Polyvore is clearly addictive. Again, the fashion set below is very similar to what I was wearing earlier today, except the grey cardigan and black harem pants were bought from Australia instead of netaporter! Simple white tees from Supre, stunning black boots from Mollini and of course, Rabeanco Jessie Bag from our website.

Casual Day Time Look with Rabeanco Leather Bag - by carol@bnp on Polyvore.com

Supposedly, one of our most common questions when shopping for a handbag is ‘What and how will I wear this with?’ To help you with deciding on which outfits you should match with the handbags on our website, from now on, we will share some of our fashion ideas with you using Polyvore.

Not sure if all of you are familiar with the Polyvore idea. Polyvore is definitely our favourite website at the moment, it is essentially an online fashion scrapbook where you can pull together a fashion set or key look using any pictures that you can find to create your ultimate outfit. After you have created a set, you can publish and share it with your friends, the Polyvore users, and of course, in our case, with our BagsnPacks community.

Below is what we’ve created today using our popular Alicia Patent Leather Bag (believe it or not, this set is almost 90% identical to what I was wearing today..hehe). Like it? Or why don’t you try Polyvore yourself and perhaps share with us your ultimate set using one of our handbags? (Warning: Polyvore is highly addictive)

Casual Look with Shuky Patent Leather Clutch - by carol@bnp on Polyvore.com

We love these necklaces from the Marni A/W 09/10 collection in Milan. All made of rich and unusal materials - horn, flakes of emerald and amethyst, ceramic flowers, crystals, beads and 24k carat gold. Just stunning!

Prada presents the latest fetish boot - a hip high, strapped on fisherman’s wader

Our store is having a 15% off storewide store this week (till midnight this Sunday, 14/12/2008). What’s more is that with any purchase over $100, we will give you a FREE foldable handbag hook, normally valued at $24.99. Hurry, limited stock only, and whilst stock lasts.

Got a few emails from our customers today, wanting to know exactly which handbag hook style are we giving out for free. Sorry, we should have included a picture in our ads / newsletter. Here’s a picture of the foldable handbag hook to which we are referring, you can even specify your preferred colour at checkout if you wish. Hope this clarifies everything. Happy bargain shopping!

We recently came across with this on The Age:

“…Pantone, which provides colour standards to design industries, specifically cites “mimosa,” a vibrant shade of yellow illustrated by the flowers of some mimosa trees as well as the brunch-favourite cocktail, as its top shade of the new year. In general, Pantone expects the public to embrace many tones of optimistic yellow…”.

We totally agree, yellow is such a happy and optimistic colour, it really makes us feel bright and cheerful. Can’t wait to see next season’s yellow handbags to arrive.

For now though, let’s take a look at some of the 2009 Ready to Wear international designer yellow handbags that we’ve found online, they are so gorgeous (sorry, these bags will not be stocked at BagsnPacks next year, simply because they are well over our price range but we just hope that some of these images can at least do the job to lift your spirits and brighten your day!).