Ugly Scripture Contest.

Jonnaraephilips wrote about the tote and even gave out a coupon. 

neilandnatalie loves the ugly scripture bag contest, too.

Hansens in the Hills digs the Sunbeam shirt, and some other cool products

and last but not least,

Seriously, So Blessed! included us in their December Giveaway.  Seriously so cool.

Thanks to everyone for the mentions.  You all rock, your blogs rock, MollyGear rocks, etc.

I think funny shirts are most funny when they are subtle.  Thats why we created the elephant shirt.  Some people get it right off, but others sit there for a moment with a confused look on their faces, then they ask for an explanation.

So how do you handle the people that don’t want to admit they don’t understand the shirt?  That is more of a challenge.  I suggest you explain it to them as if you think they understand it, even if they don’t.  Something like…

"When I saw this shirt I was like, Oh! I used to think the 13th article said that too!"

You see how it works?  Good.  Now you are prepared to buy and wear your own MollyGear Elephant Shirt.

Lindsey at The Daily Knack liked her tote so much she blogged about it.  We liked the blog post so much we are blogging about it.  See where this is going?  Lots of liking, and lots of blogging.

Read the Article

Amber shows off the MollyGear Tote, and why she designed it. 

The good news is, this only took 4 takes.  On this last one she finally remembered the word "binder".

Our new bags are now available.  We have 11 different patterns, and 4 bag styles:  the Mini, the Small Scripture Bag, the Medium Scripture and the All-New Tote.

Check them out in the catalog today.  They will make your wildest dreams come true.

We have also lauched out annual 99-cent shipping sale.  All orders big or small ship for $0.99.  So you can stock up on a year supply of scripture bags.

Do you have an ugly scripture bag?  Let us turn that into a new super-cute MollyGear bag for you. 

We are hosting a contest to find the ugliest scripture bag around.  We want to find the Mahana of all bags (before Johnny came into the picture, of course). 

Here is how it works:

1.  Post a picture of your ugly scripture bag.  The one you thought was cute when you were 8.  You can do that here.

2.  Don’t have that bag anymore?  You can make one just for this contest.  It doesn’t have to be nice, it doesn’t have to be sewn.  Just make something ugly.  Instructions are here.

3.  Tell all your friends to visit MollyGear.com and vote for your ugly bag. 

4.  Whoever has the ugliest bag (as determined by the voting) wins a new MollyGear bag. 

5.  All the rules and QA are here.

Simple huh?  So get out those orange-handled scissors from the kitchen drawer and start gettin’ your craft on.

I know I posted about this a week ago. But its just so darn exciting. 

Later this week we should have all the new products up.  New Mini’s, Small bags, Medium bags, and our brand-new MollyGear Tote! (Aka, the MollyGear Mommy bag, the MollyGear Teacher bag, the MollyGear Massive bag)

It is big, but not too big.

You can put your teacher manual in it’s own manual-sized pocket.

Your scriptures have their own water-resistant pocket.

You have room for crayons.

You have room for sippy cups (if you are into that sort of thing)

You have room for handouts.

You have room for chalk.

You have room for a very small dog. 

The point is, you can fit everything in, without it being huge.  Like clowns in a tiny car. 

I knew you would be impressed.

11 All-new Scripture Bag designs are coming.  Here is just a taste: