Fun, Trivia, Myths & Stuff I Just Made Up. Did you know that some women actually don't like to change handbags very often? (!!!) I know, incredible. Shocking. Here's a secret: I used to be one of them. Yep. Because inevitably I would need something that I'd forgotten in the other bag. Carried one of those ove the shoulder briefcase/handbag things for years. Yawn. How times change. "Dressed Up Cat", Valery Yershov
Solution: LIGHTEN UP!!! Get all the fun bags you want (but TRY, TRY to start buying green; if not mine then something else green....). Get a cute basket (or dishpan, bucket, mop-pail...) and clean your purse out into it every night. In the morning, just select and reload. (A new bag, not your firearm--hopefully you didn't have to fire it yesterday.) This activity also provides more frequent opportunities for : "Oh, look, it's Bonus Round/Forgotten Cash" discovery.
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People ask me all the time how I got started doing this. Not sure, exactly. But I know exactly where the name and inspiration originated. With this fabulous girl: the one and only original Dressed Up Cat. Isn't she FABULOUS?
There was something about this cat from the first moment I saw her, so glamorous, so fine; on her divan in her drawing room in her black Victorian dress. I don't even think she has a handbag, but what a visual feast. Anyway, here she is.
This painting was created in 2004 by Ukrainian Valery Yershov, Rima Fine Art in Scottsdale Arizona represents Valery and offers his original artworks and limited editions. rimafineart.com.
Original Oil on canvas, 48" x 54", 2004
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I lived in NYC for 11 years. Upper West Side. For those of you fortunate/unfortunate enough (it IS a love /hate relationship...) to never have had the experience of living in a major walking city for any length of time, all the miscellaneous things that you might need at some point and are now rattling around in your car trunk eventually make it into your handbag once you move to a city and quit driving every day. Hence the gigantic handbags. Which when filled one cannot lift anyway. Qué Dilemma.
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I have some cool handbag books and a daily calendar a friend got me when I was "puny" with a cold last fall. I will mine them for more fun facts.
I'm flying next week (going back to NY--I'm SO overdue-- for the Independent Handbag Designers Awards, in case you missed it all over my site. (UNLIKELY, my darlings, I know....) I'm a finalist for one of their five awards, Best Green Handbag. And the Audience Favorite is being chosen RIGHT NOW by online voting. (Did you vote for mine??? Did'ya? Huh, huh, did'ya? Please, please go to
my home page and to the link at the bottom and vote if not.) Sorry, I got a bit carried away and it's borderline obnoxious, but I'm really excited about it all, so bear with me.
Speaking of bears, (yes, Stephen Colbert, bears ARE still the number one threat to America; I know)
I actually have a wonderful wooden teddy bear that I'm going to put onto a bag and the bag will be
entitled "You'll Just Have to Bear Up." I'm cracking myself up again......
OK, back to the item at hand.... I'll have time on the plane to look for fun facts. Handbag history IS actually fascinating. What other item has beenfor the most part, a constant wardrobe item for women over generations and generations that is also such an outlet for visual expression? Those of you who are actual educated fashion history persons, please chime in as I'm rapidly getting into deep water here....
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OK, so is this turning into a blog? AreIf so, I fear it's pretty mindless so far, so I'll attempt to make it more substantive. If anyone has an opinion one way or the other about whether or not this is/should be/culd be a blog, please email me. I'm in need of a little guidance on this. (And, it's been suggested, serious psychological help.....don't they know it's the fine line between insanity and genius??) Signing off for now,
Yours Truly, the "Feline-in-Charge"
(It says so, right on my business card, so it must be so.)
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