Vink these are gorgeous. I love this style and the leather colors are really nice. I love them all. Enjoy.
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@vink, what a great little Verona Selene family you have! It really is a
very nice leather. Good that you were able to get it before it became extinct.
very nice leather. Good that you were able to get it before it became extinct.
What did I tell ya’ll.....? (On the BST. This hopelessgal is prescient)
For the first time I think I am content with MM bags. I have 14 of them and 3 penny messengers and a flora with matching card holder to use as a WOC in my larger bags (and card holder only to go into auras and penny messengers).
I wouldn’t mind more auras in cuoio or river, but I have 2 auras and a third bag that’s from another maker that is very much like an aura. I need to use these 3 for awhile to see if a 4th would be a good addition or excessive....and I think about a penny messenger in bronze africa would be a reallllly versatile color for such a versatile little bag. But I have 3 of those so it feels excessive to get a 4th.
I love tangerine and amaranto, sangria, Aegean blue and denim, but don’t NEED anything in those pretty colors and most of them are pebbled which is not my favorite for a larger bag, so it would be a smaller bag, and right now I have a good amount of little bags. I love the mental picture of an angelica in sangria, little athena in amaranto, and anything in Aegean, but don’t need any of those.
I do think a dark green angelica would be such a nice bag , or dark green vachetta in basically anything. But I just got new bags last night so I am feeling content. I will admire your guys’ bags!
I wouldn’t mind more auras in cuoio or river, but I have 2 auras and a third bag that’s from another maker that is very much like an aura. I need to use these 3 for awhile to see if a 4th would be a good addition or excessive....and I think about a penny messenger in bronze africa would be a reallllly versatile color for such a versatile little bag. But I have 3 of those so it feels excessive to get a 4th.
I love tangerine and amaranto, sangria, Aegean blue and denim, but don’t NEED anything in those pretty colors and most of them are pebbled which is not my favorite for a larger bag, so it would be a smaller bag, and right now I have a good amount of little bags. I love the mental picture of an angelica in sangria, little athena in amaranto, and anything in Aegean, but don’t need any of those.
I do think a dark green angelica would be such a nice bag , or dark green vachetta in basically anything. But I just got new bags last night so I am feeling content. I will admire your guys’ bags!
This is after I put more leather conditioner on it than I would need to cover my own body head to toe. I really slathered it on with my hands and enjoyed nice hands after (all organic ingredients in it, so nice for human skin too). This is the next day, and the bag has totally drunk up all the goop, whereas it was nearly wet last night, it’s back to being quite dry to the touch. Very thirsty leather!!!!! Kind of rubbery and papery to the touch at the same time, strange.
I like the color so much better with the wet look right after conditioning, but here it is slightly deeper and more moist than when I got it, when it looked almost powdery dry and the color was likewise washed out. I will probably rub conditioner in often to get a deeper blue and moisturize my hands.
I still like the bag despite being not a fan of Aquila matte. I would like it even better if it was navy merinos which does not exist. The way the bottom of the front pockets wrinkle is not my favorite thing.
But love pale gold with dark blue and love this style, so I’m happy with the bag, I really am. Just want to give a balanced opinion of the leather since no one else said anything but glowing reviews of it and we are all so different in our tastes so its’ good to be honest.
1lb 11oz, 755 g
Surprisingly heavy for a little bag. Very thick leather. Feels like if I tried to rub leather conditioner on it it would not absorb whatsoever and I would end up having it just sit on top of the coating of the leather that’s already there, unable to penetrate, but I haven’t tried. To be fair I haven’t conditioned my verona or pebbled leather either and I don’t know if they would ‘accept’ conditioner to penetrate much better since they are not naked feeling leathers either.
But it’s a very pretty bag.
Okay the Aquila matte midi minerva is 2lb 8oz, 1134 grams. It is my second heaviest bag after my choc verona midi selene zip that is 2lb 12 oz or 1250 g. Which is after I performed surgery on it and took out the hidden suede. I don’t know how heavy it was before, over 3pounds for sure.
That’s heavier than a vachetta arianna by 2oz. I think merinos will be y ONLY choice for a midi minerva in the future. That extended flap is a heavy style feature!
That’s heavier than a vachetta arianna by 2oz. I think merinos will be y ONLY choice for a midi minerva in the future. That extended flap is a heavy style feature!
I think I’ll be sitting out this sale too. 25% is a good deal, but not good enough to persuade me into taking a dive to get a new Venus
I think I’m spoiled by the BST and getting pristine like new bags for a third to a half the price of a new one. 25% off doesn’t seem as tempting unless there was some leather I absolutely felt I could not live without and a need for a certain style bag that fits perfectly with it. I’m patient enough to find gems on the FB BST.
Good to know your thoughts! I think the color is really nice on this. WIll be very interested to hear how it wears.
I had some similar ones about the Tuscania - understanding it's the perfect leather for some. The surface texture was not quite the right thing for me without intervention and while it draped OK, the hand wasn't quite what I wanted for shape resilience. I re-homed that bag and the person who now has it is unafraid to slather on the moisturizer which makes a big difference.
i am likewise sitting this one out. 25% is nice, but I have quite a few of these bags and it will take a better deal, like free lining, etc., for me to add any.
I think I'll also be sitting this one out. Like southernbelle43, it'll take a better deal (e.g. free lining, or free hardware upgrade) for me to succumb to adding the bag that I have in mind, and I'm still waiting for my Trinity order too (a second Penelope Messenger (barely a month after getting my first! 
) and a Penelope Midi)... I'm also trying hard not to add any further small leather goods too, as there are only so many SLGs that I need/use in my collection.
) and a Penelope Midi)... I'm also trying hard not to add any further small leather goods too, as there are only so many SLGs that I need/use in my collection.