I posted this in the mini-reveal thread, but wanted to put it here too. Leather feathers, and lots of them.
My first "retail therapy" last month was an orange
Coach mini Ruby bag. One of our birds is a freak, completely unexpected mutation of his species, and is almost entirely neon orange. (He's mommy's cuddly little "Mr. Orange Pants".) And by coincidence, his name is
Ruby. So when Coach came out with the "orange" "Ruby", how could I *not* buy it? And how could I *not* pick up the orange feather to go with it???
1st pic .... My "orange Ruby" with orange feather .... and my OTHER "orange Ruby", also with orange feathers.
2nd pic ... A Wing of Feathers.
The black one was from last year when they accidentally started selling the Dakotah bag fob as an independent item. I restrung its pieces onto more reliable hardware, plus a lobster claw.
The white and blue I purchased on our July wedding anniversary .... just three days after our little blue and white lovebird passed. (And she died on our first-date-anniversary. Sigh, that'll knock down anniversaries for a while. We're back to having eight birds, but in terms of utter personality, she was the heart of the house.)
Blush I grabbed from ebay because I love the color too much and just didn't want to miss it.
Orange and black cherry from PCE.
And believe me, I'm careful with them. I never did trust those screws that hold Coach's new "clips" onto their fobs and straps. I keep the larger keyring within the clip at all times (it will save the feathers if the screw comes out), and always use additional, homemade safety chains as well.