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

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Thanks @Claudia Herzog for the suggestion

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indiaink said:
OK, I need help. You all are a mighty powerful bunch, and I need strong feedback, because I'm lost on this one. I'm posting here, because you guys mostly aren't going to side one way or the other just because of the brand.

First, I'll say that the purchase of both will set me back about a month, so the rule for 'not going in to debt' doesn't really apply. I am lucky to have some disposable income, and while I hate having a balance on my card, I can deal for a month or two.

OK - I went in to Saks Off 5th looking for something else but I know where they keep the good stuff (strangely enough, practically hidden, I have no idea how they expect to sell this stuff, seriously - it's at the top of a tall cabinet!), and was flabbergasted to find a jaw-dropping gorgeous Bottega Veneta Nero Ostrich Zip-Around Wallet. I mean, seriously. What? AND - then - hiding behind that box, a BV french wallet. Sigh. Intrecciato. Classic Bottega Veneta, both. Marked WAY DOWN, both of them.

Nero Ostrich Zip Around Wallet, surprisingly not too heavy. I hate zip-around wallets, seriously, but I cannot stop touching this wallet, unzipping it, looking at it. I've had Ostrich before, but this? Christ, it's not even intrecciato. Plain ol' Ostrich and so gorgeous I want to sleep with it. (No, quit laughing, ya'll have been there, you know it - ).

Deco Rose/Quartz French Wallet, smaller and more manageable for me. But right now I'm actually giving it the side-eye and reaching for the Nero Ostrich. Ms Rosey is probably too girly for me.

I already have an unused brand new Bottega Veneta Atlantic 3/4 Zip Intrecciato wallet bought during the BV Outlet sale madness of last August, and I just picked up a 2010 Cardinal Foldover (double-zip?) Intrecciato wallet that I'm in the middle of rehabbing. (Oooo wait until you see it, classic BV was always about color, and Cardinal is right up there with Scarlet and Holy Grail territory).

My daily use wallet has been my Comme de Garcons little 3/4 zip square, but I'm getting tired of 'lack of space'.

So I've GOT wallets.

Do I keep one or both, or return? Oh, the other thing? BV's creative director has kicked these to the curb, so they won't be made by him, ever. This is it, last of the classic BV. NEW.

Ya see what I'm dealing with? My head hurts.

Help.

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Sell the Atlantic...unused since August? Let it go. Of these two? Rosey is different and more BV iconic. You can find black ostrich anytime. Let it go and keep Rosey.
 
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BowieFan1971 said:
My mom and stepfather made View attachment 4954400this for me for my birthday and she gave me one of her rings, with an emerald in it since it is my son’s birthstone.View attachment 4954401
My sister gave me a...you guessed it...Dooney and Bourke, but I like this one so I will be keeping it.:smile:
The duck is in the oven?and I am already caked out with cake #3 yet to go. Thankfully it is a tiramisu, so not heavy. Bittersweet moment today...I made lunch instead of takeout and my mon asked if she could help. I asked her to set the table...it looked like a 4 year old did it. Then she said she needed to use the bathroom and asked where it was...she has been to my house many times before and it is a smaller ranch, so there is only one hallway. I told her and she started to walk into the laundry room that connects to the garage. It was upsetting.

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:crybaby: such beautiful gifts and sadness on your birthday ... what a day for you!
 
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dcooney4 said:
I understand this. I live in the boonies. We originally moved here because of the school system. My kids are long out of school and dh still does not want to move. It is pretty here but you can not walk to anything. I miss living in the city or even near a town would be nice. Trying to figure out a way to convince him that I want to see something other than trees. He doesn't get it. I wish I would have thought of this when I first moved here. I did what I had to do for my kids education but now that they are grown I would like something different.
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This is the third house we owned. The first was very close to a high school but we had to drive the kids to grammar school and junior high. It turned out it wasn't good being close to the high school. Sometimes there were drug dealers in the neighborhood. Our second house was way out in the country. The kids took a bus to school but we had to drive them to the bus stop. When we picked this house, DH wanted to make sure they could walk to school, which is mostly why we picked this house. When we moved to town, our oldest was a senior in high school. There was a new high school in the most desirable area of town but they were only taking freshman that first year, which is why we didn't move to that part of town. The town has grown away from us, making us on the outskirts. When we first got here, we couldn't even get decent internet as it didn't extend to our part of town.

I doubt we will ever move, but if we did, we would pick a place in the country, like our second house. But then again, as we get older, we worry about being far away from medical help in case of emergency.
 
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BowieFan1971 said:
My mom and stepfather made View attachment 4954400this for me for my birthday and she gave me one of her rings, with an emerald in it since it is my son’s birthstone.View attachment 4954401
My sister gave me a...you guessed it...Dooney and Bourke, but I like this one so I will be keeping it.:smile:
The duck is in the oven and I am already caked out with cake #3 yet to go. Thankfully it is a tiramisu, so not heavy. Bittersweet moments today...I made lunch instead of takeout and my mom asked if she could help. I asked her to set the table...it looked like a 4 year old did it. Then she said she needed to use the bathroom and asked where it was...she has been to my house many times before and it is a smaller ranch, so there is only one hallway. I told her and she started to walk into the laundry room that connects to the garage. It was upsetting to see that.

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So sweet your mum :heart:. Such a nice ring too, love vintage rings!
 
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SouthernPurseGal said:
I know! It's hard to choose between slightly better neighborhood and slightly better pool, for instance.:huh: I want both to be amazing!
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Pool! I’m so jealous. I so wish I lived somewhere people could consider having a pool but the weather here makes the very idea impossible. Even in the summer...

Lockdown with a pool would be a whole other story!
 
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indiaink said:
OK, I need help. You all are a mighty powerful bunch, and I need strong feedback, because I'm lost on this one. I'm posting here, because you guys mostly aren't going to side one way or the other just because of the brand.

First, I'll say that the purchase of both will set me back about a month, so the rule for 'not going in to debt' doesn't really apply. I am lucky to have some disposable income, and while I hate having a balance on my card, I can deal for a month or two.

OK - I went in to Saks Off 5th looking for something else but I know where they keep the good stuff (strangely enough, practically hidden, I have no idea how they expect to sell this stuff, seriously - it's at the top of a tall cabinet!), and was flabbergasted to find a jaw-dropping gorgeous Bottega Veneta Nero Ostrich Zip-Around Wallet. I mean, seriously. What? AND - then - hiding behind that box, a BV french wallet. Sigh. Intrecciato. Classic Bottega Veneta, both. Marked WAY DOWN, both of them.

Nero Ostrich Zip Around Wallet, surprisingly not too heavy. I hate zip-around wallets, seriously, but I cannot stop touching this wallet, unzipping it, looking at it. I've had Ostrich before, but this? Christ, it's not even intrecciato. Plain ol' Ostrich and so gorgeous I want to sleep with it. (No, quit laughing, ya'll have been there, you know it - ).

Deco Rose/Quartz French Wallet, smaller and more manageable for me. But right now I'm actually giving it the side-eye and reaching for the Nero Ostrich. Ms Rosey is probably too girly for me.

I already have an unused brand new Bottega Veneta Atlantic 3/4 Zip Intrecciato wallet bought during the BV Outlet sale madness of last August, and I just picked up a 2010 Cardinal Foldover (double-zip?) Intrecciato wallet that I'm in the middle of rehabbing. (Oooo wait until you see it, classic BV was always about color, and Cardinal is right up there with Scarlet and Holy Grail territory).

My daily use wallet has been my Comme de Garcons little 3/4 zip square, but I'm getting tired of 'lack of space'.

So I've GOT wallets.

Do I keep one or both, or return? Oh, the other thing? BV's creative director has kicked these to the curb, so they won't be made by him, ever. This is it, last of the classic BV. NEW.

Ya see what I'm dealing with? My head hurts.

Help.

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This is a tough one. I like both. Try your stuff in them and see if you find one easier to use than the other. If after that you love both and will use both , keep both.
 
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BowieFan1971 said:
My mom and stepfather made View attachment 4954400this for me for my birthday and she gave me one of her rings, with an emerald in it since it is my son’s birthstone.View attachment 4954401
My sister gave me a...you guessed it...Dooney and Bourke, but I like this one so I will be keeping it.:smile:
The duck is in the oven and I am already caked out with cake #3 yet to go. Thankfully it is a tiramisu, so not heavy. Bittersweet moments today...I made lunch instead of takeout and my mom asked if she could help. I asked her to set the table...it looked like a 4 year old did it. Then she said she needed to use the bathroom and asked where it was...she has been to my house many times before and it is a smaller ranch, so there is only one hallway. I told her and she started to walk into the laundry room that connects to the garage. It was upsetting to see that.

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Both of your birthday rings are stunning!
I am sorry to hear about the changes in your mom’s behaviour. :hugs:
 
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