On 1/22/2015 EdithEllenLily said: On 1/22/2015 stevieb said: 
Huh... I thought we were simplifying...

Pretty bag. Not sure, though, I'd call this a mini at 9 x 13...
Love the Cassie silhouette... I have a couple of the medium bags. One in wine (before "Marsala", I might add), and one in a bone multi but with the other colors being minimal and all neutrals.
As for the color choices, EEL, they would seem to be pretty clearly favoring more spring and summery colors...
I started out SIMPLIFYING pretty well in early January, but things have certainly become more cluttered around here as the month has gone on...so bad!!!
I'm glad you liked the "mini" -- I think the size is just right! I've always liked the Cassie, but both sizes were just too huge for me. Your wine Cassie especially must be gorgeous.
My color choices question was more of "why are they doing 'shades of' instead of completely different colors" -- it's hard to explain. I guess I was looking for a wine or dark red color and spring and summer are selling now.
We do the best we can... I, though, am going to have to do better. I really am...
I love my Cassie bags, but they are slouchy and so don't get used very often. That will be a good feature of the smaller bag. There's a lot less of it to flop around...
The wine color I have is very pretty, but I actually have to say the ivory is probably my favorite of the two... Interesting that they would put 'Marsala' out there when they did knowing that fashion, anyway, would be heading into more summery fashions... Personally, I'm not a big fan of pastels so it won't much matter to me, though I don't see running around wearing a lot of burgundy when the temps and humidity kick in!
As for the 'shades of', I think I get what you mean... The diverse color choice factor pretty clearly wasn't there...
In my pantry with my cupcakes...