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Hey whateve! :smile: Thanks!

Yeah, I actually had a white female budgie very similar to this, also with blue on her tummy, when I was a child. That one was named Snowball. (I guess I wasn't terribly imaginative.) I never would have come up with "Christabel" on my own, but I think it's brilliant. The truth is that I suggested "Cindy Lou", as in the character from the Grinch. Then I promptly shut up and let daughter come up with something better. ;) )

The Geiger bag is bright, not just due to the colors, but also the metallic frost. With my limited camera skills I had a heck of a time getting a pic that wasn't so bright it washed the colors out. But it's soooooooo pretty, and the leather is actually very nice. This mini is small, but holds the basics for evening out, and since it's so small, it's almost like a little "jewel". ....... They do come in more muted colors, and I might actually get a burgundy one at some point. The bird head on it is just beautiful. Very detailed.
Ha! My white bird was called Snowy, so perhaps even less imaginative than yours!
 
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So .... we're birdie people in my family. I've had birds my whole life, mostly of the psittacine (parrot/hookbill) variety, although my first pet ever, at the age of three, was one of my grandmother's bantam chickens. :smile:

Hubby and daughter have become pros at the birds too, and we currently have nine, ranging in size from a budgie to cockatiels, conures, a ringneck, and three red-bellied parrots. All but two of the nine are rescues/re-homes/rehabs/runt-of-the-litter.

No fears though, we are not hoarders ;). Our bird cages line our dining/living rooms so they're at the center of family life, all have their "favorite human", all get regular visits to an avian specialist vet, and since I've been a stay-at-home for years, they all have plenty of playtime outside their cages. So yeah, nine is a lot, but as I said, most are rescues, and when we have "room at the inn", we're always willing to take in the next. (If curious, many of them are entered into the "rescues" thread in the Animalicious sub-forum here.)

So anyway, a couple weeks ago our elderly lovebird (a re-home we had for five years), had a stroke and passed. :sad: It's always a shock to the system, but given that Christmas was coming and we "had room at the inn", we stopped by our favorite bird supply place. (What I mean is, we knew we would take a rescue if they had one, and with Christmas coming we wouldn't want it sitting in the shop over the holiday. Get it home with the family.)

They do sell hand-raised young ones (screening the potential buyers), but they're also well-known as a safe place to "drop off" birds that need new homes. Well, they had a very young budgie who was found outside, in the neighboring city on Thanksgiving Day. Lost and found messages went out but no one claimed her, so we were asked to take her. Our daughter named her Christabel as a play on "Christmas Bells". It's been a looooong time since I had a budgie, but there we are.

In the midst of all this, we finally, *finally* got down to KOP for daughter's favorite shopping trip of the holidays. We met up with tpf-er @chowlover2 down there, she gave daughter a lovely vintage Coach Madison Spence bag (which I've posted here: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...-reveal-thread.856379/page-1504#post-33515016 ).

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd, I picked up a Kurt Geiger 'birdie' bag at Nordstrom. ...
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I've seen them here on tpf on occasion, and given our birds, how could I *not* get one??? I went with the metallic leather, rainbow, "mini Kensington". I admit it's a bit bright for some occasions, but for evenings out, or college theater shows, Shakespeare festival, things like that, I'll mix it in with my other small bags. And I especially wanted the multicolor, because I actually do have feathers from our birds in almost every color in this bag. The only color I don't have in feather form is pink, but I don't see us with a rose-breasted or Moluccan cockatoo anytime soon. ;) The bag's first outing was today, for Christabel's first vet visit.

And funnily, this is how the bills worked out:
Christabel: free
1 lb Zupreme "mini" pellets (Miss mini-parrot here, will need the mini size): $5
Kurt Geiger birdie bag: $165
Cinnamon's (lovebird) autopsy, cremation, and donation we make to the vet's wildlife fund on events like this: $380
Christabel's first vet visit (with bloodwork): $322

I just find that list amusing ... when the bag is so dwarfed. Perhaps other tpf'ers can see the irony as well. I remind myself of this often -- it's not actually bags that eat the budget. ;) (And yes, budgies should have vet checks and bloodwork just like any other parrot.)

And here's our Christmas arrival ... (daughter is working on finger training her)

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Cute birdies and bag. I hand fed a baby Congo African Grey from 6 weeks until I lost him at 17 years. I was heartbroken and can't have another bird. He had a vocabulary of over 100 words and used them in context perfectly. I miss him so much.
 
Cute birdies and bag. I hand fed a baby Congo African Grey from 6 weeks until I lost him at 17 years. I was heartbroken and can't have another bird. He had a vocabulary of over 100 words and used them in context perfectly. I miss him so much.

Oh man, I'm sorry. :sad: My first bird "on my own", after finishing grad school and moving into my first apartment, was a Maximillian pionus. Pionus are not quite as long lived as greys, but they should go to forty years. She was hubby's first bird ... we even had a miniature figure of her perched on the shoulder of the groom atop of our wedding cake. I got her at 6 months, and she died at a mere 15 years. She had all kinds of crazy, bizarre medical issues. Vet checks every six months. And she died in my hands literally the day after Christmas. It was a horror, and still haunts me sometimes. We already had other birds by then though, so there was no stopping. Our vet sent samples from her to the Dr. that he considered the best bird pathologist in the country. It was auto-immune disease .... essentially avian lupus ... all along. :sad: But yeah, I get it. I remember multiple times of having to pull off the road to cry after that. (I also remember running a red light minutes after one of our ringnecks was diagnosed with cancer. I wound up screeching to a halt in a laundromat parking lot. It can really short circuit you.)

(Quite frankly, I still think she's around though. I think many are. I often get images/small grey shadows in our house, and I think it's the passed birds. I had a couple flashes a few days before the lovebird died, and even asked hubby if he'd "seen" anything. And just two days later ..... :sad: )

Hugs.

(sorry for the sidetrack)
 
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Yes ma'am! I have to be honest though, I'm having a difficult time breaking them in. The inside is very comfortable but the front ankle part is very tight & rubs the top front of my ankle. They must get more comfy because the ratings are really good.

Hey! How are the boots? Are they getting more comfortable? I want to buy a pair and I'm wondering if I should buy a size (or half size) larger?
 
Hey! How are the boots? Are they getting more comfortable? I want to buy a pair and I'm wondering if I should buy a size (or half size) larger?
Hi! I ended up returning. They just had little give at all. I put thick socks on & wore them around the house for a few hours & my front ankle area was sore. Amongst the countless positive reviews, you do see ones that specifically call out this issue with the shorter height. I think they come in a style that's more like a moto boot height, which may be more comfortable. Good luck!
 
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Dooney and Bourke Mini Florentine Satchel in Fern. She didn't look very green indoors, but in the sun...
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