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. 

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.

Oh Boy!  They are almost here!

The last few months at MollyGear have been very busy.  We have been designing new scripture bags, (and the cool shirts),  picking out new fabric, and watching a lot of Oprah.  The shirts are out, and the bags will be here very soon.

There are lots of new patterns, more new MollyGear Mini’s, and the long awaited, much anticipated large tote-like Teacher Bag!  Its da bomb for sacrament meeting toys, or for all your other must-haves. 

Well, I can’t wait.  Can you?

After exhastive research, we at MollyGear have plotted the entire evolution of scriture bags over time. 

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As you can see, things have come a long way.  The people in the 1830’s didn’t have it too bad, rollin’ Liitle House on the Prarie style, but those poor soles from 1940’s on…. it was a different time, and they certainly had their challenges.

BTW-  Does anyone have one of those old, plush, frilly cases?  You know the ones.  If you do, take a picture and send it our way.  We will reward you handsomely.