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Love each one of your K! They're so beautiful
And it's so hard to choose between a B and a K. There are days I want one over anothee, but the next day it's reversed. Let's just all agree that we all love our bags with all our hearts
I really love the astrologie design! My home store had one left from many seasons ago and it's in yellow/green colorway. While I do not particularly liked the color, I got it because it because I liked the design so much. Will post a picture to show you when I get home
And it's so hard to choose between a B and a K. There are days I want one over anothee, but the next day it's reversed. Let's just all agree that we all love our bags with all our hearts
I really love the astrologie design! My home store had one left from many seasons ago and it's in yellow/green colorway. While I do not particularly liked the color, I got it because it because I liked the design so much. Will post a picture to show you when I get home
I always love your posts, and this one is so full of delightful goodies and your great narration! Thanks for taking the time.
OK, I am sold on H comme. I keep avoiding it, but it is so cool. I can't wait to see your action shots. @lanit does wonders with this scarf.
I totally understand your obsession with AstroNouv! It's a great design. I love the numbers and the symbols and the stripes. Did I say obsession? I meant passion!
We are twins on the PH shawl, so obviously I need both those Kdogs too. Beautiful!!! Such a nice traveling friend to pick them up for you! And your bracelet pix always slay me.
Perfect K collection!
OK, I am sold on H comme. I keep avoiding it, but it is so cool. I can't wait to see your action shots. @lanit does wonders with this scarf.
I totally understand your obsession with AstroNouv! It's a great design. I love the numbers and the symbols and the stripes. Did I say obsession? I meant passion!
We are twins on the PH shawl, so obviously I need both those Kdogs too. Beautiful!!! Such a nice traveling friend to pick them up for you! And your bracelet pix always slay me.
Perfect K collection!
May I ask why some of you have avoided black bags? As a sometime New Yorker I wonder about why anyone would not have a closet full of black clothes and bags. Just curious!
My only black bag is a 28 kelly in evercalf. For and on me black bags tend to look heavy depending upon style. I am attracted to H because of the amazing colors and special handcrafted leathers. I would choose barenia over black most days. Just a personal preference and style decision. But would not hesitate to get a black chevre bag if offered in the right style and size. I'd like a pochette in black chevre.
Thank you for sharing your recent acquisitions, @MYH. I love reading your stories and why you decided to get what and how you acquired the items. It's so much fun! I also love your lovely photos with all of the beautiful H colors arranged so carefully. Congratulations your lovely K35! Thank you, again! Looking forward to more postings.
Thank you for sharing your haul and funny narrative, MYH. I laughed out loud at your sister taking pics with a poker celeb while you are waiting at the boutique. Priorities! Congrats on the black K--My dream bag but in box. Twins on H Comme Hermes. I bought two, that colorway and the pink one. And the bracelet pic, oh my! Gorgeous colors.Hello there!! Where shall we start? Scarves, bracelets, or bags?
I have some scarf pics but was rather rushed today so I'll be back later with more mod shots. But let's have some fun with scarves with the pics I do have.
First up - H Comme Hermes 70cm- I had filed away in the back of my brain that this size is being rested. So after a two week heat wave in LA a few weeks ago, I found I was wearing my 70cms all the time! I used to think this size was difficult because there's not much you can do with the small piece of silk, but now I'm a convert. The smaller size is the beauty of this format because it's a no brainer. For me, I can basically only wear it one way. Tied as a simple loose cowboy that looks casual. And when it's hot, that's really all you want around your neck. I wore my flots du cheval 70cm on a trip into BH one day and received so many compliments, I decided I needed more. My 70cm collection is not very big. So of course I asked to take a peek into the drawer and saw a scarf that has always been on my radar. I absolutely love my Graff shawl and this design also has graffiti in it but I initially dismissed it because I thought it was just too edgy. But I had never tried it on and when I finally did, my shopping friend said "yes! you need to get that one!" and so it came home with me. This cw happens to match several of my bags and so it was a done deal. When I get some more time in a couple of days, I will post some mod shots. So far, I love wearing it against a black top.
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Up next, I'm not sure if many of you know but I have an Astrologie Nouvelle problem. I'm not into horoscopes or anything! When people say, oh I'm a libra. You know how that is! I have no idea. I don't even know all the astrological signs. I barely know I'm a Taurus. And I truly have no idea what that means. I've only heard that I'm stubborn or sometimes it's described as headstrong. LOL. Whatever. But I really adore this design for the chopped up stripes and the sun in the middle. It ties wonderfully and I've always been on the lookout for a jewel toned color way my friend Pocketbookpup owns. I even tried hers on and fell in love so knew I needed to add it to my "grail list". It also helps that it matches about half of my bags. I'm totally a jewel toned person. So there has been one on eBay for the bargain basement price of $899 (for a 90cm silk!) for about 6 months now and a quick convo with the seller led nowhere. The seller believes it's "rare". So I was prepared to wait. And wait I did. Finally, one popped up on Instagram (credit to Pocketbookpup again for finding it) and I was able to snag this one! For a reasonable price under retail. And so now I'm the happy owner of this beautiful 90cm. I broke my 90cm ban for this one. And I've also included a photo of my AN collection. I have 90cms, 140cms, and a maxi twilly. See, I told you I had a problem.
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OK I think those two are the only silk confessions I have to share. Unless one of my close friends can remind me of any other silky sins I have committed.
Moving on....bracelets. I have always been in love with the kelly dogs but since they were always one size, I never went down that rabbit hole because I needed to wear the bracelet on the last hole. To my eye, that didn't seem 100% satisfactory because I like the symmetry of wearing the turnlock in the middle hole. So I've been safe! Until now....Now Hermes has come out with different sizes and I found out I'm a perfect T3. Well, in the US, these new sized KDs are hard to come by. They haven't seem to hit the boutiques just yet. But one of my lovely and wonderful H friends happened to be traveling through LHR and said she had some time to kill between flights. Was there anything I was looking for? So I asked her to see if she could find any T3 sized kelly dogs and she did! I was flabbergasted!! She not only found one, she found two!!! I told her she could ask me for my extra kidney anytime. Just say the word. I will give it up. Plus she has done so many other wonderful things for me...and just has the best heart!
One is in blue zanzibar. Now I have to tell you, I saw this in a swift kelly dog at the BH boutique and gasped when I saw it. The blue was so incredibly beautiful but it sadly was not my size. Imagine my delight when she found it in gold hardware and my size at LHR. The other is malachite. Which I just could not pass up because I have a malachite K28 and love her to bits. I was unsure at the time I purchased my malachite K28 but now I love her to death and cannot imagine not having her. And my lovely friend found both in ghw so I had to say yes to both. Here are my two kelly dog bracelets with my patchwork shawl.
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I know some of you have already seen this pic before, but here's my current bracelet situation.
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Last but not least...I found a bag I have been wanting for quite awhile! So when I started down the slippery H slope, I purchased some bag colors that are hard to find in other brands. Because Hermes does color so well, I thought I should take advantage of that. So in my collex up until now, I had rouge grenat, tosca, orange, malachite, blue indigo, gold, Gris T, raisin but I had never purchased black. Well, that's not totally true....I do have a black kellycut but that's a clutch so it doesn't count.I had always thought, well every other brand does black so I'll just use one of the black bags I already have. Well, fast forward to just 6 months ago and I decided to rehome my black chanel flap because I just felt it wasn't me. It didn't really go well with my wardrobe and I decided I really prefer bags with top handles. I modeled my jumbo flap for one of my friends, and she agreed, it's not my style. So off she went to a new home and I was black bagless.
So I started obsessing about a black kelly. Now I know there is a whole debate about birkins vs. kellys and I have to say, I'm totally a kelly girl. That shoulder strap really means a lot to me. I don't always want to keep my arm bent at a 90 degree angle and hand carrying feels heavy to me. And with kellys, I really like the option of carrying a bag on my shoulder. So at the most recent tpf event hosted by Chkpfbeliever (which was so fun and unbelievable btw), I was in shock when I nicely asked for one and it appeared! Now it wasn't the exact size I requested. For kellys, 32cms are my preferred size. So when I asked for one, I was told a 35cm might be available and would I like to take a look at it? Well, sure why not!! My SA said she would text me later in the evening to confirm if it was available and luckily she did! So the plan was for me and a few friends to go to dinner and then the boutique afterwards. I also asked my sister (who was playing poker at the time) to meet me at the boutique with my gold 32cm kelly (I had my kellycut with me at dinner) so I could do a comparison between the two sizes and see if the 35cm was really a lot bigger. I needed some piece of mind that the 35cm wasn't huge and unwieldy for me. So after dinner as planned, me and my entourage head over to Crystals. I see the bag and am hesitant. It looks so big! All my friends reassure me it's not. But I just want to double check and compare it with my K32 which my sis has. We wait....and wait...( my poor friends are being very patient with me) and of course she is taking her sweet time and finally shows up around 11pm! Argh! Guess what she was doing??? Taking selfies with some famous poker player she saw in the poker room.
Umm...didn't she know I had an urgent situation over here? So finally she arrives and says, no it's not too big!! Get it. I compare it to my K32 and it's just a bit taller and I decide, it's mine! So here she is...my black 35 kelly with ghw. I love this twilly on her.
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And here's a fun little pic of my new kelly with her vegas themed backdrop. And yes, those playing cards are Hermes too!
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And here's my current Kelly collection. I think this will be it for awhile but I always seem to say this and then something unexpected happens!
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I hope you have enjoyed this post and I will try to come back in a couple of days and do some more mod shots of my scarves.
Hello there!! Where shall we start? Scarves, bracelets, or bags?
I have some scarf pics but was rather rushed today so I'll be back later with more mod shots. But let's have some fun with scarves with the pics I do have.
First up - H Comme Hermes 70cm- I had filed away in the back of my brain that this size is being rested. So after a two week heat wave in LA a few weeks ago, I found I was wearing my 70cms all the time! I used to think this size was difficult because there's not much you can do with the small piece of silk, but now I'm a convert. The smaller size is the beauty of this format because it's a no brainer. For me, I can basically only wear it one way. Tied as a simple loose cowboy that looks casual. And when it's hot, that's really all you want around your neck. I wore my flots du cheval 70cm on a trip into BH one day and received so many compliments, I decided I needed more. My 70cm collection is not very big. So of course I asked to take a peek into the drawer and saw a scarf that has always been on my radar. I absolutely love my Graff shawl and this design also has graffiti in it but I initially dismissed it because I thought it was just too edgy. But I had never tried it on and when I finally did, my shopping friend said "yes! you need to get that one!" and so it came home with me. This cw happens to match several of my bags and so it was a done deal. When I get some more time in a couple of days, I will post some mod shots. So far, I love wearing it against a black top.
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Up next, I'm not sure if many of you know but I have an Astrologie Nouvelle problem. I'm not into horoscopes or anything! When people say, oh I'm a libra. You know how that is! I have no idea. I don't even know all the astrological signs. I barely know I'm a Taurus. And I truly have no idea what that means. I've only heard that I'm stubborn or sometimes it's described as headstrong. LOL. Whatever. But I really adore this design for the chopped up stripes and the sun in the middle. It ties wonderfully and I've always been on the lookout for a jewel toned color way my friend Pocketbookpup owns. I even tried hers on and fell in love so knew I needed to add it to my "grail list". It also helps that it matches about half of my bags. I'm totally a jewel toned person. So there has been one on eBay for the bargain basement price of $899 (for a 90cm silk!) for about 6 months now and a quick convo with the seller led nowhere. The seller believes it's "rare". So I was prepared to wait. And wait I did. Finally, one popped up on Instagram (credit to Pocketbookpup again for finding it) and I was able to snag this one! For a reasonable price under retail. And so now I'm the happy owner of this beautiful 90cm. I broke my 90cm ban for this one. And I've also included a photo of my AN collection. I have 90cms, 140cms, and a maxi twilly. See, I told you I had a problem.
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OK I think those two are the only silk confessions I have to share. Unless one of my close friends can remind me of any other silky sins I have committed.
Moving on....bracelets. I have always been in love with the kelly dogs but since they were always one size, I never went down that rabbit hole because I needed to wear the bracelet on the last hole. To my eye, that didn't seem 100% satisfactory because I like the symmetry of wearing the turnlock in the middle hole. So I've been safe! Until now....Now Hermes has come out with different sizes and I found out I'm a perfect T3. Well, in the US, these new sized KDs are hard to come by. They haven't seem to hit the boutiques just yet. But one of my lovely and wonderful H friends happened to be traveling through LHR and said she had some time to kill between flights. Was there anything I was looking for? So I asked her to see if she could find any T3 sized kelly dogs and she did! I was flabbergasted!! She not only found one, she found two!!! I told her she could ask me for my extra kidney anytime. Just say the word. I will give it up. Plus she has done so many other wonderful things for me...and just has the best heart!
One is in blue zanzibar. Now I have to tell you, I saw this in a swift kelly dog at the BH boutique and gasped when I saw it. The blue was so incredibly beautiful but it sadly was not my size. Imagine my delight when she found it in gold hardware and my size at LHR. The other is malachite. Which I just could not pass up because I have a malachite K28 and love her to bits. I was unsure at the time I purchased my malachite K28 but now I love her to death and cannot imagine not having her. And my lovely friend found both in ghw so I had to say yes to both. Here are my two kelly dog bracelets with my patchwork shawl.
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I know some of you have already seen this pic before, but here's my current bracelet situation.
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Last but not least...I found a bag I have been wanting for quite awhile! So when I started down the slippery H slope, I purchased some bag colors that are hard to find in other brands. Because Hermes does color so well, I thought I should take advantage of that. So in my collex up until now, I had rouge grenat, tosca, orange, malachite, blue indigo, gold, Gris T, raisin but I had never purchased black. Well, that's not totally true....I do have a black kellycut but that's a clutch so it doesn't count.
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And here's a fun little pic of my new kelly with her vegas themed backdrop. And yes, those playing cards are Hermes too!
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And here's my current Kelly collection. I think this will be it for awhile but I always seem to say this and then something unexpected happens!
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I hope you have enjoyed this post and I will try to come back in a couple of days and do some more mod shots of my scarves.
Everything is SOOOOO yummy! Thanks for posting. It made my day and I will smile all morning thinking if the Las Vegas pic!
(Plus I love your 70s)
We're scarf twins, LOVE this print, esp in this size and CW!!! [emoji173]️[emoji173]️[emoji173]️[emoji521][emoji521][emoji521]
I'd give anything to be in your current bracelet "situation." Heh heh!
Loved reading your post, MYH! You have such wonderful taste - all your new goodies are a delight to the eyes - and it's so heartwarming to see how this tpf community helps each other out. Like others have said, your post brightened my day. [emoji177][emoji175][emoji106]
Loved reading your post, MYH! You have such wonderful taste - all your new goodies are a delight to the eyes - and it's so heartwarming to see how this tpf community helps each other out. Like others have said, your post brightened my day. [emoji177][emoji175][emoji106]
Thank hon! And thanks for being part of my patient entourage.
We seem to share the same taste in many things dear! But you wear moussies way better than I do. I would love to see your evercolor kelly. Did you purchase it recently?
Aww thanks hon. I'm a bit embarrassed at how out of control my bracelet collex has become but they make me happy so oh well!Awww congrats on all of your lovely new items! That group pic of your bracelet collection though...
Thank you! Of course - when I see a pop color next, I'm going to justify it to myself by saying, my collex is too neutral!
Thanks darling! I still can't believe I own 4. When I first started, I thought I would only every have 1. And I would love to see your astrologies cw. Yellow/Green is not ringing a bell for me but I'm afraid I will add it to my hunt list if I see yours.Love each one of your K! They're so beautiful
And it's so hard to choose between a B and a K. There are days I want one over anothee, but the next day it's reversed. Let's just all agree that we all love our bags with all our hearts
I really love the astrologie design! My home store had one left from many seasons ago and it's in yellow/green colorway. While I do not particularly liked the color, I got it because it because I liked the design so much. Will post a picture to show you when I get home
Coming right up!
Would love to be twins with you on the bracelets! I'll be posting an action shot soon because I'm wearing it today!
OK for me, cause I live in SoCal, I rarely feel like wearing black. It's so darn sunny here and cheerful and I want to wear beige, creme, etc and other bright colors. So that's why a black bag was the last on my list!May I ask why some of you have avoided black bags? As a sometime New Yorker I wonder about why anyone would not have a closet full of black clothes and bags. Just curious!
Can we see a photo of your black k28 in ever calf? Also black chèvre also sounds divine!
Thanks darling! I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the post.
Yeah seriously!! The famous poker player is named "the magician" and she said she HAD to stop and take selfies. Argh!! Didn't she know I NEEDED her to show up with my K32 so I could compare the two sizes? LOL! And so great to know I am twins with so many people on the scarf. Thanks for your nice compliments on my bracelet collection too!
Awww....so happy I could make your day!
More twins!! Love it. Also we are tied together by blue porcelain as well.
Thank you! Happy you liked the photos.
I'm so happy you stopped by! yeah....my bracelet situation is over the top. I need to slow down. And yes, this tpf community is just the best! I love your posts as well.