Adorable clutch!

I love, love, love this bag! I can totally see this in my future! :-)



and... FYI... she is a great LV reviewer! :-)

Vicki Loves her Vuitton's :-)

(From Season 7 Ep 2 episode of

The Real Housewives of Orange County)

Artsy MM

(from the pursepage.com)

Vernis Tote

(From therealhousewivesblog.blogspot.com)

Vernis Pochette

(From her Facebook)

Vernis Brea

(From her Facebook)

Neverfull

(From her Facebook)

Azur Pochette

(From Season 4 Episode 2)

Briefcase/Laptop

(From the Orange County Register article)

What's adorable is that in the same scene...

every housewife has an LV! :-)

(From Season 3 Ep 2)

Azur Saleya

Vicki has great taste!
I bet she has 25+ LV bags. :-)

Obsessed! Part 4

... oh boy ... you would think I would be done, well it's because I havn't blogged in a long time... so this has all been since October, so 5 months of shopping. So don't think this was all done in a day, it was over many months and there was Christmas gift money involved, dividend checks... all extra unexpected money. And a very, very, very sweet husband whom I have been married to for 25 years, together with for 29 years. He is my best friend and I love him with all my heart. I would never, ever, ever buy anything behind his back. I was reading a post on purseform about what your husband thinks of you spending money on LV and I never added my input but my husband actually doesn't care. And he stopped me from selling my Juicy Couture handbags. I was going to list them all on ebay (except for the cheetah bag) in November and he said, NO! He said, "Don't do it! You will have sellers remorse." I am not sure if I agree with him but for now I am not selling anything. I don't really like ebay anymore anyway.

Okay so back to the obsession!!!!
On New Years Day, we always go out for Chinese food. It's become a family tradition. Our adult daughter Amber who had been wanting some new rainboots, was telling us she found some for $30. Which she bought. I was like, great! Until a few days later when she texted me a picture of her in the rainboots and asked, What did I think? Oh Man! They fit her saggy! She didn't like them. I didn't like them. They were hideous! So I said, can I just buy you a pair of rainboots? I already had a pair picked out! :-) She agreed and my SA at LV treated her really well...

These are so cute!
If they were for stomping around in the mud then it wouldn't have been these. I should have been clearer it was nice boots that she could wear for work. Thats why the other ones didn't work. Oh man I wish I saved the pic. You know those fishing waiters that people wear for fly fishing? That's what they looked like. Same color and everything.
She loves these boots! She wears them all the time. Up close the LV's are raised in the rubber. This will probably be the only LV she will ever own because she is Vegan and most everything LV has there is leather on it.

Remember how I was unimpressed with the Speedy up close on my 1st visit to LV? It was stiff and just nothing to it?
The thing is with the LV canvas... the more you use it, the softer it gets. It gets soft and squishy and wonderful. A well used handbag is actually better than a brand new one. I love the look of a well aged carmel patina on the handles and trim rather than the almost white look when it comes brand new. The leather isn't treated at all. 
So I have since changed my mind and now I love all the Speedys in all sizes and want them in all colors! :-)

Valentine's is coming!!!! And that "feeding the fire" website Purse Forum had an entry of a Valentine's charm someone had just purchased and I fell in love with it. Valentine's Day is my most favorite holiday, I love everything about it and I love the red & pink heart decorations. So I had called my SA and asked about the new charm which she didn't even know about, so I emailed her a picture and she said she would find me one. Which she did. :-D At the time I was the only one in the Pacific Northwest to have one, but now you can get them everywhere. However they are Limited Edition so once they are gone, they are gone. So if you want one, go get one ASAP! All the bag charms are really key rings called CLES. But I would rather hang them on a bag than use for my keys.

Even though I love my Rayure Neverfull GM so much, its soooooo HUGE! I mean HUGE!!!! It doesn't look like it in the pictures but I will have to show you the bag against my body in a modeling shot. I could hide behind the bag! I am so not kidding! So I kept thinking I needed another bag for Mexico,  really though I think it was just an excuse to go to LV. :-D

So while I was picking up my new Valentine Charm, I picked up another bag (yes another new bag.)

What is it?

An Azur Speedy 30!!!!

The new charm just pops against the off white background.
I won't use this bag in the rain because of the untreated leather and unlike my Artsy which I use in the rain, I am really picky about this bag. So we have had about 5 sunny days since I got this bag and used it every sunny day! I love it!!! It is so comfy and cute!

So I am just about done... except for 2 more charms which I got recently...
One for my Artsy MM, One for my Rayure Neverfull GM

Oh I almost forgot... sometime over the last 2 months, I bought this from fashionphile.... I actually do have my keys hanging on this:

My obsession is far from over... but I told my SA she wont see me again until June when I come into to order a monogrammed mono Speedy 35 bag for my birthday in July. I need to pick out colors, design... stay tuned! :-)

Obsessed! Part 3

Everything was just fine and dandy... I was rockin' the Artsy and in Heaven completely satisfied. :-)

And then . . . they had to do it. A glimpse of the cruise 2012 collection came out and one bag stuck out like CRAZY! Oh No!!!! Another obsession starting taking over my brain!!!! I started the whole reasoning back and forth... oh this could be my Christmas present... this could be my bag for Mexico... this could be the bag I use all this next summer! It screams NAUTICAL! I HAVE TO HAVE IT!!!!

So after talking it over w/ the hubster... I called my SA at LV and said, whats the deal-i-o on this bag???
She said its limited edition, I don't even know if we are going to get one and if we do it will be just one and your the only one who has asked about it. :-O Limited Edition???? Remember what happens to me when I can't have something? I obsess about it even more!!!!!!!!!!

Let me tell you a story so you can see what kind of a brat I am... in my 20's I had a hankering for a tattoo. Hubby didn't just say no, he said and I quote, "I FORBID IT!!!!!" You forbid it? YOU FORBID IT?!?!?!??!?! So not just one tattoo did I get but I got two. And I hate them. :-( HATE THEM! To this day I always say to him.... if you would have said okay I would have never had the guts to get one and now I've got these stupid tattoos. It's my own fault but you get the drift. Why am I like this? A spoiled brat only child probably. You know those only child theories.

Oh man... do I hate my tattoos.... ugh! And now my daughter is covered in tattoos... breathe, breathe, deep breath, another story for another time..... :-/

Anyway.... my SA at LV said she would call me when she got more info on this bag. And she did call and I was sooooo excited!!! They got 2 bags in! One for me and one for a Seahawks wife. This special bag came in 3 sizes. A MM, A GM and a new XL. The Seahawks wife wanted a XL which she picked up already and they got me the MM. What? What? What? An MM? I wanted the GM! Oh No!!!! So my SA said there were not many GM's made and they aren't getting anymore in and this is it. :-O Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Then she said, I will call you back.

::::insert ticking clock sound:::: I literally stared at my iPhone for a long time before I gave up!!!!

Then she called. She found me a GM!!!! It was in California, I had to pre-pay for it and it would be sent up. Did I want it sent to me or to the Seattle LV store? I said, to you! I want it gone over to make sure its perfect.

So several days later, it was in!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

Introducing the

Rayure Neverfull GM

from the 2012 Cruise Collection

Now.... literally only hundreds of this bag were made and sent world wide. They made the MM, the GM and the XL. The GM are the most rare and there are also some wallets. I missed out on getting a wallet. When I wanted one, there was like one left and it was at an international store.

I just saw on Google Plus the other day that counterfeiters are now making this bag! PISSES ME OFF!!!! So if you start seeing these bags everywhere they are Fake! Fake! Fake!

The resale value of this bag has already increased $600 for the GM. My SA thinks I should sell it but I said, No Way!!!! She says that because I have told her I should have listened to her and got the MM. The GM is soooooooooooo HUGE I can't even believe it.

I havn't even used it out of the house yet! It is going to Mexico with me.

And. . . . at the same time we picked up the Rayure Neverfull GM, I got an early Valentine's present!!!! My husband is soooooooooo nice! :-D He got me the Damier Ebene Medium Agenda and got it hot stamped w/ my initials. :-)

I had had so many problems w/ electronics in the past few months that I had been talking about wanting an old fashioned appt book like I use to have so I didn't lose everything all the time. I love my Agenda. I write in it everyday! My appts and my caloric intake (I have lost 25 pounds since the day after Thanksgiving by counting calories and writing everything down, its the easiest diet ever! More about that in another post!)

Obsessed! Part 2

So... after weeks of watching videos on youtube, reading everything you can think of on the purseforum and daily looking at pre-loved bags for sale on fashionphile and practically living on the Louis Vuitton website... I started thinking maybe I don't want the Cabas Mezzo anymore. I'm thinking I want a classic Speedy bag! If it was good enough for Audrey Hepburn it was good enough for me! :-)

Ms. Hepburn's bag is the Mono Speedy 25

Well... then the call came in! Your next on the list and we have a Cabas Mezzo available for you but you have 24 hours otherwise it's going to the next on the list. At which I said... um... go ahead and give it to the next person I think I want a Speedy now. :-O After 3 phone calls and waiting and waiting I think my LV girl thought I had gone crazy! But she was really sweet about it and I had arranged an appt to come in and get a Speedy in a few days.

Where we live in the Northwest. I am fortunate to have 2 Louis Vuittons. One in downtown Seattle right across from the 5th Avenue Theater and one in Bellevue at the Bravern Mall. I say fortunate because I have read where some don't have a LV within hundreds of miles.

At the time I went into the store... I was carrying my Juicy Couture Cheetah bag, which I dearly love. It is so soft and so cute and matches all my clothes! I am unsure why I wasn't carrying my pre-loved Luco.

Is this not that cutest bag ever?

I love, love, love this Juicy!

So on the way to the Bravern Louis Vuitton I was looking at my cheetah bag and getting all remorseful about it. Like I was having second thoughts on why I was going to LV in the first place because why did I need another new bag??? So when we got to Louis Vuitton... (OMG it is such a beautiful store!!! I was literally nervous from the parking garage walking to it.) I finally met the girl I had been speaking with on the phone about LV and she was so nice and friendly to my husband and I offering us beverages and giving us a tour around the store. She had a few speedy hand bags all laid out for us to look at. I had previously told her on the phone that living in a rainy area I should get a Damier Ebene because then the rain wouldn't hurt the leather trim. 

So I am looking at the Speedy and I had no love for it! NONE!!!! It was stiff not soft. And nothing to it. The inside was just red w/ one small pocket and the handles felt stiff and IT WASN'T MADE IN FRANCE but made in the USA... and I was like um.... No! or as the french would say, NON!

I actually kept thinking to myself... why am I here? What is wrong with me? When you have a personality that gets obsessed and the air gets popped out of your balloon I can't quite explain it but you get very, very, very depressed. (I am telling you I am bi-polar.) It's like being a drug addict in a way. I have always been this way. When you are into something you are into it and when your not anymore... you just walk away and let it go. I am either attached or not attached. It's hard to explain.

Anyway... I said... well what else can you show me in a Damier Ebene within my budget? Well.... the next thing I know.... I was a kid in a candy store... she had beautiful bags laid out in front of me that were soft and squishy and wonderful with bells and whistles and just everything. Then she made a suggestion... and showed me a bag in a monogram print. The Artsy! As soon as she brought it out it HIT me OMG I was just looking at this bag on my TV. Several celebrities had been toting this bag around and it was gorgeous!!!! My eyes got big as saucers! I didn't think this bag could ever be mine! It was spendy! Ted saw my face light up like Christmas and saw my smile. I was touching it, squeezing it, wearing it just oogling all over it. I was OVER THE MOON! :-D

So my very first brand new Louis Vuitton (not pre-loved) was the Artsy MM. The best bag in the whole wide world!!!!! :-D It blows every other handbag I have ever owned to bits! It's soft and squishy and has tons of pockets and matches everything and I just love, love, love, love, love it. I love it more every day! I also use it in the rain believe it or not and the leather handle is aging wonderfully and now she is wearing some bling (in another post pic.)

I actually took everything out of my cheetah bag and put it all in the Artsy right then and there before we even paid for the bag!!!!

Her first outing was to the Cheesecake factory right after we left. :-D