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We all love traveling and it’s always fun to see our bags travel all around the States and even over seas, so we thought, let’s do a sisterhood of the traveling bag!  So to make it really fun and easy, we are having a little competition to sweeten the travels! 
Here is the concept:

• 3 bags throughout the summer, contest ends Sept 1st.
• Rebekah Scott Designs will give 3 bags to 3 team captains starting in May.  Each team captain will need to distribute the bag throughout their team all summer long to see which bag can travel the farthest before Sept 1st.  The team that has the bag that travels the farthest in miles will all receive 30.00 in Bekah Bucks for a new bag, and the team captain receives 40.00 Bekah Bucks.
• To become a Team Captain you will need to send a brief email with name, address, phone and why you deserve to head up a team. Have you been a fan all your life?  Traveling is your passion, and you can’t imagine ever owning any other bag than a Bekah bag? Simply love competition or need a new bag real bad?  Just be creative and get campaigning!  We will choose 3 team captains by May 26th  based on creativity, drive and excitement over leading a team.

Team Captain responsibilities:

• The team captain will start the bag in rotation.
• The bag can be adorned by maximum of 12 women by Sept 1st.
• The Team Captain will collect the name, address, photo of bag in destination, and
  mileage from each team member then report to Rebekah Scott Designs.  Each photo will be posted on website gallery of pics for that team.
• Keeping bag clean and stocked with business cards to advertise.
• Naming their team.
• Pep talking team members into traveling and having fun with it!

Team Member responsibilites

• Traveling as far as possible!
• Handing out business cards whenever possible.
• Taking a picture of bag in the destatination adorning a cute shoulder!
• Reporting back to team captain with name, address, miles and photo. 

Rules:

• The bag can see maximum 12 women by Sept 1st
• Mileage is configured from home to destination and back.
• Each team member must report back with name, address, photo of bag in destination and mileage before giving away again.
• Fans of Rebekah Scott Designs can “campaign” to be on our team, so spread your wings and make new friends! Check out their love of the bags and see where they are going for summer travel.

I have often thought of introducing  a messenger style bag and so I did this spring and she is taking off like wild fire!  She is Miss. Gretta, and she is popular, I can barely keep her in stock. She is cute and fun and perfect for mom’s on the go or those summer trips where you need to be hands free. I carried one for a week and half and loved the flexibility of it and size, just enough for all my things, my children’s and the occasional book (sometimes I like the think I will have time to read, makes feel human, even though the book doesn’t go read for months!) 

We are gearing up for all the summer shows, hope to have 200 bags by Edina Art Fair, here we go! That group of bags should help us get off to good start for all the shows in June.  We are getting close, my kids still have a strange ring in the ears– it’s the sewing machine going nonstop but so far they haven’t noticed.  Iversyn loves the snuggly and being close to Mommy so I can still get some things done, she is no stranger to all my fabric. 

I better get to sewing and dreaming up new ideas.  I will be sending an email out about when to book trunk shows this summer again with some really nice gals who will be helping conduct them for me, so I can keep sewing and they can keep selling!  Let me know if you would like to have a trunk show with them and we can get that going, stay tuned for dates available! 

Have  a great weekend, back to the hum of my sewing machine!  Happy creating!

Oh goodness, well I wrote a long time ago about introducing the key ring swivel hook to the inside of the purses to find our floating keys and I ordered them weeks ago.  Well I got them today and they are much to small and clumsy for what I was thinking, so we are back to square one and ordering again. And wouldn’t you know, they won’t return/exchange them, yikes! I learned my lesson the hard way, read read read!  So don’t fear, I will have them sometime but I have to start over, hang in there, the frustration of finding our keys will end soon! 

ps. I put my keys in our cell phone pocket, the one located under our label because I can find them easier because that pocket is shallow for our cell phones, so the two can share, how nice