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.

 

[880]

Gorgeous! I love this colour!
Happy birthday, dear friend! I hope the vaccine shot is painless and that it is only the start of many more wonderful gifts coming your way!

@JenJBS, Happy Birthday! I wish you happy times with your beautiful orange bag! It reminds me of a creamsicle! Hugs
@doni, Maltese cross, gold, fitted, closed with clasp. No one who knows how I bang around would ever encourage me to get my initial choice which was the very breakable black jade. I will post a pic of the cuff when it arrives! I am thinking to wear it 24/7 for the rest of my life Hugs

 

[BowieFan1971]

Ina bag from Behno in apricot. Birthday gift to myself. Carrying it today to get the best birthday gift - vaccine shot! What an insane world where a shot is a better gift than a bag...

Incidentally, I credit/blame this group for this purchase. Specifically all the pretty orange bags that have been posted, and showing me orange is a more versatile colored than I'd imagined. I hadn't even really considered an orange designer bag before. So this is me gently edging into the realm of orange designer bags... Thank you!

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LOVE HER

That’s all that needs to be said....besides Happy Birthday!!!!!!

 

[JenJBS]

Gorgeous! I love this colour!
Happy birthday, dear friend! I hope the vaccine shot is painless and that it is only the start of many more wonderful gifts coming your way!

Thank you, dear friend!
The shot wasn't bad at all.

@JenJBS, Happy Birthday! I wish you happy times with your beautiful orange bag! It reminds me of a creamsicle! Hugs

Thank you, 880!

LOVE HER
That’s all that needs to be said....besides Happy Birthday!!!!!!

Thank you!

 

[Jereni]

@jblended I am also sorry to hear about your quarantine. I hope it is over soon!


I miss real hugs too!

Ina bag from Behno in apricot. Birthday gift to myself. Carrying it today to get the best birthday gift - vaccine shot! What an insane world where a shot is a better gift than a bag...

Incidentally, I credit/blame this group for this purchase. Specifically all the pretty orange bags that have been posted, and showing me orange is a more versatile colored than I'd imagined. I hadn't even really considered an orange designer bag before. So this is me gently edging into the realm of orange designer bags... Thank you!

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Happy birthday! This color is gorgeous. How’s the leather on these bags? I’ve never heard of them but it looks soft and delectable.

 

[Purses & Perfumes]

@Purses & Perfumes, I’ve been thinking of other bag brands, as a distraction, and thinking that it’s time to cull my own collection. (I gave away a 31 trim and some SLG a few weeks ago, but it could be culled further). I’ve been going back some pages and drooling over your delvaux tempete. A very kind TPfer also sent me a link to some gorgeous delvaux bags with hand embroidery and pearls, but I’m rough on my bags, and I can easily imagine snagging the bag on something and ripping the embellishment which would be heart breaking. If a well priced opportunity presents itself I might try a preloved tempete to see if one fits into my lifestyle. Have yu ever compared Delvaux to Moynat? I’m not really familiar with either brand, so would have to research further.

Yup, hand embroidery and pearls are best on evening bags where they just sit on your lap or hang on the back of the chair. If I used them for daily wear, I would probably end up snagging the bag on something too. Although, I will say that I have long been admiring pics of special edition Lady Diors, some of which have elaborate embroidery and also very tiny beads sewn in as part of the embroidery. Again, these would just be special occasion bags, at least for me.

I am really happy with the quality of my Tempete, but I am not familiar with Moynat bags. I also admire the Delvaux Brillant, especially in the smooth (box?) leather but the buckle opening seems fiddly. Getting in and out of the Tempete is very easy and I like that convenience.

@jblended, sorry to hear about the quarantine, and I hope it will end soon. Hugs to those of us that are going through difficult times, and I hope that things will improve all around by the time summer comes around.

Ina bag from Behno in apricot. Birthday gift to myself. Carrying it today to get the best birthday gift - vaccine shot! What an insane world where a shot is a better gift than a bag...

Incidentally, I credit/blame this group for this purchase. Specifically all the pretty orange bags that have been posted, and showing me orange is a more versatile colored than I'd imagined. I hadn't even really considered an orange designer bag before. So this is me gently edging into the realm of orange designer bags... Thank you!

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Happy Birthday! And congrats on your new bag. That is such a pretty color!

 

[880]

Yup, hand embroidery and pearls are best on evening bags where they just sit on your lap or hang on the back of the chair. If I used them for daily wear, I would probably end up snagging the bag on something too. Although, I will say that I have long been admiring pics of special edition Lady Diors, some of which have elaborate embroidery and also very tiny beads sewn in as part of the embroidery. Again, these would just be special occasion bags, at least for me.

I am really happy with the quality of my Tempete, but I am not familiar with Moynat bags. I also admire the Delvaux Brillant, especially in the smooth (box?) leather but the buckle opening seems fiddly. Getting in and out of the Tempete is very easy and I like that convenience.

@jblended, sorry to hear about the quarantine, and I hope it will end soon. Hugs to those of us who are going through difficult times, and I hope that things will improve all around by the time summer comes around.


Happy Birthday! And congrats on your new bag. That is such a pretty color!

Thank you for all of the info! There is a crispy calf tempete pm is the equivalent of so black, matte black HW that appeals Hugs

 

[dcooney4]

This seems to be a heavy time for so many of us.
Sending best wishes and a virtual hug to any of you who are struggling, have lost loved ones or lost themselves during these trying times.
I happen to fall into all these categories, so I'll take an extra strong coffee in lieu of hugging myself like a lunatic.

On a bag related note, I'm back in a strict quarantine with only a 20 minute walk allowed every day, so I'm not using anything. I may have to start using my bags around the house just to make sure I'm airing them out.

Hope you get to enjoy yourself more soon and feel better.

 

[dcooney4]

Ina bag from Behno in apricot. Birthday gift to myself. Carrying it today to get the best birthday gift - vaccine shot! What an insane world where a shot is a better gift than a bag...

Incidentally, I credit/blame this group for this purchase. Specifically all the pretty orange bags that have been posted, and showing me orange is a more versatile colored than I'd imagined. I hadn't even really considered an orange designer bag before. So this is me gently edging into the realm of orange designer bags... Thank you!

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Beautiful bag and have a wonderful Birthday!

 

[JenJBS]

@jblended I am also sorry to hear about your quarantine. I hope it is over soon!



I miss real hugs too!



Happy birthday! This color is gorgeous. How’s the leather on these bags? I’ve never heard of them but it looks soft and delectable.

Thank you! The leather is excellent!

Happy Birthday! And congrats on your new bag. That is such a pretty color!

Thank you!

 

[JenJBS]

Beautiful bag and have a wonderful Birthday!

Thank you!

 

[cowgirlsboots]

These are fabulous. I have in a box furniture my swiss grandfather made for my mom that is very similar in style to the pictures in the last photo. I treasure them. I love your doll houses.

Thank-you @dcooney4 !
Like prams, dolls, teddy bears, dollhouses are emotional toys.
I went through a passionate dollhouse phase after buying the first little TriAng one at a Steam Rally in England just because I thought it was cute.
Over time I bought quite a few houses to restore and actually did restore and furnish many including finding the right dolls and dressing them and all the little accessories a house needs.
Unfortunately I ran out of display room before finishing all the projects, so there still are unfinished houses and boxes full of assorted furniture, all vintage from the 50ies to 70ies. One day I´ll pick the passion up, again...
One of the houses I never got to is the closest I could get to my own childhood dollhouse my Mum gave away after I grew out of it. It´s lingering in the downstairs- but at least I have it!
Here are the only photos I found- Christmas 1974


and here´s the same model house only with different wallpaper and curtains. I was able to track down the furniture, too.



Before finding this house and the photos I attempted turning an obviously homemade copy of the model into "my house" from memory. (I know I had the dark furniture, too, but there isn´t any photo to proof it.My fingertips still remember the laquered surfaces.)

 

[cowgirlsboots]

@cowgirlsboots , I think your collection of Galliano Dior has gone pass being a collection and become an archive.

@doni it´s still only a personal collection to me. He designed so many different styles over the years and I make sure not to fall for the name and only buy the styles I really like, not everything with his name on. There are quite a few that are wild, different and very John Galliano but absolutely not me.
My vintage bags on the other hand tend to feel more like an archive to me. Call out an era between the 40ies and the 90ies and I´ll most likely have a bag. Most of them I buy to match outfits and when it comes to vintage clothes the "call out an era..." definetely applies to me.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Happy Birthday @JenJBS ! Hope you are having a great day and the vaccine goes well!

 

[880]

projects, so there still are unfinished houses and boxes full of assorted furniture, all vintage from the 50ies to 70ies. One day I´ll pick the passion up, again...
One of the houses I never got to is the closest I could get to my own childhood dollhouse my Mum gave away after I grew out of it. It´s lingering in the downstairs- but at least I have it!
Here are the only photos I found- Christmas 1974

I love, LOVE your photos! what special memories! Thank you so much for sharing these! and, also your vintake bag collection as I love vintage too!

 

[JenJBS]

Happy Birthday @JenJBS ! Hope you are having a great day and the vaccine goes well!

Thank you!

It went very well.