OH and I really, really dislike VB also. Can not stand it. Not my type of stuff at all. I have a couple of VB like bags that my mom made me. They are with horses on them so I can deal with that.
I am planning after some of the Christmas bills are paid off, buying my horse a new halter with his OWN name plate on it and for me…a new warm coat. I would like diamond earrings but that is SO not practical and useful.
Oh, and I happen to love Vera Bradley. I even use one of the duffle bags for shows.
Hate me if you want. 
No, not hate, just pity!
Not necessarily a gift, but this is the WORST. CHRISTMAS. EVER.
My partner wants to go see his grandparents the next state over (has been feeling like he needs too, since I lost my grandma, and I agree with him). It still sucks not.celebrating with him…
My grandma is gone. I miss her so much. I found a birthday card that she had given me, and I sobbed.
My moms partner has bronchitis, and he can’t travel. So, its just my two girls and I this year.
I know it could be a lot worse, but this Christmas was going to be iffy at best. I honestly can’t wait until all this happy happy joy joy horse sh!t is over with.
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New or used?[/QUOTE]
snork :lol:
I loved my boyfriend who is now an ex, dearly. The first christmas together - diamond and sapphire earings. Now for my birthday the following year he bought me my hunting bow. Love that cause I wanted it.
That Christmas I got a 3D target that looks like a life size deer. I appreciated the gift but I was hoping for some more jewerly!!!
One of my worst gifts was from my sister-in-law, whom I do love dearly and is a lovely human being. One year she made everyone in the family these lovely quilted casserole dish warmer carrier things with handles, for taking casserole dishes to church potlucks. I don’t cook and I don’t go to church. (But I do appreciate that she didn’t want to leave the only heathen in the family out of the group!)
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I’ve hated VB for a long time, but lately I’ve seen a few patterns that I didn’t detest… and then yesterday I went to pick up a VB jewelry box for my MIL, who loves VB, and they didn’t have the one she wanted so I bought her a purse instead in a different pattern. That, the more that I look at it, is becoming startlingly attractive. And my purse did just break. So I found myself ordering her the jewelry box online, and now the purse is just sitting here, growing in beauty and desirability.
The pattern, incidentally, is “Happy Snails,” and just the name/thought of it makes me want to vomit, but, well, here I am and here is this purse.[/QUOTE]
Don’t google this, really. You’ll end up wanting it too… :eek::lol:
Snails aren’t very emotive, by design, so I must question the veracity of the statement that the pattern is “Happy Snails”, when the pattern could easily be “Somber and Morose Snails” or “Irate Snails”.
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I also thought the 9mm was kewl. But then, three Xmases ago, I bought SO a Springfield 1911. I was, at the time, The Coolest Girlfriend Ever.
Last year, I got a laser dot for my Glock. All depends on the family I guess :lol:!!![/QUOTE]
I approve of this message :yes:
How do you know?
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Snails aren’t very emotive, by design, so I must question the veracity of the statement that the pattern is “Happy Snails”, when the pattern could easily be “Somber and Morose Snails” or “Irate Snails”.[/QUOTE]
Chapter one: Dude comes down for breakfast, there’s a SNAIL on his counter. Yuk. Picks it up, goes to front door, chucks it out as far as he can.
Six months later…
Doorbell rings. Dude opens door. It’s the snail. Snail says…
“What was THAT all about?”
Carry on.:yes:
P.S. Let me know if you want to hear Chapter Two.
Apathetic Snails? Non-reactive Snails? Jaded Snails? …that would have a festive green paisley slime trail…
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Apathetic Snails? Non-reactive Snails? Jaded Snails? …that would have a festive green paisley slime trail…[/QUOTE]
You’d have to be apathetic or broke to willingly appear on a VB print …
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Don’t google this, really. You’ll end up wanting it too… :eek::lol:[/QUOTE]
I already googled. And…uh. yeah.
But even worse, was the fact that there were, in fact, other prints that struck my fancy. I closed the window quickly and tried to forget. Seems once one gets in your head it’s so. hard. to. forget.
[QUOTE=Long Spot;6035839]
I already googled. And…uh. yeah.
But even worse, was the fact that there were, in fact, other prints that struck my fancy. I closed the window quickly and tried to forget. Seems once one gets in your head it’s so. hard. to. forget.[/QUOTE]
Seeeeeee?
I think the tags come off the purse tonight… it seems to want to stay with me… or at least, the snails do. They look downright… cheerful?
[QUOTE=Long Spot;6035839]
I already googled. And…uh. yeah.
But even worse, was the fact that there were, in fact, other prints that struck my fancy. I closed the window quickly and tried to forget. Seems once one gets in your head it’s so. hard. to. forget.[/QUOTE]
Yes. :eek::lol:
[QUOTE=SarahandSam;6035849]Seeeeeee?
I think the tags come off the purse tonight… it seems to want to stay with me… or at least, the snails do. They look downright… cheerful?[/QUOTE]
Snails are clingy, you know. They’re one person pets… :lol:
I really like this. And this. And this.
COTH, you’re a bad influence on me.
Ick!!
Nope, VB is definitely not my cup of tea.
Of course, as far as tastes in attire and accessories, my opinions are awfully close to those of George Morris.
oooh. normally don’t like VB, but I had to check out the happy snails (not my taste) but now I looove the Plum Petals one. Daaaaaaaaaang
My mom who doesn’t embrace ANY livestock, too much a princess to soil her fair hands, asked what I wanted for christmas. I thought, and thought, and I told her I really wanted a saddle pad. English btw. Some could be had for $10-15 bucks.
She looked at me like I had asked for a porn video. She just shook her head like she had a fly in her ear.
So I got yearly dish towel. A dish towel sure beat the Kitchen Aide mixers she got for my sisters, not. 
And no they didn’t ask for them. Just her.
A year or so later I took the Jeffer’s catalog and showed her what a saddle pad was and what it cost. Ohhh, she said.
Odd woman she is.
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P.S. Let me know if you want to hear Chapter Two.[/QUOTE]
(…raises hand…) yes please.
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