Dawn's small but well-loved collection

[BlueCherry]

Also for @Kendie26, I’ve taken a picture of the Chanel pump heels that live in my office. I brought them home especially to photograph them that's how much I love my TPF friends

This was my first Chanel fashion item (besides glasses, makeup, fragrance etc.) and it was a complete surprise for a wedding anniversary from Mr Dawn some years ago. They’re very well-loved and worn very frequently for the past 6 months while I've been trying to keep up my confidence around work with a spot of power dressing

I love your shoes and you can tell you don’t have a habit of kicking things the toes look immaculate. I bought my mum a matching coin purse to your shoes a couple of years ago and I was absolutely devastated when I had to return it because the logo was askew and they didn’t have another one to exchange; I loved the blue and black together, so stylish

It's been a long week and I'm absolutely exhausted. I need to do some more work this weekend but we took a break today. Mr Dawn says I'm working too hard so as a fun little treat he bought me "procrastination pens" with funny slogans:
- But First...A Nap
- Deadline, shmeadline
- Later, I promise
- Tomorrow is practically today...

I'm very strait laced, I wear high heels, I am driven and efficient, I carry montblanc pens and leather agendas in the office... It seems hilarious that I'd carry a pen into a serious client meeting with a slogan "deadline shmeadline". I love the idea

Also a golden Leuchtturm 1917 notebook. I thought it would fit into my A5 agenda at work (much more me )

Sorry my friends, I'm off topic as usual but I know some of my stationery friends (@vanilla_addict @tealocean @More bags @BigCherry) will enjoy and the rest of you will indulge me

Your hubby is funny with those pencils I would love you to come to my office and let the builders corrupt you ...

Hahaha OMG these pens are SOOOOO AWESOME!! Mr. Dawn rules....please tell him (again-?) that he has a huge fan club here on tPF!! Too funny on your comment to @BigCherry (lurking & liking...hey, aren’t we all “guilty” of that at times?!)

I am officially a stalker

I love this candle! I just started burning it. It's a Paddywax Library collection Jane Austen candle. It's soothing, with white floral notes (gardenia, jasmine etc.).

Because Mr Dawn and I went on a little perfume making course in Grasse, before we blended our first batch of my perfumes, I'm very attuned to what scents I like and I love this one. It was an impulse buy

Yesterday I repurchased Diptyque Roses. I've been through a few of those. I have a number of new Diptyques waiting that Mr Dawn picked for me: Rose Delight (limited edition), Vanille and Magdalen cake (limited edition). I also have new ones I bought myself- Mimosa, Baies and Violette. So many candles, so little time!!



Are you back sweetie?
Lots of love

I’m back my lovely

Can’t comment on candles and fragrance sadly but it all sounds yummy ....



My kindest Iamminda, thank you for sharing all my little pleasures so whole heartedly.

I must admit I haven't carried those pens to work!! They are just too incongruent with my self-image. I feel that a new Director, with a big team to manage shouldn't carry around pens saying "deadline, shmeadline"!!!







Yep, I'm always lurking and liking
Mr Dawn sends his thanks and regards to his "fan club" dearest Kendie

 

[BlueCherry]

Mr Dawn gave me one Valentine’s present on the day itself as well as my Valentine’s box at the spa on the preceding weekend. He always takes Valentines very seriously

He said he would have given it to me earlier but it didn’t arrive in time. Apparently there’s a shortage and it took a while for this SLG to be ordered in. A LV cosmetic pouch to add to the DE SLG collection he gave me for my promotion He picked this himself as well. Well done Mr Dawn

I don’t think it will fit much of my makeup though

I want a Mr Dawn to, not buy, but choose my perfect slg’s - tell him he’s a star! How perfectly sweet and intuitive to purchase such a thoughtful gift. All good things are worth waiting for

I am sure it will fit the essentials and a sneaky naughty pencil ... look forward to seeing a pic of your beautiful new accessories in one of your equally beautiful bags

 

[Miss_Dawn]

Those candles sound delicious! Especially the jasmine and vanilla notes! I've thought if I made my own perfume, it would include those two. Having your own perfume sounds like such a perfect treat!

@tealocean there are lots of places where you can do mini fragrance courses and blend your own perfumes. You can even blend perfumes online but it's a bit hard to imagine how the base, heart and top notes will combine so you might end up with something unexpected

I've blended my own Ceylon teas and my French perfumes... Next up my own lipstick I think!

I love your shoes and you can tell you don’t have a habit of kicking things the toes look immaculate. I bought my mum a matching coin purse to your shoes a couple of years ago and I was absolutely devastated when I had to return it because the logo was askew and they didn’t have another one to exchange; I loved the blue and black together, so stylish

Your hubby is funny with those pencils I would love you to come to my office and let the builders corrupt you ...

I am officially a stalker

You are my favourite stalker how was your trip? And isn't the snow just awful?! The builders would definitely try to corrupt me with their procrastination, but I'm not easily corrupted

Yes, of course I don't go around kicking things, dearest Cherry. How did you get such a destructive idea of me?

I'm very sorry to hear about your coin purse and its askew logo. I too love navy and black combinations very much

I want a Mr Dawn to, not buy, but choose my perfect slg’s - tell him he’s a star! How perfectly sweet and intuitive to purchase such a thoughtful gift. All good things are worth waiting for

I am sure it will fit the essentials and a sneaky naughty pencil ... look forward to seeing a pic of your beautiful new accessories in one of your equally beautiful bags

I will convey your compliments to Mr Dawn. Thank you for sharing my enjoyment

 

[Miss_Dawn]

To bring my thread back to bags, I've made a series of collages. One SLG collage and a series of (mostly) superbrand bags by colour theme. I've added one "theme" picture to each collage as well.

In order:
- some of my SLG family

- snow white family with a dahlia from my father's garden

- neutrals family with peach roses from my rock & rose garden

- pinks/red family with an oriental lily from my garden

- blues family with some of my favourite beach pictures that I have taken around the world (Venice Beach LA, a private pink beach in Bermuda, Antibes in the Riviera and one from Coromandel in New Zealand)

- blacks family with a souvenir from a Chanel perfume exhibition this summer

This was fun, and I'm sure I'll come back to gaze at my beloved collection when I'm having tough days! I hope you enjoy

 

[Iamminda]

Happy Weekend Miss Dawn. Hope you are not working (too much) this weekend. Beautiful collages — major eye candy. Love them all, my favorite is the Snow White family — something really special about this arrangement and the dahlia in the middle. I wish I have your talent and your amazing bag collection but at least I can enjoy your thread. Thanks for sharing

 

[tealocean]

@tealocean there are lots of places where you can do mini fragrance courses and blend your own perfumes. You can even blend perfumes online but it's a bit hard to imagine how the base, heart and top notes will combine so you might end up with something unexpected

I've blended my own Ceylon teas and my French perfumes... Next up my own lipstick I think!



You are my favourite stalker how was your trip? And isn't the snow just awful?! The builders would definitely try to corrupt me with their procrastination, but I'm not easily corrupted

Yes, of course I don't go around kicking things, dearest Cherry. How did you get such a destructive idea of me?

I'm very sorry to hear about your coin purse and its askew logo. I too love navy and black combinations very much



I will convey your compliments to Mr Dawn. Thank you for sharing my enjoyment

That sounds like fun! I would definitely do it (perfume) in person since it's often surprising what makes up a scent that I find delicious! Making your own lipstick is a great idea! If I don't wear any other make up, lipstick is it.

 

[tealocean]

To bring my thread back to bags, I've made a series of collages. One SLG collage and a series of (mostly) superbrand bags by colour theme. I've added one "theme" picture to each collage as well.

In order:
- some of my SLG family

- snow white family with a dahlia from my father's garden

- neutrals family with peach roses from my rock & rose garden

- pinks/red family with an oriental lily from my garden

- blues family with some of my favourite beach pictures that I have taken around the world (Venice Beach LA, a private pink beach in Bermuda, Antibes in the Riviera and one from Coromandel in New Zealand)

- blacks family with a souvenir from a Chanel perfume exhibition this summer

This was fun, and I'm sure I'll come back to gaze at my beloved collection when I'm having tough days! I hope you enjoy

So beautiful! I like how you sorted by color. I found myself stopping and staring at your bright pink bag again!

 

[Miss_Dawn]

@Lake Effect @tealocean @Iamminda

After finally bringing my bag showcase back to bags (ooops!) I'm going off topic again. Hand creams and scents. Funnily enough, I don't tend to carry a scented hand cream with me, Teal. My hands don't tend to get very dry, although I keep lotions at my desk and in the car etc.

LOL at Lake Effect sitting in the office sniffing peppermint hand cream to calm down Sounds like a lovely scent! I can't get B&BW easily in the UK, although I do tend to order/bulk buy their little antibac bottles!

My preferred scent for calming down is white floral, geranium/lavender/rose combinations, and peach. Right now, I'm sitting in bed reading some important reports at 10 pm (boo!) and burning a new peachy smell candle (it's actually mango + guava + passion fruit + apricot) which says "Born to Shine" on a white and gold jar. It's the little joys

 

[BlueCherry]

@Lake Effect @tealocean @Iamminda

After finally bringing my bag showcase back to bags (ooops!) I'm going off topic again. Hand creams and scents. Funnily enough, I don't tend to carry a scented hand cream with me, Teal. My hands don't tend to get very dry, although I keep lotions at my desk and in the car etc.

LOL at Lake Effect sitting in the office sniffing peppermint hand cream to calm down Sounds like a lovely scent! I can't get B&BW easily in the UK, although I do tend to order/bulk buy their little antibac bottles!

My preferred scent for calming down is white floral, geranium/lavender/rose combinations, and peach. Right now, I'm sitting in bed reading some important reports at 10 pm (boo!) and burning a new peachy smell candle (it's actually mango + guava + passion fruit + apricot) which says "Born to Shine" on a white and gold jar. It's the little joys

My sister would positively love you Miss Dawn, she has the most exotic collection of perfumes, she gets them all free from Clients at work, all prestige brands and never needs to buy any herself, her car is full of them and she will literally wear anything, the stronger the scent the better. All of her shower gels are like your peachy candle and all such vivacious colours. Then she comes to my house where my soaps, shower gels, lotions are all dermatologic and unscented, my perfume is one barely there scent I've been using for years and the bottle lasts over a year. Then if she asks for a bit of my perfume I say get lost because she uses a quarter of a bottle in one go and my aren't free

PS. I like off topic, it's interesting

 

[Iamminda]

Miss Dawn, we so enjoy all your posts — bag related and otherwise. You (and really everything about you) are so adorable and loveable .

You are lucky in that your hands don’t get dry often. My hands are always so dry (occasionally they get to the almost sandpaper level of dryness ). I just use regular lotion (really need to step up my lotion game and indulge in some special scented ones. Years ago, DH surprised me with a box of Japanese Cherry Blossam lotion/gel products from Bath and Body Works — I was very touched by this gift but I think I barely used it, yes lame-o me).

Anyways getting back to your collection, you must always smell so good with all your special perfume/lotion. If we ever hang out in person, I would be semi-sniffing you half the time (in a subtle non weird way of course). I hope you are done with work and in bed by now.

 

[BlueCherry]

Miss Dawn, we so enjoy all your posts — bag related and otherwise. You (and really everything about you) are so adorable and loveable .

You are lucky in that your hands don’t get dry often. My hands are always so dry (occasionally they get to the almost sandpaper level of dryness ). I just use regular lotion (really need to step up my lotion game and indulge in some special scented ones. Years ago, DH surprised me with a box of Japanese Cherry Blossam lotion/gel products from Bath and Body Works — I was very touched by this gift but I think I barely used it, yes lame-o me).

Anyways getting back to your collection, you must always smell so good with all your special perfume/lotion. If we ever hang out in person, I would be semi-sniffing you half the time (in a subtle non weird way of course). I hope you are done with work and in bed by now.

Lol at semi-sniffing ..

 

[Miss_Dawn]

My sister would positively love you Miss Dawn, she has the most exotic collection of perfumes, she gets them all free from Clients at work, all prestige brands and never needs to buy any herself, her car is full of them and she will literally wear anything, the stronger the scent the better. All of her shower gels are like your peachy candle and all such vivacious colours. Then she comes to my house where my soaps, shower gels, lotions are all dermatologic and unscented, my perfume is one barely there scent I've been using for years and the bottle lasts over a year. Then if she asks for a bit of my perfume I say get lost because she uses a quarter of a bottle in one go and my aren't free

PS. I like off topic, it's interesting

I like your sister!
How sad that I don’t get my scents for free!! However perfume is so inexpensive compared to bags that I’m afraid I don’t really think twice about buying any perfume I want.
And like your sister I am profligate in spritzing myself (also throughout the day)

Off topic is great but slightly annoying if anyone actually wanted to see my bag showcase ah well, I bring it back to topic from time to time!

Miss Dawn, we so enjoy all your posts — bag related and otherwise. You (and really everything about you) are so adorable and loveable .

You are lucky in that your hands don’t get dry often. My hands are always so dry (occasionally they get to the almost sandpaper level of dryness ). I just use regular lotion (really need to step up my lotion game and indulge in some special scented ones. Years ago, DH surprised me with a box of Japanese Cherry Blossam lotion/gel products from Bath and Body Works — I was very touched by this gift but I think I barely used it, yes lame-o me).

Anyways getting back to your collection, you must always smell so good with all your special perfume/lotion. If we ever hang out in person, I would be semi-sniffing you half the time (in a subtle non weird way of course). I hope you are done with work and in bed by now.

You are too sweet to me
That’s very sweet of Mr Iamminda. I love cherry blossom scents in lotion.

I don’t know how I accumulate so much hand cream. I barely ever buy it and yet like all other beauty items I seem to have piles of hand creams. I found a drawer of unopened lotions and potions this morning when you mentioned it, so here is a picture.

Hahahaha about the subtle non-weird sniffing
Lots of love xx

Lol at semi-sniffing ..

 

[Miss_Dawn]

@Sparkletastic here you go
My bag showcase thread which is sometimes on topic but also includes discussions about stationery, perfume, and hammers

 

[Sparkletastic]

@Sparkletastic here you go
My bag showcase thread which is sometimes on topic but also includes discussions about stationery, perfume, and hammers

Yay! So this is where the party’s at!

 

[tealocean]

@Lake Effect @tealocean @Iamminda

After finally bringing my bag showcase back to bags (ooops!) I'm going off topic again. Hand creams and scents. Funnily enough, I don't tend to carry a scented hand cream with me, Teal. My hands don't tend to get very dry, although I keep lotions at my desk and in the car etc.

LOL at Lake Effect sitting in the office sniffing peppermint hand cream to calm down Sounds like a lovely scent! I can't get B&BW easily in the UK, although I do tend to order/bulk buy their little antibac bottles!

My preferred scent for calming down is white floral, geranium/lavender/rose combinations, and peach. Right now, I'm sitting in bed reading some important reports at 10 pm (boo!) and burning a new peachy smell candle (it's actually mango + guava + passion fruit + apricot) which says "Born to Shine" on a white and gold jar. It's the little joys

I rarely actually use the hand cream while out, and you've made me realize I can save some space with perfume only! Your candle sounds delicious! Peach is one of my favorite candle scents. Fruit, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Coconut... I was telling someone the candles I like, and then added, "If it smells like something sweet to eat, I like it!" I also like fresh scents like balsam and anything sweet and warm.