We want to introduce you to one of our customers. Meet Niki! She lives in Knoxville, Tennessee and is a fifth grade teacher with Knox County Schools. She has five Maggie Bags (so far) and we met her in June at the Maggie Bags Sample Sale benefiting KARM. We also met Niki’s sister, Kacie and we hope to catch up with her soon as well.
Maggie Bags: How did you first hear about Maggie Bags?
Niki: I follow Coupon Katie’s blog and last year she did a Maggie Bags giveaway. I have never entered any other giveaway but I really wanted to win a Maggie Bag so I entered. I didn’t win but I knew I wanted to get some Maggie Bags at some point.
Maggie Bags: Which bags in your collection?
Niki: I have the LeConte Messenger, Butterfly Bag, Campus Tote , Clutch and Tote of Many Colors.
Maggie Bags: It was great seeing you at the sample sale, but own up to the number of bags you, your sister and your mom bought that day! 
Niki: Ha ha. We came in the morning then back again in the afternoon. I got five, my sister got five and mom got six.
Maggie Bags: Tell us a little about your what you do for a living.
Niki: Well, I’m a certified teacher, and I have just been hired as a 5th grade teacher at Farragut Intermediate School. To supplement that work, I also have a few other jobs on the side. I work part-time at Mayo Garden Center, I tutor during the school year, and I’m the nanny for a family during the summer.
Maggie Bags: I understand you’re fresh off a camping trip?
Niki: Yes! We go camping every year to Deep Creek, which is on the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains. We camp next to the creek and we can go tubing. It’s so much fun! We’ve been going now for sixteen years.
Maggie Bags: As busy as you are, do you find time for any hobbies?
Niki: Actually yes. In college I started taking dance and fell in love with it. I do ballet, jazz and modern dancing. I dance at Tennessee Conservatory of Fine Arts and with Ballet Gloria, which is a Christian ballet company in Knoxville. Dancing not only allows me to get great exercise but when I’m dancing I’m able to forget everything else that’s going on. I feel free and relaxed. I believe that God brought dancing to my life to help me cope with everything from relationship issues to my job search. It’s been very therapeutic.
Maggie Bags: Next stop?
Niki: Enjoying my very first year as a teacher! I have been waiting for 4 years for this to happen, and I can’t wait to get to know and work with all my students.
~Laura Owens, Maggie Bags
