Scarves Scarf of the Day 2021 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

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Oh my! I hope the kitties adjust soon. Neighbour's Cat used to meow into my face at 3am to request (demand) snacks which I blearily provided while reminding her that we are not a kitty B&B.

They were pretty good, this time... Didn't get me up until 6:30 (my body still says 7:30). Kitty B&B- that's me 24/7/365 :roflmfao:

Your Panoplie is exquisite in black, bunny ... sisters!
Thank you Croisette! :hugs:


I love your marvelous parade of Js Croisette!

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Sous l'Egide de Mars
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Thank you Tasha! Your Sous l'Egide is fantastic in this colorway!

Oddly I have not one Metz scarf! Great to see yours @Croisette7 ! do have this very cool Julia Abadie Arc en Ciel in cotton. My facorite travel scarf and I do so love archery.
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These are both fabulous lanit! And I adore that SE Cosmographia!

I'm still off topic and still traveling but I do hope to "J"oin in the fun this coming week :graucho: Meanwhile, one of my lazy leopardesses is looking at you!
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Beautifully put together LKB! Enjoy your trip!


All are amazing @bunnycat and such a fun and witty intro as well (thank you for expanding the theme!). Congratulations on your new Panoplie-- it is a real beauty and perfect on you.

Thank you kindly! If only ALLL my scarves could have come to me at this kind of deal! :lol:

How marvelous, Bunnycat. You celebrate Halloween in true H style and I love the masks!

Thank you dear Karenska!

Wow, Panoplie is a stunner! Congrats on fabulous scarf mail!!!

Thank you textilegirl! I am so thrilled with this one. In excellent shape (but missing care tag) and I can live without that big ol' thing... :lol:

Don’t you look pretty, Bunny, and I love the color of your dip dye. Very spooky and Halloween-festive. It’s so appropriate that so many cultures celebrate the dead at the end of the year, when everything is dying. I always feel so introspective and quiet during this time of the year. I put up an “altar”, a kind of mix of All Soul’s Day and Hallowmas and Dia de los Muertas, of relatives and friends who have passed. I include rosemary and lavender. The pets get a special section. I find it incredibly comforting to erect this altar and remembrance of those loved ones who are with us in spirit only.

Thank you! I did do something similar this year. The yard decor became a sort of "personal memorial" for me this year. We lost 3 of the 4 large ash trees in the February storm, and so I used a lot of bundles of wood and brush stacks with my pumpkins and scarecrows to memorialize all the things that didn't make it. I too find Halloween a reflective time, as I tend to operate solitary most of the time anyways, but this year especially. I am glad we set up the candy giving station outside though, so the knocking and doorbell didn't upset any kitties this year. I'll probably keep doing this from now on.

That special edition Cosmographia is so lovely. I'm realizing that a red hem is a rarity in my collection!

Yesterday's SotD was Les Boxes by Jean-Louis Clerc (old photo, but same outfit). If I understood correctly, this was first issued in 2006, posthumously. It's one of the few "classic" style scarves I have; it has the wide borders I typically avoid, but I think the contrast hem makes a big difference.

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Your J-L Clerc is beautiful! And I think you may be very right about the contrast hem making a difference. I shy away from blank borders as well, but that dark hem is delicious with this one.
 
Thank you, @Karenska , for hosting Ghost week. And, @bunnycat , I loved your Twilight Zone introduction to J Week.

I'm wearing Jan Bajtlik's Cosmographia Universalis today. It's my crossover scarf, because it is easy to imagine the ghost herd from hell "a-plowing through the ragged sky and up a cloudy draw" here.

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Thank you! Indeed- I can well imagine that imagery here. I think that will be my term for the day! "Plowin' through the sky"... :lol:
 
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:drinks:Kudos @Karenska for hosting a marvelously entertaining spooky week! :heart:


Wowsa Bunny- Congrats on your new GSGM- Makes me wanna grab a cuppa and get cozy...
Thanks for lovely kick-off for this Fall week. Such pretty Bajtliks :heart:

Thank you! Yes- that one is very cozy indeed! (And you're welcome1)

Great story and yes, those frugal ancestors were :nono: at you, Bunnycat. And you are keeping us in suspense! :presents: Can’t wait….

:rofl: I am almost certain of it...I try not to think of the total cost of my scarf drawer too often.... :panic:
 
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I'm really enjoying everyone's stories and scarves this week!

This week, I hadn't thought I would have much opportunity to share as I'm just not that creative when it comes to stories, but the spirits have willed it otherwise. Like @Snausages , my next story revolves around a dream from a couple of days ago. Well, not MY dream, but Mr BCs.

It is a well known fact in House of Bunnycat that I have weird dreams. And the other day Mr BC declared that one of my dreams had been misdelivered to him the night before. :roflmfao:

Apparently, we were driving in the car in some out of the way town, and stopped at a little country store with no people around. We went in to look around, and found that there were dozens and dozens of H scarves of all sizes there for an amazing deal. (Yes please!!!!! :woot: ) Apparently I went bananas in the store with full Sales Goggles (copyright @Cookiefiend ) and then we left and the car broke down (yeah, that's my actual real kind of luck...). Of course, he thought this was the height of weirdness, but I duly informed him that there had been no mention of being spies on a mission, trying to escape from aliens that were planning on taking over the world, and having a few things explode....so in my dictionary, not tooooo weird except for the country store in the middle of nowhere we happened to find full of H scarves. :lol:

Now here is the more eerie part. Last week, I DID have a SERIOUS attack of Sales Goggles. In fact, the bargain was so good, I said "damn the torpedos and my CC bill!", dropped everything else like a hot potato, and bought it. And... I did not tell Mr BC about it...And it quietly got delivered with no fanfare at all while he was out for a walk so he didn't know that yet another CSGM has quietly slipped in to my corral...... :lol:

So I think the dream was delivered to warn him by ALLLLLL my rather frugal grandparents and great grandparents and aunts and uncles who probably spin in the graves every times an H scarf wings its way in to my scarf drawer.....like a strange "In the Mirror, Darkly" version of It's a Wonderful Life....


WHICH SCARF???
WITCH SCARF???? :broom:

===> And which scarf it is, I will keep you in suspense for the rest of the week, as it fits next week's theme very well..... :biggrin: <=====


But here is my DREAMY Karnak mousseline I wore yesterday instead, in colors which always say "dreamtime" to me :cloud9:

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And such a beautiful moussie. Like a cloud.
 
amazing story to go with the scarf. Great tie on the outfit!

I love hearing the stories behind scarf purchases as well as stories behind scarf design. You combined it with a great modeling pic and it’s a grand slam!
Sotd. Art de steppes. You always remember your first right? Orrrr first few in this case haha. My second Hermes scarf purchase bc I just loved the patterns on it.
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TY @Nomad for the compliment and returning it for the history and lovely mod shot!
here’s my horror story, it’s pretty short:
I snatched my bingata shawl on the stroller :wtf: guess it’s not a virgin anymore. I’ve been loving wearing it for walks and when I’m busy babying a baby i can’t also baby a scarf :lol:

which type are you - shawl baby-er or shawl heavy wearer?
today obviously wore it to my postpartum pilates class
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also, watching this angel sleep heals every wound over snagged brandnew scarves
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Oh @blydia so sorry about the snag! But as I learned in Wabi Sabi week often we are the only ones who see the flaws in our scarves. Your precious bebe is worth a thousand shawls, snagged or otherwise!
Off topic, and now twins with LKBNOLA, with Zabavoushka. Am travelling, to the first live meeting since before COVID. The scarf arrived just in time to take it with me. Mr Agrume only saw this photo, but already declared it his favourite.

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This week I’ve seen more Zabavushkas than I have in several years! Mine was rehomed long ago :sad: for lack of knotting skills. If I’d seen your mod shot @Agrume I would have Daren how stunning it truly is
Such a great colorway, snausages!! Beautiful!
TY @Awillow !
What a beautiful child! Easy choice to make. Take care of the baby.

This reminds me of a gift that my dear, recently departed MIL gave me after my son was born. The birth was four weeks early, in a emergency midnight C-Section because I was suffering from multiple organ failure due to preeclampsia. I recovered, slowly, but it was a full year before I regained all my stamina. Her birth gift to me was a beautiful plant. I read the care instructions for the plant, and it required misting five times a day. :wtf: It was either the plant or the baby, because I couldn't care for both. I chose to care for MIL's grandson. The plant died.

It reminds me a bit of the beautiful plants here in Faubourg Tropical. This overgrowth makes this a nightmare of a scarf.

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I'm finishing out the week of Ghost Riders in the Sky by returning to the song's cowboy roots with my other colorway of Les Mustangs. This scarf shows cowboys hard at work.

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While Robert Dallet is a great artist, his happy smiling cowboys do not reflect the grit of the job. In 1901 Western artist Charles Marion Russell painted "The Strenuous Life" which better captures the difficulty and danger of the cowboy life.

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When my late FIL (born 1924) was a boy growing up during the Great Depression on his grandmother's farm in Western Minnesota, she had a hired hand who had been a cowboy during the late 1800s. The hired hand gave my FIL this painting (oil on newspaper) that he had done. It was a prized possession of my FIL and hung in his office his entire adult life. DH inherited this painting from his father and it remains a family treasure with real ties to the history of his family.


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The tension and danger shown in this copy of "The Strenuous Life" are genuine. I think of the hard life that these cowboys must have led, and hopefully our old cowboy in the song heeded the warning of the Ghost Riders in the Sky to change his ways.

Yippie-yi-o
Yippie-yi-yay
Ghost riders in the sky

Les Mustangs

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Beautiful scarves @Redbirdhermes and love the history behind them!
L :heart: V I N G the spooky stories :broom:
& sweet silks this week :drool:
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Mine is a cautionary tale that may
(or may not) be true... :graucho:

A long time ago (longer now than it seems)
one couple met at another’s for dinner. While visiting one friend dashed upstairs and upon returning produced a square of silk and identified it as Hermès in hushed tones; the DH’s were in another room, but within earshot. The ladies closely examined that expensive bit of whisper soft, ethereal silk and admired it’s beauty & obvious quality.
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Unbeknownst to either party a silk microfilament detached and became airborne. It wafted aloft on the air currents created by the undulating gossamer fabric and headed towards the visitor, landing neatly in her ear canal. The lovely scarf was then carefully put away, but not before it planted a seed...
:spiderweb:

Not long after the visiting friend felt a need to wear more scarves. She began to wear silk near her skin and liked the feel so much she acquired a few more to have choices. She wore them in her hair, around her neck, shoulders and even waist. Sometimes two at a time were worn; so more needed to be procured!

An H scarf was purchased as a treat. It was carefully stored and one box somehow became two...
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From then on no other brand of silk managed to find its way into that closet. Perhaps it was the designs that beguiled the wearer, because surely it wasn’t the H silk itself?
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As time went by the few turned into many... once freed from their boxes it was as if they were multiplying by themselves (even producing twins)! :ghi5:
A spreadsheet was generated to harness the chaos, but the pandemonium of colored silk continued to grow to epic proportions. A warehouse was built to house the silk mountain and at times a crane needed to move large precious piles around to find a specific design for a SOTD theme. Local officials are lately contemplating bestowing its own zipcode on glorious Silk Mountain. It might become a tourist attraction like DisneyWorld!
:wtf::eek::eek::wtf::eek::wtf::eek::wtf::wtf:


So readers be warned
(I fear for many it may be too late)-
the sly little H silk microfiber may’ve nestled in an ear, but somehow managed to travel to the brain and later firmly affixed in the heart.:hbeat:


Spooky Mr.Bones front & center on C’est la Fete pour Halloween
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Beautiful double face @turfnsurf !
so beautiful the blue!!!

I like wearing a CSGM with a sleeveless dress instead of a heavy jacket.
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Sous l'Egide de Mars
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Both are such lovely shawls @Tasha1 !
He had been told thousand times not to meddle in the Forest spirits’ affairs.
And there he was, forever falling into the void, his limbs frenetically and wildly flailing.
After he had stalked and slain the white doe, myriad lights had appeared in the dusky woods and the Forest had looked enchanted, so full of light and ethereal music that, blinded, he had lost his bearings and suddenly felt the ground sinking beneath his feet, everything abruptly going pitch-black all around.
The only sounds he could hear now were cries of animals in pain and howlings of long-forgotten winds fiercely blowing in the desolate expanses of the infinite outer world.
Then, nothing. All was engulfed in darkness, silence and emptiness. All he could feel was the sharp pain of the dying white doe pervading his whole being. He was becoming the pain. He was being the pain. He realized it would last forever -if forever still had a meaning in this black hole- the stabbing pain, the whirling fall, the everlasting night, that it was his ineluctable punishment, under the silent watchful and indifferent gaze of the legendary Great Forest Spirit.
Unless anyone or anything showed to him the mercy he had lacked…
this is gorgeous @Marie-the-Mary !
Both beautiful @Karenska-- so happy you are enjoying yur mini-vacation.

Very stylish outfit and poignant memories @tlamdang08.

H Math at work @bunnycat!

Lovely @Redbirdhermes -- looks great with red so the hem pops!

How clever to link the theme with Phantom and then Opera @Snausages! I love this cw.

Extremely beautiful cw @Nomad-- saw it in store yesterday and it is a stunner.

Just lovely and yu are really becoming a knot expert with this one @MissIn!

I love seeing your dip-dyes @Maedi-- this one is such a good marriage of tropical theme and colors!

I don't think I have seen this lovely cw modeled before @laurenad!

I am in awe of anyone who can put Yeats, an H scarf and a fanfic of Man from Uncle in asingle post and look fabulous doing it @xincinsin! I bow down...

A narrow escape for DH @Barbette and I am sisters on the 70 MP, I believe.

A beautiful choice for you @Forever Orange!

I love your cw of this one @SusieAugusta -- and that lady with the ship on her head is scary if you think of having to actually wear that hat to a costume ball-- THAT would be a horror of a headache!

A well told-tale, a beautiful scarf and the perfect lipstick! Home run, @Nahreen!

Gorgeous scarf @paula24jen and thank you for sharing information about the artist with all the garden scarf lovers here...

Just fantastic the way you linked him into your week-long ghost riders story @Redbirdhermes!

Oh my goodness! You managed to get the hand, the dismembered marionette, the fierce lion and the weird inscription all into your story AND have the happy ending of a beautiful mod shot! Brava @Cookiefiend!

A lot of those tales have a seriously amped up creep factor @Snausages! Beautiful scarf and outfit, though!

Love the grey border on this @Nomad!

What a lovely post and the sleeping baby is just beautiful...an angel as you say @blydia!

Ahhhh, beautiful @Agrume. Many congratulations, twin! Many congratulations. It is so happy and colorful and with beautiful borders...

:lol: @Redbirdhermes-- I don't have a green thumb for houseplants myself so that would be a nightmare. Though the scarf is a dream...

Oh, well done @turfnsurf -- the cautionary tale we all need but if we are here reading, it is too late for sure! That silken fiber did its work on me for sure and continues to whisper its terrible sweet nothings against all reason... Your C'est la Fete is spectacular in this tie with that top.

A great idea @Tasha1 and a beauty of a shawl!

A perfectly told and utterly frightening morality tale! You have my very most favorite cw of this design-- (my sister to yours is in the Colorway Correction Program at the moment). It looks beautiful and the perfect story/scarf combination!
Off topic, and traveling for a week but yesterday I had a delightful scarfie lunch with two lovely and experienced collectors-- got to pore over some serious treasures beautifully photographed in a scarf "book," have fun at the pretty H boutique and check out an actual Real Real store! On my way out of town, these shoes followed me to the car so I kept them... Here's my Folklore triangle, new shoes and the frosty morning I woke up to.
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I'm still off topic and still traveling but I do hope to "J"oin in the fun this coming week :graucho: Meanwhile, one of my lazy leopardesses is looking at you!
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TY and oh my your collection is fabulous @LKBNOLA !
Tout én Carré for morning bike trip
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Love the scarf ring @tlamdang08 !
A grey outfit for a very foggy, grey day at work yesterday. Faubourg Tropical.
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That special edition Cosmographia is so lovely. I'm realizing that a red hem is a rarity in my collection!

Yesterday's SotD was Les Boxes by Jean-Louis Clerc (old photo, but same outfit). If I understood correctly, this was first issued in 2006, posthumously. It's one of the few "classic" style scarves I have; it has the wide borders I typically avoid, but I think the contrast hem makes a big difference.

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Fabulous pair of silks @labelo !
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What a completely FANTASTIC week it has been! The scarfies really pulled out all the stops on story time!

BRAVO everyone!!!!

Of course, it's still a little early for Sunday where I am, so I will finish this week off for myself with one last scary tale....

It's 1:53 AM, and I am still awake, waiting for the dreaded TIME to arrive....the dreaded FALL BACK, that so many people love, and I hate. Why??? Why do we do it??? :crybaby: (I hate both time changes to be brutally honest. They mess me up for weeks....)

But while everyone GAINS an extra hour, I do not.... Nope, I don't. Because, for the cats, 7 or 8 AM (feeding time) will now be 6 or 7 AM, and outside potty time will not be 4:30 or 5 AM but 3:30 or 4, until I can work them forward...Their body knows the time, not the clock! So I expect I will be passed out around my usual time to post in the morning. So I am doing it early (...erm...late... :lol: )

Now onwards for me. (But feel free to share some more stories too if you like...)

07 Nov 2021 Brought to You by the Letter J: Jan Bajtlik, Jean-Louis Clerc, Joachim Metz, Julia Abadie

This week, we start November (YES! Where did the year go?!?) and start the themes for the eleventh month- 11 Pipers Piping.

Now, we had originally posted on the calendar for artist names beginning with J. But I thought, you know... why not find as much J as we can? :lol: So we are expanding this week for Artists with last name J, and scarves that start with J...and you get the idea. :biggrin:


This week bring out your fabby Jungle Love, your Jardin d'Hiver, your Jan Bajtlik, your Virginie Jamin and JUMP in to November with a J!


First up- I promised I would not keep everyone waiting on my fab Sales Goggle scarf from my scary story....


Please meet Virginie Jamin's Panoplie Equestre CSGM! I just love the border here!

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Jan Bajtlik - Animapolis Maxi Twilly Slim

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And any excuse is always good for Jungle Love. :love:

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And now, my Twilight Zone is complete. I started at 1:53 and now it is 1:08....:lol:
Beautiful j’s @bunnycat ! Every pet owner can relate to the nightmare of time changes and feeding schedules :sleeping:
@Croisette7 your collection is breathtaking for its depth and beauty!
Oddly I have not one Metz scarf! Great to see yours @Croisette7 ! do have this very cool Julia Abadie Arc en Ciel in cotton. My facorite travel scarf and I do so love archery.
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Beautiful blues @lanit !
More stunners @Croisette7 !
If the mummy were wrapped in H ribbons, he’d be quite fashionable. :giggle: So pretty on you, Snausages.
Oh my word, I love this scarf and your use of it with your story is poetic, RBH. I love the Hemispaerium Coeli Boreale; here is my knitting journal/aid, front and back.
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Totally awesome! Those happy monsters!
Ty @Karenska ! What a beautiful journal - I am envious of knitting skills but lack the focus to learn this. A goal for the future!
 
Many cultures saw Ghost Riders in the Sky not only in the stars, but also much closer to home in our own Moon. What we call the Man in the Moon has been seen as Cain the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. Also, seen in various cultures are a woodcutter caught working on the Sabbath and banished to the Moon, a sheep-thief, a boy gathering sticks, a woman wearing jewelry, and in Japanese mythology, there is a tribe of human-like spiritual beings living on the Moon.

Here are some examples of the pareidolic images (looks like it's there, but it really isn't) seen on the Moon. (Credit to Wikipedia)

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My favorite is the second image above of a rabbit. When Apollo 11 was going to the Moon in 1969, the astronauts were alerted by NASA to be on the lookout for the rabbit.

Here is the transcript.

"NASA: Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, is one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-O has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported.

"Astronaut Michael Collins: Okay. We'll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl."

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More recently, Hermes designer Dimitri Rybaltchenko gives us a pareidolic image (or is it really there??) of Pegasus in the Moon. The Story Behind reads:

"As though revealing the hidden face of the Moon, the scarf is divided between shadow and light. A crescent showered in stars borders a wide disk upon which the powerful body of the winged horse, Pegasus, appears - a divine creature with a disheveled mane."

Here is Gris/Blanc version of this Ghostly image in Clair de Lune.

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My SOTD is Clair de Lune, with the mythical Pegasus as my Ghost Rider in the Sky. I'm using the rando knot from @blydia and wearing my (Man in the) Moonstone pendant.

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Oh, my, word, how gorgeous, RBH. That Man-in-the-Mon pendant couldn't be more perfect. I just love it. :faint: I think I love the face best.
 
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The ghostly owl on its night hunt… alright I just wanted to wear my new owl earrings and I decided that I need a scarf with owls to go with it! :lol:

La Danse des Amazones:

Ophelia the maroon owl
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Othello the golden owl
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(Yea I was a literature major and I do so like Shakespeare... :giggle:)

In the end, Ophelia went out with me cause I decided on a maroon top with a terracotta cardigan.
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I just love both of the and the owl is the sweetest aspect of this very sweet design. Love that olive/gold/burgundy cw.
 
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I'm still off topic and still traveling but I do hope to "J"oin in the fun this coming week :graucho: Meanwhile, one of my lazy leopardesses is looking at you!
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Really nice combination with the sweater. Is it Missoni? I favour Missoni knits & it's fun to successfully pair them with an Hermes scarf.
Alas I am still waiting for my local boutique to receive any cw of LL......le sigh...
 
here’s my horror story, it’s pretty short:
I snatched my bingata shawl on the stroller :wtf: guess it’s not a virgin anymore. I’ve been loving wearing it for walks and when I’m busy babying a baby i can’t also baby a scarf :lol:

which type are you - shawl baby-er or shawl heavy wearer?
today obviously wore it to my postpartum pilates class
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also, watching this angel sleep heals every wound over snagged brandnew scarves
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Angel indeed. She's so precious.
Re shawls - I'm a shawl baby-er. I wear them like they are a three million dollar diamond. So gingerly, it's a wonder I can enjoy them at all. Trying to overcome this affliction. So sorry you snagged yours, blydia.
 
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I loooove this cw, Awillow. I'm trying to catch up, truly impossible, but a few pages back I asked if you would show this flat. Apparently, you already had, I just hadn't caught up to it. It's a beauty and I love the turquoise.
 
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