2021 Resolution: Shopping my own bag and SLG collection. Any one else?

[Sparkletastic]

NOVEMBER ACTIVITIES

1. Bags by Brand Showcase!

Each week, share photos of your bags from the specified brands. Choose a posed “beauty” shot or get your bags out and about in action shots!

We highlight 3 brands per week: 2 premier and 1 contemporary in alphabetical order as listed on tPF. Any brands not listed are showcased in our last week. Brands change to the next set each Sunday.

Our first brand week starts now - Sunday, Oct 31. Please share photos of bags from these brands:

• Bottega Venetta
• Burberry
• Alexander Wang

Tip: Grab your photos from last year in the 2020 resolution thread. Search your user name and the brand to find your photos.

2. Special Stories
Thanks @Claudia Herzog for the suggestion

Wear a bag that has a backstory involving a person, place, or opportunity for which you feel grateful.

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

How nice to serve dinner by the waterfall! And the cutest little playhouse (with a electricity for a television!) for my daughters!! I love the child size picnic table under the weeping willow next to It!!

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So the dogs (and kids!) can really chase themselves exhausted in the huge front lawn as well as in the back through the shady woods back there.
There's a ton of parking space in the long driveway, since they had a spot to keep an RV.
I love how lush it is with all those mature trees! I'm in love.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

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This is one version of mine. I think it's nice as a circular logo.

That´s very pretty!

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

That´s very pretty!

Thank you! I'll share how it came out on the various(probably too many!) items I'm having monogramed.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

I am also all for old fashioned monogramming, in jewelry and then, I have tons of linens (bed and towels) hand sawn and embroidered with my initials. These were painstakingly commissioned to various needlewomen (is that the word?) around Spain throughout my and my sister’s childhood so that when the time came to have our own households we will be well served. There range from more plain cottons with a simple border to delicate linen with lace, all monogrammed. Needless to say they do not fit my current duvet life, or most standard pillows sizes, or modern life in general. But I have try to use or repurpose them and they are very nice.
I also like monogrammed cutlery. And notebooks (my local Moleskine shop offered this service and it was great for presents, I like having the whole name). And discrete embroidered initials in pijamas (by the way @SouthernPurseGal, D&D offer monogramming for theirs ). But the only bags with initials I have are ones belonging to my mother (we share initials). And yet, I really like the concept of buying a good bag, like the Bolide, and having your initials there because you don’t even contemplate selling it, or letting it go, or even replacing it for a few years. It kind of recalls a simpler time...

Your parents giving you an old fashioned trousseau touches me so much! Mine did the same for me- (not handmade) bedlinnen, (not monogrammed) towels, good pots and pans, china for 12 and a monogrammed set of cutlery. Now I feel the urge to unearth the box and actually use it!

 

[msd_bags]

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I'm crushing on this photo.And the neighborhood schools are excellent as isthe area! I think it could be a slam dunk!
I'm so nervous!!!

Such a lovely place! And I saw more photos in your later posts!! Hope you get the house!

I don't. I once had a shirt with my name on it, over one breast, and more than one person said, "What's the other one called?" It was so embarrassing!

Sorry, but I really laughed hard when reading your story! Oh, and I love your Coach Emery. What a gorgeous color too!!

 

[880]

View attachment 4959202How nice to serve dinner by the waterfall! And the cutest little playhouse (with a electricity for a television!) for my daughters!! I love the child size picnic table under the weeping willow next to It!!

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So the dogs (and kids!) can really chase themselves exhausted in the huge front lawn as well as in the back through the shady woods back there.
There's a ton of parking space in the long driveway, since they had a spot to keep an RV.
I love how lush it is with all those mature trees! I'm in love.

I want to live in the dollhouse! Love it! and rhe mature trees! Fingers crossed hard!

 

[Katinahat]

Beautiful Lily! what fits in the regular size? i'm curious!

It’s quite roomy. I can fit in a larger sized long purse, car/house keys, my iPhone, various smaller essential items like tissues and lippy, and a pair of sunglasses. Makes a good day to night bag for events etc.

 

[Katinahat]

Absolutely loving my new-to-me Peretti Tiffany Bone Cuff - I received it earlier today and haven’t taken if off or even noticed I was wearing it. It’s freaking amazing! ETA: Yes, that’s a dog’s ear I was fondling. Darn hard to take a photo while holding one’s iPad in one hand and one’s other arm far enough away without dropping said iPad or scaring the dog to death.

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Gorgeous!

 

[Katinahat]

Both Oxblood Medium (left) and Regular (right) side by side.
Cards say both are made with the same technique but they are quite different imo, probably due to natural hide characteristics
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I love that you added the pictures of the bags and cards. So informative! Your medium here looks to have the same smooth texture as my regular oak. I really like that leather.

 

[Katinahat]

Bags 16 and 17 of the month yesterday. Both Proenza Schouler as it turns out.

First up is the mini PS2 in biscotti. This bag goes with so many outfits. I love camel as a color for a handbag, and this one doesn’t make my heart sing quite like it used to, but whenever I evaluate a potential new camel bag to replace it - this one still seems to fit into my wardrobe more. So, it stays.
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Then for our dinner run I broke out my PS1 crossbody in suede ‘Pepe’. This bag is DEFINITELY showing a bunch of wear. I don’t feel fancy anymore when I wear it, but the slouchy look of it is so cool for some outfits. So, it also stays.
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Thanks for letting me share!

Love these! Looks like they are great crossbody easy wear but also very stylish! I like the suede.

 

[Katinahat]

On the theme of wearing and appreciating what I have,
1) I wore my Chanel Black Quilted Caviar Wallet on Chain twice for the school run and also for grocery shopping
2) Cross posting my Hermes Animapolis scarf, the colours remind me of @880’s Sieste au Paradis
3) Sharing my Louis Vuitton Prune Leopard Stole
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Thanks for wearing and sharing your bag and scarf collection. You look wonderful. I especially love that you are wearing lipstick in your photos for the school run. I never wear lipstick at school these days - due to wearing in a mask whenever I’m not alone, which is a lot!

 

[Katinahat]

Seeing all the mulberry leathers makes me want to take one out today but we are expecting lots of rain so it is a no go. I love their leather.

Most of my mulberry collection copes okay with some rain. Has to where I live!! I wouldn’t take out the NVT leather bags but the others are ok. I keep them well Colloni waterproof spray and gel treated! If it’s really wet and I’m just dog walking I stick to my Kate Spade nylon bags though.

 

[Katinahat]

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I'm crushing on this photo.And the neighborhood schools are excellent as isthe area! I think it could be a slam dunk!
I'm so nervous!!!

This is a house?!? Looks like a holiday destination. Fingers crossed for you.

 

[Katinahat]

I carried another bag to my followup appointment with the eye doctor. It's a Coach Emery. My eye has recovered nicely.

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Good news about your eye. Your bag is brilliant. Easy carry, gorgeous colour, wonderful style!

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

Such a lovely place! And I saw more photos in your later posts!! Hope you get the house!

I want to live in the dollhouse! Love it! and rhe mature trees! Fingers crossed hard!

This is a house?!? Looks like a holiday destination. Fingers crossed for you.

Thanks guys! I'm so nervous! But so excited!