Dawn's small but well-loved collection

[Addicted to bags]

Thank you for this sweet message!

Merry Christmas to you and your family too, dear ATB, and best wishes for the new decade

It’s so funny - you said founding father instead of founding partner You’re so obviously American, my dear friend - we don’t have founding fathers

On my Lady Dior, indeed, poor Mr Dawn!

Haha, I was thinking of partner but typed father

 

[tealocean]

Hi Miss Dawn! I hope you're having a lot of fun and enjoying vacation! Merry Christmas! I enjoy all your updates and bag collages! It's good to hear how you love them all, and no wonder!! They are beautiful. It's so good to hear you are getting such great feedback and compliments at work, and all your hard work is proving to be worth it! Have a fun time this vacation and a Happy New Year!

 

[Miss_Dawn]

I haven’t updated this thread in a while

Happy Valentine’s my dear friends As you know, this is Mr Dawn’s favourite holiday We are away for the weekend, and I got my box of little things.

There’s:
- some stationery (Jane Austen notecards),
- scented candles including this year’s Diptyque limited edition roses
- Kate Spade mother of Pearl butterfly pendant and earrings (love!)
- Louis Vuitton bracelet
- Louis Vuitton travel perfume set in Rose de Vents
- a matching pink clear cosmetic case from Space NK (Mr Dawn remembered I have one for makeup and I wanted one for skincare )
- chocolates
- single red rose

I hope you are all well xx

 

[Iamminda]

Happy New Year and Happy Valentines Day weekend to you and Mr Dawn . Wonderful to see your update. So glad you are having a VDay weekend getaway . It’s always so fun to see the goodies that Mr Dawn gives you — he is the BEST . Love all your VDay goodies — they are so beautiful, sweet, adorable or yummy (those are two of favorite chocolates by the way) . I see a matching LV necklace in your future (if you don’t already have it, lol).

Really glad to see your post today . Enjoy your lovely weekend . Till we see you again .

I haven’t updated this thread in a while

Happy Valentine’s my dear friends As you know, this is Mr Dawn’s favourite holiday We are away for the weekend, and I got my box of little things.

There’s:
- some stationery (Jane Austen notecards),
- scented candles including this year’s Diptyque limited edition roses
- Kate Spade mother of Pearl butterfly pendant and earrings (love!)
- Louis Vuitton bracelet
- Louis Vuitton travel perfume set in Rose de Vents
- a matching pink clear cosmetic case from Space NK (Mr Dawn remembered I have one for makeup and I wanted one for skincare )
- chocolates
- single red rose

I hope you are all well xx

 

[Addicted to bags]

Mr. Dawn is definitely a sweetie pie. Glad to hear you had another wonderful Valentine's Day together

Hope all is well with you both

 

[Venessa84]

Happy Valentine’s Day!! Your hubby did good! The LV perfume is my fave right now.

 

[Miss_Dawn]

Happy New Year and Happy Valentines Day weekend to you and Mr Dawn . Wonderful to see your update. So glad you are having a VDay weekend getaway . It’s always so fun to see the goodies that Mr Dawn gives you — he is the BEST . Love all your VDay goodies — they are so beautiful, sweet, adorable or yummy (those are two of favorite chocolates by the way) . I see a matching LV necklace in your future (if you don’t already have it, lol).

Really glad to see your post today . Enjoy your lovely weekend . Till we see you again .

Thank you so much my dear @Iamminda It was a wonderful weekend followed by a crazy busy week, so it feels like a very long time ago! I hope you’re well xx

Mr. Dawn is definitely a sweetie pie. Glad to hear you had another wonderful Valentine's Day together

Hope all is well with you both

Thank you my friend @Addicted to bags We are both well.

Happy Valentine’s Day!! Your hubby did good! The LV perfume is my fave right now.

Thank you! It’s really lovely! I’m going through a lot of rose scents right now. My shampoo, conditioner and body lotion are all Rose 31 by Le Labo. It’s insanely expensive for shampoo etc but it smells so amazing and lasts long enough that I’m willing to keep splurging. Glad to have another complex rose scent in my wardrobe

 

[tealocean]

I haven’t updated this thread in a while

Happy Valentine’s my dear friends As you know, this is Mr Dawn’s favourite holiday We are away for the weekend, and I got my box of little things.

There’s:
- some stationery (Jane Austen notecards),
- scented candles including this year’s Diptyque limited edition roses
- Kate Spade mother of Pearl butterfly pendant and earrings (love!)
- Louis Vuitton bracelet
- Louis Vuitton travel perfume set in Rose de Vents
- a matching pink clear cosmetic case from Space NK (Mr Dawn remembered I have one for makeup and I wanted one for skincare )
- chocolates
- single red rose

I hope you are all well xx

That is so fun this is Mr. Dawn's favorite holiday! I hope you had a sweet time away together. What lovely gifts, and your pictures are a treat too. I especially love the butterflies!

 

[Miss_Dawn]

I hope all my friends are staying well in these uncertain times. Like the whole world, Mr Dawn and I are mostly at home right now, including for work, but we go out once a day for walks around neighbouring parks or woods. I’m also trying yoga at home and we carry on trying to spring clean, and improve little pockets of our home.

I thought I’d share some photos.

First collage is of a 10km walk on Saturday. It was lovely weather

Second and third is of this week’s bouquet which was so large that I split it over two vases. I’m attaching a photo of both of them - one in the living room, the other in kitchen at sunset leading on to the terrace

Fourth is how I spent a lot of yesterday- sitting on cushions and blankets on a bench in my garden, reading a book for my (virtual) book club meeting!

Fifth is my handbag wardrobe. It was mostly tidy, but I took a few bags out, packed them properly, cleaned them and put everything away tidily yesterday.

Of course life is unsettled, and we’ve had to put various plans on hold, but I’m just doing what I can to remain positive and cheerful. I’m burning a lot of scented candles (that was my stockpile for self isolation ).

Work is unsettled. As a management consultancy we’ve not been hit yet, but if recession comes, we’ll have to reduce costs. The Partners have already agreed that we’ll reduce our own salaries but if that isn’t enough we may have to reduce staff salaries at some point as well. As a junior Partner, I have less responsibility and less to lose at this stage, but the two most senior Partners (my CEO and the “visionary founding father” as dear @Addicted to bags would say) are keeping me in the loop as much as they can. My CEO asked me to run the resilience planning for the firm which has been really challenging. They both say I need to learn from this tough time, because I’ll be in their shoes someday. I can’t believe how straight and confident they are in saying that. I’m the youngest Partner - I have a long journey ahead! But it’s such a sobering time.

One work positive was that I had my appraisal. It was so incredible. All of the feedback especially from my juniors is so positive. When I read it to my mum she said I must have bribed them Talking about how I mentor, inspire, make my clients and colleagues feel like they can do their best work, how I’m the best Partner in the company for a junior to learn from... I had a horrible weekend a few weeks ago, writing my self appraisal, because I am really hard on myself, so getting this feedback in response just made me so happy

Stay safe, healthy and happy, my friends

 

[tealocean]

Hi Miss Dawn! What a wonderful thing to have all those glowing reviews come in at a time like this! And from everyone you work with. Congratulations!

Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures! I could look at those lovely views all day.

 

[Addicted to bags]

Glad to hear you and dear Mr Dawn are doing well during this trying time! Your garden is so lovely and it's great you are keeping busy.

I do hope your "visonary founding father's" company is not hit but it's good to plan for the worse just in case. Congratulations for your glowing reviews

Take care dear Miss_Dawn and stay safe!

 

[Iamminda]

Great to see you Miss Dawn . We love to get your updates and in this uncertain/scary time, it feels especially comforting to hear from dear friends (virtual or otherwise). Thanks for the pictures — it looks like you were walking in a very peaceful and serene place last weekend, hope it was relaxing and good for the soul. As always, Mr Dawn picks the loveliest flowers for you — he is the biggest sweetheart . And finally, I am so happy to hear that you got such fantastic reviews at work — you are a tremendously bright gal and you work very hard, so truly deserving of every ounce of praise and good feedback . Take good care and stay well

 

[More bags]

Congratulations on your solid review! Beautiful pics. Stay healthy and be well.

 

[Venessa84]

So great to see an update and glad you’re doing well...I’m wishing you all the best going f forward.

 

[Sunshine mama]

Living vicariously is so much fun Miss Dawn!
I am loving all the beautiful pictures and lovely stories!
Thank you for putting a big smile on my face!