I'm a virtual shopper. Browsing the net and creating shopping carts is often part of how I spend an evening at home. Ok, maybe a lot of how. I call it multi-tasking. By now part of my DNA I'm sure. I'm not totally convinced I would buy sofas, chairs, art work or mattress online. Some things are meant to be seen and tested in real time sat on, walked around, visually measured in inches and feet. But than there are those the strike a cord in the heart. Just like that its' love. For those moments the internet created carts. Bags where true love can be gathered and kept.
Some sites I've learned hold your cart forever and some for a few hours only. Painful lesson. Here today. Gone today. Sites seduce you.Especially when something is in your size. Shoes, for instance, always seem to have a precarious future. Strike while the iron is hot least you should loose it. The color, the size all convincing you,"Yup. Get it in that bag or cart just in case" I don't always buy but I do keep active carts. "Hope springs eternal" I say.
Right now I have carts filled with everything from a Cuisinart Mixer to wallpaper found on One Kings Lane. How can one not surf the net when you're bombarded daily with emails offering the world at large? It's both tempting and hilarious shopping in either anticipation of a purchase or the hope of a future one. Whether the purchase or purchases makes it to your front door or one goes back on the site to put it in the cart again isn't even always the goal or the end of the world. It could sometimes feel like that. The fun is we get to create worlds in worlds. Each bag holds potential. I think we get a chance to float with happiness for a while crushing on those Jimmy Choo shoes or eyes dreamy just thinking of that gorgeous wallpaper for the powder room -which I don't even have- But in our minds for a monemt or two, for day or a week we live in that world. That bag, that cart, creates a persona we enjoy.
My potential persona these days holds Pilcro jeans from Anthropologie. Had never heard of them. But love them now. Rachel Comey shoes and Margaret Howell tops from La Garconne. If I could dress form a site that one would be on the top of my list. I have comfy lounge pants from Gillian O'Malley at Target. I've worn them before and they're the best. And dearest to my pounding heart Ferragamo Vara pumps from both Gilt and Saks Fifth Avenue. I love those classic mid heel they reissued a few years ago so much I secured them on a few sites, including the Ferragamo site itself. Have to have them. Can't wait to play out the droll Edie Beale or cool secretary look. When I see those Vara pumps that's what comes to mind.
Hope springs eternal. Carts hold dreams. Bags hold futures that keep dreams going. What's in your bag?