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.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

for @BowieFan1971,
The photos that made David Bowie an icon http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210106-the-photos-that-made-david-bowie-an-icon




I’m very suggestible re food and right now, even though it’s 836 am, @cowgirlsboots version or yours sounds amazing. (I love cold dinner leftovers for breakfast). Corollary: if we‘re eating, planning what to eat, trying to feed our loved ones (vegetarian cuisine re @Katinahat), or surfing TPF, we’re not shopping! Win!

Now I´, laughing hard @880 ! My son had a school assignment re healthy eating and we had to google and "doctor" the truth a fair bit. "I can´t tell them I am having cold dinner leftovers for breakfast," he stated.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Yes and yes. Or Yes and possibly. I love the trim the most of all my bags!

There was a very run down Hermes bag on our ebay last week- I guess it was a trim. The quality looked amazing even in the sorry state this bag was.
I turned my head on, perfectly knew I could rehab it, but it is not my style and turned the computer off!
It sold for under 150€. No non-buyer´s remorse!

 

[SakuraSakura]

Hey everyone! I'm still enjoying my new-to-me mini pochette. It's helping me get through this. I hope you guys are alright!

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Hey everyone! I'm still enjoying my new-to-me mini pochette. It's helping me get through this. I hope you guys are alright!

Hey,
I´m happy to hear from you! Your new pochette is gorgeous!
Enjoy it!
Have a happy day!
xxx

 

[BowieFan1971]

It needs touch up and sealant, but here is the other bag I painted yesterday.

 

[doni]

I'm really enjoying reading this Thread! You gals are wonderful!

Thought I’d share a few tips that seem to be helping me.

• Check the closet before making any purchase
• No online purse/SLG ‘browsing’
• Do a Bag Showcase

Thank you for the tips. They are really good. I actually like aimless browsing of vintage bags and learning about them... True, dangerous, although other times it is the @880 effect, where you are content to admire them and don’t need to own them.

That said, you have all made me think of the Trim. The JackieO Trim in toile and leather is such a perfectly chic Spring bag. That is the Trim I right?

This is all excellent advice thank you. I said some of this to her already but it gives me much more information. Her reasoning is I think it’s just something she wants to try out from a eating point but I am not sure it will stick. She’s already said she’s still wearing leather shoes. Who knows how it will turn out but your advice will be a great conversation starter!

My daughter has decided to be a vegetarian (rather a pescatarian) several times already, out of climate change concerns. The last this Fall. From the start she decided she’d make an exception for shepherds pie as she loves it. And lasagna, being as it is the only thing her dad ever cooks. Then when I put the Frankfurter on a separate plate so she didn’t have to earth them, she decided that was also going to be an exception. Then came bacon because, you know, carbonara. I kind of worry she doesn’t have the stamina to follow stuff through... But, it does make my life easier. I actually eat very little meat, but I have a boy in need of protein so I have to try to feed him too!

Going through all the family stuff is so hard!
Last year I downsized all the Christmas stuff and organized what I kept into plastic tubs instead of cardboard boxes. It made this year's Christmas so much more efficient! And I got rid of a few things this year also. So that felt good. It's like having a special bag that you use rarely (STAYING ON TOPIC HERE, LOL) - Christmas stuff is so specific, only in use for about a month, but we need it, right?

What is wrong with cardboard boxes? Genuine question!

On @cowgirlsboots diner, when I came to Germany I couldn’t understand what pasta Miracoli was, really, I didn’t get the concept at all . But my MIL’s pasta speciality is the same as @papertiger ‘s ancestors, butter and ketchup . As someone who has been a student in Italy, I can confidently say that the best empty larder pasta is spaghetti aglio e olio!

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Thank you for the tips. They are really good. I actually like aimless browsing of vintage bags and learning about them... True, dangerous, although other times it is the @880 effect, where you are content to admire them and don’t need to own them.

Endless browsing for research of price points and (authenticity) details is my approach, too. Dangerous, I agree, but like you @doni I seem to have reached the @880 point where I can enjoy and learn without actually having to own- unless something I really covet turns up.

On @cowgirlsboots diner, when I came to Germany I couldn’t understand what pasta Miracoli was, really, I didn’t get the concept at all . But my MIL’s pasta speciality is the same as @papertiger ‘s ancestors, butter and ketchup . As someone who has been a student in Italy, I can confidently say that the best empty larder pasta is spaghetti aglio e olio!

Thanks for reminding me of spaghetti aglio e olio! My mouth is already watering! Note to self: put good oil and garlic on the shopping list! From what´s in the fridge spaghetti carbonara made with bacon and eggs would be a feasible option. Good that DH can´t read my mind... two pasta days in a row wouldn´t please him...

 

[cowgirlsboots]

As we have been talking a fair bit of jewellery I´d really like to show off the pearls DH gifted me on New Year´s Eve. He had been going through his grandfather´s old cupboard, remembered there was a secret compartment and found them.
He doesn´t know how old they are, but are likely to have belonged to his grandmother. I´m not sure whether they are even the real thing, but they have a great sentimental value. They were in a box together with a coin from the Vatican, a memento of his grandparent´s trip in 1953.

 

[cowgirlsboots]

Dior Lady Art #5 - Damenmode | DIOR

www.dior.com

Some Dior eye candy for you!
The latest art collection has been released.

 

[BowieFan1971]

Birthday weekend roses!!!! (though he gets me flowers every week)

 

[BowieFan1971]

As we have been talking a fair bit of jewellery I´d really like to show off the pearls DH gifted me on New Year´s Eve. He had been going through his grandfather´s old cupboard, remembered there was a secret compartment and found them.
He doesn´t know how old they are, but are likely to have belonged to his grandmother. I´m not sure whether they are even the real thing, but they have a great sentimental value. They were in a box together with a coin from the Vatican, a memento of his grandparent´s trip in 1953.

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Beautiful!!!! I love them and the history behind them!!!!!

 

[880]

As we have been talking a fair bit of jewellery I´d really like to show off the pearls DH gifted me on New Year´s Eve. He had been going through his grandfather´s old cupboard, remembered there was a secret compartment and found them.
He doesn´t know how old they are, but are likely to have belonged to his grandmother. I´m not sure whether they are even the real thing, but they have a great sentimental value. They were in a box together with a coin from the Vatican, a memento of his grandparent´s trip in 1953.

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Love this pic, the pearls and the sentiment! you have such a great DH! @cowgirlsboots, I went bac’ to admire the photo (and to be completely honest, your eye brows, and 8 also adore how you curated the art on your exposed brick wall. It seems both whimsical and beautiful!
to all who mentioned the eponymous effect, I’m pretty sure that I lifted the idea from one of you,
@BowieFan1971, your birthday flowers are amazing As is the fact your DH does them weekly, hugs

 

[BowieFan1971]

for @BowieFan1971,
The photos that made David Bowie an icon http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210106-the-photos-that-made-david-bowie-an-icon


i keep coming back to this inspiration for another tip not to shop. But then I was also reminded that many brands make similar bags and some luxury brands are much more reasonably priced. For example, I had no idea Cartier made a version of the H Paris Bombay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Authentic-...d-Bag-Purse-Bordeaux-Gold-Spain-/264933549772


i do this^ ! I feel happy looking at my group pic of discontinued H bags. (I’m more a group collection person than a single bag person) i also go back to @JenJBS ‘s bag showcase instead of shopping. Her photos of her bags, IMO, show how much she loves bags, and they make me feel happy to see them. i Have a feeling that @keodi ‘s Rouge VIF will also be in my feel good pantheon

the purchases you decided upon sound super practical and useful!

DH grew up on this and it’s cousin made with canned tomato soup (Grandparents emigrated from Russia) As time passed, they added more things to the mix like vegetables and meat. everyone enjoyed it. On a more serious note, hope you can find a way to take care of your tooth. Pls keep us posted.

does crappy dystopian fantasy fiction count? I’m a fan of ilona andrews, and her website (similar in feel to friendly threads on TPF) introduced me to the joys of verdanttea.com and decaf chocolate tea from Harney &sons. The BDH (book devouring horde) there also like to knit. (If I took up knitting p, I wouldn’t be shopping)

i had to stop reading The Daily Beast, Politico, and WaPo for my own sanity. But then I spent more time on TPF. I’m afraid to go back and see how badly we are doing. Your freezer sounds huge. There was really an entire rotisserie chicken in there? I also look for feel good articles from BBC or Guardian like this (also for s9me nostalgic style inspiration for a life I never had)Bombay Jungle: How British Asians broke into London's club scene https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55578774

I’m very suggestible re food and right now, even though it’s 836 am, @cowgirlsboots version or yours sounds amazing. (I love cold dinner leftovers for breakfast). Corollary: if we‘re eating, planning what to eat, trying to feed our loved ones (vegetarian cuisine re @Katinahat), or surfing TPF, we’re not shopping! Win!

I missed the pics until this morning! Thank you!!!!!! Loved him ever since I was 5 and heard Rebel Rebel for the first time while riding in the backseat of my aunt’s blue 69 Camaro RS! It will be the fifth anniversary of his death tomorrow....made my birthday bittersweet to wake up to the news he was gone that year.

Bowie fan forever!!!!

 

[Purses & Perfumes]

As we have been talking a fair bit of jewellery I´d really like to show off the pearls DH gifted me on New Year´s Eve. He had been going through his grandfather´s old cupboard, remembered there was a secret compartment and found them.
He doesn´t know how old they are, but are likely to have belonged to his grandmother. I´m not sure whether they are even the real thing, but they have a great sentimental value. They were in a box together with a coin from the Vatican, a memento of his grandparent´s trip in 1953.

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Beautiful! It's so cool that your DH found them in a secret compartment of his grandfather's cupboard.

As someone who has been a student in Italy, I can confidently say that the best empty larder pasta is spaghetti aglio e olio!

Some time back I was searching for easy spaghetti dishes on YouTube and came across the Aglio e olio recipe by Food Wishes. I followed that recipe and prepared it and absolutely loved it. Such wonderful garlicky goodness! Yum! I need to make it again.

@BowieFan1971, beautiful flowers! I love how you've arranged them in that blue vase.

 

[Katinahat]

Birthday weekend roses!!!!View attachment 4952211 (though he gets me flowers every week)

Gorgeous - both these birthday flowers and that he buys you flowers every week!