At least we will continue to have sharing of the photos of all the new bags for months!! We know it is going to take forever for all of us to get them with his small shop and limited craftsmen/women working for him.
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Hah! He checked the hardware and said he thought light gold would work better with the mahogany, so we switched.
Warning! Use at your own risk.
I want to share, but I am not recommending you do it on yours. Use your own judgment.
My Vacchetta Valerie is, as TotinScience says, stupidly gorgeous. I love that phase, it cracks me up.
BUT having to put it down and use both hands to open the latches was driving me batty.
Yesterday I decided to condition it and used a product called Leather CPR which I have used on lots of bags. I generously applied it and let it soak for a couple of minutes and rubbed off the excess.
This morning, that bag had softened so much I was shocked. I can actually open both latches with it hanging on my shoulder!
The rag I used to apply it had a little more green dye on it than I am used to seeing from my other bags. Maybe it is the dye used to make green, I don't know. Anyway the bag is perfectly fine and I am thrilled. Yes it would have ultimately soften up with multiple uses, but I switch bags so often it would have been a long time and I might have been tempted to sell it,
Is it still heavy? OH YES, LIKE a BRICK, LOL. But worth it. I cup my hand around the bottom of my bags if they are heavy to keep a little of the weight off my shoulder.
I wanted to share that if you have a bag that is just ridiculously stiff, you may want to try it.
Just do a test spot where it doesn't show.
I want to share, but I am not recommending you do it on yours. Use your own judgment.
My Vacchetta Valerie is, as TotinScience says, stupidly gorgeous. I love that phase, it cracks me up.
BUT having to put it down and use both hands to open the latches was driving me batty.
Yesterday I decided to condition it and used a product called Leather CPR which I have used on lots of bags. I generously applied it and let it soak for a couple of minutes and rubbed off the excess.
This morning, that bag had softened so much I was shocked. I can actually open both latches with it hanging on my shoulder!
The rag I used to apply it had a little more green dye on it than I am used to seeing from my other bags. Maybe it is the dye used to make green, I don't know. Anyway the bag is perfectly fine and I am thrilled. Yes it would have ultimately soften up with multiple uses, but I switch bags so often it would have been a long time and I might have been tempted to sell it,
Is it still heavy? OH YES, LIKE a BRICK, LOL. But worth it. I cup my hand around the bottom of my bags if they are heavy to keep a little of the weight off my shoulder.
I wanted to share that if you have a bag that is just ridiculously stiff, you may want to try it.
Just do a test spot where it doesn't show.
I have it in the Tan Pompeii. Glad you went for it!
Interesting!
I recently used Leather CPR on a nappa bag that was looking/feeling a little dry and it responded beautifully. I did not get any dye transfer and it relieved that feeling of a slightly stiff surface. My nappa bags do seem to get a little thirsty as a general characteristic of that leather (and probably because I use them a lot). I think Marco has recommended Lexol in the past for protecting bags, which I have yet to use.
I use mostly Cadillac leather care, but bought Leather CPR for a project...restoring a 75 year old piece of leather for my hubby. I reached into my bag of leather care products and meant to get the Cadillac, but got the CPR so I used that. I still cannot believe how much it softened!! It is lIke a totally different bag.
Tan pompei looks like the perfect color for Alexia. To me it looks like the color "natural leather" is. Could you describe the color? Is it a medium or dark brown?
Happy to have been a good influence on you, lol.
Definitely not dark brown. To me, it looks light brown with a strong yellow undertone but indoors, the yellow recedes and it looks like a taupe or clay color. Attaching a pic taken in natural daylight.
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Thank you. I will suffer for the beauty of bags only. I don’t suffer foolish shoes or clothes.
Those will be so pretty. Looking forward to seeing the pink and tangerine Mia especially.
Yay for serendipity! I love the sound of your Divina Midi in red vachetta. It’s another style, besides the Zhoes and Auras, that looks fabulous in vacchetta.I received a payment for work in August that was better than expected so had room.Added two dream bags to my final order and my money tree is solidly dead, not to come back until maybe October sometime.