Thank you! I'm leaning towards black as well for the versatility.Welcome to the thread lanit!
Beautiful Roulis, and I love your raisin Bolide - such a great color!
@papertiger was also debating on color for her Evie, she went with black (if I remember correctly) and has found it extremely versatile. Good luck deciding though!
2020 resolution - shopping my own bag and wallet collection. Any one else?
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Oh, yes, that might be a really good style bag for me. Perfect for spring & summer. And probably light weight, because of the canvas.
I'll start checking reseller sites!
Have you tried her fold-and-roll method? I don't know how deep the drawers are, but my bureau drawers are pretty deep, and with my sweaters rolled up, it meants they didn't have to stack on top of each other.
Hello, @lanit !
So nice to see you on this thread. You have such a gorgeous collection of bags, so well-curated, that it's hard to see how you'd ever release one. We're here to support you if a Kelly makes your heart go potty-pat!
And in the meantime, we look forward to seeing photos of your lovely bags.
February Stats:
Bags in: 0
Bags out: 0
SLGs in: 0
SLGs out: 0
Bags in: 0
Bags out: 0
SLGs in: 0
SLGs out: 0
Bag for this past werk..Lindy 25 Verso (thanks Morebags for reminding me of the name!)
This is gold with the red interior with the GHW. I discovered this while at the 2018 H national meeting In Las Vegas with Lanit & company at Crystals. Had to have it! I am a total sucker for contrast interiors. I really really like the end pockets..2 on inside and 2 outside
Here is the bag spill
It took remarkable determination and stamina to get this Venice pochette, which has the cobalt interior that matches the tab and the water! I changed out my wallet as part of my weekly SLG commitment. This is a YSL from the Tom Ford (I think this is this right) And the rest of my usual stuff.
Here she is, all loaded up..see the pockets? I liked using her so much that I may not switch for this coming week.
This is gold with the red interior with the GHW. I discovered this while at the 2018 H national meeting In Las Vegas with Lanit & company at Crystals. Had to have it! I am a total sucker for contrast interiors. I really really like the end pockets..2 on inside and 2 outside
Here is the bag spill
It took remarkable determination and stamina to get this Venice pochette, which has the cobalt interior that matches the tab and the water! I changed out my wallet as part of my weekly SLG commitment. This is a YSL from the Tom Ford (I think this is this right) And the rest of my usual stuff.
Here she is, all loaded up..see the pockets? I liked using her so much that I may not switch for this coming week.
The Venice pochette was the first thing that caught my eye! What an amazing little piece. LV does the BEST SLGs.
I posted pics in last year’s thread. I had a pic I posted on tpf of my new kelly bag used by an instagramer last year. It put a bad taste in my month and I don’t love that I can’t delete pics later from tpf. Long way of saying I rarely post pics on tpf now.
@Vintage Leather thank you forthis post! Yout took the thoughts right out of my head and put them in clearer words than I´d ever been able to do!
Oh yes, declaring a handbag to be a grail is definetely a strange thing to do and reveals a collector´s or even hoarder´s mindset.
It´s nothing but an item- nice to own, but suddenly I put a meaning onto it and form an emotional bond while reality fades...
I am a serious collector with clear tendencies towards hoarding. I openly blame myself for loving items, giving them a lot of importance, sometimes letting them take over my life in lieu of a "real life", anything exciting or meaningful going on.
And all the items - no matter how much joy they sparkle- sometimes become a mental load. A suffocating one!
As I said: I am a crazy collector and it´s not only handbags. They are the smallest part. The biggest part definetely is my pram collection- yes, actual baby prams and as my spouse is into them, too we have formed a serious collection of over 800 prams and dolls prams so far. They take over a lot of room, need a lot of work and at the moment are on my personal back burner. They were trying to eat me alive so I am ignoring them until the love spark ignites, again and will go back working on them with passion.
Other collections are 80ies cowgirl boots, pram rattles and vintage clothes... (not a few... when I´m honest I could kit out a vintage shop.)
People keep telling me to reduce all the items, not to form a load none of my offspring will ever be able to handle...
Vintage is a nice field to browse- mostly cheap and unique- something to pick me up from a mental low or stress like eating chocolate. It holds less guilt than buying more expensive items. (I never buy more than I afford, though and keep my finances stable.)
Your post really made me aware of the whole situation.
Ok, here I stand. And I know I´m crazy.
This is a good place to stand.
You said: "I haven't stopped collection and shopping and hunting, but I might need to work on that. Because I take on the mental burden when I decide to buy the bag, the sin comes then. Does that make sense?"
Yes, it does!
Still I keep hunting, too.
But as soon as the pattern behind it is in the open, it´s much easier to reduce it to hunting without pouncing.
Window shopping, keeping watch lists and then thinking it over.
Do I really want this item? Do I need it to use/ display/ complete a section of a collection or is it just a random piece for a quick soul-fix?
In this case I go and get the chocolate and turn the computer off! Actually I did just this twice today... and do not have the feeling I missed out on anything.
Oh yes, declaring a handbag to be a grail is definetely a strange thing to do and reveals a collector´s or even hoarder´s mindset.
It´s nothing but an item- nice to own, but suddenly I put a meaning onto it and form an emotional bond while reality fades...
I am a serious collector with clear tendencies towards hoarding. I openly blame myself for loving items, giving them a lot of importance, sometimes letting them take over my life in lieu of a "real life", anything exciting or meaningful going on.
And all the items - no matter how much joy they sparkle- sometimes become a mental load. A suffocating one!
As I said: I am a crazy collector and it´s not only handbags. They are the smallest part. The biggest part definetely is my pram collection- yes, actual baby prams and as my spouse is into them, too we have formed a serious collection of over 800 prams and dolls prams so far. They take over a lot of room, need a lot of work and at the moment are on my personal back burner. They were trying to eat me alive so I am ignoring them until the love spark ignites, again and will go back working on them with passion.
Other collections are 80ies cowgirl boots, pram rattles and vintage clothes... (not a few... when I´m honest I could kit out a vintage shop.)
People keep telling me to reduce all the items, not to form a load none of my offspring will ever be able to handle...
Vintage is a nice field to browse- mostly cheap and unique- something to pick me up from a mental low or stress like eating chocolate. It holds less guilt than buying more expensive items. (I never buy more than I afford, though and keep my finances stable.)
Your post really made me aware of the whole situation.
Ok, here I stand. And I know I´m crazy.
This is a good place to stand.
You said: "I haven't stopped collection and shopping and hunting, but I might need to work on that. Because I take on the mental burden when I decide to buy the bag, the sin comes then. Does that make sense?"
Yes, it does!
Still I keep hunting, too.
But as soon as the pattern behind it is in the open, it´s much easier to reduce it to hunting without pouncing.
Window shopping, keeping watch lists and then thinking it over.
Do I really want this item? Do I need it to use/ display/ complete a section of a collection or is it just a random piece for a quick soul-fix?
In this case I go and get the chocolate and turn the computer off! Actually I did just this twice today... and do not have the feeling I missed out on anything.
The hair is gone. A tooth brush did do a good job- being used to cheap vintage clothes means I am not too touchy when it comes to actually removing yucky stuff. It still bothers me at first, though.
