This is NOT your ordinary Camera Bag!

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Today I received an Epiphanie Camera Bag from my hubby for my birthday.  I knew it was coming via UPS and could hardly wait. Usually I don't get so excited about these things, but I've been getting very tired of wrapping a dish towel around my camera and throwing it in my purse in order to NOT have to carry around my boring old black camera bag.

Just opening the box was cause for excitement.  This bag is awesome!  

The inside of the bag is a beautiful robin egg blue.  It's completely padded with padded velcro sections to protect all your gear.  It has has many nice zippered compartments to help keep your things organized.

Now does this even look like a camera bag?

I was a little worried that my 4 lb Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 lens wouldn't fit in the bag.  If that would have been the case, cute bag or not, I would have been returning it tomorrow.  It fits!  Not standing upright, but lying down length wise with even a couple of inches to spare.  I can also fit my SLR body, 105mm f/2.8 macro lens, 28-200mm f/3.5 lens and my speedlight.  Wow - now it's getting heavy.  I couldn't resist weighing this thing loaded and with the gear mentioned it's 10 lbs! This makes the unexpected super padded shoulder strap a very welcome bonus.  I'm SO looking forward to using this great bag!

When my daughter saw the bag she IMMEDIATELY thought it was a bag for her American Girl Bitty Twins because "holy moly mommy - the inside matches the Bitty's camping outfits PERFECTLY!"  She grabbed her dolls and some accessories and threw them in the bag as fast as she could.  I almost felt bad telling her it wasn't a new bag for her - almost!

I hope you are out capturing some special moments today!  ~ Mary 

Blog Train Time AND 5th Graders love to Digi-Scrap too!

Happy Hoppy Easter to one and all!  It is time to ride the My Memories Suite blog train again!  We are super excited this time around to have some guest bloggers joining the train!  In addition to blogs of our Creative Team, we are happy to introduce you to some blogs of our Facebook fans!  They each share memories and events from their lives and how thy use My Memories Suite to create wonderful projects to preserve and share their family’s story.  We would love to have you join us for this Blog Train ride!

So hop on board!  We have some wonderful prizes to give away this time!  10 lucky riders will win free $5.00 shopping coupons for the MMS Design Shop,  5 lucky riders will win $10.00 shopping coupons for the MMS Design Shopand 1 lucky rider will win the Grand Prize of My Memories Suite V2 software!

If you don't know where to begin - you start at Sarah's Blog here.  

After our Blog you need to go to one of our next Facebook Fans Blog here.  

Happy train riding!

In the meantime, 

Check out this great page we received from our awesome customer and digital scrapbooker, Nancy Kropiewnicki. Nancy's  5th grade daughter, Grace, had so much fun creating this memory page for her 5th grade school scrapbook.

"My daughter Grace needed to create a memory page for a school scrapbook.  Instead of creating it the traditional way, she and I created this.  She picked out every detail.  It was so much fun and so easy.  And… no mess!"  - Nancy K.


Great job Grace!