Saturday, March 8, 2008

Collect, collections..........

Can't you hear the conversation???
" Isabelle, I found THE most wonderful________ to add to my collection. There it was in that little second hand store on Maple Ave and it was so dusty that I almost didn't see it. It must have been there for ages.........and the price Isabelle, well I think my heart just fluttered and I was light headed for a second........but I tried to remain calm."
Most people collect something.............I don't know why, they just do...........maybe it reminds of something in our childhood. Shoot maybe it was something that we wanted in our childhood and couldn't have. It always starts out small........then like that one dandelion that we didn't see in the beginning of spring and before we know it, it has taken over. We are looking on eBay, second hand stores, garage sales, estate sales, dumpster diving.........we become possessed women with this beady eye look that would scare Attila the Hun and his men..........
Some people collect paper weights.............



I have two myself, and I have always been fascinated with them, they are so pretty. I don't know many people that actually use them for there true purpose, but trust me, they are collected..........why there is even a group........... http://www.paperweight.org/index.html#like, I never knew about it.




Some ladies like to collect tea pots.........if I had room to, I think I might, and once you see the pictures I am going to share, you will see that I would not go the traditional tea set type of tea pots.

















Aren't they wonderful? Ok, maybe they aren't your style, but they just make me smile.
My daughter in Why-oh-ming use to collect frogs.........






she hasn't mentioned them lately, so maybe she has moved on to something else..............



Me, well for awhile I was collecting sheep....love the statues, pictures, stuffed...........but trust me the live ones, well they aren't on the top of my 'most loved real life animal'. Sorry, hope I don't offend anyone.


I still have a few, treasured ones that either bring back some very special memories, or were made for me by some very special ladies in my life.......but not actually collecting them any more.......and it's ok.

OOOOO, another thing I ALWAYS wanted to collect, were kaleidoscopes. When I was in Williamsburg VA, there is a whole shoppe, devoted to just kaleidoscope. Oh I didn't want to leave, no I mean I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE (empty handed), but once I started looking at the price tags, well it was ok to leave........tee hee.

Collections, isn't it amazing the things that people collect, and thank goodness our tastes are many and varied. I would love to know if you have a collections of something.........

Oh and for those that have been keeping up with my daughter's return.........it wasn't today..........hopefully tomorrow, Sunday a.m.............not hopefully, IT WILL BE!!!!! So I might not be able to post tomorrow.............or I will have to use one of my "pre-typed up" ones........shoot think I only have one left..........tee hee. Better get busy huh?

2 comments:

Rhea said...

I just loved those tea pot pictures you posted! Wow, I've never seen anything like them. very cool.

Scallywags Scribbles said...

Collections!! oh I have too many to listall but a few that come to mind, wall plates, dinky cars, teddy bears, linen, crockery, greeting cards, all olde worlde things, sewing notions and and..........
Thanks for linking to my blog, Mary, have added yours to mine.