Yes, I'm late getting this newsletter out, and I apologize!  We lost all of last week to the horrid flu that has been making it's rounds, but I think we are finally better (knock on wood!).  But, this newsletter does have big news!

First, we did a drawing from the pictures that were sent in by you, and our winner is... Anna C. of Texas!  She will be receiving a $25 gift certificate towards her next bag!

Tori G., our runner up will be receiving a box of chocolate handbags... a girl can never have too many handbags!

Head over to our Customer Gallery to see the cute pictures of your favorite bags!  We are always accepting pictures to add in, just send them over to pictures@mimsi-bags.com and we will get them added in!  Who knows, maybe you can win our next drawing!

Secondly, we would like to announce our featured bag of the month for March.  Drumroll please...

Yep, there are TWO featured bags this month!  We are announcing our newest bag, the Chieko Kids Tote, and we have our Rachel Wallet just in time for Easter.

Chieko is a smaller version of our Tess Grocery Tote, sized down for kids!  It comes in a variety of fun, kid-friendly fabrics - we even have a few that are geared towards boys - and features a small ID-sized pocket to hold their library cards.

Our Rachel Wallet is a little longer, and is available for this month only with a fold-over flap to dress it up just in time for Easter!  I will send out a picture next week of our special Easter Rachel.

Finally, I am thrilled to announce that a portion of the proceeds from the sales of the Featured Bags for March will be donated to The Squirt Squad!  What is the Squirt Squad, you ask? 

The Squirt Squad is the name of a group participating in the MS Walk in Indiana.  They walk along side of and in support of a dear friend of mine named Ellen, who has MS.  You can find out more info about her, or the MS walk at:
 www.nationalmssociety.org/goto/EllenOsborn

The MS Walk is coming up in April, so we thought this would be a good time to help them earn some money!  You can also donate directly if you want, just click through to her National MS page for more info on how to do that.

Well, that just about does it for now, I don't want this newsletter to get too long!  I will be back next week with some great pictures of both of our featured bags - end to the house I am making up a full birthday party set of Chieko bags for this weekend, so I will be sure to get some fun pictures!

Have a fabulous weekend,