oops, i did it again.....

i met a friend for lunch near the mall. after a healthy meal of chilli nachos at bj's, we went for a quick walk around the mall. in my mind, i was just walking off the grease that i had just inhaled...but fate had other plans for me. who would have thought sweet marc was waiting for me at nordstrom?

per my usual routine, i would walk by nordstrom's purse section. this nordstrom is more blue collared and does not house the typical chloe and miu miu bags that you might see at a nordstrom elsewhere. as i walked out of that section, the marc by marc jacobs totally turnlock comb over bag caught my eye AGAIN. i say again because when i had first purchased my dr. q groovee bag in las vegas, i had also looked at the totally turnlock comb over in black. but dr. q had won my heart at that time and i left the totally turnlock on the counter. i was ok with the parting at that time.

as i walked out, the SA said, "we are having a 20% off sale on certain designer bags." what? please don't tell me which. but she did, and marc jacobs was one of them. darn!! so i walked back to the totally turnlock. hung it on my shoulder, didn't exactly 100% love it (i thought the strap was a bit too wide and it hung a bit low for my taste, but the purse itself was the right size and in "ocean" aka blue. that's HOT!)i decided to walk away and "think" about the bag. if i really wanted it, i would come back.

a few laps around the mall later, i found myself back at nordstrom (like you didn't already know that that would happen). i seriously walked around the purse section again...picked up the totally turnlock, set it down again and kept thinking, i really don't LOVE it 100%. should i do this? naw...i mean i already bought a bag like a month ago. i slowly walked away from the purse section again when i saw this woman pick up the bag. then i though "oh no..." maybe the near miss made me realize that i loved this bag a little more than i had thought...after all, 80% is still a lot better than 50%. when she decided to leave the bag on the counter, i grabbed it. i thought there wasn't any harm WALKING around with the bag as i contemplated some more.

at that point, i decided to give my snobby purse friend a call. i thought she would be able to give me some good advice, like "if you don't love it, then don't get it." alas, the purse intervention was not made. i couldn't get a hold of her. so i decided to buy it. technically, it would be her fault because if she had actually answered my call, then i might not have made the purchase. i walked slowly to the cashier, listing all the weaknesses of the bag. but to be honest with you, by the time i got the the cash register, it was hard to find a fault in it, other than the fact that i had just bought another purse about a month ago.

the marc by marc jacobs totally turnlock comb over in ocean is a lush little bag. the leather is buttery soft and looking at the blue color gives me a nice tingle up my spine. i still have reservations about the strap and how low it hangs down my side, but overall, i feel more and more confident about my decision. sometimes, we just need to let down our barriers and accept the bag for what it is...it is a memorable piece that i carried from las vegas. i am glad i bought it. i probably should stop purse whoring for a while though....my, my, my. do you love it?

just like online dating.....

i received my dior wallet...and i don't love it. i'm soooo disappointed. it's like a freakin' online dating picture...you know what i mean? like you THINK he looks one way, you get a little bit excited because you think he's hot, but when you actually see him, it's totally different. totally different....boo hoo.

unfortunately for me, this dior wallet that i had pined for does not meet my expectations. when i opened my box, i was like what the heck?! what the HELL did eluxury do with the pictures to change the coloration so much? it was suppose to be "mystically mustard," a HOT yellow, but instead, it looks like a worn out, mustard-brown. a sad, depressed brown...verging on turd. so sad, so sad. boo hoo. don't you think the color looks TOTALLY different?

back on my wallet search again....

smells like heaven

a long time ago, i was at lacma (l.a. county museum of art) and poked my nose into their gift shop. the most WONDERFUL smell wafted towards my nostrils. it was a pleasant scent and a soothing one at that. ohhh....hhmmm...
i walked over to the area that held this wonderful smell. it came from a little reed diffuser called earth elements. at that time, it was "too expensive" to pay for a scent, but obviously, my thoughts never strayed too far from that smell. by the time i made my way back to that little gift shop a few months later, the reed diffusers were sold out. *sniffle*

i found out the name of the company, but i'm not quite sure what scent it was since there were a couple of these reed diffusers sitting together. i may make several special trips to a few of these retailers to locate this scent. what was the lesson learned? don't rationalize...just BUY!

louis...oh louis

the prevelance of lv bags has really turned me off. it must be the overexposure it's getting...or maybe the fact that a 15 year old girl will rock it as she walks down larchmont as well as grandma pushing her shopping cart at ralphs. middle america loves it, kimora lee simmons loves it, the japanese REALLY love it....as for me, i'm in LIKE, but not in LOVE. louis, oh louis...when did my feelings for you change? i was so happy when i was given the shirley. but alas, times did change.

i want to be in LOVE when i buy my bags (thank god i don't have that kind of spare change to do all this loving). but recently, i came across a lv line that might bring me back to those old fuzzy feelings again. the suhali line is HOT! it is sophisticated and most importantly, it looks timeless. i can see myself rock this suhali le confident bag in black as i wear my forever 21 gear as well as when i'm a momma of 3 driving my sons and daughter to afterschool enrichment activities. i like the fact that the lv monogram isn't emblazoned all over it....when i look at this bag, i feel toasty inside...am i falling back in love?

the only critique i might have for this bag is the clasp. like the shirley, this clasp will start to show wear because of the way the clasp works. it is a slip it in and click one (is that explanation sophisticated enough). you will begin to see the scratch marks....oh, but the bag is lovely though, isn't it? lovely.

the unforgettable chloe....

this is my end all, be all bag. who would have thought that i would fall so hard! my bag obsession really started because of this chloe...the chloe paddington satchel. oh my god it is soooooo cute. my snobby bag friend has one and i must say i LOVED it when i saw hers. there appears to be 3 different sizes you can choose from...i think. a small, medium, or large (apparently, it doesn't matter what the size because it is all WAY TOO PRICEY anyways). on this well made, supple chloe is this huge padlock which adds the pizazz that we all want from our accessories. the paddington is super heavy, but then again, we are talking about a bag that costs too much. it is reminding you of its costs i suppose in its weightiness. i am obsessed, but not crazed. *sigh* well, maybe i will be crazed after i work a few more intersessions. muhahhaha. hmmm...what color would i choose if i was to go off on my deep end? what do you think? love it?

i might name my first daughter chloe....hahhahha.

the bag that gave birth to a wallet

i'm still obsessing over bags, but getting a new bag gave birth to a side thrill. i NEEDED a new wallet...it didn't feel right to pull out my anonymously designed black wallet anymore as i buy my combo #27 at rodeo grill. yes, the wallet still works. yes, it's still ok. but am i ok with "OK" anymore? i don't know...give me some time to reflect on that question please.

as i perused eluxury for my marc jacobs research and right before i went out and got the dr. q. groovee, i had stumbled across a christian dior wallet in gold. it's HOT!! the gold color (or mystically mustard as i would like to think of it) was available. but the price was NOT to die for so i left it alone. i would visit it once in a while as i cruised the internet, but like the old high school crush i had when i was but a little girl, i was "just looking." :(

i originally had wanted the continental size wallet because the design looked better in its larger format, but OH MY GOSH, the smaller square sized sibling of this christian dior st. germain double-face wallet went on sale on eluxury and I HAD TO HAVE IT. i asked 2 friends to look at it. they were none too excited. one thought the price was outrageous...but he's a boy and boys are dumb. j/k. ahahhahaha. my other friend felt lukewarm about it. at that point, my excitement for the wallet was still present, but i must admit, my confidence wavered a bit because it is online after all and WHO KNOWS how this wallet will really look like as i hold it in my hands. was it a hassle i was willing to take upon myself?

YES!

i bought it. it's on it's way to moi soon. i will probably get it by wednesday. i couldn't find a picture of it anymore on the net, so just imagine the smaller size in that gold color. do you love it? if i love it, i will take a picture of it and repost this.

meeting marc

my bag obsession developed slowly. all i needed was to find one bag addict (one that is far along in her sickness) to get me to start developing mine. :( i found her alright. she is an old friend, a bag connoisseur. one that plays in the bag park on the upper east side while i play at macarthur park in downtown l.a. i was way out of my league, but AGAIN, i reiterate this, i'm just obsessing. i'm quite practical really...no really.

then i met marc. marc jacobs i mean. he designs fun, hip, young bags. he has two lines. the ultra snooty one with bags in the range of thousands, and the second more "affordable line" called marc by marc jacobs. needless to say, you know which line i picked up first. i bought my first marc by marc jacobs bag when i went to las vegas for a girls' trip. i had already begun researching my marc jacob bags and when i went to saks fifth avenue at their fashion mall, i fell in love. here it is, the dr. q groovee bag. do you love it? i got it in "nice tan...."

starter bag

not too long ago, i decided that i NEEDED a new bag. a nice bag. one that is not found on a sales table at macy's... maybe one behind a counter at a snooty shop with snooty SAs judging you. at this point, my lv multicolored shirley was not enough to satiate my new cravings. it was nice, but not very practical. kind of small...thank god i got it as a gift....hahhaha. i still love it and i use it upon occassion, but it has been a LONG, LONG time ago...with time, a heart changes in the way it feels, my love for my bags do, too.