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

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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.
 
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880 said:
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!
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It makes me so happy you enjoy my dollhouses!
There is a dollhouse section on my pram website you might like to have a look at. It´s called "Puppenhäuser": There are more photos and details of the houses I finished. (Sorry, the writeups are only in German.)
prachtstueckwerk.weebly.com

Puppenhäuser

Prachtstueckwerk hat sich einen üblen Virus eingefangen... Puppenhäuser!
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cowgirlsboots said:
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
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and here´s the same model house only with different wallpaper and curtains. I was able to track down the furniture, too.

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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.)
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I love this!
 
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cowgirlsboots said:
It makes me so happy you enjoy my dollhouses!
There is a dollhouse section on my pram website you might like to have a look at. It´s called "Puppenhäuser": There are more photos and details of the houses I finished. (Sorry, the writeups are only in German.)
prachtstueckwerk.weebly.com

Puppenhäuser

Prachtstueckwerk hat sich einen üblen Virus eingefangen... Puppenhäuser!
prachtstueckwerk.weebly.com
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What an awesome website. I used to collect Sasha Dolls . Years ago I sold most of them, but I still have a few.
 
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cowgirlsboots said:
It makes me so happy you enjoy my dollhouses!
There is a dollhouse section on my pram website you might like to have a look at. It´s called "Puppenhäuser": There are more photos and details of the houses I finished. (Sorry, the writeups are only in German.)
prachtstueckwerk.weebly.com

Puppenhäuser

Prachtstueckwerk hat sich einen üblen Virus eingefangen... Puppenhäuser!
prachtstueckwerk.weebly.com
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Thank you! i love your green is the color of Hope pram Pictures and others! I love this website!
 
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BowieFan1971 said:
It’s black. And my friend loved the RL...it was perfect with the outfit she happened to have on.
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Ah, it looks dark brown on my computer screen. Actually, I have a very dark brown bag and it often looks black in some photos. I think these colors are so close that sometimes it's hard to tell in pictures ( also depends on lighting and other factors). Sounds like a great swap. Enjoy your bag!
 
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Purses & Perfumes said:
I love a dark chocolate brown bag! Goes with so many colors. Congrats on a good swap.
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Purses & Perfumes said:
Ah, it looks dark brown on my screen. Actually, I have a dark brown bag and it often looks black in photos. I think these colors are so close that sometimes it's hard to tell in pictures (depends on lighting and other factors). Sounds like a great swap. Enjoy your bag!
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Thanks!
 
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cowgirlsboots said:
@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.
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I love this so much that I'm going to borrow a trick from @More bags here:giggle:
I make sure not to fall for the name and only buy the styles I really like, not everything with his name on.
I wish more people would think this way!
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My first Prada!
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OMG The leather looks SO good! :drool:
Congrats! She's a beauty! :flowers:

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Ah, it looks dark brown on my computer screen.
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It does on my screen as well! I had no idea my display settings were set wrong so I'm now going to fiddle with them until I see a black bag in that picture! :lol:

@880 I added a demitasse spoonful of sweetened condensed milk into my coffee (black with a dash of skim) but couldn't taste it at all. Added a second teaspoon (thinking more may be better) and still no difference to the taste. What did I do wrong? :hrmm:
*My sense of taste has not been normal since covid (most things taste differently than they used to), so perhaps that's the issue here?
**I'm the opposite of you in a way. I recall your endo doesn't want you having sugar, whereas I'm hypoglycemic and would be allowed to eat the stuff with a spoon (but am not fond of overly sweet things in general). So, I could safely add more to my coffee as it doesn't negatively impact my health, but I feel like that's not the right answer to this. :P
 
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880 said:
@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 :biggrin: Hugs
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Sounds fantastic! Can’t wait. Oh I didn’t know black jade was breakable, but then I understand ruling it out, I am also a bang around type...
 
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JenJBS said:
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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Ooooh, love this coral color, beautiful.
 
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