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]

@SouthernPurseGal, I have never bought RE in a hot market, so others could possibly chime in if this is a terrible idea, but if you feel it was underpriced by 50K and you love it, how about making an offer to that effect and setting an expiration limit like 24 hours.

Well all our offers have been less than 24hrs in effect so that's already being done. We outbid the others and put an escalation clause up to 20k over list and agreed to their not wanting to move until April so if they don't agree to that then this deal will just have to fall apart because we are bending over backwards. I do love it but....

How would you Americans feel about moving to a county where you were in the 30% political minority? I already have to deal with being the odd one out this with my staff (& all my husband's coworkers) and my cousins and aunts and uncles and in these heartbreakingly divisive times that means that I don't really feel I can relate to them. I'm afraid it will be just slightly less likely that a mom I get to know (at the awesome neighborhood amenities or my kids' best friends' parents) will turn into a tight friend. Then again if I do find another one of the 30% we will have being the minority to secretly bond over.

 

[880]

How would you Americans feel about moving to a county where you were in the 30% political minority? I already have to deal with being the odd one out this with my staff (& all my husband's coworkers) and my cousins and aunts and uncles and in these heartbreakingly divisive times that means that I don't really feel I can relate to them. I'm afraid it will be just slightly less likely that a mom I get to know (at the awesome neighborhood amenities or my kids' best friends' parents) will turn into a tight friend. Then again if I do find another one of the 30% we will have being the minority to secretly bond over.

i would feel terribly about it, but sometimes we have no choice. Basically all you can do is remind yourself that people are basically good underneath and some could be open to dialogue once you get to know them. In the meantime, you have us.

not to trivialize it, but I started on TPF bc I had no friends IRL that care about bags and jewelry and other stuff. I still don’t, so I would never discuss it with them.

 

[momasaurus]

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As part of the January challenge, I am wearing a bag that was gifted to me over the holidays by family. Well, wearing is perhaps not really the right word since I stayed home, but my bag sat near me during a family zoom call. This Vara bag in macademia color has a lot of pink undertones. I'm not wearing perfume today, but I placed my perfume bottles with pink perfume in them next to the bag to show how much pink there is in this bag.

This is beautiful!
I love the idea of having a bag nearby on a non-work zoom call. (or hey, even a work call.) I'm going to give this a try!

 

[momasaurus]

Another dust allergy sufferer here, I've had it all my life. At least I'm not as bad as my aunt. The most important thing for me is to not have carpets throughout, and if there is wall to wall carpet (house in Scotland) ultra low-pile. My Henry vacuum cleaner is my domestic best fiend LOL.

So as planned I bought a new SLG this month, another Clavi. I could have bought black Box last month from France (as @momasaurus pointed out) but I think this Swift BM/JdN verso Sailor's Tattoo is of a more fitting with more of my daily bags. Smart casual rather than perfectly formal.

It's not the bright, bright I thought I'd choose either, but I couldn't let this little mermaid get away and knew I'd regret not getting one if they all sold out. It was about £20 more than a month ago, but going in to H NBS would cost me that in a train ticket anyway and h.com don't charge for shipping.

Bambou Calvi holds my CCs (easy to find) and the Bleu Nuit holds my business cards (which are printed on a green matte card as close to Bambou as I could find). I thought it'd be the other way around at first, but the green looks so nice next to the 'sunny' yellow. Sun, sea and lush vegetation all at once. I may switch around at some point. Right now, very happy with both.

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These are great! I love bleu nuit, and who can resist a mermaid???

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

Yes. I wish the whole house was hardwood but it would be so disruptive to change it.

Disclaimer : unabashed 2¢ worth of opinion to follow, feel free to skip :

Ummmm..... And your allergy symptoms aren't disruptive?

*Shudder* carpeting?????!!!

I want to be supportive and non judgey (and if I thought there was a chance in hell you couldn't afford to upgrade your floors I would zip my lip and not be gross about my privilege to be able to upgrade surfaces of a home I found unhygenic if I want to) but.... Assuming that you are not oppressed by financial hardship :

Carpeting is so nasty and unhygenic and the only reason I'm making offers on homes with carpeted bedrooms is because you can't easily find a home without carpeted bedrooms in the US and I have no allergies and my husband and I agree that we will rip them OUT either before moving in or soon. No one in our family has any household allergies but....carpets that you cannot take outside and wash because they are bolted down to the floor are just so nasty.

If it were me.... I would immediately schedule floor renovations or start saving every last penny and forgoing every discretionary purchase (and mentally bracing myself for the disruption) to hire people to come in and change my floors including moving the furniture out and back in. There is no bag or any other item I could purchase that would be more worthwhile a destination of my money than getting those carpets out.

And if I (or anyone in my family) had allergies that would go quadruple. It just boggles my mind that anyone could be discussing anything else regarding managing indoor allergens when you have those carpets bolted down collecting everything forever like a time capsule of dirt and shed skin cells. I didn't use to feel this way of course, I'm an American andI thought they were normal in the eighties and nineties but I've been 24 years without carpeted floors and I just can't go back without a gag reflex. So sorry for being so blunt!! Take my violent reactions with a huge grain of salt.

 

[880]

Hello, how is everyone doing? I am out of sorts, my routine is scrambled today - I took my older DS to an orthodontist appointment this morning. Funny how a small change can flip me upside down.

I watched an interesting YouTube video last night. The YouTuber helped curate one of their subscriber’s bag collection. I liked the way she grouped the bags. I’ll share it here, in case you find it useful.



On the theme of wearing and appreciating what I have,
1) Chanel Black Patent Coco Shine Small Flap, funny I don’t have any individual pics of this bag except for when I purchased it. I do more group pictures of my bags, it’s easier for me to compare and contrast, identify my favourite, most used and least used bag within that group.
2) Cross posting my Hermes Jaguar Quetzal CSGM (large shawl). I wore it on the same day I carried the Coco Shine.
3) Hermes Etain Massai Cut 40, I wore this to drive DS to his ortho appointment and I waited in the car.
4) Here’s the scarf I am wearing today with my Massai Cut, it’s Hermes Zebra Pegasus Maxi Twilly.

Sending warm vibes and positive thoughts to our pocket friends.

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I love all of this pics and your style! That massai looks so lush and cuddly.

@Sparkletastic, my initial reaction was of course you can mix metallics (But perhaps I was thinking of jewelry set far apart. I read everyone’s differing opinions and found myself agreeing with their prevailing consensus not to and found @missie1 ’s post really resonated (all the times my mom asks me re her outfits with matched metallic shoes and bag, I realized I take one out In line with @missie1).

@whateve, I have asthma and allergies. The scratch tests didn’t help bc I get hives easily and have sensitive skin, but the blood tests did to a certain extent. (Since they said I’m allergic to rice ans bananas, I took them with a grain of salt).

I avoid soy bc of thyroid issues. I suggest you try filipino fried rice. It’s just rice fried with oil and lots of garlic or granulatEd garlic, no soy, so it remains light golden. I grew up in the US, so I bastardize it with truffle butter or duck fat, but Filipinos serve it with fried fish so small and crisp (the size of a sliver)you can eat the entire thing, sautéed chewy beef, delicious slices of fried chinese sausage (The red one that is no doubt carcinogenic), and fried sunny side up eggs (all on the table mingling harmoniously with fresh fruit platters).

I dream about food too. It makes it hard to diet. I make big things once a week for my small social bubble and then have leftovers for everyone. The week it’s an eight pound chuck shoulder pot roast with a reduction of Pinot noir and frozen beef stock from a prior event. (Before and after - it shrunk a lot even with a very low oven) The rest of the week, it’s relatively quick chops and such (bc we are meat eaters) here’s an early picture (I periodically remove from the oven and reduce the wine sauce separately)


@indiaink, I’m going to Google African peanut butter stew. Thanks

@SouthernPurseGal, DH and I also prefer wood floors with area rugs (also what we will do in our second apt) , but, with plantar fasc, DHs flatter feet and my ankle issues, I can definitely see the benefit of comfy wall to wall as we get older. Plus, if you put in wall to wall and designed your furnishings around that, I’d be reluctant to remove. But especially during covid, I could not imagine scheduling a massive move and renovation that would uproot us for the time it takes. For one, DH would absolutely refuse to do so based on covid safety, workers inside our home and the sheer utter hell of living through it. I haven’t seen any apartments with wall to wall in years though. JMO.

 

[dcooney4]

Another dust allergy sufferer here, I've had it all my life. At least I'm not as bad as my aunt. The most important thing for me is to not have carpets throughout, and if there is wall to wall carpet (house in Scotland) ultra low-pile. My Henry vacuum cleaner is my domestic best fiend LOL.

So as planned I bought a new SLG this month, another Clavi. I could have bought black Box last month from France (as @momasaurus pointed out) but I think this Swift BM/JdN verso Sailor's Tattoo is of a more fitting with more of my daily bags. Smart casual rather than perfectly formal.

It's not the bright, bright I thought I'd choose either, but I couldn't let this little mermaid get away and knew I'd regret not getting one if they all sold out. It was about £20 more than a month ago, but going in to H NBS would cost me that in a train ticket anyway and h.com don't charge for shipping.

Bambou Calvi holds my CCs (easy to find) and the Bleu Nuit holds my business cards (which are printed on a green matte card as close to Bambou as I could find). I thought it'd be the other way around at first, but the green looks so nice next to the 'sunny' yellow. Sun, sea and lush vegetation all at once. I may switch around at some point. Right now, very happy with both.

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The colors are gorgeous! Perfect choice!

 

[papertiger]

The colors are gorgeous! Perfect choice!

Oh, I'm so pleased you think so, I value your judgement dear dcooney4 XXX

Sometimes having so many choices pulls us one way and another.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Disclaimer : unabashed 2¢ worth of opinion to follow, feel free to skip :

Ummmm..... And your allergy symptoms aren't disruptive?

*Shudder* carpeting?????!!!

I want to be supportive and non judgey (and if I thought there was a chance in hell you couldn't afford to upgrade your floors I would zip my lip and not be gross about my privilege to be able to upgrade surfaces of a home I found unhygenic if I want to) but.... Assuming that you are not oppressed by financial hardship :

Carpeting is so nasty and unhygenic and the only reason I'm making offers on homes with carpeted bedrooms is because you can't easily find a home without carpeted bedrooms in the US and I have no allergies and my husband and I agree that we will rip them OUT either before moving in or soon. No one in our family has any household allergies but....carpets that you cannot take outside and wash because they are bolted down to the floor are just so nasty.

If it were me.... I would immediately schedule floor renovations or start saving every last penny and forgoing every discretionary purchase (and mentally bracing myself for the disruption) to hire people to come in and change my floors including moving the furniture out and back in. There is no bag or any other item I could purchase that would be more worthwhile a destination of my money than getting those carpets out.

And if I (or anyone in my family) had allergies that would go quadruple. It just boggles my mind that anyone could be discussing anything else regarding managing indoor allergens when you have those carpets bolted down collecting everything forever like a time capsule of dirt and shed skin cells. I didn't use to feel this way of course, I'm an American andI thought they were normal in the eighties and nineties but I've been 24 years without carpeted floors and I just can't go back without a gag reflex. So sorry for being so blunt!! Take my violent reactions with a huge grain of salt.

I wouldn’t quite put it the same way, but...our house had carpet in the bedrooms and tile throughout the rest of the house, which had texture and was cold. It took months and a steam mop to get the tile clean and the carpet was nasty. We got half the house done over with engineered wood floors. Carpet ripped out (the padding? GROSS!) and new floor laid over the tile. It cost about $6 a square ft installed. It was done in 2 days by a crew of 3, and was done in a way that did not disrupt our lives. They did the master bedroom and bath on the first day, so we slept in our own bed that same night. Engineered wood clicks in place so it does not require gluing, which means you can use it right away. We will be doing the other half of the house soon. There were so many colors and different types of finishes, so you can compliment any decor or color scheme. And it is so low maintenance...just vacuum and run a steam mop over it to sanitize. Also, the uniform floor really visually opens up space and is slightly light reflective, so the house looks bigger and brighter. And I can get my house truly clean.

You are right...it was not disruptive and worth every penny. It makes our house more valuable and desirable, as well as pet friendly. I am so glad we did it!

 

[BowieFan1971]

Oh, I'm so pleased you think so, I value your judgement dear dcooney4 XXX

Sometimes having so many choices pulls us one way and another.

I second on the colors! Bold and cheerful, yet elegant.

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

I love all of this pics and your style! That massai looks so lush and cuddly.

@Sparkletastic, my initial reaction was off course you can mix metallics (But perhaps I was thinking of jewelry set far apart. I read everyone’s differing opinions and found myself agreeing with their prevailing consensus not to and found @missie1 ’s post really resonated (all the times my mom asks me re her outfits with matched metallic shoes and bag, I realized I take one out In line with @missie1).

@whateve, I have asthma and allergies. The scratch tests didn’t help bc I get hives easily and have sensitive skin, but the blood tests did to a certain extent. (Since they said I’m allergic to rice ans bananas, I took them with a grain of salt).

I avoid soy bc of thyroid issues. I suggest you try filipino fried rice. It’s just rice fried with oil and lots of garlic or granulatEd garlic, no soy, so it remains light golden. I grew up in the US, so I bastardize it with truffle butter or duck fat, but Filipinos serve it with fried fish so small and crisp (the size of a sliver)you can eat the entire thing, sautéed chewy beef and delicious slices of fried chinese sausage (The red one that is no doubt carcinogenic).

I dream about food too. It makes it hard to diet. I make big things once a week for my small social bubble and then have leftovers for everyone. The week it’s an eight pound chuck shoulder pot roast with a reduction of Pinot noir and frozen beef stock from a prior event. The rest of the week, it’s relatively quick chops and such (bc we are meat eaters) here’s an early picture (I periodically remove and reduce the wine further)

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@indiaink, I’m going to Google African peanut butter stew. Thanks

@SouthernPurseGal, DH and I also prefer wood floors with area rugs (also what we will do in our second apt) , but, with plantar fasc, DHs flatter feet and my ankle issues, I can definitely see the benefit of comfy wall to wall as we get older. Plus, if you put in wall to wall and designed your furnishings around that, I’d be reluctant to remove. But especially during covid, I could not imagine scheduling a massive move and renovation that would uproot us for the time it takes. For one, DH would absolutely refuse to do so based on covid safety, workers inside our home and the sheer utter hell of living through it. I haven’t seen any apartments with wall to wall in years though. JMO.

Yeah we also love thick asian area rugs!
I never thought of the softness. I stand corrected. I also never envisioned any of this in an apartment, I was thinking of single family homes only.

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

I wouldn’t quite put it the same way, but...our house had carpet in the bedrooms and tile throughout the rest of the house, which had texture and was cold. It took months and a steam mop to get the tile clean and the carpet was nasty. We got half the house done over with engineered wood floors. Carpet ripped out (the padding? GROSS!) and new floor laid over the tile. It cost about $6 a square ft installed. It was done in 2 days by a crew of 3, and was done in a way that did not disrupt our lives. They did the master bedroom and bath on the first day, so we slept in our own bed that same night. Engineered wood clicks in place so it does not require gluing, which means you can use it right away. We will be doing the other half of the house soon. There were so many colors and different types of finishes, so you can compliment any decor or color scheme. And it is so low maintenance...just vacuum and run a steam mop over it to sanitize. Also, the uniform floor really visually opens up space and is slightly light reflective, so the house looks bigger and brighter. And I can get my house truly clean.

You are right...it was not disruptive and worth every penny. It makes our house more valuable and desirable, as well as pet friendly. I am so glad we did it!View attachment 4967015

In our last home we ripped out cheap vinyl floors in the second floor and put really beautiful and indestructible vinyl click planks that look shockingly like blonde hardwood. My teenage son and husband and father-in-law put it in within a weekend but they were amateurs and had never done it before. Professionals would have done it in a few hours.

 

[Hazzelnut]

Purposely convinced my partner to go for a short drive just so I could use my HG bag!

Changing my mind set to use them and shop my own wardrobe, rather than let them sit on my shelves, has made me constantly desperate to go for drives along the coast road Feeling very lucky to live in Northern Ireland where our Belfast is only 20 minutes from the beautiful coast / countryside. Especially as we can’t go out and do things in the city atm.

Have also cut down my Wishlist by half by thinking would I rather have the money or the bag!

 

[SouthernPurseGal]

Oh and we are finally under contract!!!!!

The following is just a mental happy dance about the master closet:



Just look at the size of that walk-in with a window! With just $1500 worth of Ikea Pax walk in organizing closets installed you can morph it into my dream closet that would be like this on one side(except the shelves would be lit) :

And this on the other(except I'm not sure I want doors) :

But obviously since my walk in is not a full height room at the sides near the wall so I would have these modular closets configured into a shorter but wider shape To match my room's dimensions. But the style would be the same. A vanity station at the window is a must. With a mirror to apply makeup in natural light. And we will have dark wood floors and I would want a ridiculously girly chandelier like in the first pic and a fluffy white rug in the center and a trifold mirror when you first walk in, off to the right . And a cute and comfy chair on theme ( princess baroque) when you first walk in off to the left . So someone could make themselves comfortable while they help you select an outfit. And a large soft (Velvety chenille jacquard upholstered) Ottoman in the center. And sound design in the master bath and adjacent closet. Luckily my husband is, in his off hours, an audiophile and sound technician.

 

[880]

Oh and we are finally under contract!!!!!

The following is just a mental happy dance about the master closet:

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Just look at the size of that walk-in with a window! With just $1500 worth of Ikea Pax walk in organizing closets installed you can morph it into my dream closet that would be like this on one side(except the shelves would be lit) :
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And this on the other(except I'm not sure I want doors) :
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But obviously since my walk in is not a full height room at the sides near the wall so I would have these modular closets configured into a shorter but wider shape To match my room's dimensions. But the style would be the same. A vanity station at the window is a must. With a mirror to apply makeup in natural light. And we will have dark wood floors and I would want a ridiculously girly chandelier like in the first pic and a fluffy white rug in the center and a trifold mirror when you first walk in, off to the right . And a cute and comfy chair on theme ( princess baroque) when you first walk in off to the left . So someone could make themselves comfortable while they help you select an outfit. And a large soft (Velvety chenille jacquard upholstered) Ottoman in the center. And sound design in the master bath and adjacent closet. Luckily my husband is, in his off hours, an audiophile and sound technician.

OMG! Squee! Congrats! Near the sides you could have a built in bag and shoe display! And drawers. Just sayin! I’ve lived with an open dressing room closet for ten years now, and don’t regret it. Although it gets dusty, a weekly swipe with a feather duster or microfiber is fine and wverything gets aired. You also have an incentive to keep things tidy. And an incentive to shop less (okay, the theory is sound ) when you see what you have. You just don’t want direct sun on your stuff, so maybe treat the window with U V and add a shade for protection. . . so happy for you!

do you need more audience seating (for your girls)

my DH loves music but isn’t a tech person. In our current two bed, two bath. We only have devialet. But we just bought a 77 inch TV after going without one for years. And we were amazed that we didnt need cable or to run wires. Could it be the same for sound?

just realized you will have a make up station by e w8ndow! Yay! So excited and happy for you!

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